The City Council met on June 19, 2023, at 7:00 PM to address routine approvals, a detailed traffic study on National Road, a contested variance for solar panels, and several financial resolutions. The meeting included an oath of office for a new firefighter, a proclamation for Pollinator Week, and updates on city services and events.
National Road Traffic Counts (Presentation by Public Service Director Rob Cron):
Variance Request BZA 22-10 (825 Old Farm Court):
Electric Aggregation Update (City Manager Wendt):
City Manager's Information Items:
The June nineteenth, twenty twenty-three City of Andea Council meeting is now called to order. We'll start with a moment of reflection, followed by the Pledge of Allegiance to the flag. Please stand for the pledge. I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the Republic for which is against one nation. All right, Council, you've had an opportunity to review the study session minutes of May first, the council meeting minutes of May first, the council study session minutes of May 15th, the council meeting minutes of May 15th, and the council retreat minutes from May 16th. Are there any comments or corrections? Being none, they stand approved. And that brings us to communications petitions and awards, and we have the introduction and oath of office. Am I deferring to Mr. Wendt here? Thank you very much, Your Honor. I would like to introduce to you firefighter firefighter paramedic inspector uh Chris Mayle, uh, who is here with us today. Please stand up, sir. Uh Mr. Mayle is a resident of the city of Vandalia. He's accompanied here by his four wonderful children and his wife Taylor. Mr. Mayle has been a part-time firefighter with us since August 2022. He was in Butler Township since May 2020, and he's also served in a part-time capacity in Clayton Brookville and Englewood. I was really happy to be able to bring him on uh after a really competitive process that yielded uh some really great candidates that we had. I'll point out that he is one of the firefighters that's um backfilling after the promotion of the three internal candidates to the position of fire lieutenant. And so without further ado, I'll go ahead and swear him in. Okay. Communications manager Hopkins negotiated that for us, and so even though this violates fire code, we wanted to put it up to show everyone. And we're gonna go ahead and swear them in, but you can just, if there's a fire, one, I think you're really, really safe, but two, there's an exit right behind this. I Christopher Mill solemnly is always that I will support the Constitution. And we'll obey the laws of the United States. And that the state of Alliance. All right, thank you. Congratulations. All right, this time I'd like to uh ask Mr. Tuttle and his committee to come to the podium. We have a proclamation. Thanks for coming. We the City of Vandeya are proclaiming this week as pollinator week here in Vinegala, which is something we've done here over the last few years. So I just want to take this time to thank Mr. Tuglin for everything you've done to help make us AP City. I know we were the first B city in the state of Ohio, and I know you put a lot of effort into this. And I guess what I'd like to also do is when we're saying that to you is just you know kind of get a couple of words from you on what we can do as residents to help with uh the pollination and uh what we can do as a city. Okay. Go ahead. All right, I really appreciate what the city has done as far as the pollination efforts to plant things which are pollinator friendly. And it's a really neat sign with the uh new banners that are up on the street to you know promote pollinator. But yeah, people say, well, you know, I think we've talked before about what can I do as an individual. Well, what you can do is just get a seed packet. Uh I'll have them available at Summerfest if you want to just that, and they're working pollinator-friendly plants, and each person doing their part can then provide what's a major problem for bees right now, and that's lack of forage. So they need more food, and so that's something that you can't do. But again, we appreciate all the planning and things the city has done to help promote that to make us a good B City. On our volunteer uh presentation we did here uh the awards bank that we did here a couple of months ago, we got we gave away the sunflower, some flower seed and wildflower. Right for pollinators.