The Hudson City Council held a workshop on Tuesday, May 28, 2024, at 7:30 p.m. in Town Hall, 27 East Main Street, Hudson, Ohio, as a duly noticed meeting under Ohio Sunshine Law (Section 121.22). Mayor Anzevino called the meeting to order, and Council President Foster presided. Participants included Councilmembers Banweg, Bird, Kowalski, and Sutton; City Manager Sheridan; staff member Kosco; and others. The workshop covered the Lake Forest Drive sidewalk, utility repair regulations, a charter amendment on councilmember residency, an ordinance on city real estate policies, and business scheduled for the June 4, 2024 council meeting. The meeting was adjourned at 8:46 p.m.
To get started like to call this meeting to order. This is a duly notice workshop meeting of Hudson City Council held in accordance with the sunshine laws of the state of Ohio, Section 121.22 for Tuesday, May 28th, 2024. Also per ordinance 220.031 titled Workshop Meetings and Item C. I would now like to turn the meeting over to Council President Foster so as to continue through the remaining workshop agenda items. Council President Foster, the floor and workshop meeting is yours. Thank you very much, Mayor. We will move on to section two, which is correspondence and council comments. If any council member has uh comments they would like to provide, please get my attention. Thank you. Um I've had um two different residents reach out about two different topics, both environmentally related. Frank, I know we've been kind of corresponding on the first one, but um some questions uh have been asked about whether or not we could have a glass recycling drop-off point similar to what they have in Akron. Um so thank you, Frank, for being so responsive to that. Um would love to see if we could do something sooner than the new public works building, although that's a fantastic idea. I love that idea when you suggested it. Um, and then also another resident um had raised the concern of the use of pesticides. Um so I was wondering if um just so that I can get back to them with some stats on that, if um staff could give me some information on the city's use of pesticides. Thank you. City ordinances or city use on city property. City use on city property. Yeah, just uh a couple updates. It's evening. Uh first, I wanted to thank with regard to Memorial Day the ceremony and the parade. Thank um both city staff and all the folks who made it happen, including the Military and Veterans Commission who worked really hard to make what I thought was a great uh series of events. Um, but also wanted to highlight the Hudson Boosters who it some may forget, but a couple years ago when we transitioned this event, dove in to help really organize and facilitate all the floats, and I just wanted to reiterate my thanks there. Uh was proud to be a part of it. And uh I think what's great too for the city is I've been able to observe, and I'm not taking attendance, but it looks like a lot more people showing up to the ceremony afterwards as well, which is you know great to see. Um the feedback was really good too, and people feeling more aware, more patriotic. There was a lot more investment in floats, it seemed, and people wanting to get more into that patriotic feel. So very much appreciated that and just wanted to highlight that it was great. I was proud to be a part of it and uh and what our city put on. Uh, second, an update from the Hudson Economic Growth Board. The job fair went very well. And I know it was uh just about a month ago. They're eagerly awaiting feedback, which they're collecting from both the businesses and some of the students. You know, did you find good employees? Did you find good jobs? So we'll have more uh more to see there. But also um an opportunity was highlighted, and folks may not be aware of what the sixth district is, but it's a cooperative um technical school engagement between Hudson and some other schools in the area, and they're considering whether we should do maybe a job fair integrated with the six sixth districts separately. So for different types of jobs, folks that are looking for more technical or STEM jobs in the area, could be trades, could be you know, the things they're doing at our high school or other high schools, because there were employers who were looking for those types of skills specifically. But I think the economic growth board's done a great job. I I reflected with them coming out of COVID. We were even talking about whether or not we needed it, and they've been able to bring back both the business breakfast and now introduce this the job fair at the high school for both the students and local businesses. So I I know we talk a lot about practical benefits and how our boards or commissions can provide practical benefits to the community, and I just wanted to highlight their success there, and that's a real home run for us and our businesses here. But thank you. That's what I've got. Yeah, um, quick update on steering committee. Uh they had their hopefully final meeting. Um, they had a few grammatical changes to make, um, and then they made a motion to um formally refer their draft plan to us. Um, there was some chatter about they were trying to figure out should they vote to dissolve themselves in the set and the other they decided not to do anything like that in case we need to call them back, you know, based on any kind of public hearing comments or planning commission comments. So they are still technically a board.