Hello, athens welcome to tgc. My name is Tori ogres here to give you your city council meeting, highlights on Monday, April, seventeenth, the city, councilmen and regular session city council open the meeting with communications from the members. President knisley announced that on May nineteenth there will be an infrastructure tour conducted by the public works director Andy stone. This bus tour of the city is open to the public in anyone wanting to attend to contact the clerk of council Debbie Walker at 740 592 3342 prior to the tour dates.

Member fall informed council that she has received feedback from citizens. Pleased with the professionalism and courtesies shown by the Athens PD in Oh upd during the recent we confessed member fall is in receipt of an email from a citizen willing to donate bike racks for the Union Street enhancement project. Mayor Patterson reported the following street closures: Granville avenue will be closed on wednesday April nineteenth from eight a.m. until the completion of the installation of a water tap madison avenue will be closed between east state street and franklin avenue on thursday april twentieth from eight a.m.

until the completion of a water main repair, there will be no emergency or through traffic during the repairs. The Ohio health alanis race for a reason will be held on saturday and a number of streets will be closed during the event. Also on saturday, the oh you march for science is planned to begin at 1pm at dairy lane park. The march will proceed to West screen up to the courthouse and will end at Howard square. All other street closures are located on the city's website. Next on the agenda were ordinances for the final reading.

All ordinances were approved by the council, City Council then read ordinances. For the second time there is a suspension of the three reading rural ordinance 4417 authorizing an appropriation for parking kiosks that are a part of the West Union Street enhancements council then moved on to organizes being read for the first time suspending in adopting ordinances related to the accessibility repairs for the community center entrance in an application for an o dot grant to upgrade the Athens public transit technology.

This city of Athens then moved a one reading resolution introduced by all members of the council in support of restoring funding for the aarc. These funds were zeroed out in the proposed federal budget. Aarc grants provide very real assistance to our community. The resolution was approved by council moving on to announcement in other businesses, the council accepted the auditors march 2017 financial report. Christian rice was appointed to serve on environment and sustainability. Commission and Mayor Paterson announced that there are three vacancies on the joint police advisory council.

One position is at large, while the other two are specific appointment, there's also a vacancy on the Community Relations Commission in another on the environment and sustainability Commission. If you're interested in applying for either of the community relations Commission's or the environment and sustainability Commission's, please contact the City, Council members or call the city council office. If you are interested in applying for the joint police advisory council, please submit your application to the mayor's office. Additional information about these vacancies can be found on the city's website. Thank you.

So much for tuning into tgc again I'm Tori okers with your city council meeting, highlights have a great day.