Go ahead and get started.

I'd 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 and the City of Hudson Charter, Article 3, Section 3.02 for Tuesday, October 14th, 2025.

It is 7 30 p.m.

Per ordinance 220.031 titled Workshop Meetings and Item C.

Would now like to turn the meeting over to Council President Foster.

So as I continue through the remaining workshop agenda items.

Council President Foster, the floor and workshop is yours.

Thank you very much, Mayor.

We'll move on to section two, which is correspondence and council comments.

If any council member uh has anything they would like to share with council or the public, please get my attention so I can assign you the floor.

I only have a couple things if nobody else does.

Um I just wanted to give another shout out to Chef Collin from Celiakin around in the kitchen for his donation of baked goods to the community fundraiser the other week, and for also being the highlighted young entrepreneur at the farmers market this past Saturday.

It was the last farmer's market for this 2025 season.

Uh, and just a little bit of info.

Uh, Colin is in middle school, and he has created a business of baking goods that are gluten-free and helping to raise awareness for celiac's disease.

And his brownies and chart chocolate nebulas are amazing.

So he is on Facebook if you want to check out his story and his little business that he's created.

Uh, second thing, I will be traveling to Stowe tomorrow for the kickoff meeting with several other area mayors to discuss the 2025 cold weather clothing drive.

Hudson as a community did join this um collaboration last year, and the overwhelming response from our residents was much appreciated.

Uh last note from my side, I will be submitting my mayor's column article by the end of this week for the November edition of the Hudson Life publication.

Thank you.

All right, any other comments.

Uh just uh quick update on the planning commission.

The planning commission met Monday night, um, and unsurprisingly, the HIP was passed.

Um, so we'll move forward on to the next stage.

Uh moving on to item three, which is discussion items a 25-0119 is the fire and EMS follow-up discussion.

We have Chief Farns in the House.

Thank you very much for coming in tonight, Chief.

Evening, everyone.

I'll be really brief.

Um, Tom just asked me to stop in and uh kind of give you a quick update on uh kind of combined, but two items.

Uh, one would be the kind of introduction of the uh daytime uh staffed firefighters uh there at the fire station and uh how that's going.

So uh we'll start off with that.

I think that uh the biggest topic of that would be the improvement of the response times.

I think that was the hot topic uh that uh led to that.

And so I um did a deep dive into that to see uh how many calls that we've had since that uh July 7th introduction of that, and we've had a total of 117 calls.

I cut that off uh when Tom asked me to start looking into that, and so we ended that on uh October 3rd is when I did my data retrieval.

So uh July 7th to December 3rd, we had 117 total calls.

Uh, of those, 79 of the calls were for the entire department to respond.

I broke that into the number of calls that occurred from 7A to 7P when we were staffed, and then the remainder from 7P to 7A when we were not staffed.

So the non-staffed time response time to get the firefighters to the station and then out the door.

That time was seven minutes and 58 seconds to get there, get dressed, get out the door for those 23 calls.

The remainder of those all department calls were 56 calls, and that was from the 7A to 7P time.

And I was very proud to say that the out the door time was one minute and 43 seconds.

So a six minute and 15 second reduction in that response time.

So very right on track for what we anticipated to be the reduction, actually, a little bit more.

So we were hoping for a five-minute reduction in our overall response time.

Got it down to six minutes and 15 seconds.

Do remember though that that did include what we call the code white and code red, the urgent response and the more casual response when you have a it's not a uh true emergency, but you do still need a response, so you're not quite hustling as much.

So those are all blended together.

So for the urgent, urgent response times, uh they can be closer to instead of that minute 43, it's closer to like a minute 20 uh legitimately for that response time.

So I'm uh very pleased with that response time reduction.

I hope you are as well.

Uh some of the other tag alongs that happen with that uh staffing model.

Um, if you recall, we used to call that the duty officer or car one that was just a single officer responding to the majority of those calls when you didn't have to have the entire department.

So, with that policy change, a number of responses now includes that uh duty crew, the crew of four firefighters on that uh engine going out, and so we were able to change a policy or two, and it now gives uh a much increased uh confidence level for that officer to be able to go out on some things where you didn't have that luxury before because you either had to wait for that engine crew to come from home and meet you there, and that officer is on scene of something by himself for a longer period of time, uh, or uh they didn't have that engine crew uh coming out with them, and you're dealing with that uh incident for uh quite a bit of time on your own.

And uh, some of those uh policy changes were if you get a report of a motor vehicle accident with no injury.

You're going there by yourself thinking it's nothing, and then it turns into something more.

Now you're waiting that seven minute time, eight minute time for that engine crew to get there.