The City of Vandalia City Council met on April 1, 2024, at 7:00 PM. The meeting was called to order, followed by a moment of reflection and the Pledge of Allegiance. The council passed all agenda items, including several resolutions and ordinances, with some abstentions. The meeting included the introduction of a new construction inspector, citizen comments, and discussion of upcoming events including the solar eclipse and income tax filing deadline.
The Monday, April 1st, 2024, City of Vandalia council meeting is now called to order. We'll start with a moment of reflection and prayer, followed by the Pledge of Allegiance. Please stand for the pledge. One nation under the justice for a while. All right, it's been recommended to amend the agenda to include resolution 24-r 25, a resolution setting authorizing annual Ohio revised code section 5709.82 payments. So moved. Second. I have a motion by Councilman Folllock and a second by Councilman Lewis to amend the agenda. Call the roll. Councilmember Lewis. Yes. Councilmember Fallett? Yes. Councilmember Farst? Yes. Councilmember Apollotus Weaver? Yes. Councilmember Dugan? Yes. Mayor Herbs. Abstain. So the motion passes five, zero with one abstention. All right, moving on. You've had an opportunity to review the council study session minutes of March 18th, the council meeting minutes of March 18th, and the special study session and tour minutes of March 20th. Are there any comments? Being none, we'll move on to communications petitions and wards, where we have the introduction of Jeremy Games, our construction inspector. Thank you very much, Your Honor. Um, Mr. Games, would you just please stand? He's prepared a brief 50-minute speech. Uh followed by 49 minutes of silence. The uh Mr. Games is our newest construction inspector when assistant city manager Cron was promoted from service director and city engineer Borton moved up into the role of public service director. Um we looked at, we looked at the balance of our skill sets and realized that the city would be really well served by bringing on a good construction inspector to work with Mr. Chad Boffman in development and engineering services. Mr. Games is a resident of Vandalia who lives on Farrell. And uh his wife, Danny, also uh works for the city of Vandalia in the municipal court. Um Mr. Games recently was employed from 2018 to 2024 by Montgomery County Environmental Services. He was a water and sewer line inspector to there, also a maintenance repair and replacement planner and scheduler. Prior to that, he worked at associated excavating in Brookville from the year 2000 to 2018, and so uh his a lot of really good competencies, and one of the real uh sweeteners also is that Mr. Games has a bachelor's degree, a bachelor's of science and finance from Wright State University. And so when we went through this process, uh his positive attitude, his desire to do good for Vandalia where he lives and wanting to shorten his commute. Uh really came through in the process, and so I know that he's off to a very good start. And and Jeremy, we're so happy to have you on board with us. Thank you. All right, welcome, glad to have you. Thanks. And you don't have to stay, there's no bonus points if you do.