Regular Counci Meeting Minutes from April 26, 2016
EASTLAKE CITY COUNCIL
REGULAR COUNCIL MEETING MINUTES
April 26, 2016
The Regular Meeting of the Eastlake City Council was held at Eastlake City Hall, 35150 Lakeshore Boulevard. The Meeting was called to order by Council President Ms. DePledge at approximately 7:07 p.m.
The Pledge of Allegiance was recited.
ATTENDEES
Members of Council in attendance were Mr. Zuren, Mr. Meyers, Mr. Kasunick, Mr. Spotton, Mr. Evers, Mr. Hoefle and Council President Ms. DePledge. Also in attendance was Council Clerk Mrs. Simons.
Those attending from the Administration were Mayor Morley, Fire Chief Whittington, Police Chief Reik, CBO Menn, Service Director Rubertino, Finance Director Mrs. Schindel and Law Director Klammer. City Engineer Gwydir was absent and excused.
APPROVAL OF MINUTES
Regular Council Meeting –April 12, 2016.
MOTION: Mr. Hoefle moved to approve the minutes of the Regular Council Meeting April 12, 2016. Mr. Spotton seconded.
ROLL CALL: Yeas unanimous.
Motion carried. The minutes were approved.
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COUNCIL PRESIDENT’S REPORT – Ms. DePledge
Meetings Scheduled
Ms. DePledge: The next Council-as-a-Whole Committee Meeting is scheduled for Tuesday, May 10, 2016 at 7:00 p.m. The Regular Council meeting will be convened immediately following the adjournment of the Council-as-a-Whole Committee meeting. The Boulevard of Flags Annual Fund Raiser is on Friday, April 29, 2016 at 6:00 p.m. to 11:00 p.m. It is at the Patrician Party Center. Tickets are $35.00 per person and they can be purchased from our Sergeant-at-Arms Mr. Rydzinski or from Mr. Evers. They do a great job and it is for a great cause. It supports the Boulevard of Flags Park and our Veterans. It is for a worthy cause and I encourage everyone to attend.
COMMUNICATIONS & PETITIONS
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A communication from CBO Menn for the issuance of a Conditional Use Permit for a Carwash and Car Detailing to Brian Holland, d/b/a Brian’s Automotive Detailing.
Ms. DePledge: This was discussed in Council-as-a-Whole Committee and will be added to the evening’s agenda.
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A communication from Police Chief Reik for the purchase of bulletproof vests for the cost of Seventeen Thousand Five Hundred and Seventy-Two Dollars and Fifty Cents (17,572.50).
Ms. DePledge: This was discussed in Council-as-a-Whole Committee and will be added to the evening’s agenda.
COMMITTEE REPORTS
Ms. DePledge: There was a Finance Committee Meeting and Mr. Evers is sick this evening. His voice is leaving him so he is deferring the comments of that meeting to me. The meeting was held on Tuesday, April 19. It was an opportunity for Mrs. Trivisonno and her group of volunteers to present to Council their plans for the Central Park Area. We are considering that proposal in concert with the ACL’s proposal. There was a suggestion that perhaps a compromise could be reached between the ACL and Mrs. Trivisonno’s group of volunteer’s. They are supposed to be meeting this week. It is my understanding that they meet yesterday and that there is additional work that will be done. Hopefully they will be able to come to some sort of resolution. We will be discussing that in another meeting next week and it will be raised at the next Council Meeting in two weeks. I believe that was the only thing that was discussed at the Finance Committee meeting and it was concluded. Everyone was in attendance…all members of Council were present.
Mr. Hoefle: I would like to mention that Mr. Evers will be out of town next week for the Finance Committee Meeting. I will be chairing the meeting for next Tuesday. We will have the Finance Committee Meeting and if we need to discuss anything for the ACL and that will be at the meeting next Tuesday.
MOTION:
Mr. Hoefle moved to add Legislation No. 04-26-(01) to this evening’s agenda an Ordinance authorizing the issuance of a Conditional Use Permit for a Carwash and Car detailing to Brian Holland, d/b/a Brian’s Automotive Detailing, 1351, East 354 Street, Unit 3, Eastlake, Ohio. Mr. Zuren second.
Motion carried Legislation 04-26-(01) is added to this evening’s agenda.
Mr. Hoefle moved to add Legislation No. 04-26-(02) to this evenings agenda a Resolution authorizing and directing the Mayor and Director of Finance to Purchase Bulletproof Vests, for Use by the City of Eastlake Police Department for the total cost of Seventeen Thousand Five Hundred and Seventy-Two Dollars and Fifty Cents ($17,572.50). Mr. Meyers second.
Motion carried Legislation 04-2-(02) is added to this evening’s agenda.
Mr. Meyers moved to designate Councilman-at-Large Kimberly C. Evers and Clerk of Council Tracy M. Simons to represent Councilman- Ward 1 Michael Zuren, Councilman-Ward 2 John Meyers, Councilman-Ward 3 Jason Kasunick, Councilman-Ward 4 David Spotton, Councilman-at-Large Ken Hoefle, Councilwoman-at-Large Laura DePledge and Mayor Dennis Morley adjourn their attendance at the Ohio Sunshine Law mandated H.B. 9 training at Lakeland Community College on Wednesday, May 18, 2016. Mr. Hoefle second.
Motion carried Mr. Evers and Mrs. Simons are designated as the H.B. 9 representatives.
RECOGNITION OF THE PUBLIC
Ms. DePledge recognized the public input at this time; she reminded the speakers that there is a 3-minute limit for their comments; all comments are to be directed to the Chair and not include any personalities or individuals.
There was no one else who wished to speak.
LEGISLATION PROPOSED – First number will be 2016-020
04-26-(01) ORDINANCE NO.:_____________
An Ordinance authorizing the issuance of a Conditional Use Permit for a Carwash and Car Detailing to Brian Holland, d/b/a Brian’s Automotive Detailing, 1351, East 354th Street, Unit 3 Eastlake, Ohio, and declaring an emergency.
MOTION: Mr. Hoefle moved to suspend the rules requiring separate readings and reading in full. Mr. Spotton second.
ROLL CALL: Yeas unanimous.
MOTION: Mr. Hoefle moved to adopt. Mr. Spotton second.
ROLL CALL: Yeas unanimous.
Motion carried. Legislation is adopted as Resolution No. 2016-020.
04-26-(02) RESOLUTION NO.:_______________
A Resolution authorizing and directing the Mayor and Director of Finance to Purchase Bulletproof Vests, for Use by the City of Eastlake Police Department for the total cost of Seventeen Thousand Five Hundred and Seventy-Two Dollars and Fifty Cents ($17,572.50), and declaring an emergency.
MOTION: Mr. Hoefle moved to suspend the rules requiring separate readings and reading in full. Mr. Spotton second.
ROLL CALL: Yeas unanimous.
MOTION: Mr. Hoefle moved to adopt. Mr. Spotton second.
ROLL CALL: Yeas unanimous.
Motion carried. Legislation is adopted as Resolution No. 2016-021.
LEGISLATION PENDING
There was no Legislation Pending
UNFINISHED BUSINESS
There was no Unfinished Business.
NEW BUSINESS
There was no New Business.
ADMINISTRATIVE REPORTS:
MAYOR/SAFETY DIRECTOR – Dennis Morley
Mayor Morley: Thank you Madam President. Good evening residents. I would like to talk about Mr. Slocum also. I have known him for many years. We grew up in Willowick together. I grew up on 320th and he grew up on 330th. Got to know his family over the years living in Willowick and as I decided to comeback and become a Councilman…having Mr. Slocum as my Finance Director for the first couple of years as Mayor. After talking with his family this week and also talking with his wife especially on Friday night, he loved this city and he loved working with all of us. Mr. Slocum was retired for 42 days. He was looking forward to the next chapter in his life. By some accident his life ended just like that. If anything that I leave for everyone with tonight don’t sweat the little things, make sure that you are close with your family and friends, and live life to the fullest. The Port Authority will be changing their meetings to the third Thursday of every month beginning in May. Their first will be Thursday, May 19 at 7:00 p.m. We still need an Architectural Review Board Member and we have had a difficult time finding someone with some architectural review experience. We are still getting calls about the light at Wal-Mart and maybe the CBO will talk about it in his report. They are on the final stages of handing in their plans so that the Planning Commission for the light that is at East 340th Street. We are meeting on Thursday with the Planning Commission with the builder who wants to come in and complete the seven units that are next door here at the condos. We are continuing to work on the pot holes and we are behind on cutting the grass. We are going to try and get caught up with that and the Service Director will talk about that in his report. The City Engineer is absent today and he wanted me to read a few things about what he has been working on. The Willowick Slab Replacement project is almost complete, quantities are being finalized and the project will be closed out. The televising of the Central Eastlake Storm Sewers is complete and it will be tapes will be reviewed shortly. They are hoping to start the survey and a hydraulic analysis of the system. The design of the Galalina Storm Water Pump Station and the Phase One Storm sewer is proceeding. The designs for the 2016 OPWC roadway projects are nearly complete and we will be bidding shortly. We will begin shortly for Ridgewood and for East 344th Street. He is working with the Finance Director Schindel on the Storm Water Fund for 2016 and local match monies for OPWC projects we have yet to determine when we want to pursue for construction next year. That concludes my report and I am open for questions.
There were no further questions of Mayor Morley
Ms. DePledge: It is a difficult meeting and I neglected to give Mr. Zuren the opportunity to make a report regarding his attendance at the ECDC Meeting.
Mr. Zuren: We had an ECDC Meeting today at 5:30. We invited the unit owners to the meeting to see if we could promote the city during the RNC. We had a small turn out. Everyone seemed very enthusiastic about the idea of keeping people in our city to promote businesses. I thought that it was a successful meeting. We have a lot of good ideas. I just want let everybody know that we in the right direction with the marinas and yacht clubs. Thank you
FIRE CHIEF – Ted Whittington
Chief Whittington: Thank you Madam President. On behalf of the Fire Department our thoughts and prayers go out to Mr. Slocum’s family. It is a tragic time for them and we are going to continue to do what we can to support them. The only thing that I would like to report is that we did complete the three days of training at the stadium. The Mayor and Kristy from the News-Herald were with us for a couple of days. We did meet all of the objectives and we could see some of the objectives that we were looking to do. We found some gaps and as far as the training goes we are going to continue to work on them. All in all we were very successful. We simulated a type of a disaster down there. What we did is we challenged our people to go into the section and triage the different levels of injuries. The first day we did about 60 patients and the next day we did 70 and the third day we did about 110. We had students from Auburn Career Center, Lakeland Community College and the T.E.C.C. Program from the high school. We had about 35 patients that went along with the stuff that we were doing. What we planned for we were about to meet that. I couldn’t have done that kind of stuff without the Mayor’s support. It takes a lot of time and energy for all of us to get it done and your support was important too. Other than that I am open for questions.
There were no further questions of Chief Whittington
POLICE CHIEF – Larry Reik
Chief Reik: We all have strong feeling towards Mr. Slocum. In our staff meetings we don’t always have much good news to talk about. We usually try to keep them pretty entertaining and Mr. Slocum was a part of that, especially for the last three years. He will be missed and like Chief Whittington has said we will try to continue to support the family. I hope that people realize the amount of time that Chief Whittington put into the scenario that was up at the stadium. Hopefully we will never have to do stuff like that with the RNC that is coming up. Everyone hears different things and concerns with contested conventions. How much will that impact us 20 or 30 miles outside of Cleveland? For him to put that type of training in and setting it all up I think is…especially with all of his resources. The pressure is on his time. I think that it is commendable. I thank you guys for passing the legislation for the vests. It is an important thing that we keep them up to date. We are applying for everything that we can get to come back from the government. A couple of days ago we did get a resignation from an officer to go to another department. With the Mayor permission the last hiring it is between two gentlemen and it is pretty close as to who is going to be chosen. We chose Mr. Stanley who is now in training and on his own. The other gentleman is still interested so we offered him the job. Hopefully within the next day or so we will know his start date. He is actually a part-time officer and he was hired about five months ago. He does have some familiarity with the department, but he has never worked anywhere else. His training will probably be about 12 to 14 weeks. It is nice to have the next guy going because in the next five years I could lose 12 guys. With how the drop program worked and the absence of hiring for a while we will the turn over that the Fire Department went through the next six or seven years. We will have that for the next six or seven years. We are going to try and continue to stay out in front of it and have capable people hired and we will do our best. With that I am open for questions.
There were no further questions of Chief Reik.
CHIEF BUILDING OFFICIAL – David Menn
Mr. Menn: The same thing for Mr. Slocum the Building Department will support his family too. I was lucky to be able to work with him for a year and a half. We will miss him. As far as with Wal-Mart we are looking for engineers. Hopefully they will be coming in the next few weeks and we will take a look at that. CT Consultants will also be involved with it. There will not be a BZA Meeting this week. We do have a Planning Commission Meeting on Thursday at 7:00 p.m. We have listed our Contractor Administration, Contractors who are registered with the city they are now up on the city website under the Building Department. We will try and update it every so many months. This way if we do get any calls for that list it is now up on the website. It is listed by what they do or their trade. I also know that everyone is looking out their windows at the pretty flowers that are out there, we are starting to site grass. It does have to be six inches high, but we have already started siting and it will continue for the next few months. That is it.
There were no questions of Mr. Menn.
SERVICE DIRECTOR – Nick Rubertino
Mr. Rubertino: Good evening everybody. Also my condolences go out to Mr. Slocum’s family. We are currently behind on our grass cutting and I hope that we don’t get any siltations. We are that far behind. We are currently working on the catch basin repairs. There are many hog outs and we are starting to asphalt the roads as well. We have meeting with the Mayor, Finance Director Schindel and I to meet with Storm Water Management to determine where we are financially to go forward with the catch basin repairs. There are many, many catch basins in the city that we are currently working right now. In the next week or so you will see the building on the corner of Erie Road and Lakeshore Boulevard will take a drastic turn. The students from North High School’s art class have painted some drawing that replicate the totem pole and they will be on boards that we will be installing on areas that are down there. It is absolutely beautiful with what they have done. That should be down there in the next week or so. That building should take a drastic change to make that corner look very nice. They did a fantastic job. When you see that outfit you will be amazed that it is high school kids that are doing it. With that I am open for questions.
There were no further questions of Mr. Rubertino.
CITY ENGINEER – Tom Gwydir
Mr. Gwydir was absent and excused.
There were no questions of Mr. Gwydir.
FINANCE DIRECTOR – Carol-Ann Schindel
Ms. Schindel: Our thoughts and prayers go out to Mr. Slocum’s family. He will be missed. I have nothing more to add.
There were no questions of Ms. Schindel.
LAW DIRECTOR – Randy Klammer
Mr. Klammer: Thank you Madam President members of Council and Mayor. Like everyone has said Mr. Slocum was the best as the Finance Director. I had the opportunity to work with him between the transitions in Council and with Mayors. He really was in a real sense he controlled the checkbook. He was a lot more that some of you know with all of the work with his private practice, prosecutions, Parma Police, and massive investigations. I also saw the times that he would show off his pictures of him parachuting on his birthday. The one that stands out is a picture with him, his son and his grandson lying out by the swimming pool. He was so proud. He was just a good guy and it is such a tragedy. Our thoughts go out to his family. With that being said if there is anything as far as a law of business or anything that they should need I am open for questions.
There were no questions of Mr. Klammer.
ADJOURNMENT
The meeting was adjourned at approximately 7:31 p.m.
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LAURA A. DEPLEDGE, COUNCIL PRESIDENT
APPROVED: ______________________
ATTEST: ______________________________________
TRACY M. SIMONS, CLERK OF COUNCIL