At the June 9, 2026 workshop of the Hudson City Council (7:30–8:02 PM, Town Hall), President of Council Michael Bird chaired in the absence of the Mayor. Council reviewed a consent calendar for the June 16 meeting, discussed proposed legislation on speed limits, fire hydrants, a cell tower lease, and a natural gas aggregation ballot measure, and received updates on finances, community events, and infrastructure issues.
I'd like to call this meeting to order. The mayor is unable to attend tonight. This is a duly noticed workshop of Hudson City Council held in accordance with Sunshine Laws of the State of Ohio, Section 121.22 and the City of Hudson Charter, Article 3, Section 3.02 for Tuesday, June 9th. I'd like to uh take a moment and welcome everyone who is in attendance tonight. And the only two members of the public are Christine Rady and Captain Graham. So thank you guys for being here. All right. Moving on to the next section, correspondence and council comments. If any council member has something they'd like to share, please get my attention. Patricia. Ice Cream Social. And they are in need of donations. They lost the donors for the ice cream and also for the waste products. So they're in need of extra donations. And also there'll be a lot of different musical people there, but the um Western Reserve community band will be playing it from seven to eight o'clock. I'm a member of that, and there'll be a lot of patriotic songs and it'll be fun. And then the second thing that Mrs. Sutton had sent us a notice about, there's going to be a play that's put to on by students, grades three to eight. And it'll be Friday at 7 p.m. at Barlow and Saturday at 1 p.m. Uh and 7 p.m. Um I'm going with my grandkids. They're really excited about seeing it. It sounds like it's going to be a fun thing. So anybody who's got small kids, I would suggest that you go and and patronize this. It's costs like it doesn't cost much, it's very small, but uh I'm sure that the kids would appreciate our attendance. Uh received a voicemail from a resident this weekend who uh would like us to update our food truck legislation to state that you cannot park a food truck in a residential district and operate unless you're part of a festival. That's all uh updates from the home committee. Uh the school board is planning to approve a three-year contract for resource officers at the schools. This would be uh brought to council for approval and continue the joint effort between the schools, city, and police department. Uh the school board is also still working through solutions on the Saywell House and having it sold or moved. Uh nothing concrete has been presented at this time. Um Parks Department discussed some trouble with e-bikes and neighborhoods, and they'd like us to discuss that in our next safety meeting, uh which I believe is next week. Um, and we'll also be looking at uh the current ordinance on e-bikes and uh look to council to potentially update that if it needs it. Um council also discussed uh the bird song project with um potential involvement from the Hudson Parks and school and the library. Um parks is gonna be discussing that at the next meeting, I believe, and they may have already done that, Kyle. And then um I'll be reaching out to the library for potential collaboration. And then uh the last update was the library mentioned that um they had the approval of the levy, which accounted for I believe 70% of their budget, so they were very happy for that to pass. Yes, I just wanted to recognize June is Pride Month, and I just wanted to um formally um put a statement out from the city of Hudson recognizing that for the month of June. So I just wanted to kind of throw that out there. Um if anyone had any comments or questions regarding that. Uh we pulled some just other months that the city usually um acknowledges and several different, you know, Black History Month, um Heart History Women's, all the things. So I think we should also acknowledge this um group in our in our city. Um you had mentioned that there's a there was a list that's kind of put out as significant heritage and history months that are recognized by the um State Department. Um so yeah, so I think if you if you wanted to do if we wanted to do all those official months, that would be good. It would be good to be consistent. And I think also it helps staff to know each month that they would be you know posting whatever the month is, and it would be on the State Department list. So happy to explain or discuss it more. If council wants an agenda item, we're more than happy to. But if we don't need one, we can just go ahead and start doing it going forward.