The Hudson City Council held a special workshop retreat on Saturday, January 17, 2026, from 9:00 AM to 1:55 PM at City Hall. The retreat covered a wide range of topics including financial updates, capital projects, policy discussions, and future initiatives. Six council members were present (Dr. Bird, Mr. Brezovec, Ms. D'Eramo, Dr. Goetz, Dr. Weinstein, Mr. White); Mr. Sutton was absent. Mayor Anzevino and City Manager Sheridan led discussions along with other staff.
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 Saturday, January 17th, 2026. It is nine o'clock in the morning. Per ordinance 220.031 titled workshop meetings and item C. Would now like to turn the meeting over to Council President Byrd so as it continues through the remaining special workshop agenda items. Council President Bird, the floor and special workshop meeting is yours. All right, thank you very much, Mayor. Um council comments or uh information that you want to share that is not related to the retreat before we start the retreat. Okay. All right. Well then we'll we will jump in. Um do you want to give any additional intro remarks before we get to the agenda? Yes, I will. Good morning, Dr. Getz. Good morning, sorry. No, sorry. Um the only other person I see missing is Sam. First and foremost, thank you. I appreciate you guys taking your Saturday out and um being with us today on the retreat. This is the retreat format that we have done in the past. Um honestly it has worked as far as I'm concerned to uh our advantage and a sense of things that uh we're looking for that we need to get guidance and direction on. Um we're pretty caught up to speed from uh uh administrative staff. So anything council has, you know, which I put up first here on the agenda as I always do, but uh we could spend the entire time that you would like to meet today on all the council items and go into whatever detail you would like. Uh the meeting is from nine to one today. We can take a break or two. Um Dr. Guest, just so you hear this too, is this is being recorded. It will it's videotaped up here on this camera right above the TV. Um, and this will be shown probably Monday, Tuesday, depending on the holiday uh when HCTV staff can get that done. If you do have a personal call or personal conversation, please even don't go over here to the uh food area. Please take outside and uh these microphones will pick up everything. That's how good they are. So um mentioned the breaks. I guess Mike, is there a like if we want to take a break for every so many minutes, maybe 10, 30, hour and a half perfect. And then everyone, the restrooms are right down the hall over there. Everyone feel free to get up and go if an item's coming up that you don't think you need to say anything about, you know, by all means. Uh this is your meeting, not mine. Um the retreat procedures, just basically we try to do five to ten minutes. Sometimes it's a half a minute. Um we don't want to talk about that. Let's move on, or you know, we've already solved that problem. So I just have them all on there. We're in a dynamic world as you guys know. Things are always changing every day. So this is probably almost a week old, uh, which was the final items, and I believe I have everybody's stuff up here. Lastly, um Jeff Brian and I also have files in the file folder with us if we need to pull up maybe anything in particular. Um Jeff can go over the budget. I think he has a budget book here too, where I have both. So if there's anything we want to talk about, that and uh lastly, um, we will have department overviews just to give you guys all the basics of what the departments do. Um I'd like to have that with council because that way you guys can all hear uh what they're doing.