The Hudson City Council held a workshop on Tuesday, June 23, 2026, at 7:30 PM in Town Hall. The meeting was called to order by Mayor Jeffrey Anzevino and then turned over to Council President Michael Bird. All seven council members were present. The workshop focused on reviewing items for the July 14, 2026 consent agenda, proposed legislation, and discussing future agenda items. The meeting adjourned at 8:13 PM.
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. The date is Tuesday, June 23rd, 2026. It is 7.30 p.m. And 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. All right, thank you very much, Mayor. Um next is correspondence and council comments. Um get my attention if you have any comments you'd like to make. Amanda. I was at the Planning Commission meeting yesterday. Uh many of the members attended the charrette, and they had um, I thought really positive feedback about how well it was run and appreciated the opportunity for community to provide early input. There were some concerns about the feasibility of the ideas that they heard from community members and relatedly uh the Clinton Crossing committee meeting uh was this morning, and we discussed plans for traffic studies, which we'll also talk about tonight, and also plans for studying the financial implications of uh various plants. Uh they continued their discussion about the land development code and plan developments uh and they want to make adjustments to that and updates. They would like the chair of planning commission, Sarah Norman, to um come chat with us about it, possibly on July 14th, um, to talk about the issues that they've surfaced and um just get our feedback uh before they have a committee put too much effort into making these changes just to kind of hear um what our thoughts are on uh the issues they see with plan developments and making updates to the land development code uh when it comes to plan developments. They would also like an update on um the retirement facility impact on EMS. And they also brought up um concerns or questions, maybe um just at the end, uh wanting to look into our code and processes for temporary or special events. Thank you. Others Sam Last Thursday I attended uh BCBA's meeting. Um we had three different groups come for different variances. Uh the most relevant was three variances to accommodate the proposed townhome development and extension of public veterans' trail in Clinton Crossing. Um two out of the three variances were approved with one just kind of with some further evaluation mostly to try to preserve the environmental you know layout. So they're gonna do a little bit more work and before they come back and present that. Uh thanks. Uh Tom, Kevin, and I attended uh a meeting this morning with First Energy. Uh First Energy was discussing efforts to improve reliability, speed up outage restoration, and trying to become more proactive in tree trimming around their lines. Um, after that, um, all three of us had an opportunity to talk with our rep uh Amy Hopkins on the way out, and we were continuing to push for the updates to Bridgewater, Tower Bridge, and the Shires. Um, you know, our plan is to continue bugging them until those improvements are made. We want them to get done this year. Uh Bridgewater already has the materials delivered, and the installation will hopefully be coming in the next couple weeks, although I feel like I've said that a few times now. So come. Nope. Jeffrey. Um, yeah, just a couple housekeeping items and a couple of reminders for the community. Um, we will not have a meeting next Tuesday, June 30th, because it's the fifth Tuesday of the month. Uh, whenever that happens, we do not uh have meetings. We then are on recess for the July 7th Tuesday meeting. So our next meeting is not until Tuesday, July 14th, which will be a combination workshop and regular city council meeting. Uh and with that next meeting not being till July 14th, a few community reminders. Uh the lighting our legacy festival and fireworks show is taking place on Friday, July 3rd at Barlow Farm Park. That opens, I believe, at 6 p.m. Uh four on the fourth race is in downtown. It starts at around 8:30 a.m. and that's by the Western Reserve Racing, so people can still sign up if they're looking to do either a four-mile or I believe it's a two-mile as well. And then last community reminder the gazebo ribbon cutting is still on schedule for July 6th at 5 30 p.m. Uh I did notice uh that the rails are on now, the sandstone steps are in, the rails are in, the pad is in, the painting and repairs are done. I believe we're just looking for some finished landscaping. Uh so that project um is coming right along and almost complete to be opened back to the public. So thank you.