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The Whitehall City Council Committee met on Tuesday, July 28, 2026, at 6:30 PM. The meeting included standing committee reports, discussion of multiple zoning and economic development ordinances, a presentation from the Associated Plumbing & Hydronic Contractors of Central Ohio (APHC), and a motion to enter executive session.
Good evening. Welcome to Whitehall City Council Committee meeting agenda for Tuesday, July 28th, 2026. Administration City Council of the Whole Matters. I believe Mr. Brown has something he wants to say at this time. Yes. Please take it. Sorry. Yeah, no worries at all. No, I appreciate it. I just wanted to address the public. Last week I invited Mr. Dixon to a community conversation. And I received a response, unfortunately, you know, he declined the invitation. You know, and I just wanted to make it clear for the public. First and foremost, uh, while we may very much so disagree on our past uh interactions and how they've they've happened. Um the invitation had nothing to do with our personal relationship. If you go back and watch again, my focus is the community of Whitehall. We've just been through you know uh recall election. Uh we continue to have people sow mistrust and chaos and you know um spew accusations of um fiscal mismanagement or corruption or whatever. And so ultimately, I think the goal is to be able to have open and honest dialogue with the community. I think that would be healing. I think having an opportunity for people who disagree, whether it's politically or or what have you, uh, to be able to you know have a conversation not only with each other but with the community openly, uh, I think will only help as we try to move forward together as a community, which uh has been said is is the goal up here many times. So, you know, as someone who who genuinely believes in uh good faith dialogue and and again bringing people who disagree on certain topics together to be able to have conversations, flush out solutions and ideas. Um, you know, my hope is that you know if it's not him, then you know whoever else uh continues to have concerns in the community or or disagree uh with me or or other people. I uh my hope is that we can have these conversations openly. I I've tried to do it up here, and that doesn't seem to be the the best path forward according to folks watching. So in any case, I will continue to to do the work. I'll continue to host community conversations. Uh you know, I'll I'll continue to try to make others that you know um are hosted by other people. Um, and my hope is that the community continues to pay attention. It's been set up here that um you know we we want to watch people's actions, not their words. And my hope is that people up here and in the community will continue to do that as we move forward. So that's it. Thank you. Thank you, sir. We have there's one piece of draft legislation on the agenda tonight. We will now move to committee of a whole legislation issues, standing committee, administration and financial management. Chairperson Almore. Thank you, Mr. President. I will open up administration and financial management at 710. Uh we have no draft for pending legislation. Um, is there anything for the good of this committee? Lucky I'm here.