The Powell City Council met on Tuesday, October 7, 2025, at 7:30 PM in Council Chambers. The meeting included public health updates, approval of prior minutes, adoption of a resolution for engineering services for a shared-use path at Bennett Farm, and a detailed discussion on proposed revisions to the Community Reinvestment Area (CRA) map. The council also received committee reports and heard about recent community events.
I will call to order the PAL City Council meeting for Tuesday, October 7th. Please call the roll. Carl. Tom Counts. Here. Tyler Herman. Here. Heather Carr. Here. David Lester. Kurt Ramsey. Here. Please stand for the Pledge of Allegiance. I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America. And to the Republic for which it stands. One nation under God, individual with liberty and justice for all. The next item on our agenda is citizen participation. If there's anybody here that wishes to speak on an item which is not on our agenda tonight, now's your opportunity to do so. So please come to the podium. State your name and address. Good evening. My name is Caitlin Morsey. I'm an epidemiologist at the Delaware Public Health District. Just wanted to provide a couple quick updates for you tonight. We issued a health alert on September 8th. We have noticed an increase in cases as well as outbreaks of hand, foot and mouth disease. Most often affecting infants and children. Sometimes we can see it in adolescents as well as adults. Hand foot and mouth is spread through direct contact with nose and throat discharges or the stool of infected people or through touching contaminated surfaces with those bodily fluids. As of right now, there is no vaccine or specific treatment for hand, foot and mouth disease. We strongly encourage regular hand washing from the little ones all the way up through high schoolers as well as any parents who are caring for those who have hand, foot, and mouth, frequent cleaning and disinfecting touch surfaces, as well as good cough and sneeze etiquette. We recommend contacting your health care provider if there is an infected person who is unable to clear the virus within about seven to ten days for those supportive treatments, additional fluids, treatments, fever control, different things like that. And as well as flu season is quickly approaching, we recommend vaccination September through October for that optimal flu coverage throughout the flu peak flu season. We offer clinic hours. Those are available to be scheduled on our website, and we do accept walk-ins. Just some statistics from last year. We saw over 120 flu hospitalizations within our health health district area. And those who are at highest risk for the flu are those with any chronic medical conditions, those who are pregnant, and children younger than five, and those who are over 65. There is a free tire disposal for Delaware County residents going on October Saturday, October 18th from 9 to noon at the Delaware County Fairgrounds. You will enter in from the Pennsylvania Avenue entrance. They accept up to 10 passenger sires, rim size 13 to 24, no bike tires, no agricultural tires. They will accept tires on the rim, but they prefer off the rim. Delaware County residents, no businesses. Those appointments, there is a QR code available on our handout. But like I said previously, within our clinic, there is an available availability to schedule. And then we are having a first responder flu clinic Friday, October 17th, from 8 a.m. to 10 a.m. at the Genoa Township Fire Department up in Galena. Focus on first responders, get them protected for this upcoming flu season. So any first responders are welcome to schedule for that clinic.