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Athens City Council - April 19, 2021
A
A
A
The
stimson
avenue
project
just
to
alert
people
that
this
week
they'll
be
installing
water
mains
at
various
intersections
along
the
way,
and
also
doing
some
patching
of
open
traffic
lanes
and
sidewalks,
and
I
did
see
some
of
the
patching
last
week
and
we
very
much
appreciate
the
work
that's
being
done
and
the
patience
of
all
the
citizens
traveling
along
that
street
and
hopefully
also
checking
in
with
those
businesses
that
are
still
open
along
stimson
avenue.
So,
thanks
for
everyone's
patience
on
that
are
there
communications
from
other
council
members?
A
Ordinance
amending
athens
city
code,
title
7,
chapter
7.05,
parking
regulations,
section
7.05.03.1,
residential
parking
permit
introduced
by
council
member
cotsas
ordinance.
39
21
is
an
ordinance
of
mending
athens
city
code,
title
11,
business
regulations,
chapter
11.04,
vending
pest
peddling
and
soliciting
introduced
by
council
member
cotsys
and
if
no
comments
or
questions
we'll
now
move
on
to
ordinance
40
21-
and
this
is
the
one
that
will
need
to
be
suspended.
A
C
C
D
C
A
If
I
would
ask
you
to
please
to
just
raise
your
hand
and
we
can
acknowledge
you-
have
a
question
or
comment:
okay,
see
none
all
those
in
favor
signify
by
saying
I
I
I
oppose
nay,
the
motion
carries
and
the
ordinance
is
approved,
ordinance,
41
21,
as
the
norton
is
closing
west
mulberry
street
between
richland
and
court
street
and
the
sidewalk
and
the
courthouse
from
7
a.m
to
6
p.m.
On
sunday
may
16
2021,
with
a
rain
dated,
may
17
2021
for
the
appalachian
law
enforcement
initiative
project
and
declaring
an
emergency.
E
Yes,
president
nicely
thank
you.
I
would
like
to
make
a
motion
to
amend
this
ordinance.
We
had
a
little
bit
of
conclusion
over
whether
we
needed
the
sidewalk
also
closed
for
a
second
event
and
our
clerk
of
council
debbie
walker
has-
and
I
have
confirmed
with
ssd
pyle-
that
we
do
need
a
sidewalk
closure.
So
the
motion
to
amend
would
change
this
from
being
just
closing
mulberry
street
on
the
sunday,
the
16th,
with
a
rain
date
of
the
17th,
to
also
include
closing
the
sidewalk
in
front
of
the
county.
E
A
Okay
and
you're
making
a
motion
to
amend,
and
so
do
we
have
a
second
from
a
council
member
from
council
member
fall.
Thank
you,
and
is
there
any
discussion
or
questions
that
council
members
might
have
or
comments
from
administration
any
questions
from
our
attendees?
If
you
do
have
a
question,
we
ask
that
you
raise
your
hand.
A
Okay,
ordinance
has
been
amended
and
read
for
the
first
time.
Thank
you.
Thank
you,
president.
Nelson
okay,
ordinance
4221
is
an
ordinance
amending
ordinance,
10320
authorizing
the
tax
increment
financing
agreement
as
part
of
the
creation
of
the
university
of
state's
incentive
district
within
the
city
of
athens,
introduced
by
council
member
fall,
and
I
see
councilmember
paul
has
her
hand
raised
yes,
ma'am
right.
F
E
H
Thank
you,
president
nicely
and
remember
grace
had
a
couple
different
questions.
One
was
related
to
that
as
well.
The
way
the
amendment
currently
reads,
it
says:
incorporate
principles
of
universal
designs
in
the
three-bedroom
units,
which
leads
one
to
believe
that
they
that
would
not
be
in
the
two-bedroom
units.
So
then
my
question
was
going
to
be
how
many
three-bedroom
units
are
there.
That
would
have
universal
design.
E
E
No,
it
would
be
the
same
because
all
of
them
have
a
first
floor
master
so
that
whether
they're
two
bedroom
or
three
bedroom,
they
are
multi-level
town
homes,
but
one
there's
a
full
bedroom
on
first
floor
and
a
fully
accessible
restroom
and
the
the
doorways,
the
hallways.
Everything
is
designed
to
meet
the
universal
design
standards.
I
I
will
review
that
wording
with
our
our
planner
just
to
be
sure
that
it's
as
accurate
as
it
can
be.
F
H
I'll
just
complete
my
thought,
if
you
don't
mind
the
to
continue
that
conversation
about
the
price
point.
When
we
last
spoke
about
this,
the
increase
was
justified
because
of
pandemic,
and
not
necessarily
because
there
were
old
price
points.
And
so
then
my
question
is:
if
do
we
have
any
sense
of
whether
or
not
prices
are
going
to
go
down?
And
if
that's
the
case,
is
there
room
to
talk
about
postponing
that
way?
H
So
after
one
year
it
will
be
very
close
to
hitting
the
dollar
amounts
that
the
commissioners
are
in
existence
to
target
in
housing.
I'm
maybe
not
expressing
that
very
well,
but
if
I
remember
correctly,
the
housing
commission,
one
of
its
goals,
is
to
look
at
housing
opportunities
and
at
the
top
price
point
was
250..
H
E
In
all
of
the
meetings
that
I
have
been
in
with
developers
and
talking
to
different
people
relative
to
the
the
current
price
of
building
materials
and
my
own
research
into
that,
is
that
what
there's
there's
a
huge
amount
of
that's
just
unknown
people
don't
know.
I.
I
think
it
would
be
incredibly
difficult
to
make
a
prediction
on
what
those
costs
are
going
to
do
anytime
in
in
the
near
future.
E
Well,
it's
like
just
in
the
course
of
of
time
since
the
beginning
of
this
project,
discussion
and
working
on
it,
there
have
been
just
normal
increases
in
costs
that
has
happened,
but
also
there
are
shortages
in
some
of
the
supplies,
some
of
and
some
of
that
is
related
to
pandemic,
and
some
of
it
is
related
to
climate
change,
environmental
factors
as
far
as
shortages
of
lumber.
When
you
have
massive
wildfires,
that
really
impacts
the
availability
of
lumber,
and
I
don't,
unfortunately
I
don't
think
that's
going
to
change
anytime
soon.
F
F
F
Developments
is
because
prices
have
gone
up,
and
this
the
mushy,
the
mushy
middle,
that
affordable
housing
is
always
defined
at.
I
think
that
it
would
make
more
sense
for
athens
to
go
forward
with
it,
because
it
does
have
a
number
of
goals
that
are
ticked.
You
know
that
are
checked
with
our
affordable
housing
plan.
F
A
If
no
comments
or
questions
we'll
now
move
on
to
ordinance
45-21,
which
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
the
pep
of
ohio
introduced
by
council
member
crowl
and
if
no
comments
or
questions
on
that
one
we'll
now
move
on
to
ordinances
for
first
reading
ordinance.
46
21
is
an
ordinance
mending
athens
city,
coach,
title
37,
landscaping,
regulations
introduced
by
council
member
fall.
F
Thank
you.
This
has
now
finally
come.
I'm
very
happy.
I've
gone
through
multiple
iterations
with
many
people
in
the
city
with
this
process.
This
will
update
our
landscape
ordinance
that
people
have
to
do
when
they
go
in
and
do
commercial
landscaping
such
as
maynards
or
even
littler.
Things
such
as
on
simpson.
F
It
will
increa,
it
will
include
the
the
requirement
to
plant
natives
to
not
plant,
invasives
or
or
noxious
weeds
when
you're
doing
that
type
of
landscaping.
Why
do
we
want
to
do
that
because
natives
and
are
much
more
sustainable
in
the
long
run
and
re
reduce
the
amount
of
resource
use
than
other
plants?
Being
everything
hold
the
same?
F
A
C
F
A
B
I
wasn't
stretching,
I
was
raising
my
hand.
Yes,
I
do
have
a
question
council
member
fall
under.
I
believe
it's
the
tree
bank
section
37
37.02.02
and
it's
item
b,
athens
tree
bank
monies
can
be
used
for
and
number
one
is
planting
native
species
in
public
parks
and
rites
of
way,
which
I
know
has
been
identified
that
if
I'm
not
mistaken,
75
percent
of
trees
in
the
city
parks
and
right
away
will
be
native
species.
B
F
I
think
also
that
it's
not
just
the
tree
being
just
it's
not
like
a
bank,
that's
sitting
in
a
piece
of
soil,
a
lot
of
people
kind
of
think
of
that
some
cities
do
a
tree
bank
of
it
has
to
be
in
a
certain
park.
But
this
one
gives
a
lot
of
leeway
for
that.
The
city
can
identify
places
and
projects
that
can
go
forward
with
with
the
planting
so,
but
if
that
doesn't
mean
we
can,
we
can
clean
that
up.
I.
F
B
A
A
F
F
This
is
another
domino
was
part
of
the
things
that
we
have
changed.
This
pretty
much
defines
what
is
noxious
invasive
or
a
lawn
species
so
that
they
will
be
kept
under
control
and
de-seeded,
and
also
to
allow
people
to
plant
annuals
perennials
that
are
greater
than
nine
inch
eight
inches.
Thank
you.
A
F
A
F
F
A
A
E
Thank
you,
president
nicely.
Yes,
this
is
the
ordinance
that
was
discussed
in
committee
last
week
as
far
as
authorizing
the
disposal
of
some
no
longer
needed
equipment,
and
tonight
we
have
our
fire
chief
rhymer
here,
who
I'm
certain
can
do
a
better
job
of
explaining
the
change
in
equipment
needs
than
I
can.
I
I
After
doing
some
training
with
two
different
styles
of
equipment
in
november,
we
were
not
pleased
with
the
equipment
that
we
purchased
and
another
manufacturer
offered
better
equipment
to
for
an
even
trade.
So
there
was
no
cost.
I
checked
with
bwc
to
see
if
there
was
going
to
be
any
issues
with
trading
equipment,
they
said
there
was
not
as
long
as
we're
still
doing
the
assessment
of
the
equipment
that
we
purchased
to
see
if
it
fit
the
needs,
so
we
were
able
to
trade
the
equipment
for
an
even
trade.
A
I
Yeah,
just
one
last
comment:
that's
my
fault.
That's
my
ignorance.
I
was
not
aware
of
the
policy.
I've
fallen
the
sword.
I
want
to
thank
the
auditor's
office
as
well
as
mrs
walker,
for
keeping
me
accountable
on
that
and
and
make
sure
that
we're
getting
it
exchanged
so
they
when
they
noticed
it,
was
an
issue
they
brought
it
forth
and
I
apologize
for
not
going
through
the
process.
I
A
K
Thank
you,
president
eisley.
We
have
a
number
of
financial
items
in
the
amendment
of
our
2021
appropriation
ordinance
and
I
will
read
through
them.
Each
was
discussed
in
detail
last
week
at
committee,
section
1,
the
2021
appropriation
ordinance
140-20
is
hereby
amended
by
appropriating
from
the
unappropriated
balance
the
following
sums:
one
hundred
thousand
dollars
to
general
fund
other
administrative
101.120
transaction
code
600
for
transfer.
K
The
next
item
in
the
ordinance
is
four
thousand
eight
hundred
dollars
to
cdbg
fund
248
transaction
code
300
for
the
chip
program,
and
this
item
is
for
the
community
housing
impact
and
preservation
program
administered
by
hapcap,
and
the
next
item
on
the
in
the
ordinance
is
fourteen
thousand
one
hundred
dollars
to
the
parking
garage
fund.
733
transaction
code
400
for
payment
on
our
upcoming
parking
meter.
Note
renewal
matter
of
paying
our
bills.
C
My
mind
went
to
the
community
health
improvement
program
that
is
offered
by
live
healthy
appalachia,
and
I
just
wonder
if
it
might
make
sense
to
put
in
just
a
couple
of
words
clarifying
what
that
is,
or
maybe
spelling
out
the
acronym
in
the
in
the
ordinance.
So
there's
no
confusion
because
hundreds
of
people
have
gone
through
that
nutrition
program.
K
Thank
you,
member
claude
felder,
that
that's
a
good
point.
As
I
did
read
into
the
record,
it
is
the
community
housing
impact
and
preservation
program.
Okay,
great
and
president
nisely.
Is
that
an
amendment
that
we
would
like
to
make
on
the
fly
here
or
shall
we
just
in
the
future
spell
out
the
acronym?
K
The
section
3
is
simply
authorizing
the
auditor
to
make
the
intercom
interfund
transfers
discussed
above
from
the
arts
parts
and
recreation
income
tax
fund
273
into
the
community
center
fund
271.
That
amount
was
100
000
and
then
from
the
superfund
750
into
the
sewer
debt
fund,
758
250
thousand
dollars.
Thank
you,
president.
A
E
I
just
wanted
to
say
that
the
affordable
housing
commission
today
had
lynn
crippen
from
hapcap,
come
speaking
to
us
specifically
about
the
chip
program,
and
but
I
I
do
agree
with
member
claude
felter.
In
my
mind,
chip
is
childhood
immunization
program,
and
so
there
are
multiple
acronyms
for
chip.
But
this
this
particular
one
for
housing
is,
is
a
really
fantastic
program
and
it
brings
funds
to
individuals
within
the
city
of
athens
in
the
city
of
nelsonville
and
also
in
the
county
for
home
improvements,
repairs
and
also
some
down
payment
assistance.
B
A
We
don't
need
that
in
the
minutes,
but
but
a
great
comment.
Thank
you.
Okay,
we'll
move
on
now,
council
member
crowl
to
another
ordinance
53-21,
and
this
is
an
ordinance
authorizing
and
certifying
action
by
the
mayor
to
enter
into
the
2019
master
energy
purchase
agreement
with
aep
energy
amending
said
agreement
to
substitute
two
attachment
a-ones
and
declaring
an
emergency
and
introduced
by
council
member
crowl,
and
I
believe,
we're
suspending
on
this
one
tonight.
K
K
0.04758
cents
per
kilowatt
hour,
there
are
two
sets,
there's
two
agreements
attached
here
and
that's
simply
because
two
agreements
were
started
about
a
month
apart.
So
one
of
these
agreements
runs
for
24
months,
and
one
of
these
agreements
runs
for
25
months.
They
have
split
the
properties,
the
municipal
properties
in
athens,
one
of
the
agreements
has
41
service
locations
or
properties
listed
and
the
other
one
has
37.
K
But
the
important
thing
is
both
are
for
that
price
of
0.04758
kilowatt
hours
and
I'll.
Just
quickly.
Read
here
section
one:
the
2019
master
energy
purchase
agreement
entered
into
with
aep
energy
is
hereby
ratified
and
amended
to
substitute
the
two
attachment
ones:
product
pricing
summaries,
one
for
accounts,
beginning
june
8
2021
for
a
term
of
25
months
and
another
beginning
june,
30th
2021
for
a
term
of
24
months,
copies
of
which
are
here
to
attached
and
incorporated
by
reference.
F
A
L
I
can
certainly
see,
if
you'd
like
to
add
that,
but
we
had
avoided
that
in
service
to
the
city
of
athens,
because
those
prices
have
been
increasing
exponentially
over
the
last
year.
So
what
was
done
instead-
and
this
was
discussed
in
committee-
was
the
city
of
athens-
is
going
to
impose
a
carbon
fee
onto
these
onto
this
rate,
and
that
is
in
solidarity
with
the
customers
in
the
city
of
athens
that
are
residential
and
small
commercial.
L
They
are
also
paying
a
two
dollar
per
megawatt
hour
carbon
fee
as
part
of
the
aggregation
program.
So
instead
of
the
renewable
energy
credits,
the
carbon
fee
was
added
in
and
and
then
that
will
be
collected
and
sent
back
to
the
city
kind
of
on
a
monthly
or
quarterly
basis,
and
it
could
be
used
for
sustainability
initiatives
that
the
city
wants
to
undertake.
F
I
I'd
like
to
say
thank
you
for
the
impo
imposition
of
a
carbon
fee.
I
think
that
is
going
forward.
That's
reality
of
what
nationwide
things
are
going
to
be
going
forward
with,
and
I
also
would
like
to
see
future
steps
to
use
our
marketing
and
the
the
sopac
no
pack
marketing
to
be
able
to
get
municipalities,
this
sort
of
renewable
by
demanding
more
access
and
reasonable
prices.
F
A
A
D
Hi,
my
name
is
chad,
kister
and
I
do
call
aep
america's
evil
polluters
as
fast
as
you
can
get
away
from
them.
I
would
appreciate
it.
I
do
appreciate
and
support
that
I
think
athens
should
look
into
having
its
own
electric
company
thin
film,
solar
panels,
favorite
hybrids
and
roads.
I
think
they're
a
good
way
to
do
it
and
it
can
be
done
very
quickly
and
but
anyway,
I
really
do
not
like
adp
at
all.
I've
been
assaulted
by
their
employees.
J
A
A
G
C
A
Okay-
and
we
have
a
second
and
I'm
sorry-
I
glanced
over
who
made
the
second
council
member
claude
felter.
Thank
you.
So
we
have
a
motion
and
second
for
approval
of
the
appointment
of
kelly
reese
back
all
those
in
favor
signify
by
saying
aye,
aye
and
motion.
It
carries
and
reappointments
approved,
and
we
all
thank
you
for
your
service.
Kelly
next
is
a
motion
to
accept
the
march
2021
financial
reports.
If
we
get
a
motion
in
second
for.
A
So
moved
by
council
member
eisner,
a
second,
please,
council,
member
fall
all
those
in
favor
signify
by
saying
aye,
aye,
aye,
close,
nay
they've
been
approved
too.
Thank
you
so
much
and
are
there
any
other
announcements
that
anybody
else
has
mayor
patterson?
Okay,
if
not
all's
quiet,
okay,
thank
you
and
lastly,
we
do
have
an
opportunity
for
citizens
to
speak
on
legislative
items
and
city
services
that
were
not
covered
on
the
agenda
tonight.
M
M
First,
I
want
to
commend
council
member
smedley
for
not
only
raising
this
issue
with
council,
but
also
for
taking
the
initiative
to
consult
with
city
law
director
eliason.
I
want
to
commend
council
president
nicely
for
inviting
southeastern
ohio
legal
services,
senior
attorney,
peggy
lee
to
present
further
information.
And,
lastly,
I
want
to
thank
law
director
elias
and
for
finally
putting
to
rest
the
rumor
that
we
can't
ban
source
of
income
discrimination
here
in
athens
because
supposedly
as
a
statutory
city,
we
can't
do
anything.
M
The
reality
is
that
for
more
than
a
decade
now,
the
city
of
athens,
anti-discrimination
ordinance,
has
gone
above
and
beyond
ohio
state,
fair
housing
law
to
prohibit
discrimination
against
gay
and
transgender
tenants
as
we
should.
But
there
was
never
any
reason
why
we
couldn't
be
just
as
progressive
when
it
comes
to
banning
housing
discrimination
on
the
basis
of
source
of
income.
As
council
member
smedley
summarized
law
director's
assessment,
all
we
ever
had
to
do
was
to
add
source
of
income
to
the
list
of
protected
classes
within
our
current
anti-discrimination
ordinance.
M
But,
as
spionas
pointed
out
here
last
week,
we
may
also
want
to
strengthen
the
code's
language
concerning
enforcement
and
penalties
to
make
this
change
really
effective.
And
that
sounds
great
to
me,
too.
I've
been
pushing
to
ban
source
of
income
discrimination
and
to
strengthen
our
housing
code
and
its
enforcement.
M
Since
I
ran
for
mayor
in
2019,
I
started
my
campaign
already
focused
on
code
enforcement,
but
it
was
really
members
of
socialist
city
council,
candidate,
ellie
hamrick's
campaign
team
that
got
me
on
board
with
ending
source
of
income
discrimination
and,
ultimately,
all
that
years,
independent
leftist
and
progressive
candidates
got
on
board
ellie
me
chris
monday
and
pat
mcgee,
but
this
election
year
so
far
it's
mainly
been
democratic
candidates.
Who've
taken
up
the
issue,
that's
partly
just
because
of
where
we
are
in
the
campaign
season.
M
Democrats
have
to
announce
their
campaigns
earlier
than
independence,
but
regardless
it's
great
to
see,
because
I
don't
think
any
of
us
ever
wanted
to
monopolize
this
issue.
It's
just
something
everyone
should
support
of
the
three
new
democratic
candidates
by
elnus
and
swang.
Both
have
positioned
themselves
on
the
right
side
of
this
issue,
and
I
think
the
third
new
democratic
candidate
ben
ziff
would
do
well
to
follow
their
lead.
M
But
at
the
same
time,
I
don't
want
to
get
too
far
ahead
of
myself,
because
the
reality
is
that
this
isn't
a
done
deal
yet
you
all
still
need
to
introduce
and
pass
an
ordinance,
and
the
frustration,
a
lot
of
folks
like
me
have
is
that
this
already
should
have
been
done
two
years
ago.
After
all,
it
was
at
an
october
2019
candidate
forum,
where
council
members
grace
and
claude
felter
joined
with
independence.
In
supporting
such
a
ban.
With
grace,
saying
quote,
this
is
something
we
decided.