Good morning.

The Dayton City Commission meeting would now come to order.

Project of allegiance.

An invocation will be given by Commissioner Beckham.

Dear Lord, thank you for this day.

Thank you for uh this organization and this community continue to lead, guide us, and direct us in the priorities of this community.

In your name we pray.

I'm in the United States.

And to the Republic for which you stand.

One nation under God, indivisible with liberty and justice for all.

Ms.

McClendon, may we please have a roll call this morning?

Mayor Turner Sloss.

Aye.

Commissioners Joseph.

Aye.

Shaw.

Aye.

Fairchild.

Aye.

Beckham.

Thank you.

May I please have a motion to approve the minutes for the January 7, 2026 meeting?

So move, yeah.

Second motion here.

It has been properly moved and seconded to approve the minutes for the January 7, 2026 meeting.

All in favor say aye.

Aye.

All opposed say no.

Ms.

McClendon, are there any communications or petitions this morning?

There are none, Your Honor.

All right.

Thank you, Ms.

McClendon.

We have one presentation this morning regarding the implementation of the municipal hospital ordinance.

Ms.

Dixteing.

Yes, uh, Your Honor.

This is the uh presentation that we discussed uh a month or so ago about the next steps for implementation of a public hospital, and I'd like to call forward law director Barb Dosek to provide that presentation.

Okay.

Good morning, Mayor, Commissioner, City Manager, and Clerk, Barb Dosek, Director of Law, myself and Deputy Director John Mustow are here this morning to provide a presentation about implementing the municipal hospital ordinance.

Um the intent of this presentation this morning is informational to discuss potential next steps for our hospital.

I want to take this opportunity to say that that the provisions of the Ohio Revised Code that we've been asked to utilize have not been done so before.

That means there's no precedent, no roadmap, no case law, or no really clear direction.

Our presentation today utilizes both state law while considering the ordinance that's been passed for us to provide guidance for next steps.

You will see ultimately that there are two paths forward.

At the end of our presentation, we've made a recommendation.

This recommendation is not about which path to select, but about a process to make said selection.

Again, the intent today is to be informational and provide an initial opportunity for questions.

Good morning, Mayor.

Good morning, sir.

Commissioners, manager.

Um John Must on behalf of the City of Dayton Law Department.

I'm here to talk about the next steps in implementing the uh hospital levy that was passed in November.

So first of all, I just wanted to start off with a little bit of background.

As we all know, on November 4th of the general election, the levy passed by an overwhelming margin, 58% to 41 percent.

So as a result, beginning in 2027, there will be a collection of one mil levy collected on the property tax in the city of Dayton.

Um the auditor, the treasurer calculated that the maximum amount that would be collected that year would be a little over $2 million.

However, they never collect 100% of the property tax.

So the latest information for the City of Dayton is that they collect approximately 92 percent.

So we're looking at somewhere a little under 1.9 million that we would receive in 2027, and that we would receive each year for 10 years.

So that sum is divided into two each year.

The first sum is received in the late spring, and then the next sum is received in the late summer or early fall.

So we're looking at a total amount from the levy to build and run the hospital of somewhere around $19 million over 10 years.

Now the hospital envisioned by this ordinance is a large general purpose hospital.

It would have a Level 2 trauma center, ICU, a birthing center, pediatric emergency center, a mental health center, a pulmonology, orthopedic surgery center, cardiology center, neonatal care, physical therapy, and a broad diagnostic laboratory and imaging center.

Unfortunately, the cost to build and run this hospital will greatly exceed the revenue that we receive from the levy.

Just the construction of the hospital alone will greatly exhaust and greatly exceed the amount of money we are going to receive from the levy.

That doesn't even take into consideration the cost of the medical diagnostic equipment that a modern hospital would need.

Just the MR MRI alone could cost an entire year's sum of the levy, not to mention the CT scans, the diagnostic medical equipment, and so forth that a modern hospital would need.

This also doesn't include the maintenance costs.

And then another factor which has been exacerbated by recent planned cuts to both Medicare and Medicaid is the reimbursement costs.

This is going to be a free hospital.

Most of the patients will be on Medicare or Medicaid.

Unfortunately, before the recent cuts or plan cuts, the American Hospital Association estimated that Medicare and Medicaid only reimburse about 82 percent of the cost of treating a patient that is on Medicare and Medicaid.

The result of that is that there will likely be no revenue generated and in fact be a loss every year because thus only could be exacerbated by the recent planned cuts to Medicare and Medicaid.

Add to that, there's a shortage of skilled workers, particularly a nursing shortage.

So to attract those skilled workers, we would have to increase wages, which again would be a negative impact at any potential chance of generating revenue from this hospital.

So with that backdrop, we have two choices, a choice of two different administrative options.

We have this ordinance wasn't passed in a vacuum.

It was passed both in accordance with and citing to state law.

So between the ordinance and state law, we have two options for its administration.

One is to contract with a charitable nonprofit to build and run the hospital, and the other is to establish a mayor-run hospital board to build and run the hospital.

So I'm going to talk a little bit about those two options.

The first option would be the nonprofit.

It would be a charitable nonprofit that the city would have to find and contract with to give them the revenue from the levy to go about its task of building and running the hospital.

This would require under state law a ballot issue, would have to approve at the next general election the contract that the city would enter into.

The second option would be to establish a mayor-run board of management, the hospital governing board that would consist of 11 persons.

The mayor would be the head and chairperson of that, and the members of that commission would have to be voted on and approved by the City Commission.

Now, according to state law, all of the members of the board would have to be resident freehold electors of Dayton, meaning that they would have to be citizen property owners within the City of Dayton.

And they would serve four-year staggered terms.

So here's a slide that talks about what the composition of that board is.

You have the mayor as the chairperson.

You have some from the Human Relations Council that is appointed as the Vice Chairperson.

You have representatives from planning and neighborhood development and finance.

You have an architect with experience in designing and constructing hospitals.

You have three, two health care providers in that.

You have three members of community organizations, and you have one member of the public that has no prior experience in running a hospital.

So those are established both through the state law and then modified by the ordinance.

So the duties of that board would be extensive.

They would have to hire the employees, they would have to adopt a plan for the hospital and make all contracts for the erection and furnishing of the hospital.

They would have to hold regular public meetings, and they would have to employ a hospital administrator.

Under Chapter 749, they would be responsible for the entire management and control of the hospital once built, established rules for hospital governance and admissions.

They would have complete control of the property and the revenue for the hospital.

In addition to the board's duties established by state law, there is duties established by the ordinance.

And those duties would include preparing an annual report, including performance metrics and health outcomes and accessibility.

They would have to post that report online for 60 days to allow for public comment.

And then they would have to hold a public hearing during a regular City Commission meeting to receive comments and to summarize that report.

So both of these administrations options have opportunities and challenges.

First, with the mayor and board run hospital, the opportunities, the pros would be there is no additional ballot issue needed.

It would comply with the adopted ordinance, and it would allow for more input from the city in the day-to-day operations of the hospital.

The challenges would be setting up and monitoring that board, finding those individuals with the expertise, especially the architect, to be on that board.

There's always the potential for injecting politics into the process.

There is a general lack of health care and professional knowledge and skill because the city has never run a hospital before.

And then there is substantial additional responsibilities and commitments on the time and resources of both the mayor and the city officials involved.

The opportunities and challenges for the nonprofit is the opportunities, it would likely be more efficient and more stable because you would have an entity that has experience in running and constructing hospitals.

It would be likely be more stable because it would be a long-term contract.

It would remove politics from the running of the hospital.

There would be less liability for the city because there would be a corporate structure between the city and the hospital.

And then also it would allow the city and the mayor and the individuals that would be on the board to maintain their established priorities.

Now the challenge is it is unknown what the public preference would be for this.

We don't know if we would even find a nonprofit that would be willing to take this on.

It would require another ballot issue, and then we would have less day-to-day control over the hospital once we contract it out.

So there's a lot of unknowns here.

There is no legal precedent for the use of Chapter 749 in this instance, where you have an ordinance that establishes these rules for governing the hospital.

There is no guidance for the application of Chapter 749 through case law.

We don't know what the public's preference is for the administration of this hospital, and we don't know what the public's choices of the services are.

Obviously, the funding available now is insufficient to provide all of the services referenced in the ordinance.

So we don't know which of those services are most important to the citizens.

So next steps, we need to make a choice between the nonprofit or mayor-run governing board.

We need to find out what the priorities are of the citizens.

We need to look at funding, what is feasible, where the expertise lies, and how we would comply with the extensive regulations of hospitals as well.

So what we are proposing is that the City conduct a public hearing to allow the citizens to express their views of which choice they want to go forward with to administer this hospital, and just as importantly, which services are most important to them so that we can use those limited resources to focus on the services that the citizens want.

So that's the presentation.

Are there any questions?

Thank you, Mr.

Mustell.

Thank you, Ms.

Dosig.

I am sure we have a number of questions.

Commissioner Beckham.

Yeah, thank you, Mayor.

Thank you, John.

Appreciate this very well done presentation.

The only question I have at the moment is do we have a sense of the timeline in which we would facilitate that public hearing?

So we were thinking that you would allow late spring, so it would allow several months for the citizens.

We would like them to provide written comment in addition to coming in person.

So our thought was late spring.

Thank you.

That's all for me.

Thank you, Commissioner.

Commissioner Fairchild.

Yeah.

I do have some questions, but I believe I have a conflict of interest, so I'm going to hold my questions at this point.

Thank you, Commissioner.

Commissioner Shaw.

So in the ballot initiative, there were some very specific things that were listed.

So if we change that, how does that the voters voted on specific items that it's say uh to trauma center and thus and so forth?

How does any deviation from that language in the ballot initiative how does that work?

So the ballot, the initiative said it could be done in stages.

So and obviously it has to be feasible to be able to be done.

We can't, they can't put something in ordinance that is impossible to attain.

So we would go to the public to try and determine if we do this in steps what they want first that we can look into, and then if later, if funding allows, we could add on to.

I mean, the the levy is only for 10 years.

So we would have to learn from the public what priorities they want and use those limited resources.

We're not obligated to build it exactly as they have listed in the ordinance.

We will do our best.

But it it obviously, if it is not financially feasible, we can't do it.

Well, in their public comments, the CCC indicated that if this passed that they had identified some brokers, hospitals, institutions that were interested.

Have they communicated any of that to you?

I have not received any of that.

I don't know if anyone else is, but this would be a wonderful time prior to the public hearing for them to come forward and present us with that information, and then we could have that at the public hearing as well.

There was some further conversation about using this, well, now less than 20 million dollars to leverage investment.

Is that uh even a possibility to use this money as a leveraged uh seed money?

Uh obviously if there is other funding sources out there that want to contribute to this hospital, that's not a problem.

Both the State statute um the State statute um considers the possibility of receiving funds from other sources towards this hospital.

So it's not limited to just this funds.

If they could find a funding source that is willing to give the sufficient funds or additional funds, the either the nonprofit or the mayor run governing board can use those funds toward the hospital.

So this is a 10-year levy.

Is there any constraint?

I guess what I'm trying to understand is does this money have to be spent within 10 years or what's the process for dispersing the money over a period of time?

So I don't know that it necessarily has to be spent within 10 years, but the money can only be used towards this purpose.

Okay.

I am good.

Thank you, Commissioner.

Commissioner Joseph.

Uh thank you, Mayor.

Uh actually, just to flip back to the uh uh option one.

If we would go out to the ballot again, is there a time limit for when we need to do that?

Does that need to be on the ballot this spring?

Can it be this fall?

It could be in this fall.

There is no specific time limit.

It just has to be approved by the voters before we can enter into the contract with the nonprofit.

I see.

So presumably sometime before the money started flowing in.

We we have a little bit of time because it's not gonna start flowing until 2027.

All right.

Thank you.

That's all.

Thank you, Commissioner.

And thank you.

Um Mr.

Mussel, I do have a couple of questions.

The first is let me make sure that I have my notes.

Um let me pull on that thread a little bit in terms of the two options.

I'll start there and then I'll work my way back.

So the various two options that you have identify.

The first question is with the nonprofit, who is in fact designated as the governing board over the nonprofit.

Let's say that this initiative is in fact uh passed forward from the voters, and that is an option that is selected.

So who act as the governing board for the nonprofits?

So that is not clear in the State statute.

Uh arguably, because they give two options, it wouldn't make sense to create 11-member board and to contract with the nonprofit.

It seems to be contradictory looking at the State statute, but there is no case law interpreting that.

So that is a open question at this point in time.

So with that, who would the nonprofit be who will hold the nonprofit accountable?

So it will have to be the city or have to be the board, otherwise they will there would not be the contract would likely be with the commission and the city of Dayton.

Okay.

Which in fact will be the board, essentially.

Essentially, right.

Well, if if if the board is not created, it would the contract be with the City of Dayton and the Commission would ultimately be responsible for that.

Well, it's a maybe responsible.

Okay.

And then um the other questions that I have.

If in fact the ballot initiative fails, and I think this is exactly what Commissioner uh Shaw pointed was, excuse me.

So if the ballot initiative fails, once we take it to the voters in the spring or s or the fall, does it revert back to the governing board, the mayor-run governing board?

That would be the likely scenario unless you wanted to try and enter another contract and have the next election to try it again.

But I think at that point it would be up to the elected officials to determine whether the people have spoken and whether they need to go forward with the mayor-run board.

Okay.

Thank you.

And is there anything that holds us to just one public hearing?

Is there an opportunity for us to have multiple town halls, whatever have you, just so that we can garner the level of support or the option between the two that you have proposed?

Is that there's no requirement that we have a public hearing in the first place?

It's up to the Commission what they decide to do as far as getting public input.

Okay.

And again, to your point, I just want to make sure that we foot stump is and the ordinance, although there are a number of services that have been identified in the ordinance itself, there is nothing that holds us to all of those particular services that are outlined in the ordinance.

It'll be in fact according to what the cost will allow us to execute.

And then in terms of to your point, there is an in fact a phase approach.

So okay.

The ordinance uh anticipates that it would be done in stages.

So if someone can come up with a funding source to pay for the other services, uh then obviously that would happen.

So if the CCC has a funding source, uh they can come forward and provide that information to us.

Okay.

Um I do believe that you noted that there is no particular timeline, but if in fact there is a ballot initiative, we will have to have those conversations sooner than later so that we can meet the timeline for the ballot initiative, whether it is in the spring or in the the fall.

Is there additional information that you all could give us at a later date offline, just so that we can make sure that that aligns with the required date from the Board of Elections, whatever have you?

Absolutely.

At this point in time, we would not be able to have the ballot initiative in the spring.

It would be the fall with the fall of the earliest that it could happen.

Yes.

Okay.

I think that it those are all the questions that I have.

Thank you very much for the uh the presentation.

One more question of the So this is a hypothetical, but let's just say that there is not an opportunity for a nonprofit.

There's either no one bids on it or we can't identify a nonprofit.

And then it reverts back to the original um plan where there would be a board established.

Um what happens in the very likely case that there aren't health care providers that would come into a system that is not affiliated with some other network?

Um, what happens then?

You you just can't identify enough providers.

So or that uh we realize that there is no other money available and that uh you can't we know you can't build a hospital with less than 20 million dollars over 10 years.

What happens then?

So at that point in time, um, you would have to shrink down the footprint of what you are actually going to do that falls within the 1.9 million dollars a year.

What exactly that will be, I can't say, but it will be a lot smaller than what was envisioned in the ordinance, and that's just due to simple financial realities.

Well, we know that there is a children's uh basically urgent care that's being built on Germantown Street now, and that's significantly more than the 20 million dollars that's been identified here.

So we we know that we know what you can get for for that money, and you know what you cannot get.

So with the language in the levy, I guess what I'm saying is would we would be would we be living up to the language in the levy if we went with something less than an urgent care and call that a hospital?

Well, we would be providing medical services, and I think that's if if that's the financial reality, there is no additional funds, then we would do the best we could, the the if there is not a nonprofit with the mayor-run board to find a way to provide some medical service to free medical service to the citizens of the City of Dayton, the exact scale of that will depend upon whether them finding additional funding or not.

And then just to continue down that line, if say we use that money to kind of bulk up prenatal neonatal care at a facility somewhere at children's or some other existing hospital, would that be within the realm of the levy, Emerson?

So I can't answer that question exactly.

I know that we could definitely enter into a contract with the nonprofit to provide services using the levy funds.

Um what we're able to do if it's a mayor-run board, there's no guidance.

There's just they give us two options, a nonprofit or a mayor run or local government run board.

And so I can't say at this point in time whether we would, if under the mayor function we would be able to contract with a nonprofit.

Or it and what you are discussing.

Looking at this right now, we would like it might have to go to a ballot initiative for the citizens to vote to approve that contract.

But that's I I don't know for certain at this point in time because we don't have any guidance, and I haven't looked into that specific point.

Uh we'd have to do some more research.

Well, then in that vein, I would like you to run down this.

In the case where say it went back to ballot initiative and the community, the voters say, no, we we want a hospital or nothing at all.

Is there a process whereby the money that's collected over this 10 years goes back to the to the voters, to the taxpayers, or or does it just remain in some trust somewhere that and if it does land in a trust and where can it gain interest?

Are we able to So I I I don't have an answer to that question right now.

Uh my best uh understanding would be that it would need to be used for medical purpose as closely as we could come to the ordinance requirements based upon the financial realities.

Okay.

Thank you.

Thank you, Commissioner.

I just want to uh that's a very interesting point you raised.

Thank you for bringing that up.

That because you mentioned, Mr.

Musto, that the funds need to be uh designated for a medical use purpose.

So with that, is there in fact an opportunity for us to form a consortium, may have you, or a um a partnership or agreement where some of those services are contract contracted out to some other various different providers, being noted that we only have a X amount of dollars to provide the other level of services that may be of of interest to the public.

So thank you for making that note.

I think that is a very interesting uh concept.

And I appreciate your presentation this morning.

Thank you.

Thank you.

The other thing I wanted to mention, excuse me, is that um, and this is just more so of a comment, and I apologize, excuse me, is that if in fact this initiative is a success, it does not warrant us from uh a renewal.

Is that correct?

There's no cap or anything.

So again, after the initial 10 years, if in fact is successful and we're doing great and wonderful things and provide a level of uh medical care to the members in our community, that is also an opportunity for us to issue a renewal.

Yes, we could do a renewal that would be voted upon by the citizens, and then it would be another 10-year levy.

Absolutely.

Thank you.

Thank you.

Ms.

McClendon, are there any additions, deletions, or comments to the calendar?

There are none, Your Honor.

Ms.

Dixteen, are there any additions, deletions, comments to the calendar?

Your Honor, this morning I have no additions or deletions uh to the calendar.

I do have one item I would like to highlight, which is service agreement uh item number two, a service agreement with AEP Energy Partners.

And at this point in time, I'd like to call forward Meg Maloney, our sustainability division manager to make a short presentation.

Good morning, Mayor, Commissioners, City Manager and Clerk.

Um I'm excited to present to you a project that we've been working on for several months, but has been within the community um for several years.

And that is a renewable energy purchase agreement with AEP energy partners.

Uh to understand this agreement, I'm going to take you back to 2021.

So in 2021, uh the City of Dayton restarted our electric aggregation program.

And what our electric aggregation program is is we purchase energy uh for residents' behalf to try and get them a competitive supply rate.

And what we did is we entered um an agreement with the Sustainable Ohio Public Energy Council, who is our broker, and they hired AEP Energy, who supplies the energy for our residents.

As part of that process, we committed to having 100% renewable energy.

And how we achieved that is we currently purchase this thing called renewable energy credits.

So we purchased these credits to achieve 100% renewable energy.

And but the goal has always been that we wanted to try and purchase locally sourced energy.

So while we can purchase these recs across the United States, we really want to try and purchase energy that's in our community.

In addition to this, we had a unique opportunity.

A company that was originally TED Renewables, now Zelester Energy, has been working on a project they call the Gems City Solar Project.

It is a project where they are placing solar on around 600 acres of land.

So around Little Richmond Road and State Route 49, there's 600 acres.

The landowner originally had the land was zoned for manufacturing and industrial park.

We did not get any industries that wanted to develop a manufacturing plant.

So the landowner went to a developer, a solar developer and asked if they could develop solar.

So they went forward in coming through our zoning processes.

They got zoning approval in 2023 and then planned on building an array that can power 13,000 homes is what they said in 2023.

And what's interesting about this is they got the plans approved, but they were looking for an off taker to take the energy and actually do something with it.

And that is where the city of Dayton stepped in.

So how this agreement works is we are essentially going to uh enter an agreement with AEP, again, our supplier of our aggregation program.

Uh so PEC is still going to broker that aggregation program.

And this opportunity would allow the City of Dayton aggregation program to procure the energy and the renewable energy credits off that Gem City Solar Project.

Then we can flow this energy into our aggregation program to continue to give a competitive rate to our residents.

Why this deal is very unique and also like almost perfect for our aggregation program is it's acting as a long-term hedge.

So what I do and what my coworker Matthew does for all of our city facilities is we go out and we buy energy.

And a lot of times we pick up energy at different periods of time.

A lot of times I buy energy on a longer term basis for around 20 to 30% of our energy use to essentially take risk off the table and protect us from market volatility.

This agreement is essentially doing that for us.

So this would act as a long-term hedge to help protect residents from that market volatility and provide uh price stability, as the agreement is 25 years.

So we would be locked in for 25 years for a third of our energy hedge.

Uh the city can also retain the right to sell the renewable energy credits.

They are a commodity, and that can improve the economics of the project as well.

So that essentially means we can potentially get more savings to residents.

We don't have to make that decision now, so as we move forward with this project, depending on market conditions, we can choose to sell those credits or retain them depending on where the market is at.

And any sales or claims around those credits would be disclosed on the City of Dayton website.

So when I talk energy to folks, it's always very confusing.

So I made a cute little graphic to help you understand it a little bit better.

Um again, 30% of our energy use for our residents will be locked in for 25 years at a set price.

Uh so that is the long-term hedge, but then we can still continue to make market purchases, so take advantage of the market when the market dips, we can buy energy.

Right now we're buying twice a year, usually around the spring and fall, and then we blend that price together, and that gives us our price that we give to our residents in the aggregation program.

Again, the benefits of this project are pretty huge with current market conditions.

So, assuming that energy prices continue to rise 2% over the next 25 years, this project can save residents up to 42 million dollars.

Um, again, as you all probably know, residents have been complaining a lot about the price on their energy bill.

So we're uh doing our due diligence in trying to protect our residents against market volatility and encourage price stability.

And if we move forward with um accepting this contract today, this will be one of the largest community choice solar arrays within a city limit in the United States.

So we have seen other cities purchase energy for their community choice aggregation programs, but nobody has ever had the opportunity to purchase a project this large within their city limits.

So again, it's setting us as a national leader of how we are not only caring for our residents and trying to get them lower price, but we're also committed to procuring uh renewable energy.

The other benefits of this project that were talked about when um TED Renewables Now Zelestra originally came for zoning approval is um they're exploring putting native plants underneath the panels.

Um there are wetlands on the property that they're fully protecting, which is great, and there's a workforce development component that my team will also be working on with them to try and get more people engaged around the installation of these panels.

Uh so this was a big project.

I want to thank we had a lot of people that were working on it.

So first our city of Dayton staff, Matthew Worsham was hand in hand with me.

I'm just the one talking today, but Matthew and I really worked on this completely together, and I could not have done it without him.

Um we had amazing outside council through Brick or Graydon.

Uh of course, the sustainable Ohio Public Energy Council, one of the best decisions I think the city has ever made was joining SOPEC.

And I think this contract just also highlights the power of when you work collectively with other governments.

Um AEP energy and then Zelestra Energy.

And with that, I'll take any questions.

Thank you, Miss Maloney.

Great job and congratulations.

Thank you.

Commissioner.

Thank you, Mayor.

Um thank you, Meg, for this presentation.

It's uh I think truly excellent work and exciting.

Um also want to thank Matt and the whole sustainability department.

Um I just want to lift up the fact that this really sets us apart.

Um, you know, as one of the largest community energy projects in the U.S., I think that is something to uh repeat.

Um I'm really happy about the savings for residents.

I mean, for 42 million dollars uh over you know the period of this agreement is um not a small number.

So thank you for this work.

Very excited for the impact it will have.

Great.

Thanks.

Thank you, Commissioner.

Commissioner Fairchild.

Yeah, no, I just echo my colleagues' comments.

Thank you to the staff, to you, Ms.

Maloney, and um SOPEC.

I think I see Mr.

Leplet out there, thank you.

Um this you know hits a lot of our initiatives around sustainability and also services for our citizens.

Um, who retains ownership of the property of the solar panel.

Yes, great question.

The developer will be the long-term owner operator, and they are purchasing the property, and then so they'll own it and maintain it.

Okay.

And um, am I right to assume the 25-year span is the life of the solar panels?

Yeah, panels now are getting better.

So most um panels can last around 35 years, but usually uh after 25 years, we don't usually like to do further energy agreements, and so um around 30 to 35 years, they can start to make decisions about recycling the panels and then putting new panels out.

So we'll have the opportunity, depending on where they're at, if they want to continue the project, whether we would want to do another agreement.

Okay, great.

Thank you.

Great work.

Yeah, thank you.

Thank you, Commissioner.

Commissioner Shaw.

Yeah, I too too think it's uh great work and really excited about this opportunity.

What I am most um appreciative of is this outreach uh for the workforce uh investment piece of this.

I just think it's important uh to provide young people and not so young people opportunities for these jobs of the future.

And uh I'm just glad that you're centering that uh in this conversation.

So thank you.

Yeah, thank you, Commissioner.

Commissioner Joseph.

Thank you, Mayor.

Uh, my colleagues have said it almost all.

I want to repeat the thanks to everyone who's been involved with this.

You've done a great job, your team's done a great job.

Our partners have really been excellent on this.

Uh, and I want to just underline one thing that's already been mentioned, and that is you're doing a great job of finding the balance between being sustainable, being responsible, and making sure that our residents can afford it.

Uh, we're saving them money on their energy and being able to thread that uh that needle is difficult and you're doing very well.

So uh how how can you say no to something that is more sustainable and cheaper?

So thank you very much, and thank you everyone for your work.

And thank you, colleagues, for your support.

Thank you.

Uh just a couple of comments.

Again, I want to echo my colleagues' comments.

This is great work.

And if we could just take a moment to acknowledge the staff, please stand up.

We will like to uh again give you all a round of applause because this is huge, and this is again the largest in the country.

Small but mighty, you all do a great work, and thank you, Commissioner Joseph, for your leadership.

Do have a couple questions.

Um I just want to pull on the thread a little bit to Commissioner Fairchild's point.

So the developer owns the land, and I assume that we have the agreement, whatever have you in place, the protections for us in utilizing this the solar panels itself.

Um the ordinance.

Does the ordinance speak to the level?

I know in some of the the backup docs, um, it talks about uh the level of accountability and making sure that the city itself is monitoring these activities.

Does the ordinance itself speak to that to make sure that we don't lose sight and that we're continuing to be very mindful?

I want to make sure there's safe cars in place.

Yes, great question.

And um City Manager Dixtein also had the similar concern too.

So what we did in the contract was we added a notification section.

So when our contract, the contract's for 25 years, but we also need to keep our aggregation contract current to continue to feed that power in.

So we have a notification section that um every three years, a year before the contract expires, they're gonna physically send a notice to the law office and the city manager's office so that we're staying on top of it.

Um as I mentioned also previously to you all before, uh the great thing is Matthew is our energy manager, and so having that position is also really important because not only do Matthew and I buy energy for our city facilities, but we need a staff person to continue to work on that.

Um obviously the city manager's office has done a great job, and uh water has worked to fund Matthew to continue that, so he'll be there.

Um and then also us having SOPEC.

So SOPEC also being a broker to our agreement, they're another check of continuing to make sure we're always current on the agreements, everything can flow through without any issues coming back.

Does the ordinance speaks to the the important of that position itself?

Oh, good question.

Since it's a contract with AEP, we did not actually put any language about a position in there.

Okay.

Um, but I think that with the work that our office has done, and obviously with the city manager's support, we've um I don't think uh the energy management position will go anywhere.

So I'm gonna hold you to it.

Yes.

Now I was gonna say Jasper.

So if you want to keep us, we're happy to.

Yes.

No, thank you.

Great work.

We appreciate it.

Great.

Thank you.

Thank you.

Uh Ms.

McClendon, are there any uh citizens registered to speak on calendar items this morning?

There, your honor, there are three citizens registered to speak on calendar items.

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 and you will have 30 seconds remaining to speak.

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 that 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 conversation that would prevent the city commission from hearing speakers' comments.

I call to the podium Lynn Lamance.

Hi, Lynn Lemance, 1061 Bertram Avenue.

Good morning.

Good morning.

It's great to see you there.

And is uh I'm just thankful that the citizens elected you and you are great for my child to see as a mayor in the city.

Um basically I am here regarding the Mike Turner downtown uh trickle down proposal.

Um I have heard a lot of feedback from citizens that are have concerns regarding this.

Um first off he's a part-time resident from my understanding.

He's not even in the city of Dayton as uh a full-time resident, is myself and others in neighborhoods.

Um Mike Turner was never in the U.S.

military, so I have issue.

My parents were, by the way.

Umil uh what strategy when he spoke of if downtown is safe, the the rest of the city is what strategy is that?

Um speaking to somebody in the military, the parameters should be secured.

Um so I'm not certain of his strategy at all.

Um I also have a lot of concerns with um the agencies that do do work in downtown Dayton, such as the YWCA, the Red Cross, I mean, even you know, the the governmental agencies, public health, the courts, the Montgomery County jail.

So when when the homeless or the poor are legitimately in downtown Dayton, are they gonna be targeted?

Um that's a concern.

In his reading, the he admits people are not from our community, they are being brought here.

Who is bringing them here?

What agencies, churches are doing this, is city tax dollars helping to bring them here, ARPA monies.

Um we have concerns about this, and again, if if the trickle down from the business district to neighborhoods, what effectiveness is that?

The city, the downtown area is a business district, or I know they wanted to label it, you know, is a neighborhood.

How is that going to be implemented in the neighborhoods if the neighborhoods truly are neighborhoods?

Um next, his recommendations for services and program.

This fair this seems like an after fact for young people and Dayton Public School students.

I mean, why wasn't this considered beforehand?

Um if their neighborhoods look like Gaza, why as a young person would I come in downtown and give a damn about the downtown?

Why would I suddenly act right if my neighborhood is infected with meth addicts, vacant properties, uh the use of police force?

Okay, we still do not see the police, the Phoenix police in the downtown Dayton area, and or our Phoenix police used in downtown for this.

Um yeah, the the docket and your time is problematic.

Thank you.

Thank you.

Thank you, Miss Lamance.

I call to the podium Ebony Hastings Good morning, good morning Hastings 1238 Wabash Avenue.

I also speak to the 6914-26.

And I just have a couple of questions, as I understand that these are recommendations being made.

What is the Russian making such a large financial decision in 20 days when everything around down taken downtown Dayton is deteriorating?

This decision does not restore our confidence if other as insult to injury of the systemic and intentional disinvestment of West Northwest in East Dayton.

Um there are so many that sat on this board that have lost or simply not earned the constituents' trust.

So why would that why would the city move in the favor of their recommendations?

Um I want to talk about perceived a perception is based on interpretation, impression, or belief.

It's subjective and is influenced by biases.

Whereas if you have factual objective reality, evidence that can be observed, measured, independent of personal feelings.

So when we rely on perception, it leads to misinformed choices.

So clarify the perception with verifiable evidence to anchor plans and factual assessments surrounding downtown Dayton.

Where there was a part of it where it um talked about real-time monitoring and communication system for downtown businesses.

Another perception.

Dayton municipal courts does not have the capacity to have a docket separate for what is going on in downtown Dayton.

We will not abuse, grossly abuse our municipal courts to focus on the perceived crime that is happening in downtown Dayton.

When you all have consistently provided us data as of this week that the crime is down in downtown Dayton, there's again no mention of the citizens to work with this group.

There's no um, again, I've asked a holistic approach to the the problems.

And then to put the burden on DPS to find busting solutions for our students when they are forced to compete with public charter schools for tax money and mandated to provide transportation for the charter school students.

We have to do better just in regards to this overall recommendation and do something that's sustainable with factual, measurable actions, not based on perceived biases.

And that's all I have.

Thank you.

Thank you, Ms.

Hastings.

I call to the podium Berkeley Idmore.

H.

More.

Thank you.

Mayor, Commissioner, my name is Berkeley Moore.

And I live at uh 1025 West Fairview Avenue, Dayton, Ohio.

Good morning.

I'm not gonna kick up a lot of time, just gonna read off things that uh I've been uh on the mind for years.

I'm gonna start off by reading this.

Dayton, not only downtown, should be a place for people to work, live and play feel safe if you're secure while increasing police prison in downtown.

How would that affect our neighborhoods?

Does that mean the police presence in other parts of the city will be decreased?

Homeliness and mental health issues are not just a downtown issue and should be addressed citywide.

Any issues uh decisions uh involving Dayton public schools should not be made because of downtown.

These decisions should be made by the local level, not the state level, like what happened last year.

Education is important in making it community attractive and sustainable.

For too long, the city has separated Dayton from the rest of Dayton.

I'm sorry, downtown for the rest of Dayton.

Looking at seat and security for the whole city, including the downtown.

Would it result would result in economic growth in a plan for the fee?

And this is something that I wrote out myself.

Well, me and my wife did it, but for too long, the city of Dayton have treated economic growth.

Excuse me.

Sorry about that.

For too long, the City of Dayton have treated economic growth that is decided by corporate COs who care about their investments, safety security, not the city itself.

We the city should look at things before they happen.

And also job limits within the city of this.

Thank you very much.

Thank you, Mr.

Moore.

That is all, Your Honor.

Thank you, Ms.

McClendon.

Commissioners, are there any comments to the city manager's recommendations?

Commissioner Beckham.

I don't have any at the moment.

Thank you.

Commissioner Fairchild.

No, just one, just on this recommendation around downtown.

I appreciate the comments, but I would say that this sets a precedent and a model for how to bring concerns around safety to the Commission.

And so I can imagine citizens and neighborhoods gathering together discerning what the issues are and bringing them to.

And now we've set a precedent that we will take those recommendations and have staff vet them and then come back.

And just to be clear of the process, no decision will be made in 20 days, but the recommend the report from the staff will come to us, and then we can make decisions in the best interest of the whole city in terms of those recommendations.

And so I think this really encourages participation from citizens.

I think it would be an opportunity for citizens to reach out for them to get them involved in uh neighborhoods as well.

And I, for one, am going to be someone who is a commissioner for all 65 neighborhoods.

And I think the downtown has a legitimate right to bring their concerns, as do uh citizens in other neighborhoods.

And so I welcome this type of engagement with the city and uh the work that we need to do comprehensively to reimagine safety in Dayton.

So I'm gonna support that.

Um the ordinance.

Thank you, Commissioner.

Commissioner Shaw.

I'm good.

Thank you.

Commissioner Joseph.

Nothing here.

Thank you.

Thank you.

Uh thank you, uh Commissioner Um Fairchild for your comments.

I too echo those comments.

I I do view this as a means for us to use it as a model.

Um, Ms.

Lemans, uh, your concerns are valid, and again, we know that there are a number of troubling concerns that we have in all 65 of our neighborhoods.

Know that we are all committed to doing that work.

Um we spoke to that on the 5th of January and reimagining public safety.

Uh, this gives us an opportunity to look at those various different uh recommendations and to Commissioner Fairchild's point.

Uh the recommendations will in fact be vetted.

I think Ms.

Hastings raised the point in regards to if in fact the municipal courts have the capacity, and that is something that the staff is definitely vetting.

Um but again, this is an opportunity for us to do the continuous work.

Um, and I look forward to working with my colleagues.

We've had some offline conversations, one-on-one conversations, um, and there are a number of great ideals that we are uh pitching forward to the administration.

So uh we're just uh glad that it has been engaging and we want to continue to do that work, so I don't want to belabor that point.

I do want to thank um Mr.

Moore, thank you and Mrs.

Moore for your comments and thank you for being here this morning.

Um and we want to make sure that this is in partnership with all of the the stakeholders, uh, our social service agencies.

The other thing that I want to highlight too is that there is no financial commitment.

There is no any dollars that have been designated.

These are again recommendations for many of the members.

Um Commissioner Shaw was involved in that conversation as well as Commissioner Beckham and many of the other representatives.

So again, they brought those recommendations forward, and we want to make sure that we vet those properly so that we can go do.

All right.

And may I have a motion to approve the city manager's recommendations?

I move to approve the city managers' recommendations.

Second the motion, Your Honor.

All right, it has been properly moved and seconded to approve the city manager's recommendations.

All in favor say aye.

Aye.

All opposed say no.

Legis legislation, Ms.

McClendon.

Second reading resolution number 6914-25, addressing our commitment to protecting and strengthening downtown Dayton.

Mayor Turner Sloss.

Aye.

Commissioners Joseph.

Aye.

Shaw.

Fairchild.

Beckham.

That is all your Honor.

Thank you, Ms.

McClendon.

Are there any citizens registered to speak?

Your Honor, there are three citizens registered to speak.

And I would like to remind everyone of the three-minute time limit.

I call to the podium, Ebony Hastings.

While we're making recommendations, I would like to make a recommendation that we put moratoriums on charter schools within Montgomery County.

They're not.

You know, because there's no parameters or restrictions anymore, even with everything that's coming out, it takes time to pass those laws.

Say that it is absolutely imperative in regards to the hospital as we move forward to really look at that.

Commissioner Fairchild, I would like for you to do your due diligence and provide the burden of proof that it is a in fact a conflict of interest in regards to your abstaining any kind of votes in regards to the hospital.

And then I want to know that it's imperative that we get clear answers to how the funds can be used.

Because what I don't want to see happen is that the citizens continue to be forced to use and receive services from Kettering, Medical, and Premier Health Centers in regards to what the gentleman said that the money can still be allocated.

It gives the illusion or the perception that those funds could then go right back to the very ones that we're trying not to have to do business with.

So Dayton, pick up your trash.

Thank you, Ms.

Hastings.

I call to the podium, Berkeley Moore.

I'm up here for a second time.

I live at 1025 West Fairview Avenue.

Like the young lady said, we have a problem with trash.

I live on um Fairview Avenue up from Neo Hospital.

And these owners, I sit and watch them.

You know, between two buildings, fill up trash, which they should have a dump in the back of the building.

Building was a beautiful building before, but now seeing I mean you can't even walk down the street without trash, I mean juice bottles, chicken, uh, you know, that you fry on the sidewalk.

Me and my wife walk out door.

Now we don't pick it up.

We used to, but we say watch we pick it up.

When you have management, she don't call management.

I can't think of the name to come and and and and look at this slightly, which is bad.

You know, but if we keep letting these uh individuals get away with this nonsense, our city is no longer gonna be beautiful like it was.

Dayton was uh called the beautiful city in the world in the country some years ago.

But I see it sliding down and down and down.

Also, I count on my block alone, eight unkept properties, garage doors in the back with people go to sleep.

I mean, I seen people come in and uh rehabbing half of these people, you know who they don't have ACs on on their trucks.

It's it's just it's like a game.

I'm saying, and this is tax-based uh property for the city.

But if the city don't get down on this people, I mean it's it's it's it's ridiculous when you walk up the street and it's eight houses on one block.

Me and my wife, we've been living there for about 30 some years or more.

She knows us.

You know what I'm saying?

And we could diligently do better.

I had to go down the street um about a week ago and clean up trash from the cans.

Was no uh drums in them.

I was down there for about an hour and a half.

My wife came down the street to see if I was all right.

I had to take a trash can and and pull the trash, and I'm 76 years old.

But when you call a city about trash cans on on a topper and they start arguing, well, it's RTA's fault.

Oh, it's the city's fault.

No, you guys come on now.

Our city is being trash, and no one is being accountable.

We know people trash, but you also got to pick up the citizens shouldn't have to pick up trash every time you turn around.

You see, and then when you drive out a little bit, it's clean and beautiful.

Why can't we have that in the city?

That's why we have to take care of city business first.

Like I stated before, we cannot let these uh corporate people come in, walk downtown, walk the dog, they're not friendly, they don't say much to you.

You see, this is their playground.

They need to be accountable.

If if we want a hospital in here, make them pay too.

Most citizens in Dayton are living on the property or $30,000 less a year.

Thank you.

Thank you, Mr.

Sorry about that.

Thank you.

I called to the podium, Lynn Lemance.

Hi, Lynn Lemance, 1061 Bertram Avenue.

So, Mr.

Fairchild, I will be here for safety and security of the Frock Priority Board area.

Okay.

Um, first I do want to point out the short notice information uh both last week and this week regarding the Mike Turner downtown uh you know importance, and also the public hospital information.

That information was not on the initial agenda Monday when when we look at it.

A lot of us just got information yesterday regarding the public hospital.

So City of Dayton, whatever managements, staff need to do better with that.

Um, regarding the vacant uh foreclosed and bake owned properties in particular.

There was an excellent city worker by the name of John Carter, and I have sent an email out on that.

There needs to be a moratorium of city workers that quit saying use the Dayton Delivers app when we do.

And nothing gets done.

Um so yes, another city worker that has the excellent knowledge and work ethic of John Carter to in particular pull out those four active foreclosed bank-owned properties, get grass mode, trash picked up, boarding, whatnot.

Um Mr.

Gondell said at the end of the housing inspection, uh tracking last year, evaluations.

There would be cross-referencing with properties with no utilities or possibly bootleg loot utilities.

We've heard nothing about that.

Where is that?

Um police have done raids on Marathon Avenue.

It is heavily infected with meth addicts.

Umperties, we appreciate the police that have gone over there and and do their due diligence with fire protection.

However, those properties are not again boarded.

Um in regards to the anti-violence program that is supposed to be in Upper Riverdale.

The actual boundaries of that program have not been established.

So some say Upper Riverdale, some say North Riverdale.

Is it Red Crest River neighborhood?

Is it Hillcrest, Seabenthal, or what is the neighborhood boundaries of that?

The use nuisance.

Is that being utilized with the meth addicts?

Why or why not?

Yes, I agree.

There needs to be another moratorium regarding the group homes.

We can't get information regarding the North Central Priority Land use people.

Plan board does not share that information, so we need to get that information in regards to collectively represent neighborhood.

How do we give input if we don't know where they are unless I come up to their properties myself?

There was a contract to remove brush in the Five Oaks neighborhood.

However, 1411 Viola vacant property, highly overgrown.

I believe this is your neighborhood areas.

This is one address where I've previously called in a white man that was laid out on the property.

It's still overgrown.

Thank you.

Thank you, Ms.

Lamance.

That is all, Your Honor.

Thank you, Ms.

McClendon.

Ms.

Dixtein, do you have any closing comments?

I have none, Your Honor.

Thank you, Ms.

Dixteen.

Ms.

McClendon, do you have any closing comments?

Yes, Your Honor.

All city offices will be closed Monday, January 19th, in recognition of Martin Luther King Jr.

Day.

Additionally, there is an executive session immediately following the commission meeting to discuss personnel issues relating to employment employee appointment, employment, dismissal or demotion.

That is all, Your Honor.

Thank you, Ms.

McClendon.

Commissioners, do you have any closing comments?

Commissioner Beckham.

Yes, thank you, Mayor.

I want to thank the citizens that came out and spoke today.

Always appreciate hearing your comments and concerns.

Additionally, I want to thank the staff for the excellent presentations today.

Very informative.

Lastly, um I want to reiterate uh my commitment to safety in our community, both all 65 neighborhoods and downtown.

I think we have to think about the city comprehensively as it relates to safety.

So I just wanted to reiterate that.

In recognition of Martin Luther King Day next Monday.

Um I wanted to highlight the fact that the NEON uh will be hosting a free screening of the fire inside.

Um so I encourage uh teenagers, which is uh uh the uh target audience for this event to come out uh as we honor MLK in addition to all the annual events that are going on.

Um I'll be there uh hosting a uh conversation and facilitating uh some thoughts about uh both the movie as well as MLK Day.

So uh doors open at 1045 and the screening will be at 1130.

So I look forward to any uh young person who decides to attend.

Thank you.

Thank you, Commissioner.

Commissioner Fairchild.

Yeah, thank you, Commissioner, and thank you for the citizens who have come out and um shared their concerns with us.

Um I do want to say that we we have a process um with the city administration, police, neighborhoods working together to develop neighborhood plans for safety.

And so if your neighborhood doesn't already have those, I encourage you to reach out to the city and to um to the um police department so that we can work cooperatively to develop those.

Um they bring recommendations and they get vetted and um it's a demonstration of the work we want to do around safety.

Um given your comments, I'm curious if the neighborhoods in the Frock area have neighborhood safety plans, so maybe we can get an update of which ones do and which ones don't, and then be able to start to identify some of those recommendations.

And Ms.

Lamance, I always appreciate your hard work over there.

You are uh a one-person um recommendation in and of yourself for all of the uh issues that you have been able to identify and encourage us to address.

And uh I look forward to working with you on addressing them.

Um I don't know if anyone has other details of Martin Luther King's weekend, but I'm looking forward to the breakfast on Friday morning, the concert on Sunday afternoon, and the uh March on uh Monday morning and the umquet, which I understand is sold out on uh Monday night.

Um want to encourage people to participate.

I think someone else has the details on that on all of those, or you can certainly check their website.

Um next Wednesday, uh January 21st will be our public hearing on the annual budget and appropriations for 2026.

It will be at 6 o'clock here at the City Commission meeting.

If you want to speak to that, I encourage you to get here around what, 5:30 so you can register.

You need to be registered by 545 if you want to speak at the public hearing.

So encourage citizens to um take part of that.

Uh Victoria Theaters, all kinds of opportunities in downtown.

Uh the Victoria Theater is presenting Frozen the Musical.

And it will bring magic music of the hip movie to life on the stage.

And that is available from the 15th to the 18th.

So encourage you to come and participate in all the opportunities we have in the city.

Thank you, Commissioner.

Commissioner Shaw.

Yeah, I want to thank uh my colleagues for those comments, especially about uh uh safety all across the city.

We are all uh all five of us committed to that very thing.

Downtown safety plan is just one of those.

There are multiple fronts that we're uh working on to address safety, and hopefully that continues and expands.

So I look forward to working with uh with you all in that regard.

Uh having said that, uh you're right.

I did have comments about the as we honor the memory of Dr.

Martin Luther King Jr., uh there will be an MLK Memorial March this Monday, January 19th at 10 a.m.

starting at the uh 1323 West Third Street and ending at Sinclair Community College Building 12.

Everyone is encouraged to attend and continue Dr.

King's leg legacy of unity, service, and justice in our community.

So I regret not being able to be there myself.

Uh unfortunately I have a family commitment that I have to deal with, but I I really uh wish you all well and look forward to hearing all about it.

Thank you, Commissioner.

Commissioner Joseph.

Thank you, Mayor.

Uh Commissioner, you're allowed to miss one every 20 years.

We'll represent you.

All right.

Uh just want to mention that this is uh January's National Blood Donor Month.

Uh and uh Versity, which used to be called Community Blood Center, is hosting two blood drives each week uh somewhere in the county.

So you can go to their website, donate.org to find out when those and where those are.

Uh and the American Red Clause across uh Dayton chapters holding the blood drive on January 22nd from 1 to 6.

Uh you can go to Red Crossblood.org to register and for more details.

So please give thank you, Mayor.

Thank you, Commissioner.

Just a couple comments.

I would like to thank the staff this morning.

Uh Mr.

Warsham, Ms.

Mahoney, thank you for your presentations this morning.

Great work, as well as uh Ms.

Dostick and Mr.

Mustell, thank you.

And to all of the residents that came out this morning for those who have spoke before before the uh the commission this morning as well as those who are in attendance.

Um Ms.

Hasting, thank you for your comments.

And just for um your edification, I just want to make it note that some of the moratoriums that you mentioned, um, those preclude us.

Um so they're pretty much out of our purview.

So with that, I would encourage you to have conversations with Senator Blackshear as well as Representative Timms, and we can help you with that conversation.

Um I do believe I have that correct um again, but um know that your concerns are warranted, um, but have those conversations with uh the representatives uh Timms as well as uh Senator Blackshear.

Um Mr.

Moore, thank you for your advocacy.

You're exactly right in terms of the the trash, the pickup.

Um I do know that there is some some efforts that will be made as we move into the the spring and summer so that we can address those concerns with litter littering and hopefully we can work in partnership to address those.

But thank you for all that you do in your neighborhood.

Um as well as Ms.

Lamance, thank you for your your comments.

Um we want to continue to encourage people to use the Dayton Delivers uh app, but your point is well taken.

Um we have asked and requested for a a review and audit, if you will, so that we can in fact monitor the various different concerns and grievances to make sure that they are in fact being addressed in a timely manner.

So thank you.

We're gonna continue to use that that method all the while continuing to make sure that we're um calling the various staff members uh to address the the issues and the active foreclosure properties, Ms.

Dixteen, and perhaps this is something you can provide to us offline a memo.

Do we have anyone that is designated for that particular uh task or duty to monitor those those foreclosures?

Because Mr.

Carter, he did an exceptional job in that area.

So I'll follow up with your thank you.

I appreciate it.

And then also regular um removal of the various different trash bins that are on the corridors throughout, whether they're RTA, and I know that's a conversation we need to have with RTA, but the ones that are under our our watch, um are we regularly picking those up?

I know there is uh quite a few in the uh Southern Dayton View neighborhood that have not been addressed in a in a quite some time.

So if we can make sure that we um upload increase our efforts.

And then I know there was comments in regards to the moratorium for the group home.

So that is active conversation.

Um the current moratorium, it does end on February the 12th.

So uh there is conversation that is being had right now in terms of what the next steps are.

So thank you to all of the residents that brought those uh issues and concerns before us.

Um as mentioned, this weekend is full of a number of of celebrations and observance of Dr.

Martin Luther King birthday.

So we ask that you all participate in those various different events, and thank you to the staff.

I know Public Works, PD, a number of the city organizations will be participating uh over the weekend as well, so thank you.

Um it's always seems to be the coldest day in the winter, so we'll make sure that we bundle up and and and plan accordingly.

Um the new monthly wellness series, thank you, Ms.

Reed, for providing this information is hosted by Queens Village, Dayton in partnership with public health, Dayton and Montgomery County.

It provides a safe, supportive space for black women focused on healing, growth, support, and connection.

The launch session is January 29th.

Topic, where are you today?

Mentally, emotionally, with future sessions covering topics like self-care, stress and resilience, boundaries, purpose, and community support.

Registration is required at phdmc.org slash events.

And I encourage anyone to and everyone to participate um in this particular event.

And may I have a motion to convene into an executive session, please?

Your Honor, I moved the city commission convenient to an executive session to discuss personnel issues relating to employee appointment, employment, dismissal, or the motion.

I second the motion.

Mayor Turner Sloss.

Aye.

Commissioners Joseph.

Aye.

Shaw.

Fairchild.

Aye.

Beckham.