City of Athens, Ohio Mayor's Press Conference 2023, 2 Aug 2023

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Mayor's Press Conference - August 2, 2023

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Good afternoon and welcome once again to the weekly update with Kyle Johansen and the mayor Kyle, it has been more and more pleasant here in Athens and I. Think we have more in store in the future, so give us a seven day update.

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So today we got mostly sunny skies type 86, wins, white and variable tonight. Sun clouds well 63, winds, white and variable tomorrow, mostly cloudy skies time 84 well, 66 Friday morning clouds Fall by afternoon, sun I have 88 well 63.

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Sunday Saturday, we got probably quality. Skies have 88 bow: 64. Sunday, scatter, storms, high of 89, well, 69., Monday, scary, storms, High, 82, low 63, next Tuesday Parkway quality, Hive, 82 low 60 in the next one. So we got afternoon, storms, hype, 81, row, 60. and the county fair starts next week actually starts this weekend. This weekend, yeah the starting the fourth in sports Elias always fall. Sports starts less than a week less than a week, yeah yeah soccer stores. In less than a week. Football starts in about three weeks.

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All right and basketball is less than 100 days away less than what 100 days till basketball, okay,.

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100 days to basketball there you have it everybody um couple things going on around the city: first off the Stimson Avenue water line extension project. This was something that we had anticipated with the new Fire Station headquarters and just being smart about our city growth. So this is going to be on Stimson Avenue it'll start August 14th, which is a Monday. There will be flaggers out there um when necessary.

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The project is anticipated being completed in September of this year, so not a long project, but a much needed project to extend our water system um Street and Brew us, so the 2023 Street Improvement schedule. This is for repaving and in some cases, crack seal, which is when they get out there with their uh their wand and put down tar on areas where there's cracks in the pavement. The milling and Paving will be on Community Center Drive.

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This is off of East State Street, all the way to the end of Community, Center Drive, Currier Street will be addressed this summer, Eden Place Forest Street, Highland Avenue and Hooper Street joneswood Drive, a portion of joneswood Drive Longview Heights again this is It's a portion of Longview, it's basically from Mulligan to Mulligan road, all the way out to the Corp limits out near the Unitarian Church North Congress Street, Nottingham, Drive, Roberts, Street, Short, Street, State, Street and Stimson Avenue.

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So this is the intersection where we had some a water line break and some damage to the road surface. So that's going going to be repaired, Strathmore Boulevard, Strouds, Run, Road and Westfield place. They will have flaggers out there when they're, milling and repaving is going on.

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There's also going to be work going on on Robert's Street and North Congress and that'll be completed, hopefully by August 8th, where they're going to be doing some work uh and then, like I, said they'll, be doing some crack seal work elsewhere throughout the city and if they need to they'll flag people around that process, but they're, usually pretty quick at getting the crack seal down.

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Unlike the milling and Paving fire, hydrant flushing's still going on today was Lancaster Carpenter, Franklin, North, Curt, Congress and High Street and looking forward in time, there's going to be hydrant flushing down on Carol Carolyn, Roxbury, Carol and Applegate Carol and Banbury Carol and Dove. So this is all up in Oakmont the Oakmont area, Stewart Mill Iron Koss Putnam, North McKinley.

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This is a race and Rufus slash, Community Drive. These are all around campus, largely in the high density student areas. um So just know that that's going on this is normal. They do it every year, every summer, where they'll do the fire hydrant testing, you may experience some color change in your water and that's largely due to the stirring up of any sediment. That might be in the water pipes just beasts wise in that you probably shouldn't be washing any white clothes.

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When you see something like that, but again it is your water quality is fine and it is something that we certainly experience on occasion during the fire hydrant flushing. Another thing that's coming at us. This fall I was asked to push this out by integrated Athens, the Athens County Board of developmental disabilities, and that being that we are going to see unified recreational basketball league, so asking people to be a part of this cool fun.

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Athletic experience, it'll be October 3rd, so I'm giving you a big jump on this one October 3rd to November, 2nd of 2023, Tuesday and Thursday evenings.

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The league will be playing on those evenings from 5 30 to 6 30 p.m. One hour per night- and this is for this- is going to be co-ed 16 year olds and up um again, the uniform, unified basketball joins people with and without disabilities. On the same team registration for this is going to start in September. Actually it'll start in August. It started yesterday and it'll run through September 15th.

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It's twenty dollars per person and uh you can register down at the community center down at 701, East State Street so come check that out um something else. That's going to be happening this weekend, so just giving you a heads up, because Court Street will have a closure and that is bounty on the bricks is going to be occurring on Court Street.

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This is the large dinner table that is deployed on in the Uptown area. I have been asked to make some opening remarks at this year's bounty on the bricks. So keep that in mind. It is a ticketed event on Court Street, but and the money goes to a really good cause food insecurity here throughout Athens, County um I know that Ryan has this at his fingertips, but it's always good to remind people about the Athens Ohio City, Source app and nixel.

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uh There's the City Source app. You know we strongly encourage people to download this and use it. If you see things such as a traffic signal that is malfunctioning or a street light, that's not working or a pothole or water bubbling up out of the ground in a place that it shouldn't be doing so or if you're, seeing litter, that's been dumped across the roadway or wherever um you know, use this. It's really effective in terms of getting to the proper departments, issues that you're seeing throughout the city.

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You know, we've had a couple: pretty significant wind storms of late and with trees and tree limbs that do have a tendency to drop during significant wind storms.

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um You know City Source, app is uh or Athens Ohio City Source app is a good way in which you can um report those things, so you can go to Google Play or the Apple App Store and all you have to do is punch in Athens, Ohio, City, Source, app and it'll pop come pop right up, Mixels the other source of information.

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For you simple to do just uh text, four, five, seven zero one, two eight eight, eight, seven seven and you can also customize this as an alert system to just get the alerts that you're interested in receiving. But it covers things like you know: it's emergency broadcasts. It is severe weather, it is Amber Alerts it is you name it it'll. Do it missing persons?

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So we encourage you to download both of these nixel and the Athens Ohio City Source app to get information in a timely manner, as well as being able to report situations, you may be observing in a timely manner to the city.

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Some different meetings that are coming up tomorrow will be the Planning Commission is meeting here in Kelso Chambers from 12 to 1. 30.

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I know that uh city council will be meeting their first time back after their July recess on Monday the 7th of August uh 7 30 here in council chambers, and then the board of zoning appeals is going to be meeting Tuesday, August, 8th 7 pm here in council chambers as well and I. Imagine they have several cases that they will be addressing as I know that the Planning Commission will be taking up several cases Communications and cases tomorrow here in council chambers Kyle as usual. Thank you for joining me. I'm.

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Looking at your hat, Sandia Peak, Tramway I know that you're a huge fan and did you go there on your most recent trip? Well I forgot today, I took that train. Okay. There you go. It took the tram all the way to the top ten thousand feet. Nice thanks for joining us. Please join us again next week for the weekly update.