This evening, the invocation will be given by Commissioner Fairchild.

Thank you, Mayor.

This is the prayer of St.

Francis of Assisi.

Lord, make me an instrument of your peace.

Where there is hatred, let me so love.

Where there is injury, pardon, where there is doubt, faith, where there is despair, hope, where there is darkness, light, where there is sadness, joy.

Oh divine master, grant that I may not so much seek to be consoled as to console, to be understood as to understand, to be loved as to love.

For it is in giving that we receive, it is in pardoning that we are pardoned, and it is in dying that we are born into eternal life.

Amen.

Amen.

I plead allegiance to the flag of the United States America and to the Republic for a nation with liberty and justice for all.

Okay, Ms.

Black Shear.

May I have the roll call, please.

Mayor Mims.

Aye.

Commissioner Joseph.

Aye.

Turner Sloss.

Okay, I may have a motion then to approve the minutes from the October 29th meeting.

So moved, John.

Second the motion, Your Honor.

Okay, so we'll probably move in the second to approve the minutes from the October 29th meeting.

All the favor say aye.

Aye.

All the polls say no.

Okay.

Communications and petitions, Ms.

Black Sheer.

There are none, Your Honor.

Okay.

I know we do have two presentations this evening.

And uh like to first invite Commissioners Julia Dodge.

And is Curly with you as well?

Ms.

Junior.

Just Judy.

Okay.

You have different rules than we have, so anyway, it's a pleasure to be here.

I'm Montgomery County Commissioner Judy Dodge.

Okay.

You know, as we approach Hunger and Homelessness Awareness Week, which is November 16th through the 22nd, I want to just take a second here to recognize and thank two wonderful county or city commissioners, excuse me, Matt Joseph and Chris Shaw, for their dedicated leadership on our Montgomery County Food Equity Coalition Steering Committee.

Now, Matt, you especially remember this from many, many years ago with our good friend Mr.

Hall.

So Commissioners Joseph and Shaw consistently show show up not just in meetings, but in the community.

They assist at mass food distributions with the food bank and support efforts like the Gettysburg grocery store operated by Homeful, just to name a few.

Held each November for 13 years.

More recently, through their leadership, the Food Summit evolved into the nourishing Montgomery County outdoor food event held in both 2024 and 2025.

Most recently at the Second Street Market.

And those they were both very successful.

Thank you so much for that, because that's, as we know, very needed.

Thank you for allowing me this opportunity to speak today, and once again thank you, Commissioners Joseph and Shaw, for your leadership and commitment to ensuring that Montgomery County and the City of Dayton are food secure.

Thank you.

Have a good thank you, thank you.

Thank you.

Mr.

Joseph Shaw, like to make any comments.

Why don't we just do the Brown Robin?

Brown Robin.

Okay.

Commissioner Sloss, let me make comments.

Well, thank you, Commissioner Dodge, for being here this evening, and congratulations on the passing of the human service levy, uh levy one.

Um a number of voters are very much so they came out overwhelmingly to support that initiative.

And we just want to like to thank uh all of the voters that came out uh yesterday evening or yesterday morning and also to my colleagues, Commissioner uh Joseph and Commissioner Shaw, thank you for your work, uh especially given these times that we're entering um with the threats of SNAP benefits being um you know eliminated or or not uh provided to many of the our residents.

And I also would like to acknowledge uh the county and I I believe that you all made a contribution of 500,000 if that's if that have that number right to the food bank and understanding that there is some work that's being done across many of our communities, including uh the Mount Calvary, which is uh Ms.

Um uh Jackson's church with Pastor Willst uh Winston and some work that they're doing, and from my understanding, organizations have a larger uh buying power when they make those contributions to the food bank itself.

So I know there's a number of organizations that are working together, but if you can find that one to pour your donation into so that the food bank can make the contributions or make the uh the purchase of those items so that they can make those dollars stretch.

They have a a um a bigger uh buy in power.

So again, thank you to my colleagues for your work.

And as we are facing these challenges time times, I hope that we can continue to work together.

So thank you.

Okay, thank you.

Commissioner Fairchild.

Yeah, no, I think Commissioner said it.

We were congratulate you on the passage of the human service levy.

And uh and thank you for the contribution to the food bank.

Um thank you for your leadership on these issues.

It's certainly uh um very important time as we look at the continued federal um shutdown of the government as well as the uncertainty that's that goes along with that and um the impact it will have on individuals in our community.

So I'm glad you're here.

We look forward to working with you, and we look forward to working collectively to protect the most vulnerable, which is gonna be an unfortunately an increasing number of people being vulnerable in our community.

Commissioner Shaw.

Yeah, well, thank you for that.

And thank you for being here.

Uh you're very humble because your leadership in this space for all of these many years uh should be commended.

Uh you know, you it's you've just been doing uh tremendous work ever since uh uh Ambassador Hall kind of stepped away and and and and thank you too, Commissioner Joseph for your great leadership and allowing me to participate.

So uh there's a lot of work that we will do together.

Um unfortunately we will have to do that work.

But um but thanks for your service.

Appreciate it.

Okay, Commissioner Joseph.

Thank you.

And I gotta echo Commissioner Shaw's the rest of his comments, sir, because Commissioner, you've been leading on this for a long time, and you talked about he and I, but really the focus should be on you.

You brought together a network of people uh like Commissioner said a moment ago of of private public uh partnerships across the across the spectrum, people who are involved with with people, people vote with food from farm to table, right?

And you've done that over a a number of years.

And those networks that you've built are way more important now than they've ever been because of the problems we're seeing, the holes that are showing up because of lack of funding and shutdowns and uh intransigent federal government and everything else.

So thank you for building those bonds that are going to carry us through this this next uh next crisis here.

Yeah, so you came down here to congratulate and thank a couple of my guys, so we're also thanking you for some of the work you're doing as well.

So additionally, your work with the Ohio One group uh because of how it was uh successful in suing the um pharmaceutical companies because all the drug issues that we had and the crises that we had throughout this uh throughout this nation, but we had a great lead on that, unfortunately.

And so the work that we're doing together on that committee to get those uh those dollars uh funnel to Dayton to different departments and different organizations to again minimize some of the drug crisis issues that we have throughout this city.

So again, I want to thank you as well for that work.

All right.

Okay.

All right, good.

Okay, so our next uh presentation.

So I'd like to invite the Ms.

Miranda Brooks uh to the podium to present the 2025 Dayton Bosnia Youth Leadership Program.

Hello, good evening.

Good evening again.

Uh Mayor, Commissioners, City Manager, Clerk, Chief of Staff, thank you for the opportunity and the time this evening to present our seventh cohort of the Dayton, Bosnia and Herzegovina Youth Leadership Program, affectionately known as YLP.

My name is Miranda Brooks.

I work for the City of Dayton at the Human Relations Council.

For the past four years, I've had the privilege and the fun of being project stateside project manager for YLP.

Uh, you know, inevitably things change and nothing stays the same.

Uh due to staffing transitions and capacity.

Um this year, with the support of our colleagues at the U.S.

Embassy in Sarajevo, we are welcoming an additional local partner, uh, the Entrepreneur Center.

And specifically, Bonnie Kling has taken over program management of this year's cohort.

Uh Bonnie wears two hats at the very least that make her uniquely qualified uh for this role.

First, she is the director of operations at the Entrepreneur Center.

A major output of this program is for the students and teachers to uh create a civic-minded project that uplifts their hometown.

Bonnie has provided tremendous support in all phases of project ideation, planning, and implementation.

Additionally, Bonnie is the Sarajevo chair of the Dayton Sister City Committee.

She's traveled with me to Bosnia the last three years and has proven to be a trusted partner in all things diplomacy, cultural exchange, travel, and adventure.

And so as I um take a step back away from the program, I want to extend my sincere thank you to all of you for your continued support and trust.

I would like to thank my colleagues, Michelle Zaremba, Steve Gondel, Lamont Hall Jr., and my dear Bosnian colleagues, Leila, Sandra, Almir, Seo, and Adis, who at this point are like family.

Uh the impact of this program is profound and lasting.

Here uh in Dayton with the YLP, we've touched the lives of more than 150 Bosnian students and teachers with the support of more than 30 local host families.

It has also, the program has engaged uh Dayton area youth and numerous local community partners.

Uh I'll close by saying a bit of a reflection, I suppose that I have, or at least in my estimation, is that this program has an incredible ability to acknowledge the reality of difference in that it provides space for us to explore our complexities and our connections.

It allows us to hold tension uh without compromise and to recognize at once both our unique and lived shared experiences, which I believe is uh the work of being human.

So thank you.

And with that, I will um ask Bonnie to come to the podium for a few words, and then we'll have the students and teachers introduce themselves.

Okay.

Looking forward to it.

Good evening.

Evening.

Thank you for having us, and thank you, Miranda.

Um, as she mentioned, my name is Bonnie Kling, and I'm the director of operations for the Entrepreneur Center.

Now the program manager for the 2025 YLP and also the chair of the Sierra Evo Sister Cities Committee.

Um we are excited again to host 18 students and three teachers for this youth leadership program.

Um this program means a lot to me and to the entrepreneur center, uh, to the people of the Dayton community.

These guests are lucky to be hosted by families in the area, and we are thankful that they have opened their homes to them.

Uh when you host a student or a teacher, it's a wonderful relationship that continues across miles in time, and I know personally from hosting a student in the past.

These students and teachers have been selected to participate in the youth leadership program because they show the skills of leadership, dedication, and willingness to learn.

Um, while here, they participate in various activities focused on community dialogue, civic engagement, and volunteerism.

Um, thank you to all of the companies and organizations that have contributed or will contribute for this cohort.

In addition to regular programming this year, the YLP program has the opportunity to attend some of the Dayton Peace Accord's 30th anniversary activities.

Um they will be attending a master class at Wright State with students from Carroll High School, and they will be able to attend the Gala on number November 15th at Hope Hotel, which is a ticketed event, but it is open to the public.

Um thank you to my colleagues for this year's program, um, Lawrence Jones, Steve Gondel, and Miranda Brooks.

Uh finally, uh thank you to the city for your continued support.

And it's programs like these that continue to build bridges, working between the United States and Bosnia Herzegovina, and I'm happy to be part of it.

At this time, I would like to welcome the participants to come up and introduce themselves.

Thank you.

Thank you.

Good evening.

My name is Patricia Sutitz, and I'm 18 years old.

I come from Bosnia and Herzegovina Livno, and I'm a senior of Tourism High School.

Thank you.

Good evening.

My name is Zaida Kadic, and I work as an English teacher in a high school of economics in Zenica.

Good evening.

I'm Iman.

I'm from Bosnia and Herzegovina from Zenica, and I'm a senior at my uh comprehensive high school in my town.

Good evening.

I'm Maria.

I'm German teacher at uh grammar school in Libno.

Thank you.

For me here.

Thank you.

Good evening.

My name is Zaida Shaest.

I teach English language and literature and uh democracy and human rights in high school for these beautiful young people, and thank you for your warm welcome here.

Okay, thank you.

Good evening, everybody.

Uh my name is Imran Berberic.

Um I'm also a high school senior.

I'm from Zenitza, Bosnia Herzegovina, and I'm grateful for this opportunity.

Thank you.

Good evening, everyone.

My name is Maria Milit, and I am a senior at a comprehensive high school in Livna, Bosnia and Herzegovina.

Good evening, everybody.

It's my pleasure to be here.

My name is Omar Asmanchevic.

I'm senior high school.

Uh I'm from Zensa, Bosnia Herzegovina, and I go to the first comprehensive high school in Zenisa.

Thank you.

Okay.

Good evening.

My name is Tari Kalich.

I am 18 years old and I come from the city of Zanitsa.

I am a high school student of uh high school of economics.

Good evening.

My name is Laila Saric.

I'm a junior year of uh first comprehensive school in a city Zenitsa.

Good evening.

My name is Lea Anish.

Uh I'm 17 years old.

I'm from Livno, Bosnia Herzegovina, where I attend my junior year of graphic design in Livno's one and only vocational school.

Thank you.

Good evening.

I'm Anna Badro.

I'm from Livno.

Uh I'm going to third grade high school of general uh studies.

Good even good evening, everyone.

Uh I'm Uma.

I'm a sophomore in uh a comprehensive high school of a Catholic school center, St.

Paul in Zenitsa.

Thank you.

Good evening, everybody.

I'm Daily Adrino.

I come from Zanica, Bosnia and Herzegovina, and I'm junior here in the first comprehensive high school.

Uh good evening, everybody.

Uh my name is Andrey Bukich.

I come from Zenitsa, Bosnia and Herzegovina.

Uh I'm a senior at the Comprehensive High School of the Catholic School Center St.

Paul and the Music High School.

Andrea, I love that uh the code.

You can leave the code.

Good evening, everybody.

My name is Maria Orlovich.

I am from Livno, Bosnia and Herzegovina, and I'm a senior at secondary vocational uh school, and my major is computer science.

Good evening, everyone.

I'm Emma Pesich, I'm from Zanica, and I'm uh senior in High School of Economics, and my major is tourism.

Okay.

Good evening.

Good evening, everyone.

Uh, I'm Marko Dalich.

I come from Bosnia and Herzegovina Levno.

I am going to comprehensive high school in Livno.

Thank you.

Good evening, everybody.

My name is Nicola Chavar.

I'm come from Livno.

I go to first comprehensive high school in Livno.

Uh good evening.

My name is Manuel.

Uh I'm 17 years old.

I come from Livno and I'm a junior in high school and I major in computer science.

Thank you.

Okay.

Thank you.

So I asked Commissioner Joseph to say a word or two because he works with them quite a lot, all the groups that come to um to the city of Dayton from different countries.

So please don't round as well as that.

Let's give you a nice round of applause first.

Well, welcome to Dayton.

We're glad you're here.

I think you touch more lives than you know you do when you're here.

You already interacted with a lot of people, and it's only been five or six days.

Uh just imagine how many people you're going to have talked to and touched in in three weeks or more than three weeks.

So I hope you are learning a lot here, but I also want to thank you for the change that you're making in people's lives here, the doors you are opening for people.

So thank you.

Special thank you to the teachers, special thank you to the organizers who made this happen.

So thank you all.

Yeah, yeah, great.

Commissioner.

Welcome to Dayton.

I hope you all enjoy your visit here, and I just would like to commend uh my colleague for his leadership on the program and the fall cohort and also all of the organizers to the staff for lending their time and their talents.

So I hope you enjoy your time here.

Thank you.

Okay.

All right, Commissioner Fisher.

Welcome.

We have an incredible city.

I hope you will take full advantage of every opportunity you have here.

Welcome.

Likewise, welcome.

Thank you for coming.

Yep.

Yeah, thank you so much.

And you're going to New York when on the 19th, I believe.

Okay.

Enjoy.

Now you can stay here as uh long as you like.

Come back as often as you like as well.

Thank you so much.

Appreciate you.

Thank you.

Yes.

Stand for the picture.

Screwed in.

Yosh.

Okay.

Okay.

Thank you.

So Ms.

Black Shoe, do we have any additions, uh, deletions of comments to the calendar?

I have none, Your Honor.

Okay.

Ms.

Dixteen.

Any deletions, additions or comments to the calendar.

Your Honor, I have no additions or deletions to this evening's calendar.

I would like to highlight uh one item, which is item number two, uh a service agreement with Top Shape Enterprises Inc.

This is a a contract modification uh for improvements at community golf club for cart pass, tea boxes, and drainage improvements.

This is part of the debt um program that we talked to you about last year when we were issuing debt.

Um it's important to note that the um debt is calculated based on, you know, we we never go over like 50 percent of the revenues, right?

We're always very conservative about what um we could borrow a whole lot more money, but it's always about what can we afford to pay back.

And so this function is paid back entirely by the proceeds and the operations of the golf course.

So it is structured and operates like an enterprise account, uh, which is important because that means that it's not um taking general fund money to support it.

It's not an official enterprise account because we do take some of that revenue and support other programs in REC, particularly youth development.

You'll recall we had that structure.

So if it were um structured as an enterprise account officially, like our airport or our water utility, we wouldn't be able to take any revenues away from that operation.

It all have to be within the operation, right?

So we we did it that way.

We s we structure it and make it stand up on its own, but we also you know take a little cream off of those uh revenues to be able to support important youth development or youth programming.

Okay?

Okay, thank you.

And that's all I have for this evening's calendar.

Okay.

Ms.

Black Show, do we have any citizens who uh wish to speak on City Manager's recommendations?

Your Honor, one citizen has registers to speak.

I would like to state that there is a three-minute time limit.

As you address the commission, we ask that you state your name and address for the record.

At that time, I will turn on the green light.

When the green light comes on, you will have three minutes to speak.

After you have spoken two and a half minutes, a yellow light will come on.

You will have 30 minutes 30 seconds remaining to speak.

Okay.

When the red light comes on, you will be asked to cease your comments and to take your seat.

To the audience in attendance, please be mindful.

This is a business meeting, and we kindly request that during this portion of the meeting you refrain from any hand clapping, finger snapping, and conversations that will prevent the city commission from hearing the speaker's comments.

Hello, Keegan Sickles, 1517 Burroughs Drive.

Mayor, Mayor Elect, Commissioners, City Manager, Madam Clerk.

I just wanted to come and talk to you today about the safe streets and roads for all safety plan that you are hearing your first reading on.

I'm very excited and thankful that this work is being under undergone.

It builds on the work of the safe streets for safe routes to schools plan as well as the active transportation plans that have been undergone over the last several years.

As you may know, I've been involved in the Dayton View Triangle Neighborhood Association, which may have had the first local roadway plan back all the way back in 1988 for our neighborhood.

And so through my advocacy, we've seen some of these projects come to fruition with the Road Diet to Philadelphia coming in 2026.

Um to help improve some of the most disenfranchised areas of the city and to be able to do that in a way that is equitable and uh improves our roadway safety.

Um I look forward to the transparency that comes with this as well.

Um I know the Safe Routes to Schools program had talked about some annual reporting about that that I don't think ever really came into fruition.

So I'm really hoping to be able to track this and watch this as the as the years go on.

Um and again, I just wanted to thank you so much for uh considering this legislation.

Okay.

Well thank you very much.

Appreciate it.

So, Ms.

Black, do we have any um this is the last citizen who will speak?

Okay, Commissioners.

I filed paperwork to speak.

Oh, okay.

That's in the the last session.

Thank you.

Commissioners, comments on the city manager's recommendations.

Uh very good.

Yes, thank you.

Uh, Ms.

Dixtein, thank you very much for providing additional context to calendar item uh number two, the service agreement.

Um, and um I also would like to thank Mr.

Seacles for being here this evening for your comments and uplifting the work of our staff.

Um, you're absolutely correct.

There are some some great work and time that was committed to this project.

So again, just kudos to the public works department.

Um I believe Mr.

Escobar led this initiative and to the entire staff.

So I will again I'm look forward to supporting this uh legislation or the uh the safe uh streets and roads for uh for all.

Okay, thank you.

Commissioner Fairchild.

Yeah, thank you, C Manager, for the um context on the golf course and the spending there.

Appreciate that.

Um this is a minor question on the um on the police vehicles.

I saw I see three or hybrid, that's great.

I was curious, is it a supply issue that we weren't able to get all 17 as hybrids or um I believe it's a supply issue and a function issue.

We're still not doing, you know, some of the some of the supply related to the kinds of functions we have across the organization are still rolling through.

All right, thank you.

I appreciate that.

Good.

Okay, Commissioner.

Commissioner Joseph.

I do actually thank you for that question.

And it is true.

We're we're still making sure that uh we have full capability that our police need, but when the opportunity does come up, uh we're fitting in a hybrid or uh full electric vehicle where we can.

Thank you for that question.

Yeah, uh, and I also want to thank uh city manager for bringing up the the top shape uh enterprises.

Uh I and I want to say that this is gonna add uh some great renovation on top of a course that's already in good shape.

I want to uh if you could pass on to rec and to golf, that even late in the season the course was in wonderful shape and the capital improvements that we made have really made a difference.

Uh cart paths would be a great idea.

So uh but I really do want to commend them on a great season.

I I'm looking forward to hearing the numbers when the when the year is out to find out where we sue.

But I think we probably did pretty well this year.

Thank you.

Thank you, ma'am.

Thank you.

You did good.

We had a lot of rain at the beginning of the season to slow this up a little bit.

Okay, may I have a motion then to approve the city manager's recommendations?

Your Honor, our move to approve city managers' recommendations.

Second, Your Honor.

Aye.

All opposed say no.

All right.

Legislation, Ms.

Black Shoe.

First reading resolution number 6899-25.

Adopting the Dayton Safe Streets and Roads for All Safety Action Plan.

Second reading ordinance number 32163-25, providing temporary appropriations for the ordinary operating and capital expenses of the City of Dayton, pending passage of the year 2026 annual appropriation ordinance.

Mayor Mems.

Aye.

Commissioner Joseph.

Aye.

Shaw.

Aye.

Turner Sloss.

Aye.

Second reading ordinance number 32164-25.

Authorizing the city manager to participate with the Ohio Department of Transportation for the MOT West Third Street Safety IMP project.

Mayor Mems.

Aye.

Commissioner Joseph.

Aye.

Shaw.

Fair Chow.

Turner Sloss.

Aye.

Second reading resolution number six eight nine seven-25.

Approving the city manager's 2026 operating and capital improvement budget recommendations authorizing the necessary implementation actions.

Mayor Mims.

Aye.

Commissioner Joseph.

Aye.

Shaw.

Turner Sloss.

Aye.

Second reading resolution number six eight nine eight-25.

Approving the joint submission with the City of Humber Heights of a grant application and authorizing the acceptance of grant awards from the Ohio Department of Transportation under the Transportation Improvement Program for State Fiscal Year 2031.

Mayor Mims.

Aye.

Commissioner Joseph.

Shaw.

Fairchild.

Aye.

And that concludes the legislation, Your Honor.

Okay.

All right.

Thank you.

So it comes from citizens, Ms.

Blackshear.

Yes, Your Honor.

There are three citizens who must register to speak.

I'd like to remind the everyone of the three-minute time limit.

I call to the podium Alec Johnson.

You mentioned 30 minutes before, and I got very excited.

Sure.

Good evening.

Good evening.

My name is Alec Johnson.

I live at 4822 Hassan Circle in Dayton's Eastern Hills.

On October 17th, Pope Leo the 14th declared the poor are not there by chance or blind and cruel fate, nor for most of them is poverty a choice.

Sharing the views of the Party for Socialism and Liberation locally, we applaud the Pope using his high office to shatter cruel myths about the poor.

Pope Leo's declaration does beg the question, however, if the poor are not poor by ch chance or choice, why do poor and why do poor people suffer so much in our society and beyond?

In a word, the reason for this is capitalism.

Capitalism, now in the form of U.S.

imperialism, strives to impose a totalistic system of exploitation that impoverishes most of the world's population, all to hyper-enrich.

I repeat, hyper-enrich, a tiny fraction of elite parasites who are currently in control.

But for how long?

For how long can this cruel and reckless social order continue to ignore the mounting calamity?

Global warming is already delivering on an almost daily basis.

For how long will we allow the parasite class to destroy upwards of 40% of our jobs with their reckless use of AI?

And we can't forget that AI consumes fresh drinking water at alarming rates while driving electricity prices through the roof.

For how long will we put up with this?

Recent events in this country and beyond suggest that the answer to these questions is resounding.

Not long, not long.

How long will we put up with Trump's attempt to wage war with Venezuela?

We're already out in front of that.

These same parasites are scared to death of China.

The Pentagon proudly announced that the U.S.

military will be ready for war with China by 2027.

How long will such a war last?

Not long.

Nor would humanity last long afterwards.

It is this insane class of parasites who own both political parties that see no way forward for their imperialist project without risking all life on Earth.

How long should leaders like these be allowed to continue leading?

Not long.

Not long.

On October 18th, over seven million people took to the streets nationwide and millions more unable to march, watched in solidarity.

We think our class, the U.S.

working class, is awake like never before across the country and even here in Ohio.

Marchers were proclaiming the need for a general strike.

Billionaires could all fail to show up for work tomorrow, and no one would notice.

If the working class refuses to show up for work tomorrow, it could change the world.

The billionaire parasites understand this well.

Nothing frightens them more than a general strike.

Those who claim a general strike is impossible, ignore our nation's rich history of similar actions, going all the way back to the general strike imposed by Southern slaves that helped end the civil war.

This point was made by Chicago Mayor Richard Johnson, who pointed out that a general strike ended the civil war.

We urge everyone, citizens and elected officials alike to lift our voice to lift your energy and your determination to bring a general strike to life soon.

Thank you.

Okay.

Thank you for your comments.

Mark Brooks.

My name is uh Mark Brooks, 1535 Earlham Drive.

Uh come to you with a uh concern about a public works issue, concerning leaf pickup.

And I was wondering if that department could consider scaling back the schedule of leaf pickup.

We four last the truck came down my street.

Solo leaves have failed.

He just drove right on by, and I know it's like the last five to six years.

The same schedule has been had.

Uh the leaf pickup is in October is too early.

These really don't fall until like the first frost.

And I was wondering if consideration can be given if you just, you know, maybe just stop the first leaf pickup or schedule it further in the year, or just have one major leaf pickup in December.

That's what my concern is.

Okay.

Just uh stay at the meeting and we'll have someone um give you some information on that.

If you stay after the meeting, okay.

All right, Mr.

Let.

Thank you.

Okay, thank you.

Kevin Keller.

Good evening, Commissioners.

Mayor, Commissioners, City Manager, and audience.

My name's Kevin Keller, 3922 East Third Street, Dayton, Ohio, 45403.

I come to you today with a repeated uh request, I guess.

I've been asked this before.

Uh the speed up and down East Third Street is really becoming a problem.

Today I believe I caught somebody on my uh porch cameras doing wheelies up the hill, standing on the bike, and their their feet are on the bike as they're doing wheelies up the hill.

Three together, no no single file.

I mean, these guys, young kids, somebody's gonna get hurt, and I don't think they're gonna realize what's gonna happen to them more so uh somebody coming up the hill or they have a wreck in this you know, the vehicle drives right into the motorbikes.

It would be a really serious situation, and I don't think they realize how how bad not only they get hurt, but who how many people would be affected by their uh ignorance and and lack of uh concern?

The second one I have is uh the paving of our alley.

I think our our uh public work, Mr.

Uh manager that is uh I know taking an active role in, and I was hoping to find out how these alleys are gonna be uh done, how and when, because we got a winter coming, and one of the worst it times it we have is during winter, and when you got the you know, it's a slush going on in the snow, those uh those alleys that aren't paved ended up being a real mess.

Cars get stuck in them because uh where I live, a lot of the vehicles have to park, you know, next to the alley next to their garage because there's no street parking.

Because I think also these people are afraid about their vehicle being hit.

Um my wife and our vehicles have been hit four times in the last three years by people going down the streets because they're not paying attention, or they're uh going way over the speed limit, which is 25 miles an hour.

They just don't care.

You know, they got a big truck, it's got a few dents in it, who cares, you know, put another dent in it.

We really need to take care of that kind of thing.

So also I have a uh an idea on how we could help prevent these wrong way drivers on the freeways, on roads of our not only our cities, but state and the country.

If anybody remembers pulling into some of these very secure parking lots or apartment buildings, you can drive in if you've got a pass.

But if you try to overcome, you know, thinking you can gather without uh paying, or uh there's a warning there that says, hey, if you go through this, your tires can be flattened.

I think that maybe we ought to investigate something like that at the beginning of the uh the freeway on ramp with the off ramps.

You know, once you hit that, you're going the wrong way.

And lights and everything will will illuminate, but if you don't have any kind of safety beyond that, I I I really think this, you know, investigating that type of a system would really save some lives.

Thank you very much for your time.

Okay, thank you very much.

And also, Mr.

Rich, we would like to talk to you about the alley situation.

Mr.

Keller.

Yes, sir.

Okay.

Gentleman in the corner there talked to you about the alley situation.

Oh, great.

Okay.

Thank you.

Thank you so much.

That concludes the speaker's okay.

Ms.

Dixon.

Any closing comments?

Uh, Your Honor, only one closing comment um with regards to uh Mr.

Keller and the speeding.

We do have an analysis that was almost done, and and um DPD leadership wanted to tweak or get a little bit more information, and then I'll be able to share information with you all with regards to that investigation, that strategy to address speeding on East Third Street.

Okay.

That's all I have.

Thank you.

Ms.

Blackshire, any closing comments?

I have none, Your Honor.

Okay.

Commissioner Thomas Law, any closing comments.

Yes.

Uh thank you, Mayor.

I would just like to thank Commissioner Judy Dodge for being here this evening, as well as uh Ms.

Miranda Brooks and her leadership and the entire um team and staff members that participate in the Bosnia Fall cohort, as well as Commissioner Joseph, thank you for your leadership.

Thank you, Mr.

Sickles uh Keegan for being here this evening.

Appreciate your comments.

Um and I it is my hope that we can address a number of the concerns as well as uh the concerns that Mr.

Keller has for um East Thurst Street.

Uh Mr.

Aladdin, thank you for your your comments, Mr.

Johnson for being here.

Um Mr.

Mark Brooks, thank you uh for your comments as well.

And um, Ms.

Dixtein, do we have or perhaps you can have a conversation um or perhaps rather, Ms.

Dixtein, if Mr.

Brooks can also have a conversation with Mr.

Richie in terms of altering the schedule.

And it may be due to the number of neighborhoods that we have to serve or some various different tweaks that we may need to make.

So I offer that suggestion to you, Mr.

Brooks.

Um Mr.

Richard is here.

Is that fair?

Yeah, and I believe that was what the mayor had indicated.

So I would as staying after the meeting.

Yep, absolutely.

Um, along with uh so you have a number of residents to to meet with after the meeting.

Uh so thank you, Mayor.

Thank you, Ms.

Dixteen.

Um Ms.

Kelly, Mr.

Keller again, thank you for comments and for bringing that to our attention.

I'll also like to uh again congratulate um Montgomery County and the the passing of the um issue one, the human service levy, uh a number of the volunteers that participated or lended their their time um for those efforts and the leadership for moving that forward, and most importantly the voters, all of the voters that came out uh yesterday.

Congratulations to all of the candidates and all of those who made a a very um uh uh definitive, if you will, decision, uh uh a selfless decision to run for office.

It is no easy feat.

And so I congratulate all of the candidates, and I know we have a candidate here, um, Reverend Domitia Robinson Thompson, uh West Garitan School Board Elect member that is here, so congratulations to you.

And then I'll also like to congratulate Commissioner Fairchild, your re-election.

And I would like to thank uh Mayor Mims for his time of service, and I look forward to supporting you for the uh remainder of your term.

So thank you.

And congratulations to you as well.

Thank you.

Thank you.

Mr.

Fairchild.

Yeah, thank you.

Um I want to thank um the voters for coming out and congratulations for the human service levy, support for that.

And um also the um issue nine for the public hospital um passed.

And so uh Ms.

Dixie, I didn't know if we could get I'm sure that your staff has probably started to work on this, but um what that would mean for the city and next steps for us now that we have the law department is working on that opinion or that recommendation for great.

Thank you.

Um thank you to for the voters who all came out to vote yesterday.

Again, thank you for the candidates who have run.

Um mayor, thank you for running, and thank you for the foundation that you have created here in Dayton.

And um, there's many things that to build on, and we look forward to serving out this term with you, and we know that you are no not going anywhere, and you will remain a public servant here in Dayton.

And so thank you for your service and to Commissioner Turner Slask.

Um, congratulations on your election.

Yep.

Um couple of events coming up that I wanted to mention on Thirty Thursday night, there tomorrow night is the access to justice awards with Abel.

It um and I'm looking forward to being there to celebrate those champions of justice.

And if you are a literary fan, this is your weekend because the uh the uh Dayton Literary Peace Award, uh author's talk is Saturday at four o'clock, and then also the book fair is going on all weekend out at the county fair.

All right, yep.

Shaw.

Yeah, well, thank you for that, and and thank you and congratulations to both of my colleagues on your successful uh elections this year.

Um look forward to working with both of you uh in the future.

Um also I'm very happy and thank thankful for the voters that supported the uh human services levy.

Um we put a lot of work into this uh over the years and and it was so very important that that our community has that um that um ballot issue.

So um congratulations to to everyone for that because we we really need those services.

Um finally uh along the same theme of uh Safer Streets for All, the Myan Valley Regional Planning Commission is developing a comprehensive road safety action plan to to improve transportation safety across our region and community input uh is definitely essential.

So there will be uh a I guess it's a listening session at uh Montgomery County, Montgomery and Northern Warren County open house.

Tuesday, November 18, 2025, from 430 to 530 at JEMS training center at 495 Central Avenue, Carlisle.

Um presentation begins at 445 and it's uh virtual open house, so it's something different.

Anyway, I'll leave that alone.

So uh that's really all I have today.

Okay, all right, Commissioner Joseph.

Uh thank you, Mayor.

Uh I want to offer my congratulations to my fellow commissioners on successful election.

Look forward to working with you both.

Yeah.

Uh congratulations also to the county on passing the human services levy, especially now when funding for those important things is is being cut at all levels.

Uh, I really want to thank all the voters in the county that that kept that going.

We we need that, our our residents need that, and wish Judy was here.

We could thank her again for her her efforts, and thank you to all my colleagues who supported it.

So I really appreciate that.

Uh also uh I mentioned a couple weeks ago that the Southeast State neighborhoods are doing a good job of working together to try to pool their efforts.

And the next program is here uh this Saturday, 9 to 11 30.

There's a Wayne Avenue cleanup, and you know Wayne Avenue is pretty long, it stretches through a number of Southeast neighborhoods.

They're gonna attack the whole thing.

And to fuel that, they're gonna provide donuts.

So starting at 8 45, there will be donuts at Wayne and Carlisle.

Uh, if you want to meet there, there's uh there's a couple things right there near the police station on Wayne.

Uh so meet at Wayne and Carlisle starting at 8 45, and the cleanup is uh it goes from 9 to 11 30, and they're gonna do as much as of uh Wayne that they can.

I think the target is Highland to Smithville.

Uh but uh if there are a lot of people, they're glad to expand that.

So I hope you can join us out there this Saturday, 9 to 11.30.

So thank you.

Okay, thank you.

Uh just first of all, I want to remind the employees of the City of Dayton who are veterans that the breakfast uh Jeff's World Famous Pancakes will be uh the 11th on Veterans Day.

I think it was at 10 o'clock uh camera.

10 o'clock?

Okay, good.

So 10 o'clock.

So I'm sure we'll make sure you have all your information so you'll be ready for that.

Additionally, uh just also want to mention that the Veterans Day parade will be at the VA beginning at um I had that correct time.

11.

11 o'clock.

Okay, thank you so much.

11 o'clock at the Venom's administration.

So uh but Mayor, the gates get closed at like 10 30, so they have to be there before 10 30.

Okay.

All right.

You heard it.

10 30 or before.

Okay.

Before before, preferably.

So again, uh my colleagues talked about the uh the elections and all the things happening with the uh human services levy.

Major, major as far as this community is concerned, again affecting the entire county.

Those services, as we mentioned by um Commissioner Shaw, have been vital for this community, and we came together to put that together, what maybe 10 years ago.

I think it was uh great work in those spaces uh to make sure we address all the needs that we have in this community.

Because inflation has continued to go up and the resources that continue to stay level, if you will, is very, very important that we continue to support all the things that's happening in those spaces.

And again, congratulations to my colleagues and thank you.

Uh run a terrific, uh very detailed uh campaign.

Uh congratulations on that.

And I'd like to say again, while uh I will not be here after December, I will be here somewhere, okay?

So count on that.

All right.

So love and peace for all, hatred for none.

This meeting is adjourned.

Thank you.