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The Whitehall City Council convened on Tuesday, July 7, 2026, at 7:00 PM in the Council Chamber at City Hall, with President Thomas Potter presiding. The agenda included public hearings on drive-thru safety requirements and the 2027 tax budget, the adoption of multiple ordinances and resolutions, extensive public comment concerning a recall petition for a council member, and a debate over a grant-funded restraint system for the police department.
Curtis. Thank you, Curtis. Wherever you want. We're removing chairs for you. I can help you. Oh. Good evening, everyone. Welcome to the Whitehall City Council agenda meeting for July 7th, 2026. We'll go over the agenda for tonight. We will start off with a moment of silence, followed by the Pledge of Allegiance. We'll then have our roll call. I will tell you, uh, Mr. Brown is not here, but he will be here in about 10 minutes. He gave me a call. So he's just caught in traffic. We then have the approval of the minutes, which include the June 16th, 2026 agenda regular meeting minutes, the June 24th, 2026 emergency special meeting minutes, and the June 24th, 2026 committee meeting minutes. I will need somebody to make a motion. Thank you, Ms. Elmore. I'll second. Thank you, Ms. Harkar. We'll then go into our standing committee reports, followed by the officials' reports. And since our last meeting, there have been no reports in filed in the council office. Under communications petitions claims, we do have one item tonight, and it's a notice of the Ohio Division of Liquid Control for a transfer of location only TRFL D4 license from Diva Den LLC D LaSol 797 St. Clair Avenue, Columbus, Ohio, 43201 to Diva Den LLC D LaSol 3878 East Main Street Unit A, Columbus, Ohio, 43213. We do have public two public hearings this evening. First is ordinance 50, 2026, amending section 1111.10 of the planning and zoning code to promote the safety of drive-through facilities by requiring pass by lanes and emergency vehicle egress in the city of Whitehall and declaring emergency. Adopting the tax budget for the city of Whitehall, Ohio for the fiscal year beginning January 1st, 2027, and submitting the same to the county auditor. And I will go over the rules of that once we get there this evening. Verification of copies. And then we've got uh several pieces of legislation to act on tonight. First will be third reading. Uh ordinance 49, 2026, an ordinance to amend fifty 505.3323 of the Whitehall codified order to prohibit the feeding of deer. Uh this will be introduced by Mr. McCann and second by Miss Elmore. Uh the other third reading item we have is orders 50, 2026, amending Section 11 11.10 of the planning and zoning code to promote the safety of drive-through facilities by requiring bypass lanes and emergency vehicle egress in the city of Whitehall and declaring an emergency. This will be introduced by Mr. McCann, second by Miss Harkar. Second reading, we have got orders 60 2026, title only, an order to authorize the mayor to execute necessary conveyance documents to acquire the property from She Buys Houses 365 LLC, located at 3791 East Broad Street, White Oha 43203 and declaring an emergency. Again, that is title only. We then have resolution 25, 2026. Adopting the tax budget for the city of Whitehall, Ohio for the fiscal year beginning January 1st, 2027, and submitted the same to the county auditor. This will be introduced by Mr. McCann, seconded by Mr. Morrison. Under first reading, we have uh five items. First is ordinance 62, 2026, authorizing approving assumption appropriation in the amount of $5,308.24 cents