The Hudson City Council held a workshop on Tuesday, March 11, 2025, at 7:30 PM in Town Hall. Mayor Jeffrey L. Anzevino called the meeting to order, and Council President Christopher W. Foster presided. All seven council members were present. The workshop focused on three discussion items: HCTV Advisory Committee goals, regulation of on-street parking for landscape trucks, and a staffing plan for the first year of the Fiber-to-the-Home (FTTH) expansion. Council also reviewed the proposed consent agenda and legislation for the March 18, 2025, Council meeting, and forwarded several items for further consideration.
I'd like to call this meeting to order. This is a duly noticed workshop meeting of Hudson City Council held in accordance with the sunshine laws of the state of Ohio, Section 121.22 and the City of Hudson Charter, Article 3, Section 3.02 for Tuesday, March 11th, 2025. 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'll move on to section two, which is correspondence and council comments. If any council members of the mayor have something they would like to share with the community, please get my attention so I can assign you the floor. Mr. Banweg. I'll I'll provide just a quick update on this past weekend's fire and EMS meeting. So working session where the three at-large members were there as well as some members of the community or folks related to the community, retired firefighters, our consultants, and uh and Tom, the city manager as well. I think in summary, and certainly the other members can expound upon this, but I think we've taken in the feedback from the consultants from the Hudson Fire Department, from residents, and now we brought in some residents who were also retired firefighters, looked at all the data, and what we wanted to get to was a proposed solution with a couple alternatives because thus far we've talked about all the alternatives. What I found what I found in this meeting was that the proposal that has been come up with in these discussions is well aligned with all the stakeholders. Folks seem to approve generally of what we're doing in the short term. We're all aligned that there's probably a long-term solution to wanting to get to better coverage and response time for the community. So I'm glad that we started this when we did back during the council retreat. Seemed very timely. The next step will be this coming Saturday, where this past Saturday we did not have everyone in the room. We wanted to go over the proposals with some independent retired firefighters just as a last check, essentially. We'll bring the Hudson Fire Department back together with the consultants, with everybody again to go over and really beat up those final proposals that we've made and try to get this into action quickly. I know that I want to thank the folks who've been involved, the people that came in this Saturday, and also city staff, Tom, the uh the fire chief who have been doing a lot of research in the background on we come up with an idea, but then how do you staff it? How do you fund it? What are the skills? What's I referenced this week in the minutiae, which is really important. What kind of equipment do you need? How many more people? All that work has been going on simultaneously, so we'll know better how to implement once we have a decision. So it won't be delayed because I I do know there has been intent to make an impact, right? To get it done quickly. So I appreciate everyone who's been involved from my perspective to keep this going and not be bogged down in anything distracting. So that's where I'll leave that. Looking forward to this Saturday and any tweaking and refinement that we do, but thanks to everybody who's been involved. Thanks for that update. Further comments or questions? Karen? Certainly. I'll I'll just add that I'd like to thank everybody who has been involved, particularly those who join us on Saturday morning to talk shop. Um I also just want to emphasize that um again appreciate the city staff that have been working on this and that we have something in place that we can deploy very very quickly. Something that takes six months, a year, two years. Um, and that's exciting. So I'm really pleased with the progress that we've made and look forward to the next steps in making our final decisions or presenting it to council next. So thank you. Mayor? Yeah, just a few things from my side. Um, we do have a home meeting this Wednesday afternoon with members from the city, uh, Hudson City Schools, the park board, and the library board. Uh and then on Thursday morning, I will be attending uh mayor's meeting on behalf of the Tinkers Creek watershed partners. Um, a couple uh things around from the community. Uh Door2Art will be hosting their annual art show this Thursday, the 13th through Sunday, the 16th. They have hours posted uh on their website and social media.