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Athens City Council - April 5, 2021
A
Good
evening
and
welcome
to
athens
city
council,
it's
monday
april
5th,
701
pm
and
tonight
we
have
a
slightly
different
format,
we're
going
to
be
having
our
city
and
safety
services
committee.
First,
as
we
have
a
rule
of
council
that
when
legislation
comes
before
council,
it
has
it
comes
up
through
the
committee
for
discussion
first,
so
we'll
be
starting
with
that
city
and
safety
services.
That's
chaired
by
council
member
grace
and
there
she's
joined
by
council
members
fall
and
claude
felder.
B
B
Training
for
law
enforcement
officials
and
they
are
are
going
to
be
incorporating
training
in
many
different
scenarios,
but
one
of
them
is
specifically
that
was
mentioned
to
me
by
our
interim
ssd
and
chief
heil.
Is
that
they're
going
to
be
doing
some
racial
bias
training
through
some
of
these
virtual
reality?
Trainings-
and
I
know
that
he
is-
is
very
supportive
of
this
project,
and
so
I
I
just
wanted
to
take
the
opportunity
to
tell
council
a
little
bit
about
it,
and
what
they
need
from
us
is
is
just
that.
B
B
All
day
or
part
of
the
day,
it
I
believe,
is
all
day:
yes,
6
a.m,
to
7
p.m,
but
again
allowing
for
bus
traffic
they're
also
going
to
be
filming
a
simulated
protest
in
front
of
the
courthouse,
but
that
is
not
going
to
require
a
street
closure,
but
wait.
It
looks
like
just
the
city
is
aware
of
it,
and
so
I
I
appreciate
the
students
working
with
our
our
city
to
inform
us
of
that
council
member
claude
felter.
D
B
A
Councilmember
grace
we'll
now
move
on
to
our
regular
session
of
business
and
the
first
item
being
to
establish
a
quorum
and
all
members
of
council
are
present.
Next
item
of
business
is
disposition
of
the
minutes
for
the
regular
session
held
on
march
15
2021.,
and
we
have
a
motion
for
the
approval
of
those
council
member.
C
A
E
Let
me
and
mute
myself.
Thank
you,
president
knisley.
Just
a
couple
letters
to
share
with
council
tonight
the
first
one
came
to
the
athens
police
department
and
it
was
a
letter
from
an
indie
individual
and
I'm
just
going
to
paraphrase
off
this
rather
than
to
read
the
entire
letter,
but
they
wanted
the
city
to
know
how
professional
the
athens
police
department
was
in
responding
to
a
a
grandchild
in
crisis
and
that
there
were
three
separate
calls
for
surface
service
to
their
household,
of
which
this
individual
couldn't
say.
E
E
The
other
letter
that
we
received
was
a
letter
again
giving
recognition
to
the
athens
city,
development
and
code
enforcement
office
in
working
with
an
individual
who
is
a
landlord,
but
a
landlord
who
does
not
live
in
the
city
of
athens
having
to
manage
and
manage
that
property
and
again
being
very
grateful
for
the
assistance
they
receive
from
the
code
office,
as
well
as
from
our
tax
administrator
on
how
to
manage
things.
So
some
good
letters
to
share
with
council
for
a
change.
That's
all!
I
have.
A
Great
thank
you
mayor,
patterson,
we'll
move
on
now
to
ordinances
for
a
third
reading.
Ordinance
3321
is
an
ordinance
appropriating
additional
funding
for
construction
engineering
services
and
amending
ordnance
7320
to
increase
the
authorized
expenditure
for
the
crimes
reservoir
project
324.
This
is
introduced
by
council
member
grace.
B
Thank
you
and
this
ordinance
is
pretty
much
exactly
what
the
title
says.
We
have
discussed
this
a
few
different
times
and
it
is
to
increase
the
appropriation
so
that
this
project
for
the
kinds
reservoir
can
be
completed
and
it
is
increasing
the
total
approved
expenditure
from
one
million
one
hundred
sixty
eight
thousand
four
hundred
fifty
dollars
to
one
million
two
hundred
thirty
eight
thousand
four
hundred
fifty
dollars
and
that
that
is.
A
A
A
G
A
Okay,
see
none
all
those
in
favor
signify
by
saying
all
right
opposed,
nay,
the
motion
carries
and
the
ordinance
is
approved.
Ordinance
35-21
is
the
ordinance
authorizing
compensation
of
greater
than
25
percent
through
the
assigned
pay
grade
for
the
newly
hired
assistant
director
of
epw.
That's
our
public
works
department,
and
that
said,
compensation
be
paid
retroactively
to
the
employees
hire
date,
and
this
is
introduced
by
council
member
crowl.
A
A
H
President
nicely
thank
you
and,
and
yes,
0
37
21.
This
is
our
our
annual
street
paving
ordinance.
The
request
is
an
expenditure
of
300
000,
which
is
the
same
as
what
what
was
was
devoted
to
these
pride
this
project
last
year,
I
did
have
a
conversation
with
jessica,
dime
director
of
epw
this
this
afternoon,
and
she
did
send
me
a
tentative
list
of
of
streets
and
the
but
the
streets,
it's
it's
more
looking
at
the
grading
of
the
streets.
H
So
basically
what
the
surface
of
the,
what
the
surface
condition
is
of
the
street.
We
can
kind
of
have
a
look
and
see
what
what
we
have
in
the
way
of
a
what
our
city
streets
are
looking
like.
So
I
will
I
will
get
that
forwarded
out
to
the
rest
of
council
so
that
they
can
start
looking
that
over
by
and
have
it
before.
Second
read,.
H
A
A
H
It
could
solve
some
problems
in
that
you
have
if
they
have,
if
they
can
prove
that
they
only
have
one
off
street
space
or
less,
they
can
apply
for
one
permit.
So
you
cannot
go
in
and
get
multiple
permits
for
for
a
house,
but
you
can
you
can't
alleviate
the
problem
if
you,
if
you
don't
have
more
than
two
off
street
parkings,
you
know
on
that
on
that
property.
I
Thank
you.
I
I
want
to
reemphasize
that
when
we
do
these
models,
because
this
came
out
of
like
a
model,
ordinance
and
or
a
pilot
project
that
we
need
to
put
in
review
language
and
have
it
a
date
so
that
it
pops
up
in
debbie's
wonderful,
word
magic
that
she
does
so
that
we
don't
miss,
reviewing
it
and
expanding
it
if
it
works.
H
G
Thank
you.
I
just
wanted
to
give
a
shout
out
to
joan
kazansky
who
got
this
started
as
a
pilot
she
put
in
a
lot
of
work
behind
the
scenes
to
formulate
what
would
eventually
become
our
pilot.
This
was
a
community
driven
project
started
as
a
pilot.
It
was
adopted
as
a
regular
ordinances
and
is
now
being
expanded
city-wide.
D
B
H
D
D
H
President
nicely,
thank
you
yes,
0
40
21..
This
is
once
again
another
annual
ordinance.
It's
a
request
to
participate
in
the
group
purchasing
program,
that's
provided
by
odot,
and
this
is
for
road
salt.
The
request
this
year
is
the
epw
believes
we
need
12
000
tons
to
replenish
our
stores.
Just
as
a
reminder,
we
use
2000
this
last
last
winter
season.
B
E
B
B
G
B
My
my
understanding
is
that
they
are
going
to
try
really
hard
to
to
make
that
sunday
work,
because
they
want
to
be
able
to
film
when
there
would
be
minimal
bus
traffic
and
and
also
just
to
to
make
it
as
uncomplicated
as
possible.
But
if,
if
the
weather
is
just
completely
in
inclement
uncooperative
for
that
day,
then
then
they
would
need
to
close
it,
but
it
would
still
it
would
still
remain
open
to
bus
traffic
on
the
monday,
the
rain
date.
C
C
B
A
A
I
have
no
other
questions
or
comments,
then
we'll
move
on
to
ordinance
4221
an
ordinance
amending
ordinance,
10320
authorizing
the
tax
increment
financing
agreement
as
part
of
the
creation
of
the
university
states
estates
incentive
district
within
the
city
of
athens,
and
this
is
introduced
by
council
member
fall.
Thank.
I
Some
people
argue
with
the
fact
that
affordable
housing
is
is
a
certain
degree.
It's
not
low
income
housing
and
it's
not
rich
people,
housing.
A
lot
of
planters
call
it
the
mushy
metal,
marshmallow
metal,
and
it
differs
for
every
in
individual
group
city
for
our
area.
It
was
established
to
go
from
150
000
to
240
000.
that
was
established
by
a
working
group
that
was
between
ou
and
the
city.
That
did
a
huge
amount
of
work
to
produce
a
very
intensively
de
studied
housing
plan
and
recommendations.
I
I
It's
housing
that
may
be
transitional,
it's
multi-family
housing
or
it's
housing
that
allows
for
people
who
normally
don't
have
housing
to
be
able
to
have
housing.
This
was
put
in
the
plan
that
we
adopted
in
2019,
so
when
people
complain
that
that
we
are
doing
a
project
or
we
are
doing
a
pro
program,
that
is,
financing
or
subsidizing
houses
that
are
not
in
that
realm
of
what
has
been
recommended
by
both
of
those
different
plans.
I
This
particular
development
is
exciting
in
a
lot
of
ways,
because,
first
of
all,
it's
townhouses,
which
we
have
very
few
in
in
the
city.
It
also
has
univ
universally
designed
units
and
they're
all
going
to
be
owner
occupied,
which
is
also
different
for
a
large
scale.
Development
like
this.
That's
you
know
in
that
mushy
middle
of
numbers
and
also
universally
designed.
I
I
It
was
adopted
in
2019
as
that
amount
of
money.
I
think
that
that
has
to
be
looked
at
again,
because
housing
and
prices
have
gone
up
with
the
covid,
and
so
I
think
that
if
we
looked
at
it
across
the
nation
that
mushy
metal
has
probably
been
expanded
to
go
lower
and
to
higher
for
affordable
housing,
so
that's
kind
of
the
background
of
it.
Sarah
has
more
of
the
the
final
details
of
it.
So
thank
you.
B
B
A
A
J
I'm
sylvain
spielness
and
I
live
at
87
university
of
states
boulevard,
so
this
is
in
my
neighborhood.
This
plan
is,
is
for
my
neighborhood,
so
I
just
wanted
to
clarify
I'm
I'm
in
support
of
the
kinds
of
housing
that
you're
talking
about.
I
understand
what
that
means.
I'm
not
sure
that
everybody
understands
what
universal
design
is.
E
Mute
myself-
yes,
it
is
that
is
likely.
This
is
one
of
the
things
that
the
developer
is
waiting
on,
especially
in
light
of
construction
material,
cost
escalation
that
has
taken
place
everywhere.
So
I
think
the
developer
was
just
waiting
on
that
with
the
green
light
from
council
to
amend
the
base
price
point
for
these
units.
J
So,
my
understanding
is
that
if
you
approve
the
240
000
base
price,
then
they
the
developer,
there's
no
other
impediments
at
this
point
or
barriers,
and
they
can
just
go
ahead
and
plan
it
from
there
is.
That
is
that
I'm
sorry
I'm
kind
of
pushing
this.
But
I
just
want
to
make
sure
because
people
are
going
to
ask
me
that.
E
D
Member
claude
belter,
I
think
solvay
made
a
good
point
and
I
would
just
like
to
briefly
say
that
so
that
nobody
else
has
to
go.
Look
it
up
that
part
of
why
universal
design
is
so
popular.
Is
that
it's
really
good
for
people
excuse
me
who
are
getting
older
and
it
allows
them
to
age
in
place.
So
that's
why
the
people
who
are
hoping
to
have
people
retire
here
are
so
pleased
about
that,
and
I
think
that
it
is
also
easier
for
people
with
some
disabilities
as
well.
D
A
F
Thank
you,
president
eisley,
as
discussed
in
committee
and
in
what
is
apparent
title
there.
This
is
a
correction
to
an
oversight
when
an
employment
arts
parks
and
recreation
department
was
promoted,
it
was
intended
to
promote
her
at
the
ten
percent
higher
than
the
rate
from
which
she
was
promoted,
and
the
previous
ordinance
did
not
do
that
correctly,
and
so
we
are
fixing
it
with
this
ordinance.
F
Athens
city
council
does
hereby
authorize
compensation
for
the
recently
promoted
arts
parks
and
recreation
operations
manager
at
a
rate,
10
percent
higher
than
the
rate
from
which
the
employee
was
promoted
and
the
new
rate
be
made
retroactive
to
january
1st
2021.,
and
that
retroactive
is
there,
because
that
was
the
intended
full
increase
for
this
employee
as
they
took
on
supervisor
responsibilities.
As
part
of
this
new
position.
G
F
F
When
ms
edine
took
on
the
interim
director
position,
the
idea
was
not
to
penalize
her
in
her
assistant
engineer
position
when
pay
raises
were
achieved
in
early
january.
Yet
that
is
the
way
that
it
ended
up.
So
this
ordinance
is
to
correct
that
and
and
to
make
sure
that
the
interim
city
engineer
is
getting
paid
what
she
deserves.
Thank
you,
president.
Nicely.
I
Yeah,
I
just
want
to
re-emphasize
that
miss
adain
just
walked
into
the
breach
she
walked
in.
She
did
all
the
things
that
she
needed
to
do
on
a
moment's
notice.
She
is
a
crown
jewel
of
the
city
and
she
fully
just
deserves
everything
that
we
can
give
to
her.
She
gets
stuff
done.
She
has
great
customer
service
from
all
the
people
that
have
talked
to
me,
and
I
just
I
think
that
she
just
deserves
all
the
support
we
can
give
her.
Thank
you.
G
A
Thanks
for
the
comment,
okay,
I
have
no
other
comments
or
questions
we'll
move
on
to
ordinance
45-21.
This
is
an
ordinance
authorizing
the
purchase
and
use
of
an
employee,
dishonesty
and
faithful
performance
of
duty
insurance
policy
in
lieu
of
bond
through
the
public
entities
pool,
what's
known
as
the
pep
of
ohio
and
is
introduced
by
councilmember
crowl.
F
Thank
you,
president
eisley.
This
is
connected
to
our
decisions.
Our
ordinances
in
march,
about
our
the
city's
property
and
liability
self-insurance
pool,
is
the,
as
president
nicely
so
aptly
introduced
to
the
faithful
performance
of
duty,
insurance
policy
and
employee
dishonesty,
insurance
policy
and
I'll
read
the
pertinent
section,
the
city
council
of
athens,
ohio.
F
It
hereby
authorizes
the
purchase
and
use
of
an
employee,
dishonesty
and
faithful
performance
of
duty
insurance
policy
through
the
public
entities
pool
pep
of
ohio,
a
joint
self-insurance
pool
for
officers,
employees
and
appointees,
who
would
otherwise
be
required
to
give
an
individual
surety
bond
to
qualify
for
office
or
employment
before
entering
upon
the
discharge
of
duties
imposed
by
the
office
or
employment
self-explanation.
Thank
you,
president.
Eisley.
E
A
And
if
no
questions
commence,
then
we
will
move
on
to
resolution
one
reading
resolution
and
before
council
member
eisner
reads
this
resolution.
I'd
just
like
to
take
a
moment
to
express
my
gratitude
to
council
member
katsis
and
the
title
of
the
resolution,
which
would
make
my
comments.
More
sense,
then,
is
the
result.
Resolution
5
21.
A
C
Thank
you,
madam
president,
and
as
you've
already
read
the
the
title
of
the
resolution.
I'll
just
jump
right
into
it,
whereas
peter
costas
has
served
the
athens
community
as
an
at-large
member
of
council
from
january
first
2016
through
april
10,
2021
and
whereas
peter
costas
during
his
tenure
on
city
council,
showed
a
sincere
dedication
to
the
public
service
by
holding
the
positions
of
vice
chair
of
the
city
and
safety
services
committee.
C
A
I
I
just
also
want
to
say
my
other
hat
as
the
president
of
athens.
Conservancy
you've
been
an
amazing
partner
in
everything
that
you've
done
and
all
the
bicycles
that
you've
donated
and
everything
that
that
it
would
not
be
the
same
all
our
areas
without
your
input
and
your
support.
So
I
just
wanted
to
say
that
too.
Thank
you.
G
Mr
president,
nicely
member
cops
is
at
the
core
of
every
conversation
that
I've
ever
had
with.
You
was
serving
the
public
public
service.
What
can
what
best
can
we
do
for
the
residents
of
athens?
That's
always
been
a
common
theme,
and
I
appreciate
that
focus
and
that
dedication
that
you've
always
brought
to
everything
that
you
do
and
you'll
be
missed
on
council
for
sure.
E
I'll
be
really
short:
councilmember
katzis,
you've
been
a
great
city
council
member
period.
You
know
it's
been
a
pleasure
working
with
you
on
all
the
initiatives
that
you've
wanted
to
bring
forward,
and
I
think
that
the
city
is
in
much
better
shape
due
to
your
efforts
here
in
the
city
of
athens.
So
thank
you
peter.
H
President
nicely,
thank
you,
did
I
do
all
that
stuff,
so
I
wanted
you
know,
and-
and
I
just
want
to
remind
everybody-
that
this
does
not
you
haven't
heard
the
last
of
me.
You
know
in
some
form
or
fashion.
I
will
still
be
out
there
working
in
the
community
doing
things
that
that
I
feel
are
necessary
and
that's
what
that's,
what
great
communities
are?
H
They're
they're,
you
know
those
people
are
are
always
there
and
they're
always
present,
and
I
hope
it's
not
always
me,
and
I
always
hope
that
that
we
continue
to
see
additional
people.
You
know
participating
in
in
the
pool
and
and
just
making
making
things
better
making
things
the
way
they
they
want.
One
want
to
see
it
so
so.
Thank
you.
Everyone,
I've
I've
enjoyed
my
time
here
and,
and
I
and
I
look
forward
to
engaging
with
you
the
next
time
we
see
you,
hopefully
in
person.
A
Yes,
okay,
thank
you
all
right
with
that
motion
and
second
for
approval
all
those
in
favor
signify
by
saying
I
okay
and
then
none
opposed
so
unanimously
passed
and
approved,
and
and
once
again,
our
great
appreciation
to
you
peter.
Thank
you
all
right,
we'll
move
on
to
announcements
and
other
business
just
to
make
note
that
we
have
a
council
committee
meeting
next
week
that
would
be
march
12th
at
7
pm.
A
A
So
we
would
have
a
motion
to
adjourn
and
following
this
adjournment,
our
council
members
will
be
meeting
with
professor
suttas's
students
so
we'll
be
joining
a
a
separate
zoom
meet
immediately
after
this.
So
I
see
that
council
member
fall
signaled
that
she's
willing
to
make
motion
to
adjourn-
and
we
have
a
second
from
because
number
consists-
that's
fitting
all
those
in
favor
signify
by
saying
aye
aye.