Mayor Anzevino called the Hudson City Council workshop to order at 7:30 p.m. on Tuesday, March 10, 2026, in Town Hall, 27 East Main Street. Council President Bird presided over the workshop, which included a Police Department operational overview, a proposed Adopt-a-Spot downtown beautification program, a review of the March 17 consent agenda, and discussion of legislation scheduled for third readings. The meeting was adjourned at 9:16 p.m.
I hold my CPT. 7 30. We're gonna go ahead and get started. 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 10th, 2026. It is 7:30 p.m. Per ordinance 220.031 titled Workshop Meetings and Item C. I would now like to turn the meeting over to Council President Byrd so as to continue through the remaining workshop agenda items. Council President Byrd, the floor and workshop meeting is yours. Okay, thank you, Mayor. Um the first thing on the agenda is under 3A. Oh, I'm sorry, correspondence and council comments. Anyone have anything that hasn't been um mentioned already? I was at the Veterans Board meeting on the 4th. Uh they discussed some potential funding options for their goals for the year. So some of the things that they've discussed are things like a monument on Veterans Way, um, some social meetups for veterans, potentially a Veteran Service Day, and work with schools and a couple other things. I was also at Planning Commission uh last night on the 9th. Uh public comments were about District 11. So three members of the community showed up to uh talk about District 11, emphasizing the importance of the comprehensive plan, uh the emphasis that should be on income generating purpose of this area and not retail that would compete with historic downtown. Uh the planning commission also considered an application from Western Reserve to expand the Wayne Innovation Center and a concept plan for a new daycare facility. Uh the planning commission also discussed District 11 themselves and um discuss some frustration around uh council not having more conversation around their um recommendation to move the housing density from 20 units per acre to 15 units per acre, um, and then discuss some frustration around um housing being in in there not matching with the comprehensive plan and not wanting to um move forward on district eleven. Yes, um last week I attended the HCTV advisory committee. Uh they appointed a new chair and vice chair, that is Patrick Miller and Gary Vyar, uh respectively. Those were appointed by unanimous decision. Um some discussion uh on various topics. Uh one interesting one, uh HCTV is in need of a new GPS clock and velocity broadband uh also needs one with their uh expansion, so there is going to be they're going to uh purchase one of those in tandem. Uh a bit of a cost savings uh from those two teaming up. Um some very cool statistics were shared, uh just you know, on number of live views uh and number of views uh on granite casts of uh the hosted videos, um over 8,000 live views on the October 9th football game last year. So uh very um very well watched uh activity. Uh plenty of other events on there with many many thousands of viewers. So HCTV continues to be a great asset to the community. Uh just a couple quick things for myself. Um, myself and staff met last week with representatives from the Young Entrepreneur Institute, and we are working to potentially showcase a few Hudson students in the visitor center uh on a rotating basis with regards to their products and services. So stay tuned for more information. Um I do want to also thank everyone who came out to the Hudson PTO 69th pancake breakfast, which was held in the high school commons this past uh weekend. 2,393 plates were served, which I understand is just about two dozen shy of the record. So next year, the 70th, we're gonna beat the record. Um and uh next week um our meeting will be a dual meeting, so there'll be a regular council meeting followed uh by a workshop, and we will be on recess the following week, March 25th, which is spring break here in Hudson. And last quick note uh we did have our home meeting, which is the Hudson officials for mutual endeavors uh this past week. Uh we believe we had all members there from uh council, myself, Mr. Sheridan City Manager, representative from the library, the parks board, and several of the Hudson City uh school board officials. Uh we talked about a lot of the different city projects uh that are mutual interest to the city and uh several other initiatives around uh that topic. So uh we did uh take that over. We alternate with the schools from a location standpoint. Uh so this was back at City Hall to start this year. Uh and Council President Bird reminded me, Mr. White was nominated as a nominated and confirmed as the chair going forward this year. Correct. And we do rotate that every year. So that's all I had.