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00:00I called this meeting to order. Sorry we're late. Emma wasn't ready, so I had to hold everything up.
00:08Lies. I took too long, Emma.
00:12Welcome, everyone, and welcome to the 14th regular session of counseling.
00:18So, 14. That means we're over halfway away, well over halfway through the year.
00:23And I'm certain that if we haven't heard it already, tonight may be the night that our finance committee chair makes the announcement about we need to get started thinking about that six-letter word.
00:36We have already had conversations with the administration about beginning those processes.
00:42All right. So, without further ado, let's get into this and have a roll call.
00:48Joe Alcassner. Present. Sue Fox Berger. Present.
00:51David Beasley. Present. Steve Walter. Present.
00:54Chad Miller. Present. Peg Wren. Present.
00:58Alma Tudor. Robin Jones. Here.
01:01John Schumer. Present. Lynn Webb. Here.
01:05Cindy Marie. Here. Thank you, Emma.
01:08I'd ask all who are able to please stand in love with prayer and glad to be with us.
01:13Heavenly Father, I would ask first that you be with our fellow councilperson, Honda.
01:22She goes through a very difficult time.
01:25Please bless her with the ability to survive this, her health care, and look down upon her and those who are providing her care.
01:34Heavenly Father, in our hearts we plan our course, but we pray that you establish our steps.
01:43I pray that we seek you for advice.
01:47Let us not make decisions based upon what we know, but let us act based upon your wisdom.
01:54Please guide us, Lord.
01:57We place this meeting in your hands.
02:00We place our hearts and our minds in your hands, so that you may direct us.
02:07Amen.
02:08I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America, and to the republic for which it stands,
02:18one nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all.
02:28Okay.
02:29Welcome, everyone.
02:32We have the minutes from the prior meeting.
02:35Are there any additions or corrections to those minutes?
02:42I did not hear a peep, so they will stand approved as submitted.
02:50So moving on down the agenda, we have no citizens requesting time to speak, so I won't give a little speech on that.
02:59But there will be time at the end of the meeting for public participation, if anyone so desires.
03:10Communications.
03:11I did receive the, I think, semi-month or bi-monthly, bi-monthly?
03:20Every other month, newsletter from the Hardin County Council on Aging, and I can pass that around.
03:26Anyone else have any communications?
03:34Okay, then.
03:35Petitions, I am aware, I'm not aware of anything.
03:38Outstanding.
03:38So we'll get right into administrative reports, and we'll start with Chief Musser.
03:43So just real quick, we had our stingrays swim meet a couple weeks ago, and the Wildcat 5K, we did a relay, or the PD and the FD did a relay.
04:02And both departments showed up for the swim meet, which was pretty epic.
04:09I don't think we did well, but we did okay, considering.
04:15No one dropped.
04:16Yeah, high school, high school swimmers, soon-to-be college D1, D2 swimmers, so that's, I think we did fine.
04:24We did, the PD did beat the fire department in the relay, I should point out.
04:32I think that's the best shot.
04:36And what place were both of them in?
04:38What's that?
04:39What place were both in overall?
04:42I'd say probably top.
04:45Five?
04:46Easily, easily.
04:51So, yeah, and in connection to that, we have the National Round coming up, which is, well, I guess 5th, is that right?
04:58Yes.
04:58So that should be pretty cool, having that down at the fire department.
05:03There'll be more coming out about that.
05:06And I did want to give some credit to Tori McDaniel, who is Officer Temple's better half.
05:12She's been helping us out tremendously, just voluntarily, helping Emma with organizing some things.
05:19And if you haven't been paying attention to our Facebook page, I would check it out.
05:24She's doing a really good job.
05:27So I wanted to give her some props there, too.
05:29So that's all I got.
05:32Any questions for Chief Musser?
05:35All right, next up is the fire department.
05:38And I see Chief Donnelly sent three folks because I'm certain you guys are all here to dispute what our police chief just alleged.
05:47Well, I mean, Danny Folk and actually we're, Jack and I were on duty during the 4K relay and all that stuff.
05:56And, yeah, PD did beat us.
05:59But we at least got an award for coolest baton.
06:04PD didn't get nothing, so.
06:08And they are trained to run.
06:11All of our training says we never run, so they should have beat us.
06:16But Chief Donnelly wanted me to let you guys know we did receive the hose from Mount Victory fire.
06:22It is at our station, and some of it is in service already.
06:26And we currently have one of our newest probation members here tonight.
06:31And I'll let Jack introduce himself to you all.
06:38Hi, my name is Jack Siegel.
06:41I live in Mount Victory.
06:42I've been around this area since 21, so fairly new to the area, but loving it around here.
06:49And that's about it.
06:50Welcome.
06:51Welcome.
06:51Thanks for being here.
06:52You're welcome.
06:53I really do appreciate it.
06:57Any questions for fire folks while they're here?
07:01All right, then.
07:03We'll keep moving on.
07:07Economic development, income tax, auto due treasurer.
07:10Speak now or forever.
07:12Hold your peace.
07:18Okay.
07:19All right.
07:20So we'll go right to law director then, John.
07:22Nothing.
07:23Cindy.
07:25So we had several things get struck by lightning Saturday and Sunday.
07:33We have a well that got struck and is out of service.
07:37We think the meter, the raw meter at the sewer plant got struck.
07:44The light down at Layton and East Franklin, if you noticed it was, oh, West Franklin, was flashing.
07:54The controller got knocked out.
07:57So we have started an insurance claim for those things.
08:01But just be ready for some, probably, emergency legislation so that we can get things fixed and back going.
08:09And I just want to remind everybody about pedestrian safety.
08:15We stand here and you watch this intersection over here.
08:18And when it's safe for the pedestrians to go, the left-turned people are not waiting for the pedestrians.
08:24So just remember that pedestrians always have the right of my fellow pedestrians.
08:33And then I would like to give Emma a little bit of time to talk about National Night Out.
08:40Okay.
08:41So National Night Out is a week from tomorrow.
08:44Like Chief said, it's going to be at the firehouse.
08:48They're going to be doing tours of the firehouse.
08:49And then we plan to have a video screen up, doing a video tour of the police department.
08:58There's going to be a whole bunch of yard games, like the giant yard games out.
09:03They're going to do Hot Dogs, Waters, Chips.
09:05There's some other games, face painting.
09:09Bounce House.
09:10Bounce House.
09:11There's a water gun fight.
09:12One thing that Tori set up that's really cool is they're going to be setting up a table for any kind of special needs kids.
09:22You know, especially when it comes to autism, you know, some of the kids are runners.
09:27So they encourage parents to come up and bring the information about the kids.
09:33You know, pictures, kind of what the conditions are.
09:37I don't know if conditions is the right word, but with that child so that if anything were to ever happen, you know,
09:43first responders would know how to appropriately respond to that.
09:48So that's something that she helps with at the school.
09:51So she was excited about crossing that over into this.
09:54So, I don't know, it's our first go-around at National Night Out, and we plan to do it annually after this.
10:01So, ready or not, here we go.
10:04All right.
10:06Thanks, Emma.
10:06Mm-hmm.
10:07Any questions for Cindy or Emma?
10:10Lynn.
10:11I want to touch a little bit on the project.
10:14So, tomorrow we are going to have a little North Street, West-North intersection in Detroit.
10:23We'll probably be closed.
10:26So, Eliza Street is open.
10:31It's heavily plated.
10:33And it's like we say, you have to be crawling because it's heavily plated.
10:38It's not just like a plate over a small hole.
10:40It's plates over holes.
10:43So, they're putting line stops in.
10:46And we had to put a couple extra line stops up at Eliza Street.
10:51And with a 12-inch, it was like three weeks out, which is now two weeks out.
10:56But we're still good on time.
10:59But just so everybody knows, getting across town could be kind of, again, really sketchy tomorrow.
11:09So, pay attention to that.
11:11I would just come down to Walnut or take it on all the way down Detroit, hit ESPY, come back up Main.
11:22I know it's time out of your day, but it's probably the safest way to go.
11:27So, they're also working, they're really finishing up a lot of these water lines.
11:34And then they'll be hooking up from Carroll Street to Grove Street residence.
11:40The line, water line passed the test, pressure test.
11:43So, we had a little bit of a leak.
11:45So, they had to bring in a leak detector.
11:49And they just found the valve wasn't completely shut off.
11:51So, that's all good news.
11:53They're moving along pretty well.
11:55Today, they did a lot of stone work uptown here.
12:00And you'll be seeing the rest of the curbs and sidewalks.
12:03There should be pouring this week, hopefully.
12:08Or into next week.
12:10So, once that really happens, I will move that quicker.
12:16If anybody walked down, saw the surplus, that's all been graded.
12:19So, it's safe now.
12:22So, no one's going to fall in the hole.
12:24And Chief's still fighting the trucks.
12:28They still want to go through those barricades and test their skills.
12:31So, but he's catching them still.
12:36That's really all I have, other than I just want to commend the guys,
12:40because fire department, police department,
12:45they have great guys, not just because they're elite in what they do.
12:49But, you know, Fannie will cheat however he can to win.
12:55And I appreciate that.
12:57That's pretty cool.
12:59And Chief Musser, he'll swim all by himself.
13:02So, it was a great community event.
13:06And you can really see it's taken flight, so to speak.
13:10Everybody's kind of looking for what's happening.
13:13Chief.
13:13That's all I have.
13:20Also, thank you, Lynn.
13:22And I forgot to mention, Chief Donnelly did have May, June, fire reports.
13:27If you have any questions on that, reach out to me.
13:30For these guys.
13:33You guys are plenty busy.
13:34Finance, any report tonight?
13:42As you already opened, we have done our preliminary discussions about the budget started.
13:49I would like to formally say that with the second meeting in August,
13:54we'll have our first preliminary meeting.
13:56We'll probably review revenues first at that point in time.
14:00That'll give us four weeks to get that information prepared.
14:05We can move forward.
14:06I know the administration's already been proactive in getting that sort of thing moving,
14:12even with the audit and all other things going on in the auditor's office at this point in time.
14:19Chris, he's just excited.
14:26All right, thank you, David.
14:27Mop, anything to report tonight?
14:29Nothing to report.
14:30Public utilities, anything to report?
14:33So, you have a meeting August 13th, 3.30?
14:36Is that still on?
14:37Yes.
14:40Okay.
14:42Street, alley, sidewalks.
14:43We've got a meeting on July 30th.
14:46That'd be this week.
14:47Wednesday?
14:49Anything to report?
14:50Probably haven't had one for several weeks.
14:55Legislation, codes, and regulations.
14:57Also Wednesday, after the streets.
15:02All right, then.
15:05Anything with regional planning?
15:07No, sir.
15:07No meeting since last night.
15:09How about Parks and Rec, the board?
15:11We did meet on July 16th, and we have a new Park and Rec member,
15:16which is Mike Steyer, who replaced Joe Burbacher after 20 years of service to the Park and Rec board.
15:23If you haven't been by the Pioneer Park, they have their large set of playground equipment up.
15:29They've done a phenomenal job down there with more plans to come off of that.
15:35Warp Park is going to receive some new playground equipment.
15:39End of August.
15:39End of August.
15:41That was made possible through a grant.
15:44I believe that Jacqueline Fitzgerald started when she was Park and Rec director.
15:47So it's taken that long to get all that secured and purchased.
15:51The quarry is doing a great job.
15:53Devin and Don are doing a phenomenal job out there.
15:55It's full.
15:55The swimming pool, even though it's been the hottest summer, but I can remember,
16:04and the police and fire graced their presence with the swim meet out there.
16:07That was a great night, too, if anybody, when they have it next year,
16:11everybody needs to go because it was a lot of fun.
16:13They raised money for Down syndrome of Ohio, I believe, was at it, DSCO.
16:20And so they honor a young man who's on the Kitten Stingrays swim team by doing that.
16:27But the pool is just not being well attended,
16:30so we're trying to figure out how we can create some excitement.
16:33And the ladies that run it have done a great job.
16:35They've had pool box, the pool parties, they think outside the box, Christmas in July.
16:40This week they have Halloween night.
16:42So if anybody has any suggestions or recommendations on how we create a little bit more excitement
16:48or the ability for people to attend the pool, it would be great.
16:52And other than that, I think that was it.
16:56Okay.
16:57Thanks, Robin.
16:59Grove Seminary Board?
17:00Yes, yes.
17:01Right.
17:02Tree Commission?
17:03They canceled both meetings, and they're going to reschedule after they get their grant.
17:09And BKP Ambulance District Board, that board met a week ago tonight.
17:12Very short meeting, really, it's a routine matters, as we're all over to discuss.
17:20So, nothing really to read about.
17:23Any old business?
17:26All right, a new business, I would ask for a motion to excuse Anda.
17:31So moved, Mr. President.
17:32Second.
17:32And David, seconded by Peg, Chad, Peg, any discussion?
17:39Okay.
17:39Okay.
17:43Yes, from that one, yeah.
17:47Sue Fox Broker.
17:48Yes.
17:49David Beasley.
17:50Yes.
17:50Steve Walker.
17:51Yes.
17:52Yes.
17:52Chad Miller.
17:53Yes.
17:54Peg Wren.
17:55Yes.
17:56Robin Jones.
17:56Yes.
17:57That passes 6-0.
18:04Okay.
18:05We'll move on, then, to ordinances and resolutions.
18:08You see quite a few items up for the first reading.
18:12They do have an asterisk.
18:14We'll try to, we'll explain all those to the best of our ability, to the best of Cindy's ability.
18:19And if you have questions, please ask.
18:26But those are the asterisks.
18:29We do know that we'd like you to consider those tonight.
18:32So, Emma, if you would.
18:34Resolution number 032-25, a resolution authorizing the Mayor and General Safety Service Director
18:41of the City of Kenton, Ohio, to enter into a contract with the Insight Pipe Contracting
18:46LLC for the lining of the Sanitary Sewer along Morningside Drive in a declaration of emergency.
18:53And, Cindy, just to double-check, or maybe Emma, the, the, this part that was in front
19:00of that is actually explaining the scope of work.
19:05Yes, this is the scope of work.
19:07So, that is the actual contract.
19:08Yes.
19:09So, um, you approved the money last week.
19:16This is just saying.
19:17We're awarding the contract.
19:19All right.
19:20Mr. President, I move for suspension of the pre-read rule for resolution number 032-25.
19:25I'll second that.
19:26Thank you, David.
19:26Second by Robin.
19:27There's no discussions.
19:28We'll go ahead and vote on suspending the rules.
19:31David Beasley.
19:32Yes.
19:32Steve Walter.
19:34Yes.
19:34Chad Miller.
19:35Yes.
19:36Peg Wren.
19:37Yes.
19:38Robin Jones.
19:38Yes.
19:39Suitbox Broker.
19:41Yes.
19:41That's six in favor.
19:43So, you have some moves.
19:43Mr. President, I move for adoption of the same.
19:45Thank you, David.
19:46I'll second.
19:47Second by, I didn't hear that one.
19:49Peg.
19:50Peg.
19:50Peg.
19:52Is there any discussion?
19:53We'll let's have a statement.
19:55Okay.
19:56Steve Walter.
19:57Yes.
19:58Chad Miller.
19:59Yes.
19:59Peg Wren.
20:01Yes.
20:02Robin Jones.
20:02Yes.
20:03Suitbox Broker.
20:05Yes.
20:05Peg.
20:05Yes.
20:07And that passes by rog 16.
20:12Next up.
20:13Ordinance number 25-010, an ordinance to change the zoning of the real property located at 222 West Carroll Street in the city of Kingston, Ohio.
20:24Owned by the Board of Education at the city of Kenton School District from school zoning to R1 1 and 2 family residence districts to B1 neighborhood business district in declaring an emergency.
20:37So this is an outcome of the public hearing from two weeks ago and prior to that.
20:43And no timing issue on the.
20:45No timing issue as I'm aware of.
20:47Right.
20:49Okay.
20:50If no objections, we'll read that again at the next meeting for a second.
20:55All right.
20:58Resolution number 0-3-3-2-5, a resolution to precede the taxing authority with election of the question of an additional taxing.
21:07The tax in excess of the 10-mill limitation and declaring an emergency.
21:12So John?
21:14Yeah, this, you know, this is time critical because we have to get this, if we're going to put this issue on the November ballot, there's no more meetings unless we're calling special meetings.
21:26So if we want to have that, we would need to waive the three-read rule and it does have the emergency language, I would need to get it filed this week or the first couple of days of next week.
21:36So that's the timing.
21:38Otherwise, we're not going to be having this on the November ballot.
21:43And this is the safety level before police and fire.
21:47Mr. President, I move for suspension of the free-read rule to resolution number 0-3-3-2-5.
21:53I'll second that.
21:54Thank you, David.
21:54Second by Robin.
21:55We have a motion to suspend the rules.
21:58There's no vote.
21:59There's no discussions.
22:00We'll go ahead and vote on that.
22:02Chad Miller?
22:03Yes.
22:03Peg Wren?
22:04Yes.
22:05Robin Jones?
22:06Yes.
22:07Sue Fox Broker?
22:08Yes.
22:08David Beasley?
22:09Yes.
22:10Steve Walter?
22:11Yes.
22:11Okay, that passes.
22:13Mr. President, I move for adoption of the same.
22:16Second.
22:17Second by Sue.
22:18It was moved by David.
22:19Is there any discussion?
22:23All right.
22:24Peg Wren?
22:25Yes.
22:25Robin Jones?
22:26Yes.
22:27Sue Fox Broker?
22:28Yes.
22:29David Beasley?
22:30Yes.
22:31Steve Walter?
22:32Yes.
22:32Chad Miller?
22:33Yes.
22:34All right.
22:34That passes 6-0.
22:36Real quick.
22:37Who moved for that and who seconded?
22:40David.
22:42David moved and Sue seconded.
22:44Sue seconded.
22:45That's what I thought.
22:45I wanted to make sure because I need to have that in the formal one for signature.
22:52All right.
22:53Next one up.
22:54Ordinance number 2-5, next year on 1-1, an ordinance providing for additional appropriations
23:00for the year 1-2, 25 for the city of Penn State, Ohio, and for an emergency.
23:09Go to Cindy on this.
23:11Yeah.
23:11Yeah, I'm looking that way.
23:13Yeah.
23:13Yeah, I was like looking at one of the titles as well.
23:16I'm looking at it.
23:16So, the first one, the $1,285, that was what we took in for the 5K run and that money needs
23:26to go back to the school.
23:28So, that's just appropriating that money, that direct desk, that was paid for direct desk
23:33to give it back to the school.
23:35The second one, where it says sewer fund, it should be the RSP.
23:40Yeah.
23:41Yeah.
23:41Anyways, that's just transferring from swimming pool new equipment, $15,000, to the rec maintenance
23:50of parks, so we can get the Cherry Street Park, Murray Park, basketball courts to be serviced.
23:58So, before there's any action, you're saying the sewer is a typo and that should say RSP.
24:03Yeah.
24:03Yes.
24:04Good.
24:12I believe there's, it's probably with the first one, we want to get that money to the schools.
24:18Yes.
24:18Well, we probably pay some.
24:19Yes.
24:19Well, we've got to pay for that pay to get done, too, because it's the season.
24:23Yes.
24:24Yes.
24:25So, we're looking for council that won't move forward tonight yet.
24:28Mr. President, I would move for a suspension of three regroup ordinance number 25.
24:33That's 011.
24:34All right.
24:34Thanks, David.
24:35I second.
24:35Seconded by Chad.
24:36No discussion on suspension of rules, so we'll go ahead and vote.
24:39Robin Jones.
24:40Yes.
24:41Sue Fox Broker.
24:42Yes.
24:43David Beasley.
24:43Yes.
24:44Steve Walter.
24:45Yes.
24:46Chad Miller.
24:47Yes.
24:47Peg Redden.
24:48Yes.
24:49All right.
24:49We're going to vote 6-0.
24:50You suspended the rules.
24:52I move.
24:53I move the adoption of ordinance number 25-0111.
24:57Thanks, Peg.
24:58I'll second.
24:58Seconded by Robin.
25:00I'm shutting you out, Chad.
25:02I'm sorry.
25:02Seconded by Robin.
25:04Any discussion?
25:07Sue Fox Broker.
25:08Yes.
25:08David Beasley.
25:09Yes.
25:10Steve Walter.
25:11Yes.
25:12Chad Miller.
25:12Yes.
25:13Peg Redden.
25:14Yes.
25:14Robin Jones.
25:15Yes.
25:16All right.
25:16That passes 6-0.
25:20Okay.
25:21One more item under first reading.
25:23Ordinance number 25-012, an ordinance authorizing the safety service director to advertise for
25:30bits for rock salt and solid works department.
25:32On the hottest day of the year.
25:34We'll see you in the best winner.
25:40Are you in a hurry?
25:41No.
25:41You want your pile of salt?
25:42No.
25:43Then we will read that again in two weeks.
25:48Okay.
25:49Thanks, everyone, for buzzing through those.
25:52Now, we've got several items up for second reading.
25:54You see none of them have an asterisk added.
25:57So, hopefully, they are added back.
26:01So, please get to hear him and read a whole bunch.
26:03Resolution number 028-25, a resolution authorizing the city of Kenton to apply for, accept, and enter
26:11into a water supply revolving loan account agreement on behalf of the city of Kenton for construction
26:18of Wayne Street Trunk Line Phase 2 water replacement in designating a dedicated repayment source
26:25for the loan in declaring emergency.
26:27And I guess I'd ask Cindy, we're sure that we have plenty of time here.
26:31Okay.
26:32Any questions on that one?
26:34All right.
26:35Obviously, it'll be up for third reading next time.
26:37So, we'll move forward with next one.
26:40Resolution number 029-25, a resolution authorizing the city of Kenton to apply for, accept, and enter
26:48into a water pollution control loan fund agreement on behalf of the city of Kenton for planning,
26:55design, and or construction of Wayne Street Trunk Line Sanitary Sewer Facilities and designating
27:01a dedicated repayment source for the loan and planning an emergency.
27:07This is the sewer.
27:08And that's the voluntary side of the water we just passed.
27:10Yeah.
27:11Any questions?
27:13If there are no objections, we'll read that again next week.
27:16Resolution number 030-25, a resolution authorizing the city of Kenton to apply for, accept, and enter
27:26into a water supply revolving loan account agreement on behalf of the city of Kenton for construction
27:32of Barone Street Water Replacement and designating a dedicated repayment source for the loan and declaring an emergency.
27:42Cindy, you want to add to this one?
27:45All right.
27:46We have time on that one as well.
27:49So, we can go ahead and read that at the next meeting.
27:52Resolution number 031-25, a resolution authorizing the city of Kenton to apply for, accept, and enter
28:01into a water pollution control loan fund agreement on behalf of the city of Kenton for planning,
28:08design, and or construction of Barone Street Storm Facilities and designating a dedicated repayment
28:13source for the loan and declaring a emergency.
28:16Again, this is your counterpart to the prior.
28:19Any questions?
28:19Okay.
28:22We'll read that again for a final reading at the next meeting.
28:27All right.
28:28I have a third reading.
28:29Ordinance number 25-007, an ordinance authorizing the city of Kenton, Ohio, to enter into a highway
28:36improvement project with the Ohio Department of Transportation and declaring an emergency.
28:41This was 309, right?
28:43We'll move from the railroad tracks to a little bit.
28:47It's kind of basically cost us a number.
28:50So, third reading, folks.
28:52Mr. President, I move for the adoption of ordinance number 25-007.
28:57Thanks, David.
28:58I'll second that.
28:59Second by Steve.
29:00Yay!
29:01Yay.
29:02Is there any discussion?
29:06Okay.
29:07David Beasley.
29:08Yes.
29:08Stephen Walker.
29:10Yes.
29:10Chad Miller.
29:11Yes.
29:12Frank Brown.
29:12Yes.
29:13Robin Jones.
29:14Yes.
29:15Sue Foster.
29:16Yes.
29:17All right.
29:17That passes 6-0.
29:21Okay.
29:22That takes care of our legislations.
29:24Thanks, everyone, for all your attention and hard work on that.
29:27Make certain you're ready for all those items that are coming up at the next meeting for third reading.
29:31Other matters need to be presented tonight.
29:35It feels like we've been here an hour and a half already.
29:41Anyone?
29:43Okay.
29:44Comments from the public?
29:48Or staff?
29:50Anyone?
29:51Okay.
29:53Comments from news media, Tim.
29:54Then, council members, administration, Chief Messer, anything you want to...
30:00Nothing else.
30:01Right?
30:02Fire department.
30:04I'll just collectively say fire department.
30:06Okay?
30:07Christy.
30:09Nothing?
30:10Well, then, we'll get right into it with Sue.
30:13Well, I'll just please keep on to tutoring and thoughts and prayers.
30:16I would add kudos to Emma and her team on the organization of the event.
30:25And I will add my appreciation to Chiefs for Tori's involvement in getting some of the public out there on that.
30:33So we appreciate that as well.
30:35I like the interaction between the departments, too, the fun back and forth.
30:40That's fun to see, guys.
30:41Thanks.
30:44No.
30:46I echo what Sue said.
30:48Everybody, please keep on to the prayers.
30:50She's a pretty sick girl.
30:51And I echo what they've said.
30:53I appreciate the fire department, the police department, for what you guys do.
30:58You are appreciative.
31:01What Tori's doing and what you guys are doing is just like a next level of community involvement.
31:07And I think everybody's enjoying the rock hunt.
31:09And today, I think some little girl found a rock.
31:12And Officer Carter went ahead and gave her an ice cream cone, even though it wasn't one of the rocks.
31:17But she was so excited.
31:18So also thank you to Yankees Dairy Queen, because they always take good care of our community.
31:24So thank you so much.
31:25Okay.
31:26I'm joined.
31:28Okay.
31:31I might just want to formally offer the city, on behalf of the city, our condolences to Detectivemonson and his family.
31:41he's the man in blue
31:45and I know it was a lot
31:47for our guys and
31:49he knows that we
31:53stand with him so that's
31:55pretty tough especially
31:57for our guys
31:58also
32:01on the opposite end
32:03of that Cindy and I went to ODOT
32:05last Thursday
32:07and did our pitch again for some money
32:09so we'll find out
32:11how that goes
32:12there's 22 applicants
32:15in this one so
32:17I don't know I think they're going to give
32:197 awards out
32:21so we'll see what we're doing
32:22if not we'll come back
32:25but I can tell you ODOT
32:27is very familiar with this
32:29they're very
32:30complimentary to us and what we're doing
32:33and how we're doing it
32:35and how quick we're doing it
32:37and our plan and our strategy
32:39so we received
32:41some pretty high compliments
32:42and I appreciate all you guys
32:45for allowing us to
32:46go down there
32:47and keep pitching
32:48so this will be for
32:502030
32:51unless somebody drops out
32:53and might throw it down to
32:542029
32:55so we're
32:56like I said
32:57we pitched
32:58that far out
32:59so
33:00it'll be for
33:01309 East
33:04out by Quest
33:05coming in
33:05new infrastructure
33:08in there
33:08because
33:09other than that
33:12that's what I have
33:13thanks
33:15yeah
33:18chief
33:19social media presence
33:22it'll be cool
33:23really
33:26really nice
33:27also
33:30thank both
33:33departments
33:34and
33:35public
33:36services
33:37or
33:37street guys
33:39summer's a busy time
33:42got all kinds of things
33:42going on
33:43just had to eat
33:44on the streets
33:45something seems like
33:46there's something
33:47every Saturday
33:47plus
33:48obviously
33:49everybody spends
33:50a lot more time
33:51with family
33:51it's a load
33:52and I appreciate that
33:54what you all do
33:56and what
33:57everyone does
33:58in the city
33:59I mean
33:59everybody's outside
34:02so more policing
34:03to do
34:04everybody's
34:05wanting to mess around
34:06whether it's fireworks
34:07or anything else
34:08and it's hot
34:09so a lot more
34:10for the fire to do
34:11and all the hydrants
34:11to work on
34:12and then
34:12you repair roads
34:15when it's summertime
34:16so
34:16thank everybody
34:18for doing that
34:19I would just suggest
34:24that we had a lot
34:25of discussion
34:26in a committee
34:26meeting before
34:27this council meeting
34:29regarding
34:29the issue
34:31of a charter
34:32and I think
34:33it's a great thing
34:34for the
34:35citizens of Kenton
34:37to have a chance
34:39to vote upon
34:39I challenge
34:42council
34:42and administration
34:44to help
34:46get the word out
34:47but by the same token
34:49and not to compare them
34:51I also challenge
34:53council
34:53and administration
34:54to get the word out
34:55about this
34:56bond issue
34:59that's going to be
35:00on the ballot
35:00adding taxes
35:06is a tough thing
35:07to do
35:07obviously
35:09that's why
35:09the people
35:09get to vote on it
35:10if we cannot
35:13pay
35:15our police
35:16and fire
35:17adequately
35:18to attract
35:20and retain
35:21the quality
35:23of individuals
35:24that I know
35:25everyone wants
35:26in the city
35:27of Kenton
35:27then
35:29we're going to
35:30not end up
35:31having
35:32those services
35:33and that's
35:38part of why
35:39we're trying
35:40to approve
35:40Kenton
35:40to expand
35:41possibilities
35:44of higher paying
35:45jobs
35:46and more jobs
35:47I know
35:49it seems like
35:50it all comes back
35:51to the citizens
35:51but it does
35:53we've got to pay
35:56for those services
35:57so council members
35:59if you
35:59whatever you can do
36:01to get out
36:01and spread that
36:02word
36:02please do so
36:03our next meeting
36:07is Monday
36:08August 11th
36:10at 7pm
36:12here
36:12finance
36:14before then
36:15or the
36:15it'll be the
36:17last meeting
36:18of August
36:18so
36:19until then
36:21unless there's
36:22objections
36:23we're adjourned
36:24it's
36:29date
36:29date
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