President of Council Kathy McNear
called Council to order on
The governmental body and those in
attendance recited the pledge of allegiance.
Mr. Knox took roll call. Present were Council members
The minutes of
The minutes of
COMMUNICATIONS - none
COMMUNICATIONS FROM THE AUDIENCE - none
INTRODUCTION
OF NEW POLICE CLERK AND SWEARING IN OF OFFICERS
Chief Laage
introduced Marvella Hoskins, the new police
clerk. Chief Laage said Marvella is home-grown, raised in
Mayor
Webster swore in Erik Langevin and Frank McPherson.
Chief Laage
stated Erik is fresh out of the service. He was an MP and a member of a SWAT
unit. He was a manager in the Perkins
restaurant chain. Erik was not certified
when we hired him and is currently in the police academy at
Chief Laage
said the second officer is Frank McPherson.
He graduated last year from the
ORDINANCES AND RESOLUTIONS
RESOLUTION R15-2006 “COMMENDING THE
Mayor Webster
said if this sounds familiar, it is. I
want to apologize publicly to Brenden Bingham, the
young man we left off at the last meeting when you passed this, and he is the
first one mentioned in this resolution. He
was in attendance with his family and it had to be really embarrassing for
him. We brought the resolution back to
have it passed by Council and we will present it to the young man.
Mr. Squires made
a motion to adopt and Mr. Vanover seconded.
The motion passed
with seven affirmative votes.
ORDINANCE
NO. 64-2006 “AN ORDINANCE PROVIDING FOR THE ISSUANCE OF
NOT TO EXCEED $625,000 OF RENEWAL NOTES BY THE CITY OF SPRINGDALE, OHIO, IN
ANTICIPATION OF THE ISSUANCE OF BONDS FOR STRET AND RELATED IMPROVEMENTS IN THE
CITY, AND DECLARING AN EMERGENCY”
Mr. Danbury made a
motion to read by title only. Mr.
Galster seconded. The motion passed with
seven affirmative votes.
Mr. Vanover made a
motion to adopt and Mr. Wilson seconded.
Mayor Webster said
when we passed the earnings tax rather than wait a full year for us to start
getting those revenues, we wanted to go ahead and improve some of the
residential streets. We sold a note for
$1.5 million with the intention of paying that off in the next two to three
years. When we put the budget together
for 2006, it was $1.25 million coming due so we decided to retire fifty percent
of it this year and fifty percent in 2007.
In the meantime the residents have enjoyed the use of the new streets
and we kept the costs at 2004 costs. We
paid very little interest on this money and I think it was a win-win for
everybody. I appreciate Council’s
support in allowing us to do that.
Mr. Knox said if you
read through it, it starts saying we are going to levy a tax. We’re not really going to levy a tax. The second paragraph under Section 7 says
that “provided however to the extent that debt service on said obligation is
appropriated and paid from other municipal sources, said tax shall not be
collected for the purpose thereof.” It
will be paid off in 2007 and there will be no tax involved in this.
Ordinance 64-2005
passed with seven affirmative votes.
ORDINANCE NO. 65-2006 “AUTHORIZING THE
MAYOR AND CLERK OF COUNCIL/FINANCE DIRECTOR TO ACCEPT THE TEMPORARY AND
PERMANENT ROADWAY AND WATERMAIN EASEMENTS LOCATED AT A SECTION OF
Mr. Squires made
a motion to adopt and Mr. Vanover seconded.
Mr. Osborn stated
this right-of-way acquisition is for phase 3 of the
Ordinance 65-2006
passed with seven affirmative votes.
OLD BUSINESS
Mr. Danbury said the history book is fantastic and I want to
commend Dave Butsch for all the effort he put into it and everyone else.
Mayor Webster said Mrs. McNear, Dave Butsch, Mr. Osborn and
I served on the committee. We really had
a running start because some of the background work had already been done. We had a lot of script but we were lacking
pictures. The smartest thing we did was
hire Rachel Schmidt to ramrod the project.
She did a great job of leading us.
Mayor Webster said I asked Borders if they would be
interested in stocking the history book.
I got a call from the manager today and he is going to pick up ten books
tomorrow. They will be sold there for
the same price we are selling them here.
He also indicated that he had had some requests for the books.
Mrs. McNear said I want to thank the people who contributed
pictures and stories. If you go out on
the City’s website there is a little movie of the history. Some of the pictures in the book are on line.
Mayor Webster said Shirley Fasnaut
has deposited $3200 into the Veteran’s account, which is exactly what it has
cost the veterans. She has approximately
120 books left so every penny of that is proceeds that
will go the Veteran’s Memorial.
Mr. Osborn said the cookbook is in its second printing and
will probably have to go to a third. We
have been lucky to have collected a real trove of historic photographs and
memorabilia. We’d like to try to start a
historical society that will catalog these documents; perhaps ultimately having
a display room in this building or some building in the City where we can
display a lot of our history. I think
from the response we got from residents when we were trying to gather material
that there are folks out there who will become part of that effort.
Mr. Vanover said I have heard nothing but accolades on the
parade. Hats off to the entire
Recreation Department and others involved.
Mr. Parham stated we have bicentennial golf shirts and tote
bags for sale.
Mrs. Harlow said I just wanted to comment about
Mrs. McNear said it would be nice to have a map of the
planters.
Mr. Tulloch said only six of the planters are out. There are another fourteen to still to come
out. There will be a brochure map
showing the locations of them, give a brief description, sponsor, artist, etc.
that will be mailed to the City’s mailing list.
NEW BUSINESS
Mayor Webster said I’d like to give
an update on what is coming up with the bicentennial events.
September 9th – ice cream
social, antique car and bike show, big band concert. We had to cancel the skateboard
demonstration. Frame
September 13th – business
expo, luncheon speaker, Wayne Krivsky
September 15th, 16th,
17th – quilt show, flower show, and golf outing.
September 23rd –
dedication of Springdale Elementary, taste of Springdale including tethered hot
air balloon rides and Cincinnati Civic Orchestra, fireworks
Mr. Osborn said MoJo
radio station will be broadcasting from the Taste of Springdale. There will be some run-up type commercials that
week leading up to the event and then they will do
Mr. Osborn said for the ice cream
social we are having Graeter’s ice cream. We really have to extend our thanks to Graeter’s for stepping forward in a big way and being an
excellent business resident of the community and helping us out with the ice
cream social.
Mr. Osborn continued we need to
adopt a resolution on NIMS (National Incident Management System) in order to
stay eligible for federal funding. Under
this resolution we would affirm and adopt the NIMS policies that have been set
out by the Homeland Security Department.
Incident management is about the control at a major disaster or event. The idea of having a uniform system started
several years ago. The first groups to
initially take this on were the fire departments. They began by having regional, then
ultimately national standards for command and control. The police departments eventually bought into
the same system so we had a fairly well established command and control incident
management system set up prior to the Homeland Security folks adopting it as a
nationwide policy. This sets out how you
are organized, who does what, what’s the order of authority. It’s uniform in the
sense that if we needed a person to fill in at a field command post, we could
take somebody from
Mr. Osborn said a few years ago we
brought to Council’s attention Phase II of the Clean Water Act of 1976. Phase I dealt with cities over 100,000 and
they had twenty-five years to become compliant.
Two years ago they tapped the jurisdictions under 100,000 and compelled
us to comply as well. We are going
through the permitting process and one of the things we have to do in order to
comply with the permitting process is to adopt an ordinance that regulates
illegal discharge and illicit connections to the public storm sewer
system. The ordinance has been drafted
and circulated between departments and the Law Director’s office for four or
five months. It is our intention to have
this ordinance presented to the Board of Health at their meeting next
week. Dave Butsch will be in attendance
to help explain the purpose behind it and how the Board of Health will
participate in the execution of that ordinance.
If things go well at the Board of Health we will probably bring a first
reading before you at your second meeting in September. If the Board of Health wants to take longer
to look at it, that’s fine too but it will be coming up in the near
future. I’d like to request an ordinance
for the next Council meeting dealing with illegal discharge and illicit
connections to our storm sewer systems.
Mr. Osborn stated we had a bid
opening on de-icing rock salt on August 22.
There were three bidders and we are accepting the lowest bidder, Cargill
Incorporated. That bid is based on their
summer delivery price. Because of the
bin we built a number of years ago we can stock the bin to capacity before the
higher prices kick in in the winter. Cargill is not low on the winter prices but
we rarely buy salt in the winter. We
would like an ordinance awarding the contract to Cargill Incorporated for
de-icing rock salt.
Mrs. Harlow said there has been a
fence erected at the Community Center close to where the dirt pile for the
school was. I’ve had a couple of
residents ask me about that.
Mr. Osborn responded that surrounds
a detention facility for the school.
They own that property. They
needed to have an above-ground detention facility on their site. My concern was that we were exposed to great
liability if we had an unprotected detention facility on a park that is
intended to support numerous activities all year round. Water backs up in there and is slowly
released. My concern was that if it was
not protected by a fence that small children could be trying to walk down the
slope to the water, loose their footing, get in the water and not be able to
get back out again. It’s not a high risk likelihood but I think it would have been
negligence on our part to not try to protect the City and the public from a
potential loss of life.
Mrs. Harlow said a couple of the
residents said it looked like a permanent fence so I looked at it last
night.
Mr. Osborn replied it is a permanent
fixture. It is an improvement made by
the school district but since we have some control over the property we
insisted that a fence be built around their detention basin.
MEETINGS AND ANNOUNCEMENTS
Fire Department Open House - October 7
City-wide Crime Prevention Picnic - October 7
Planning Commission -
Board of Health - September 14
Board of Zoning Appeals - September 19
COMMUNICATIONS FROM THE AUDIENCE - none
UPDATE ON LEGISLATION STILL IN DEVELOPMENT - none
RECAP OF LEGISLATIVE ITEMS REQUESTED
Resolution adopting NIMS policies and procedures - September
20
Illicit discharge and illegal taps on storm sewers - September
20
Contract with Cargill for salt - September 20
Council adjourned at
Respectfully
submitted,
Edward F. Knox
Clerk
of Council/Finance Director
Minutes
Approved:
Kathy
McNear, President of Council
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2006