The Powell City Council met on Wednesday, November 5, 2025, at 7:30 PM in Council Chambers. The meeting included an executive session, approval of minutes, adoption of four resolutions, the first reading of the FY2026 budget and two Community Reinvestment Area amendment ordinances, committee reports, and a city manager’s report. All resolutions were adopted unanimously. The budget and CRA ordinances were tabled for further discussion at subsequent meetings.
Okay, I will call to order the POW City Council meeting for Wednesday, November fifth. Call the role. Present. Here. Tom Count. Here. Tyler Herman. Here. 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, indivisible with liberty and justice for all. The next item on our agenda, and our agenda was uh amended uh earlier uh today is an executive session pursuant to high revised code section one twenty-one point two two G three conference with an attorney concerning disputes involving the public body that are the subject of imminent court action and pursuant to higher revised code section one twenty-one point two two G eight to consider confidential information as uh more fully printed uh in the agenda. Uh please call first a motion. So moved. Second. Please call the roll. Yes. Yes. Tom Counts? Yes. Tyler Herman. Yes. David Lester, Kurt Ramsey. Yes. Okay. We're in executive session, and with council will be invite some yes. Uh council will be leaving the chamber. She can stay here. We are going to invite uh councilman Leck Carlos Crawford to join us in executive session. Okay, we're back in regular session, and I appreciate everyone's patience as we uh had held that executive session. Uh the next item on the agenda is citizen participation. If there's anyone here that wishes to speak on a matter which is not on our agenda, please come to the podium, state your name and address, and we've got three minutes to speak. Okay, seeing none, I will also note that we have received many thank you notes from Sota Ridge, probably uh all relating to their visit to um uh city hall um about a month ago, and so we will put those in the record. The next item on our agenda is the approval of the minutes. The minutes were included in your materials. Is there a motion to adopt the minutes? Second. All those in favor signify by saying aye. Those opposed, same sign. Any abstentions from our last meeting are approved. The next item on our the agenda is a resolution is resolution twenty twenty-five-thirty-eight. It's a real resolution authorizing the Powell police department to enter into a memorandum of understanding with the Delaware County Department of Job and Family Services to address child abuse and neglect. Thank you, Mayor. Work with T Sals to produce this before council tonight. This comes up biannually. So it expires every two years. And it's essentially an agreement between the parties to uh work to provide safety enforcement and uh development cases. Um there's no monetary impact to the city. It's essentially the allocation of support resources to work together to solve difficult uh safety issues.