Mar 11, 2024 City Council

JENNY, WOULD YOU PLEASE CALL THE ROLE MR. KEELER? YES.

VICE MAYOR A LUDO? YES.

MR. REINER? YES.

MS. OSA? YES.

MS. FOX? YES.

WE WILL RECONVENE THIS MEETING IN THIS LOCATION AT 7:00 PM ABOUT EVERY TWO MINUTES.

GOOD

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EVENING.

IT IS SEVEN O'CLOCK AND WE WILL RECONVENE THIS MEETING WITH THAT.

UH, KATHY, WOULD YOU PLEASE LEAD THE PLEDGE? I PLEDGE ALLEGIANCE TO THE FLAG OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA AND TO THE REPUBLIC FOR WHICH IT STANDS WHILE NATION UNDER GOD AND INDIVISIBLE WITH LIBERTY AND JUSTICE.

AGENDA THIS EVENING IS A SPECIAL PRESENTATION AND RECOGNITION OF THE 2024 THROUGH 2050 METROPOLITAN TRANSPORTATION PLAN.

UH, THE FIRST ITEM ON OUR

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AND MARIA SCH SHOPPER IS HERE.

UH, SHE'S THE ASSOCIATE DIRECTOR OF TRANSPORTATION PLANNING AT MARSEY.

UM, IN THOSE DARK COLORS ON THE LEFT AND ON THE RIGHT, UH, OVERALL, UH, WHERE THE HIGHEST EMPLOYMENT AREAS WILL BE IN 2050.

THANK YOU, MAYOR.

GOOD EVENING COUNCIL MEMBERS? YES, AGAIN, I'M MARIA SHOPPER.

I'M THE ASSOCIATE DIRECTOR OF TRANSPORTATION PLANNING AT THE MIDOHIO REGIONAL PLANNING COMMISSION.

AND, UM, IN CASE YOU'RE NOT FAMILIAR WITH MORS E WE ARE THE REGIONAL COUNCIL OF GOVERNMENTS FOR THE CENTRAL OHIO AREA.

WE SERVE OVER 85 LOCAL GOVERNMENTS, UM, INCLUDING RURAL, SUBURBAN AND URBAN COMMUNITIES.

AND WE FOCUS ON, UH, COLLABORATION IN THE AREAS OF TRANSPORTATION DEVELOPMENT, PLANNING AND SUSTAINABILITY, DATA AND RESEARCH, AS WELL AS POLICY AND GRANT DEVELOPMENT.

AND, UH, WE ARE ALSO, UH, THE ADDITIONAL TO, TO BEING A REGIONAL PLANNING COMMISSION.

WE ARE THE, UM, METROPOLITAN PLANNING ORGANIZATION FOR, UH, FRANKLIN AND DELAWARE, ALL OF FRANKLIN AND DELAWARE COUNTIES, AND, UH, JEROME TOWNSHIP AND UNION COUNTY, AS WELL AS NEW ALBANY AND, UH, VIOLET AND AETNA TOWNSHIP IN LINCOLN COUNTY AND PARTS OF FAIRFIELD COUNTY AS WELL.

AND SO, AS PART OF THAT ROLE AS WHAT WE CALL THE MPO, UH, WE ARE, UH, STEWARDS OF FEDERAL TRANSPORTATION DOLLARS.

AND, UH, PART OF THAT ROLE IS, UH, DEVELOPING A METROPOLITAN TRANSPORTATION PLAN EVERY FOUR YEARS.

AND THAT IS IMPORTANT BECAUSE WE ARE A GROWING REGION.

I KNOW YOU'VE ALL HAVE ALL READ AND HEARD ABOUT THIS AND ARE EXPERIENCING IT EVERY DAY IN, IN YOUR COMMUNITY.

WE ARE EXPECTING TO BE A REGION OF ABOUT 3.15 MILLION PEOPLE IN THE 15 COUNTY AREA BY 2050.

AND, UH, THAT TRANSLATES INTO ABOUT 726,000 PEOPLE, AS WELL AS ABOUT ALMOST 360,000 JOBS BY 2050.

AND SO, AS YOU CAN IMAGINE, THAT CREATES NEW DEMANDS ON THE TRANSPORTATION SYSTEM.

UM, SO WHAT, WHAT DOES THAT LOOK LIKE HERE? UM, THESE MAPS SHOW FROM A REGIONAL PERSPECTIVE, UM, WHERE THAT GROWTH, WE EXPECT THAT GROWTH TO HAPPEN.

AND SO MORSEY WENT THROUGH A PROCESS OF, UM, FORECASTING WHERE GROWTH WILL OCCUR BASED ON LOCAL LAND USE PLANS.

SO THIS IS NOT MORSEY SAYING THIS WHERE WE THINK GROWTH IS GONNA HAPPEN, BUT THIS IS, UH, BASED ON LOCAL LAND USE POLICIES AND WHERE, UH, GROWTH IS, UM, ALLOWED TO HAPPEN AND, UM, ENCOURAGED TO HAPPEN BY, BY LAND USE POLICY.

AND SO YOU CAN SEE THE DARKER AREAS THAT GROWTH DENSITY IS WHERE, UM, WE EXPECT THE LARGEST INCREMENT OF CHANGE TO OCCUR IN HOUSEHOLDS, UH, BETWEEN NOW AND 2050.

AND ON THE RIGHT HAND SIDE, THAT'S THAT OVERALL, UM, THE HIGHEST, UH, LEVELS OF, UH, HOUSEHOLD DENSITY IN 2050.

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AND SO KINDA BRINGING THAT BACK TO THE METROPOLITAN TRANSPORTATION PLAN, IN ORDER TO PLAN FOR THIS GROWTH THAT'S COMING TO OUR REGION, UH, WE DEVELOP THE METROPOLITAN TRANSPORTATION PLAN, AND THAT IS A PLAN THAT IDENTIFIES REGIONAL TRANSPORTATION STRATEGIES AND PROJECTS.

UH, WE SUBMIT THIS, UH, PLAN TO ODOT AND U-S-D-O-T EVERY FOUR YEARS.

AND, UH, THAT'S IMPORTANT BECAUSE U-S-D-O-T DOES LOOK TO THIS PLAN AS A GUIDE FOR FEDERAL INVESTMENT IN THE TRANSPORTATION SYSTEM.

SO MEANING, UM, FOR A PROJECT TO BE ELIGIBLE FOR FEDERAL TRANSPORTATION DOLLARS, THEY WANNA SEE IT REPRESENTED IN THIS PLAN.

AND THAT'S REALLY TO, UM, THEY, YOU KNOW, THEY WANNA LOOK THAT, YOU KNOW, THIS PLAN REPRESENTS A CONSENSUS, A REGIONAL CONSENSUS OF TRANSPORTATION PRIORITIES.

IT IS FISCALLY CONSTRAINED.

SO THAT MEANS THAT, UM, WHILE NOT EVERY PROJECT THAT'S INCLUDED IN THE PLAN HAS FUNDING COMMITTED TO IT, IT MEANS THAT BASED ON A, A COST ESTIMATES AND A FINANCIAL FORECAST OR A A REVENUES FORECAST, WE THINK IT'S FEASIBLE BY 2050.

AND I, I'LL TALK ABOUT A LITTLE BIT MORE ABOUT THAT.

UM, SO AGAIN, UM, WE'RE GROWING.

WE WANNA MAKE SURE WE'RE READY FOR THAT GROWTH, AND WE WANNA MAKE SURE WE ARE ELIGIBLE FOR, UH, FEDERAL TRANSPORTATION DOLLARS TO, UH, USE, UH, TO ACCOMMODATE, UH, TRANSPORTATION PROJECTS FOR THE GROWTH.

UM, SO THIS, SO WE DEVELOP THIS PLAN AGAIN, EVERY FOUR YEARS.

UH, WE DEVELOP IT BASED ON A SET OF SIX BROAD GOALS.

AND, UH, REALLY WE WANT THE, UM, INVESTMENTS IN OUR TRANSPORTATION SYSTEM TO, UH, CREATE SUSTAINABLE NEIGHBORHOODS.

WE WANT THEM TO POSITION CENTRAL OHIO TO ATTRACT AND RETAIN ECONOMIC OPPORTUNITY.

WE WANNA PROTECT OUR NATURAL RESOURCES, INCREASE REGIONAL COLLABORATION, PROVIDE TRANSPORTATION AND MOBILITY OPTIONS TO BENEFIT THE HEALTH, SAFETY, AND WELFARE OF ALL PEOPLE.

AND WE WANT TO REDUCE THE ENER, THE PER CAPITA ENERGY CONSUMPTION.

AND SO, UH, AS WE MOVE THROUGH THE PROCESS, YOU KNOW, WHEN WE'RE LOOKING AT PROJECTS TO INCLUDE STRATEGIES TO INCLUDE, WE WANT TO POINT BACK TO, YOU KNOW, DO THOSE STRATEGIES AND PROJECTS HELP ADVANCE THESE GOALS.

SO JUST A LITTLE BIT ABOUT THE PROCESS QUICKLY.

UM, YOU KNOW, WE START AGAIN WITH GOALS.

AND BY IDENTIFYING GOALS AND OBJECTIVES, WE ALSO LOOK AT THE LOCAL PLANS THROUGHOUT THE REGION.

SO WE KNOW THAT IF A, A PROJECT HAS BEEN IDENTIFIED BY A LOCAL COMMUNITY, IT'S A, IT'S A PRIORITY.

AND SO WE WANNA INCLUDE THE LOCAL PRIORITIES THAT HAVE BEEN THROUGH A PLANNING PROCESS.

UM, WE DO THE SAME WITH STATE AND REGIONAL PLANS, AND THEN OF COURSE, WE LOOK AT ALL THE DATA.

SO IN ADDITION TO FORECASTING THAT POPULATION AND EMPLOYMENT AND WHERE WE EXPECT PEOPLE TO LIVE AND WORK IN THE REGION, WE'RE DOING SOME ANALYSIS TO SAY, OKAY, WHERE DOES THAT CREATE DEMAND ON THE TRANSPORTATION SYSTEM? AND HOW DO THE, UH, PROPOSED AND, UH, THE CANDIDATE PROJECTS HELP US MEET THOSE, UH, GOALS.

WE DO THE FISCAL ANALYSIS, AND THEN WE ALSO LOOK AT HOW THE PROJECTS WILL IMPACT, UM, AIR QUALITY, THE ENVIRONMENT, AS WELL AS TRANSPORTATION, DISADVANTAGED POPULATIONS.

AND THEN, YOU KNOW, THAT ALL KIND OF GET BOILS DOWN INTO A SET OF REGIONAL STRATEGIES AND PRIORITY PROJECTS ALL WRAPPED UP IN A NICE DOCUMENT.

AND I, AND WE DO HAVE, UH, PUBLIC PARTICIPATION OPPORTUNITIES THROUGHOUT THE PROCESS.

SO, UH, WHAT, WHAT I'M HERE TONIGHT TO TALK ABOUT IS THE DRAFT STRATEGIES AND PROJECTS THAT ARE, UM, PROPOSED.

AND SO WE DO, WE JUST PUBLISHED THIS LIST OF LAST MONTH, AND, UH, REALLY I WANT TO LET THE COMMUNITY KNOW THAT, UH, THERE'S A PUBLIC COMMENT PERIOD OPEN, AND WE ARE LOOKING FOR PUBLIC COMMENT AND FEEDBACK.

AND SO THE, UH, THE FULL LIST OF STRATEGIES IS AVAILABLE ON OUR WEBSITE.

UH, WE, THEY ARE CLASSIFIED INTO, UH, ONE OF TWO CATEGORIES, UH, ONE BEING THE SYSTEM MANAGEMENT STRATEGY.

SO, UM, OUR, OUR EXISTING, HOW ARE WE MANAGING OUR EXISTING TRANSPORTATION SYSTEM? HOW ARE WE PRESERVING AND MAINTAINING IT? HOW ARE WE MAKING IT MORE EFFICIENT THROUGH, UH, TECHNOLOGY AND INTELLIGENT TRANSPORTATION SYSTEMS? HOW ARE WE MANAGING THE DEMAND FOR THE SYSTEM AND HOW ARE WE MAKING THE, OUR SYSTEM MORE SAFE? AND THEN, YOU KNOW, ON THE FLIP SIDE, UM, WE, IN A GROWING REGION, UH, WE WILL HAVE TO DEVELOP AND EXPAND OUR TRANSPORTATION SYSTEM.

SO THAT'S WHERE THE PROJECTS COME INTO PLAY.

AND, UH, WE HAVE ALSO IDENTIFIED A, UH, SET OF DRAFT PRO INFRASTRUCTURE PROJECTS THAT INCLUDE, UH, BICYCLE AND PEDESTRIAN TRANSIT, FREIGHT AND INTERMODAL CONNECTIONS, AS WELL AS ROADWAY PROJECTS.

AND I WILL GET INTO THOSE A LITTLE BIT AS WELL.

SO, UM, AS A REGION, YOU KNOW, I KNOW THAT MAP THAT'S A LOT THAT'S NOT MEANT TO BE READ, UM, FROM THIS, UH, VANTAGE POINT, BUT IT'S MEANT TO, UH, REPRESENT THE MAGNITUDE OF PROJECTS THAT HAVE BEEN IDENTIFIED IN OUR REGION.

AND THIS IS ALSO AVAILABLE ON OUR WEBSITE.

UH, THERE'S A WEB MAP WHERE YOU CAN ZOOM INTO THE, UH, THE CITY OF DUBLIN.

YOU CAN PAN AROUND, YOU CAN CLICK ON THE PROJECTS AND, UM, YOU GET, GET MORE INFORMATION.

BUT IT DOES REPRESENT AT A REGIONAL PERSPECTIVE, A TO ABOUT $35 BILLION IN, UH, INVESTMENT IN THE TRANSPORTATION SYSTEM.

YOU'LL SEE, YOU KNOW, BROKEN DOWN BY

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PROJECT TYPE.

YOU'LL SEE A BIG CHUNK OF THAT IS, UH, TRANSIT PROJECTS.

WE'RE EXPECTING ABOUT, UH, $13 BILLION OF INVESTMENT IN OUR TRANSIT SYSTEM THROUGH 2050.

AND, UM, A LARGE CHUNK OF THAT IS EX UH, MAINTAINING AND EXPANDING THE EXISTING TRANSPORTATION OR THE EXISTING BUS, UH, FIXED ROUTE SERVICE.

BUT, UM, ANOTHER, UH, A LARGER CHUNK OF THAT IS, UM, EXPECTING SOME FEDERAL INVESTMENTS FROM THE FTA AS WELL AS INCREASE LOCAL INVESTMENT IN THE SYSTEM IN, UM, SOME HIGH CAPACITY TRANSIT LINES, WHICH I WILL TALK ABOUT NEXT.

BUT YOU'LL SEE THE, UM, THE OTHER BIG PORTIONS ARE, UM, MANAGEMENT AND OPERATIONS.

SO, YOU KNOW, $8.4 BILLION JUST TO MAINTAIN OUR EXISTING SYSTEM.

AND, UM, YOU KNOW, YOU'LL SEE THE, THE OTHER, WE'VE GOT STANDALONE BICYCLE, PEDESTRIAN PROJECTS, FREEWAY PROJECTS, UH, MI MAJOR AND MINOR WIDENING, AS WELL AS SOME INTERSECTION PROJECTS IN THERE.

SO, UH, TO TALK ABOUT, UH, TRANSIT, UM, I MENTIONED, YOU KNOW, THE, THE, UH, FIXED ROUTE TRANSIT SERVICE THAT CODA PROVIDES.

WE, WE DON'T SHOW THOSE ON THE MAP, BUT WE DO EXPECT THAT, UM, WE, THERE WILL BE AN ADDITIONAL LEVEL OF INVESTMENT IN MAINTAINING AND EXPANDING THAT FIXED ROUTE TRANSIT, THOSE FIXED ROUTE TRANSIT LINES, BUT WE DON'T MAP THEM BECAUSE, UM, OUT TO 2050 THEY CHANGE KIND OF FREQUENTLY.

SO, UM, DOESN'T MAKE SENSE TO SHOW EVERY EVERY BUS ROUTE ON, ON THIS MAP, BUT WE ARE SHOWING HERE ARE WHAT WE CALL HIGH CAPACITY OR RAPID TRANSIT CORRIDORS.

AND THESE ARE CORRIDORS THAT, UM, IT'S A NEW MODE OF TRANSPORTATION THAT WE DON'T HAVE IN OUR REGION YET.

UM, THE, UH, DARK PURPLE THOSE STRAIGHT OR THE, THE SKINNY PURPLE LINES THAT ARE SOLID, UM, THOSE, UM, HOPEFULLY THOSE LOOK FAMILIAR TO YOU.

THEY ARE, UM, CORRIDORS THAT HAVE BEEN IDENTIFIED FOR BUS RAPID TRANSIT AND ARE CURRENTLY BEING DESIGNED.

AND BUS RAPID TRANSIT IS A, AGAIN, A NEW MODE OF TRANSPORTATION.

IT IS, UM, IT'S TRANSIT THAT IS ON A FIXED GUIDEWAY, OR I'M NOT, I'M SORRY, A DEDICATED GUIDEWAY.

SO IT'S NOT IN MIXED TRAFFIC.

IT HAS, UM, KIND OF ALL THE PREMIUM FEATURES THAT, UH, YOU SEE IN SOME OTHER MAJOR CITIES SUCH AS, UM, OFF BOARD FAIR COLLECTION.

SO YOU, YOU, YOU, UH, BUY YOUR TICKET BEFORE YOU GET ON, YOU'RE NOT WAITING IN LINE WITH, UM, PEOPLE DIGGING IN THEIR POCKETS FOR CHANGE, UH, LEVEL BOARDING AS WELL.

SO, UM, IT'S JUST EASY ON AND OFF IF YOU HAVE A STROLLER OR A SUITCASE OR A WHEELCHAIR, YOU CAN, CAN GET ON AND OFF EASILY.

AND, UM, AS WELL AS SOME OTHER, UM, TECH SIGNAL PRIORITY, TECHNOLOGICAL, UM, FEATURES THAT JUST REALLY MAKE THAT, UH, EXPERIENCE AND THAT RIDERSHIP EXPERIENCE, UM, HIGH QUALITY, IT'S, IT'S, UH, MORE FREQUENT.

IT'S, UH, MORE RELIABLE AND JUST A HIGHER QUALITY OF SERVICE.

AND SO THAT'S WHAT, UM, THOSE SOLID PURPLE LINES ARE.

THE PURPLE SWATHS, LIKE WE SAY, THOSE BIGGER, UH, KIND OF FATTER AREAS, THOSE ARE IDENTIFIED AS, UM, AND I'LL TALK ABOUT, UM, LINK US IN A MINUTE, BUT AS, AS FAR AS A FINANCIAL, UM, FORECAST GOES, WE, THE REGION EXPECTS THROUGH THE LINK US MODEL, UH, TO BE ABLE TO BUILD FIVE HIGH CAPACITY TRANSIT LINES BY 2050.

AND SO THAT INCLUDES THOSE THREE SOLID PURPLE LINES, AND THEN TWO OF THOSE FOUR, I MEAN, I'M SORRY, TWO OF THOSE THREE KINDA PURPLE SWATH AREAS.

SO THAT WOULD BE A DOWNTOWN CONNECTION TO, UM, THE AIRPORT AS WELL AS, UM, A DOWNTOWN CONNECTION TO THE SOUTHERN PART OF OUR REGION.

AND, UM, I KNOW, YOU KNOW, YOU ALL ARE FAMILIAR WITH THE NORTHWEST CORRIDOR, UH, CONNECTING DUBLIN, UH, TO DOWNTOWN VIA OLAND, TANY RIVER ROAD, SO WE'RE EXCITED TO BE WORKING WITH YOU ON THAT.

AND THEN THE, UM, THE PINK, THE DARK PINK SOLID LINES, THOSE REPRESENT, UM, A A AND THE INCREASED, UM, LEVEL OF TRANSIT INVESTMENT BEYOND, YOU KNOW, KIND OF AN IN BETWEEN, SO NOT QUITE THE BUS ROUTES, BUT, UM, SOMETHING SIMILAR TO CMAX, WHICH IS ON CLEVELAND AVENUE CURRENTLY.

SO LOOKING AT MORE INVESTMENT INTO THE CMAX AND THEN SIMILAR SERVICE ON EAST BROAD.

AND THEN THE ORANGE, THE ORANGE, UM, SWATHS, IF YOU WILL, ARE AREAS THAT HAVE BEEN IDENTIFIED THAT ARE CURRENTLY BEING STUDIED FOR HIGH CAPACITY TRANSIT, BUT WE DON'T THINK AT THIS POINT IN TIME, UM, BASED ON THE FUNDING FORECAST, THEY'RE NOT GONNA BE CONSTRUCTED BY 2050.

SO THAT INCLUDES THE PASSENGER RAIL STUDY AS WELL AS, UM, THE ODOT S UH, TRANSIT WORKFORCE STUDY, WHICH THEY HAVE STUDIED, UM, HOW TO CONNECT WORKFORCE FROM NEWARK TO, UH, JOB CENTERS IN, UM, AETNA AND PETULA, NEW ALBANY, AS WELL AS DUBLIN AND, UH, THE CITY OF COLUMBUS.

SO MORE STUDYING IS NEEDED TO, TO, UH, FURTHER IDENTIFY WHAT, UM, SPECIFIC ROUTE ALIGNMENT AND MODE WOULD BE APPROPRIATE FOR THOSE SWATH AREAS.

AND THEN THE OTHER PROJECTS IN, IN THE DUBLIN AREA THAT HAVE BEEN IDENTIFIED.

SO, AGAIN, AS I MENTIONED, THESE REPRESENT PROJECTS THAT HAVE BEEN IDENTIFIED THROUGH YOUR LOCAL PLANS.

WE HAVE WORKED CLOSELY WITH YOUR STAFFED ON, ON THESE PROJECTS, AND I UNDERSTAND THAT YOU ARE, UH, THAT THE CITY IS UNDERGOING, UM, AN A AN UPDATE TO THE THOROUGHFARE

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PLAN.

SO WE WILL MAKE SURE THAT, UM, WE ARE WORKING WITH STAFF TO, UM, GET ALL THOSE PROJECTS REFLECTED, UH, CONSISTENT WITH THAT THOROUGHFARE PLAN.

AND SO, UM, AGAIN, I'M HERE TO, UM, JUST EMPHASIZE THAT THIS IS, THIS IS WHAT WE WANT FEEDBACK ON.

SO IF YOU SEE SOMETHING ON THIS MAP THAT, UM, MAYBE IS CONCERNING OR IF THERE IS SOMETHING THAT'S MISSING, WE WANT TO KNOW ABOUT THAT BECAUSE WE WANNA INCORPORATE, UM, THAT INTO THIS PLAN.

AND, UM, YOU'LL SEE, YOU KNOW, THE, UM, UH, UM, BIKE AND PEDESTRIAN TRAIL ALONG THE SCIOTO RIVER, UM, THAT'S, YOU KNOW, A KEY, KEY BIKE AND PEDESTRIAN, UM, CONNECTION AS WELL AS SOME NEW ROADWAY CONNECTIONS.

AS I KNOW THERE'S A LOT OF PLANNING ACTIVITY ON, UM, SOME NEW BRIDGES, UH, CROSSING TWO 70.

AND, UM, SO, UM, WE, WE JUST WANT TO MAKE SURE THAT WE HAVE ALL OF THE, UH, CITY OF DUBLIN'S PRIORITIES REFLECTED IN THE PLAN.

SO KINDA WHERE WE'RE IN THE PROCESS, WE'VE BEEN WORKING ON THIS SINCE 2022, AGAIN, STARTING WITH THOSE POPULATION AND EMPLOYMENT PROJECTIONS AS WELL AS IDENTIFYING THE GOALS.

WE'VE BEEN THROUGH A WHOLE PROCESS OF, YOU KNOW, REALLY CRUNCHING THOSE NUMBERS, DOING THE ANALYSES, COMBING THROUGH PLANNING DOCUMENTS.

AND HERE WE ARE IN 2024 IN THE PUBLIC COMMENT PERIOD, READY TO ADOPT THE PLAN.

AND, UM, I MENTIONED, I TOLD YOU, I, I PROMISED I'D TALK ABOUT LINK US I ONE SLIDE IN HERE.

UM, I KNOW YOU ALL ARE FAMILIAR WITH THIS AND HAVE BEEN INVOLVED IN, IN THIS, UM, EXCITING PLANNING ACTIVITY.

BUT, UH, MORSEY IS A PARTNER WITH THE CITY OF CODA, THE CITY OF COLUMBUS, AS WELL AS OUR MANY, UM, OTHER PLANNING PARTNERS, INCLUDING DUBLIN.

AND, UM, WE ARE REALLY EXCITED ABOUT THIS OPPORTUNITY TO BRING FASTER, MORE RELIABLE PUBLIC TRANSPORTATION, SAFER AND EXPANDED BIKE PATHS AND REALLY WALKABLE COMMUNITIES.

AND, UM, WE'RE, SO WE WOULD LOVE TO COME TALK TO YOU MORE.

I COULD SPEND MANY MORE SLIDES UP HERE TALKING ABOUT LINK US.

I KNOW WE DON'T HAVE TIME TONIGHT, BUT WANTED TO, UM, JUST ONE, MAKE THE CONNECTION THAT WE ARE, UM, WORKING ON LINK US.

AND SO ALL OF THE PROJECTS THAT HAVE BEEN IDENTIFIED THROUGH THAT PROCESS ARE ALSO INCORPORATED INTO THIS PLAN.

AND ALSO JUST OPEN UP THE, UM, OPPORTUNITY TO, UM, WOULD LOVE TO COME BACK AND TALK MORE IF YOU HAVE, UM, NETWORKS THAT YOU WOULD LIKE OR GROUPS THAT YOU REPRESENT THAT YOU WOULD LIKE TO, UM, HAVE MORE LINK, HAVE A LINK US PRESENTATION, WOULD LOVE TO COME AND, AND TALK MORE WITH YOU ABOUT THAT WITH OUR FRIENDS AT CODA.

UM, SO WHAT'S NEXT? UM, WE ARE DOING 54.

WE HAVE 54 SCHEDULED PRESENTATIONS JUST LIKE THIS THROUGHOUT THE REGION.

WE'VE GOT A TEAM OF FOUR THAT ARE, YOU KNOW, WE CALL IT OUR MTP ROAD SHOW, SO WE JUST WANNA GET THE WORD OUT THAT, UM, THE PUBLIC COMMENT PERIOD IS OPEN THROUGH THE END OF MARCH.

WE ARE HAVING AN OPEN HOUSE AT MORSEY AT OUR OFFICE IN THE LIBERTY ON LIBERTY STREET IN THE BREWERY DISTRICT, UH, MARCH 19TH, THREE 30 TO SIX 30.

I KNOW THAT'S ELECTION DAY, BUT WE'RE HOPING YOU CAN, YOU KNOW, IF YOU'RE DO OUT DOING YOUR CIVIC DUTY, YOU CAN VOTE AND THEN COME COMMENT ON TRANSPORTATION PROJECTS AND THEN, UH, WE WILL INCORPORATE ALL THE FEEDBACK WE GET THROUGH THIS COMMENT PERIOD.

AND WE ARE EXPECTING TO ADOPT THIS PLAN BY OUR, UH, BOARD, OUR TRANSPORTATION POLICY COMMITTEE IN MAY OF THIS YEAR.

SO THIS IS OUR TEAM THAT'S OUT, UM, INCLUDES MYSELF AND, UM, THREE OTHERS.

SO YOU CAN CONTACT ANY OF US, UM, WITH QUESTIONS, COMMENTS, UM, YOU HAVE MY SLIDES NOW.

SO, UM, AND YOU ALSO CAN VISIT THE WEBSITE FOR, UM, TO, TO VIEW THE, THE MAPS MORE IN DEPTH AND I CAN ALSO PROVIDE PAPER COPIES IF ANYBODY NEEDS THEM OR, YOU KNOW, EMAIL, UM, THE PRESENTATION AS WELL.

SO, UM, WITH THAT, I THANK YOU FOR YOUR TIME AND UH, LOOK FORWARD TO YOUR ENGAGEMENT.

THANK YOU MARIA.

REALLY APPRECIATE YOU COMING TONIGHT.

I KNOW WILLIAM IS ON OUR SCHEDULE FOR, UM, OUR EXECUTIVE RETREAT AND, UH, WE LOOK FORWARD TO HEARING ADDITIONAL INFORMATION FROM HIM AT THAT TIME.

UH, NEXT IS A TIME FOR CITIZEN COMMENTS.

OKAY,

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THIS IS THE TIME THAT ANYONE IS WELCOME TO SPEAK, UH, ON ANYTHING THAT IS NOT ON THIS EVENING'S AGENDA.

SO I BELIEVE WE HAVE SOME FOLKS THAT HAVE SIGNED IN, JUST TO GIVE YOU A PREVIEW.

I'LL ASK EACH OF YOU TO STEP FORWARD AND YOU WILL STATE YOUR NAME AND ADDRESS INTO THE RECORD.

THERE IS A TIMER THERE ON THE, UM, ON THE PODIUM, AND SO YOU WILL BE ABLE TO MONITOR YOURSELF FOR THE TIME THAT IS AVAILABLE.

SO WITH THAT, LINDSAY, OUR FIRST PUBLIC COMMENT.

MEMBERS OF COUNCIL, I WANTED TO MAKE INFORM YOU THAT WE DID RECEIVE 138 PUBLIC COMMENTS PRIOR TO TONIGHT'S MEETING, CALLING FOR A CEASEFIRE IN GAZA.

THOSE MESSAGES ARE BEING SHARED WITH COUNCIL IN THEIR ENTIRETY FOR FULL REVIEW.

WE ALSO HAVE SEVERAL MEMBERS OF THE PUBLIC WHO HAVE SIGNED IN TO SPEAK AT TONIGHT'S MEETING.

FIRST TO SIGN IN WAS TIMON CAPLE.

PLEASE COME FORWARD AND IF YOU COULD, UH, STATE YOUR NAME AND ADDRESS INTO THE RECORD AND WE, MY NAME IS TIMON CAPLE.

I LIVE AT 6 0 8 1 KENZIE LANE IN DUBLIN,

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OHIO.

GOOD EVENING, MAYOR AND CITY COUNCIL MEMBERS.

I LIVE AT THE VILLAGE OF KAUFFMAN PARK AND I CURRENTLY SERVE AS THE PRESIDENT OF THE BOARD THERE AT KAUFFMAN PARK AT THE VILLAGE OF KAUFFMAN PARK.

VILLAGE OF KAUFFMAN PARK IS AT THE CORNER OF DISCOVERY AND POST AND BORDERED BY WEST OR BORDERED BY WALL STREET.

I JUST WANTED TO TELL THE CITY COUNCIL HOW GRATEFUL I AND MY OTHER BOARD MEMBERS ARE FOR THE UNANIMOUS DECISION BY THE PLANNING AND ZONING COMMISSION, NOT TO SUPPORT REZONING OF THE SEVEN ACRES OF LAND AT THE CORNER OF WALL STREET AND PERIMETER AT THE FEBRUARY 1ST INFORMAL REVIEW OF THE MAG PROPOSAL.

NO ONE IN OUR COMMUNITY WHO I HAVE TALKED WITH HAS BEEN IN FAVOR OF THIS PROPOSAL AS THE COMMISSION ARTICULATED A REZONING TO ALLOW TWO CAR DEALERSHIPS, INCLUDING 26 SERVICE BAYS WOULD NOT BE IN KEEPING WITH A SURROUNDING DEVELOPMENT, BOTH FROM A COMMERCIAL STANDPOINT AND A RESIDENTIAL STANDPOINT.

WALL STREET IS A SOUTHERN BORDER OF OUR COMMUNITY AND THAT STREET IS CURRENTLY A WIDELY USED TEST AREA FOR NEW AND USED CARS.

IT WOULD BE QUITE DISTURBING IF TWO NEW DEALERSHIPS WERE TO MOVE IN ON THE CORNER AT THE CORNER OF WALL STREET AND PERIMETER.

I ALSO WANT TO THANK THE CITY AND THE SPEED MANAGEMENT GROUP FOR THEIR RECENT EFFORTS TO HELP CONTROL SPEEDING ON WALL STREET AND POST ROAD.

THANK YOU FOR YOUR TIME AND THANK YOU FOR YOUR SERVICE TO DUBLIN.

I DO KNOW JENNY RAUS IS HERE THIS EVENING, OUR DIRECTOR OF PLANNING.

IF YOU HAVE ANY FURTHER PLANNING QUESTIONS, SHE'S THERE.

AND OF COURSE CHIEF IS HERE TOO.

IF YOU HAVE ANY QUESTIONS, WE CAN DIRECT THEM TO HIM AS WELL.

ALRIGHT, THANK YOU.

NEXT COMMENT.

PEGGY KELTY, WELCOME.

IF YOU COULD PLEASE STATE YOUR NAME AND ADDRESS INTO THE RECORD.

MY NAME IS PEGGY KELTY.

I RESIDE AT 75 68 ASH LORD COURT.

SOME HAVE TOLD ME THAT THIS WAR HAS LESS LEFT THEM FEELING DISPOSABLE AND THAT LEADERSHIP OF ALL LEVELS OF GOVERNMENT MIGHT SEE THEM IN THE SAME WAY.

MEMBERS OF COUNCIL, CITY OF DUBLIN, STAFF AND COMMUNITY MEMBERS AND GUESTS, THANK YOU FOR THE OPPORTUNITY TO SPEAK THIS EVENING.

I DO NOT BELONG TO ANY OF THE GROUPS INVOLVED IN THE MIDDLE EAST CONFLICT.

I AM NOT PALESTINIAN, I AM NOT ISRAELI, I AM NOT MUSLIM, I AM NOT JEWISH.

BUT LIKE YOU AND MANY OF US HERE THIS EVENING, I'M A DUBLIN AND I'M HERE TONIGHT SPEAKING AS A PRIVATE CITIZEN IN SUPPORT OF ALL MY DUBLIN FRIENDS AND OUR GLOBAL NEIGHBORS WHO HAVE SUFFERED BECAUSE OF THE ONGOING WAR IN THE RE IN THAT REGION.

BOTH CITY COUNCIL AND DUBLIN CITY STAFF HAVE DONE A REMARKABLE JOB OF RECOGNIZING AND HONORING OUR COMMUNITY'S DIVERSITY, EITHER BY SUPPORTING, APPEARING, AND SPEAKING AT CULTURAL EVENTS OR THROUGH CREATIVE SOCIAL MEDIA POSTS MADE BY THE CITY IN CELEBRATION OF OUR CULTURAL DIVERSITY.

AS YOU STAND BY YOUR FRIENDS, NEIGHBORS AND CONSTITUENTS IN THEIR TIMES OF CELEBRATION, I AM REQUESTING THAT YOU ALSO ACKNOWLEDGE IN STAND BY THEM IN THEIR TIME OF SORROW.

I RESPECTFULLY ASK THE CITY COUNCIL TO ADOPT A CEASEFIRE RESOLUTION THAT RECOGNIZES ALL CITIZENS OF DUBLIN AND THEIR FAMILIES WHO HAVE BEEN AFFECTED BY THE EVENTS THAT OCCURRED ON AND AFTER OCTOBER 7TH, 2023.

ALL AFFECTED.

ALL WARS ARE UNJUST TO THE INNOCENT CIVILIANS CAUGHT IN THE CROSSFIRE, BUT WHAT WE ARE WITNESSING IN REAL TIME IS THE INTENTIONAL MISTREATMENT AND KILLING OF THE PALESTINIAN PEOPLE AND A WAR WITH AN END GOAL OF DESTROYING A NATION.

AND WHILE I KNOW THIS WAR IS OUT OF MY CONTROL, OUT OF OUR CONTROL, I WILL NOT STAND, STAND BY AND BE SILENT, A SILENT OBSERVER OF GENOCIDE.

UH, YOU MIGHT WONDER HOW THIS INTERNATIONAL CONFLICT RELATES TO THE CITY OF DUBLIN.

AND I WOULD LIKE TO SHARE WITH YOU ONE OF THE WAYS IT AFFECTS OUR COMMUNITY.

I READ THE CITY OF DUBLIN'S STRATEGIC FRAMEWORK TODAY.

IT SAYS THAT DUBLIN ASPIRES TO BE THE MOST SUSTAINABLE, CONNECTED, AND RESILIENT GLOBAL CITY OF CHOICE.

AND I'M AWARE THAT THIS CITY COUNCIL AND CITY STAFF ARE WORKING HARD TO ACHIEVE THOSE GOALS.

THE RESILIENCY COMPONENT OF THIS STATEMENT ADDRESSES PHYSICAL, MENTAL, SOCIAL AND EMOTIONAL WELLBEING OF THE PEOPLE WHO LIVE AND WORK IN DUBLIN.

COUNSEL, I HAVE HAD COMMUNITY MEMBERS ASK ME TO SPEAK IN SUPPORT OF A CEASEFIRE RESOLUTION BECAUSE SOME OF THEM DO NOT BELIEVE THAT YOU SEE THEM, THAT YOU HEAR THEM THAT OR THAT YOU ACKNOWLEDGE THEM.

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THAT'S UNACCEPTABLE TO KNOW MY NEIGHBORS FEEL THESE THINGS UNSEEN, UNACKNOWLEDGED, DISPOSABLE.

THAT'S DEVASTATING AND IT DEMONSTRATES A LACK OF WELLBEING IN THE COMMUNITY.

SO I ASK THIS COUNCIL TO PLEASE CONSIDER THIS COMMUNITY'S WELLBEING AND RESILIENCY.

I ASK THIS COUNCIL TO SEE AND ACKNOWLEDGE YOUR FRIENDS, YOUR NEIGHBORS, YOUR CONSTITUENTS, YOUR FELLOW DUBLINS, AND I ASK YOU TO PLEASE CONSIDER AND PASS A RESOLUTION CALLING FOR THE RE RELEASE OF ALL HOSTAGES, A CEASEFIRE AND A CALL FOR PEACE.

I WILL LEAVE YOU TONIGHT WITH A QUOTE MADE BY A PUBLIC HEALTH EDUCATOR FROM COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY, DR.

LUCKY TRAN, THE MOST CONSISTENT ETHICAL POSITION IS TO ALWAYS SPEAK OUT AGAINST MASS DEATH.

HUMANS, MOSTLY CIVILIANS, 70% OF THEM CHILDREN AND WOMEN, HOW DOES THAT MAKE ANYONE FEEL SAFE? HOW DOES KNOWING THAT YOU ARE FUNDING THEIR KILLING AND DESTRUCTION, MAKING YOU FEEL SAFE? AND HOW IS CALLING TO END? THIS IS THREATENING ANYONE'S SAFETY.

OUR NEXT PUBLIC COMMENT, SAMAYA HAMMAD, WELCOME.

IF YOU COULD PLEASE STATE YOUR NAME AND ADDRESS INTO THE RECORD.

OKAY, THANK YOU.

MY NAME IS SAMAYA HAMMAD.

UH, ADDRESS IS 6 8 3 0 BARMORE WAY.

UH, DUBLIN.

YEAH, .

SO, UH, LAST TWO WEEKS AGO EXACTLY DURING YOUR LAST MEETING, A GROUP OF GIRLS, 12 GIRLS TO BE EXACT, SPOKE IN FRONT OF YOU, UH, FOR ALMOST 45 MINUTES.

THIS GROUP OF GIRLS I HAVE BEEN MENTORING FOR THE LAST FIVE, SIX YEARS SINCE THEY WERE IN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL.

THEY HAVE DONE AMAZING WORK, VOLUNTEERING WORK FOR THE CITY OF DUBLIN AND THESE SURROUNDING CITIES.

THEY HAVE PUT HUNDREDS OF VOLUNTEER HOURS, CLEANING PARKS, VOLUNTEERING AT THE LIBRARY, HELPING AT THE FOOD PANTRY.

THEY'RE ACTUALLY A GROUP OF THEM HELP ADVOCATE FOR HAVING READ OUR MUSLIM HOLIDAY AS A DAY OFF AT THE HILLIARD SCHOOL.

AND THIS IS THE FIRST DISTRICT IN OHIO TO ACTUALLY ACHIEVE THIS BECAUSE OF THEM, THEY SPOKE FOR 45 MINUTES DESCRIBING THEIR AGONY, THEIR HEARTBREAK, THEIR SORROW AS THEIR SOCIAL MEDIA ACCOUNTS TURN INTO SCENES OF HORROR MOVIES WITH DEAD BODIES AND DESTRUCTION FROM RAZA.

'CAUSE MOST OF THEM ARE OF MIDDLE EASTERN ORIGINS.

YOUR REACTION, THANK YOU FOR YOUR PASSION.

BY THE WAY, MY DAUGHTER WANTED ME TO SAY, SPEAKING IN FRONT OF CITY COUNCIL MEMBER IS NOT HER PASSION.

AND THEN YOU PULLED A 4-YEAR-OLD RESOLUTION THAT DENOUNCES HATE IN THE CITY OF DUBLIN.

THEY HAVE NEVER FELT SO DISAPPOINTED AND SO HEARTBROKEN.

AFTER THEY LEFT THIS MEETING, ONE OF THEM ZAINA ACTUALLY TOLD ME, HALE, WHICH MEANS AUNTIE IN ARABIC, WHAT DOES THIS MEAN? DID THEY EVEN LISTEN TO WHAT WE WERE SAYING? MEANWHILE, WE, THE ADULT IN THE ROOM, WERE TRYING TO MEET WITH YOU, OUR ELECTED OFFICIALS FOR THE LAST FOUR WEEKS, WE HAVE EMAILED, WE HAVE ASKED FOR INDIVIDUAL MEETINGS.

WE DO UNDERSTAND THE SUNSHINE LAW.

SO WE ARE TRYING TO, YOU KNOW, REACH TO EACH INDIVIDUAL, ONE OF YOU.

BUT NOTHING HAPPENED.

WE WERE DEFERRED TO THE CITY MANAGER WHO GRACIOUSLY MET WITH US FOR ALMOST TWO HOURS.

WE SHARED OUR STORIES WITH HER AND OUR HEARTBREAK AND OUR PAIN, OUR COMMUNITY'S PAIN, OUR PEOPLE'S PAIN.

NOTHING HAPPENED.

ACTUALLY FEW OF US RECEIVED EMAILS TWO DAYS AFTER.

I'M SORRY, I'M FASTING, SO MY HEART IS, MY MOUTH IS REALLY DRY.

SO WE RECEIVED AN EMAIL FROM YOU GIVING US THE PHONE NUMBERS OF OUR REPRESENTATIVE IN CONGRESS AND SAYING THAT YOUR NUMBER ONE ISSUE IS THE SAFETY OF THE CITIZEN OF DUBLINS.

AND I WANNA ASSURE YOU THAT I HAVE BEEN CALLING, I HAVE MY REPRESENTATIVES IN CONGRESS, PHONE NUMBERS SAVED IN MY PHONE.

I HAVE BEEN CALLING SENATOR BROWN, SENATOR VANCE AND REPRESENTATIVE CAREY FOR THE LAST FIVE MONTHS EVERY DAY EXCEPT THE LAST MONTH THAT I, I GAVE UP.

HONESTLY, I HAVE BEEN CALLING THEM AND HUNDREDS OF MY OWN COMMUNITIES HAVE BEEN CALLING THEM AND THEY HAVE FAILED US.

OUR FEDERAL GOVERNMENT HAS FAILED US MISERABLY.

AND THAT'S WHY WE DECIDED TO COME TO YOU, OUR LOCAL REPRESENTATIVES TO SHARE OUR PAIN WITH YOU, HOPING THAT YOU'LL BE LISTENING TO US AND DOING SOMETHING TO SHOW IT.

THEN FOR THE ISSUE OF SAFETY, YOU SAID LIKE YOUR CONCERN IS SAFETY.

AND I WANNA ASK YOU LIKE GENUINE QUESTION.

HOW IS PARTICIPATING IN THE KILLING OF 30,000

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I I CANNOT FATHOM THIS HONESTLY.

ALL WE ARE CALLING FOR IS CALL FOR CEASEFIRE, CALL FOR PEACE CALL TO AN END OF THIS DESTRUCT, DESTRUCTION OF A WHOLE CIVILIZATION OF INDIVIDUALS, THEIR DESTRUCTION OF CULTURE, OF MUSEUMS, OF LIFE, OF HOMES, OF HOSPITALS.

WE ARE JUST ASKING YOU TO SAY, WE DO NOT STAND FOR THIS.

THOSE ARE SHARED HUMAN VALUES THAT EVERYONE SHOULD AGREE ON.

IT SHOULD NOT BE THREATENING TO ANYONE'S SAFETY TO CALL FOR AN END TO STARVATION OF CHILDREN.

THAT HAS BEEN ONGOING ON NOW I'VE BEEN FASTING AND I'M UNABLE TO BREAK MY FAST KNOWING THAT MY FELLOW PEOPLE IN ZA DO NOT EVEN HAVE A DATE TO BREAK THEIR FAST, DO NOT HAVE ACCESS TO CLEAN WATER.

HUNDREDS OF CIVILIANS ALREADY PASSED AWAY BECAUSE OF STARVATION.

A MAN MADE STARVATION THAT IS FUNDED BY OUR OWN TAX MONEY AND OUR OWN TAX DOLLARS.

I DUNNO, HOW DOES THAT MAKE, MAKE YOU FEEL SAFE? AND I DO NOT KNOW HOW DOES CALLING TO END THIS IS THREATENING THE SAFETY OF ANYONE.

I HAVE FIVE, FIVE SECONDS LEFT AND I'M GOING TO PRAY THAT GOD THE ALMIGHTY WOULD OPEN YOUR HEARTS, YOUR EYES, AND YOUR MINDS TO TAKE ACTION.

NEXT LILA ALBA, WELCOME.

IF YOU COULD PLEASE STATE YOUR NAME AND ADDRESS INTO THE RECORD.

LILA ALBA, 4 6 2 7 GWINNETT COURT.

GOOD EVENING, MAYOR.

CITY COUNCIL MEMBERS.

I'VE BEEN A DUBLIN RESIDENT FOR THE LAST 15 YEARS, AND I WORK AS AN INSTRUCTIONAL COACH WITH HILLIARD CITY SCHOOLS.

I THOUGHT LONG AND HARD ABOUT WHAT I SHOULD SHARE WITH YOU TONIGHT.

INITIALLY I THOUGHT I WOULD COME AND SHARE THE NUMBER OF PEOPLE THAT WERE KILLED IN GAZA, BUT THEN I QUESTIONED MYSELF.

WHY SHOULD I NEED TO DO THAT? ONE INNOCENT LIFE TAKEN AWAY SHOULD BE SIMPLY ONE TOO MANY, LET ALONE THOUSANDS, TENS OF THOUSANDS OF INNOCENT LIVES.

AS I THOUGHT MORE AND MORE ABOUT WHAT TO SAY, ONE QUESTION KEPT CIRCLING MY MIND.

WHY DO WE NEED TO END? WHY DO WE NEED TO BEG FOR AN END? UH, WHY DO WE NEED TO BEG FOR AN END TO DEATH AND BLOODSHED? HOW IS THIS ASK CONSIDERED POLITICAL OR CONTROVERSIAL? WHAT AM I MISSING? MY FAITH TEACHES ME TO ADVOCATE FOR JUSTICE.

THIS IS BECAUSE IF WE AS HUMANS LOSE OUR MORAL DIRECTION, WE RISK CREATING A WORLD FILLED WITH DARKNESS AND CORRUPTION.

THROUGHOUT HISTORY, SILENCE HAS ALLOWED TERRIBLE THINGS TO HAPPEN FROM THE HOLOCAUST TO SLAVERY, TO SEGREGATION.

IN OUR SCHOOLS TODAY, WE INSTILL IN OUR STUDENTS THE PRINCIPLES THAT BYSTANDERS MUST NOT STAY SILENT.

WHEN SOMEONE IS SUFFERING, THE SITUATION AT HAND IS NO EXCEPTION, ESPECIALLY CONSIDERING THAT IT INVOLVES OUR OWN TAX DOLLARS.

ADVOCATING FOR JUSTICE IS NEVER EASY.

IT REQUIRES COURAGE.

AS HUMANS, IT'S OUR DUTY TO PROMOTE PEACE AND OPPOSE INJUSTICE.

WHILE SOME MAY VIEW THAT THE SITUATION IN GAZA AS DISTANT, IT'S CRUCIAL TO REMEMBER OUR COMPLICITY THROUGH OUR TAX DOLLARS, FUNDING THE ISRAELI GOVERNMENT'S ACTIONS, WE CANNOT EVADE RESPONSIBILITY FOR THE BLOODSHED OCCURRING THOUSANDS OF MILES AWAY.

WHILE I UNDERSTAND THAT THE DUBLIN CITY COUNCIL'S INFLUENCE MAY BE LIMITED AND OUR CITY MAY SEEM SMALL ON THE GLOBAL STAGE, OUR STATEMENTS DO CARRY WEIGHT.

THEY RESONATE WITH YOUR CONSTITUENTS AND THEY LEAVE AN IMPRESSION ON THE YOUTH WHO OBSERVE THEIR ELECTED REPRESENTATIVE'S RESPONSE TO INJUSTICE.

OUR OUR WORDS MATTER BECAUSE THEY INSPIRE COURAGE AND OTHERS TO CONFRONT INJUSTICE.

HEAD-ON IN THIS MOMENT, I'M REMINDED OF MUHAMMAD ALI'S INCREDIBLE COURAGE.

HE BRAVELY OPPOSED THE VIETNAM WAR DESPITE FACING BACKLASH AND RISKING HIS CAREER FAME HEAVYWEIGHT CHAMPIONSHIP TITLE.

YET HIS UNWAVERING STANCE HAS MADE HIM ONE OF THE MOST REVERED AND BELOVED FIGURES OF ALL TIME.

STANDING UP FOR JUSTICE IS NOT EASY, BUT IT'S THE RIGHT THING TO DO.

LET'S CALL FOR A CEASEFIRE NOW.

AT 6 7 5, 6 BALLANT TRADE PLACE, DUBLIN, OHIO.

NEXT NORA AMARA, WELCOME.

IF YOU COULD PLEASE STATE YOUR NAME AND ADDRESS INTO THE RECORD.

GOOD EVENING EVERYBODY.

I'M NORA MARA.

I RESIDE

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I AM A MOTHER OF FOUR PRECIOUS CHILDREN OF PHARMACISTS, A DEDICATED COMMUNITY VOLUNTEER, AND A COMMITTEE MEMBER FOR THE CITY OF DUBLIN'S COMMUNITY INCLUSION ADVISORY COMMITTEE.

I AM PROUD TO BE A RESIDENT OF DUBLIN, A GLOBAL CITY OF CHOICE THAT HOLDS ITSELF TO THE HIGHEST MORAL INTEGRITY AND VISIONARY LEADERSHIP.

IT IS SO NICE TO SEE FAMILIAR FACES HERE TODAY.

I WANTED TO WISH EVERYONE A RAMADAN MUBARAK FOR THOSE THAT ARE IN OUR ROOM AND OBSERVING AND, UM, FOR LIGHTING THE BRIDGE FOR US YESTERDAY.

I APPRECIATE THAT I STAND HERE TODAY ON THE FIRST DAY OF RAMADAN, A HOLY MONTH IN THE MUSLIM FAITH THAT REPRESENTS PEACE, EMPATHY, RESILIENCE, AND SELF-REFLECTION.

JUST LAST YEAR AROUND THIS TIME, REBECCA MEYERS WAS AT MY HOUSE FILMING THE RAMADAN REEL FOR THE CITY OF DUBLIN WITH MY CHILDREN.

SPEAKING ABOUT THE SPIRIT AND SIGNIFICANCE OF RAMADAN, MY HOUSE WAS DECORATED RAMADAN GOAL SET, MEAL MENUS, PLANNED INVITES SENT OUT.

IT WAS A FESTIVE AND EXCITING START TO RAMADAN.

UNFORTUNATELY THIS YEAR ON THIS VERY SYMBOLIC FIRST DAY OF RAMADAN, I AM NOT ENGAGED IN OUR SACRED TRADITIONS OF GATHERING WITH MY FAMILY OR BREAKING FAST AT MY LOCAL MOSQUE WITH MY CONGREGATION.

INSTEAD, WE ARE ALL HERE AT CITY CHAMBERS, FASTING WITH PARCHED LIPS, DRY THROATS, AND EMPTY STOMACHS.

BECAUSE OF THE IMMENSE IMPORTANCE AND URGENCY REGARDING THE GENOCIDE IN GAZA THAT IS AFFECTING OUR LOCAL, STATE, NATIONAL, AND GLOBAL COMMUNITIES.

THIS YEAR, RAMADAN LOOKS MUCH DIFFERENT AND IS MUCH MORE SOMBER FOR MUSLIMS AND HUMANS ALL OVER THE GLOBE.

WITHIN MY OWN HOUSEHOLD, WE HAVE BEEN BURIED IN ANGUISH, WATCHING CHILDREN BECOME ORPHANS, BUILDINGS CRUSHING THEIR LIMBS, BLOODIED BODIES PULLED OUT OF THE RUBBLE, SKELETONS OF INFANTS LAYING IN INCUBATORS AND RANDOM LIMBS SCATTERED ON THE BLOODY STREETS OF GAZA.

IMAGES OF GENOCIDE LIVE STREAMED ACROSS OUR SCREENS IN 2024, ONE DID NOT THINK THIS IS POSSIBLE, AS IF THAT IS NOT ENOUGH, THE AGGRESSION HAS INTENSIFIED IN RAMADAN, MAKING IT NOT ONLY IMPOSSIBLE FOR PALESTINIANS TO FAST, BUT RATHER BEING INTENTIONALLY STARVED BY THE ISRAELI OCCUPATION FORCES BY DENYING ANY HUMANITARIAN AID TO ENTER.

OUR MUSLIM COMMUNITY IS PURPOSELY NOT POSTING ANY PICTURES OF RAMADAN FEASTS OR FESTIVITIES ON SOCIAL MEDIA THIS YEAR.

OUT OF AN ABUNDANCE OF COMPASSION THAT DOZENS WILL SEE US EATING AS THEY ARE BEING STARVED.

IT HAS ESTIMATED THAT OVER HALF A MILLION PEOPLE RISK STARVING TO DEATH IN THE COMING DAYS.

RIGHT NOW, AS I STAND BEFORE YOU, FIVE KIDS ARE DYING EVERY HOUR.

TO PUT THAT IN PERSPECTIVE, IN THAT TIME SITTING HERE, MY WHOLE FAMILY WOULD'VE BEEN WIPED OFF THE FACE OF THE PLANET.

GAZA HAS BECOME KNOWN THE DEADLIEST PLACE ON EARTH FOR CHILDREN TO DATE 30,000 HUMAN BEINGS AND 10,000 AND COUNTING HAVE BEEN 30,000 HUMAN BEINGS HAVE BEEN KILLED AND 10,000 STILL MISSING UNDER THE RUBBLE.

AND I EMPHASIZE HUMANS BECAUSE THAT IS WHAT MATTER WHAT MAKES THIS MATTER TO YOU AND ME.

WE BLEED THE SAME BLOOD, LOVE THE SAME, AND HAVE HOPES AND DREAMS ALL IN THE SAME MANNER BECAUSE OF THE SHARED HUMANITY.

IN DECEMBER, BETHLEHEM, THE CITY AND BIRTHPLACE OF JESUS CHRIST, AS WELL AS THE CHURCH OF NATIVITY CANCELED CHRISTMAS.

THIS WAS DONE AS A SYMBOLIC AND EMPATHETIC STATEMENT, A MOURNING FOR THE SLAUGHTER OF BOTH CHRISTIANS AND MUSLIMS PALESTINIANS.

FURTHERMORE, FOUR MAJOR CHURCHES, ONE OF THEM BEING THE THIRD OLDEST IN THE WORLD WERE DESTROYED.

THE POPE IN THE VATICAN SAID, AND I QUOTE, THIS IS TERRORISM AND HAS GONE ON TO SAY, I BEG YOU TO STOP IN THE NAME OF GOD CEASE FIRE.

HIS SYMBOLIC STATEMENTS SHOWED THE WORLD PALESTINIANS ARE HUMANS AS YOURS CAN TOO.

SO IF OUR SHARED HUMANITY IS NOT ENOUGH OF A REASON TO BE JARRING AND MOVING, JU MOVED INTO CALLING FOR PEACE AND AN END TO KILLING OUR INTERTWINED SAFETY SHOULD BE.

AS MUSLIMS, CHRISTIANS, JEWS, OUR SAFETY IS ALL WRAPPED TOGETHER, ALL RACES AND RELIGIONS FEEL VULNERABLE WHEN INDISCRIMINATE KILLING IS HAPPENING IN THEIR NAME, PUTTING EVERYONE AT RISK FOR THE SAKE OF TIME, I'M GONNA SKIP TO MY PRAYER.

I LEAVE YOU WITH THIS PRAYER IN THE HOLY MONTH OF RAMADAN.

I PRAY FOR THE PEACEFUL COEXISTENCE OF PALESTINE.

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MAY THE SUFFERING AND ANGUISH OF THE PALESTINIANS END AS SOON AS POSSIBLE.

MAY WE BE FORGIVEN FOR THE WORLD'S EVIL AND TURN AND TURNING A BLIND EYE TO THEIR SLAUGHTER.

MAY THE PEOPLE IN THIS ROOM'S HEARTS BE OPENED AND RESTORED WITH HUMANITY AND COMPASSION AS YOU DELIBERATE ON THE CEASEFIRE RESOLUTION PRESENTED TO YOU.

THANK YOU FOR YOUR TIME.

NEXT SWA RA WELCOME.

IF YOU COULD PLEASE STATE YOUR NAME AND ADDRESS INTO THE RECORD.

HELLO, MY NAME IS SWA RAC AND MY ADDRESS IS 4 6 2 7 GUEN COURT.

DEAR DUBLIN, CITY, COUNCIL AND MAYOR, MY NAME IS AL AKK AND I'M A FRESHMAN AT OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY.

I STAND BEFORE YOU TODAY WITH A HEAVY HEART BURDENED BY THE WEIGHT OF THE SUFFERING OF PALESTINIANS AND THE SUFFERING THEY HAVE BEEN FACING SINCE 1948.

A GENOCIDE IS OCCURRING RIGHT BEFORE OUR EYES, YET WE'RE FAILING TO END THIS CRISIS.

THE CRISIS OF INNOCENT CIVILIANS, YOUNG CHILDREN, PARENTS AND GRANDPARENTS, UM, AND GRANDPARENTS ARE BEING HEARD.

BUT WHY IS IT THAT WE'RE NOT RESPONDING? WHY ARE WE NOT STANDING UP FOR JUSTICE? AND WHY ARE WE ALLOWING HISTORY TO REPEAT ITSELF? I URGE YOU TO PLEASE RISE ABOVE ANY POLITICAL DIVIDES AND ADVOCATE FOR AN IMMEDIATE CEASEFIRE IN GAZA.

MILLIONS OF LIVES ARE AT RISK, AND THOUSANDS HAVE ALREADY DIED.

THE TIME FOR ACTION IS NOW.

EACH MOMENT THAT PASSES ONLY FURTHER DEEPENS THE WOUNDS OF AN ALREADY WOUNDED LAND.

HOW CAN WE ALLOW OURSELVES TO BE BYSTANDERS TO A HU TO A HUMAN TRAGEDY UNFOLDING RIGHT BEFORE US? IS THIS WHAT WE WANT OUR CHILDREN, GRANDCHILDREN, AND THEIR CHILDREN TO READ ABOUT IN THEIR HISTORY BOOKS? DO YOU THINK THEY'LL NOT WONDER WHY WE DID NOT STAND UP FOR SUCH INJUSTICES OCCURRING IN PALESTINE? THE NUMBER OF DEATHS WOUNDED AND DISPLACED PEOPLE ARE NOT JUST STATISTICS.

THEY'RE MOTHERS, FATHERS, SONS AND DAUGHTERS, CHILDREN WHO SHOULD BE GOING TO SCHOOL THINKING ABOUT WHAT COLOR PENCIL THEY HAVE OR WHAT THEIR BOMB PACKED FOR LUNCH ARE.

INSTEAD TAKING SHELTER FROM THE SOUNDS OF EXPLOSIONS, LOOKING UP TO THE SKY, FEELING THEIR END IS NEAR HOSPITALS, HOMES, DAYCARES, SCHOOLS, MOSQUES, AND CHURCHES HAVE BEEN WIPED DOWN.

THEY'VE BEEN BOMBED AND TURNED INTO RUBBLE.

WHILE WE HAVE THE LUXURY OF CHOOSING WHAT WE WANT TO EAT, CHILDREN ARE STARVING TO DEATH.

OVER 2 MILLION PEOPLE IN GAZA CURRENTLY ARE DEPRIVED OF FOOD AND WATER.

2 MILLION PARENTS, SIBLINGS, AND FRIENDS ARE BURYING THEIR LOVED ONES MANY TIMES, BURYING ONLY PARTS OF THEIR LOVED ONES.

HOW CAN WE GO ON WITH OUR LIVES WHILE OTHERS ARE SUFFERING? WHO CAN USE OUR HELP? WE CANNOT TURN A BLIND EYE TO THE COLLECTIVE SUFFERING THAT HAS GRIPPED THE REGION.

THE CURRENT SITUATION IN GAZA IS DIRE.

THE EFFECT OF INJUSTICES FACED BY PALESTINIANS IS IMMEASURABLE.

THE PSYCHOLOGICAL SCARS OF THIS CONFLICT WILL LAST FOR GENERATIONS.

AND TO MINIMIZE THESE EFFECTS, WE MUST URGENTLY CALL FOR A CEASEFIRE.

BY CALLING FOR AN IMMEDIATE CEASEFIRE, YOU'RE SENDING A POWERFUL MESSAGE THAT YOU VALUE HUMAN LIFE AB ALL ABOVE ALL ELSE.

OUR VOICES MATTER.

AND YOUR VOICES MATTER.

WHEN YOU AS A REPRESENTATIVE STAND, STAND UP AND CALL FOR A CEASEFIRE, YOU ARE STANDING UP FOR THE PRINCIPLES OF PEACE, JUSTICE, AND HUMANITY THAT OUR NATION HOLDS DEAR.

IN SUPPORTING A CEASEFIRE, YOU ARE STANDING WITH THE MILLIONS THAT ARE OPPRESSED.

YOU WOULD BE STANDING WITH CHIL WITH CHILDREN WHO HAVE BECOME ORPHANS, PARENTS WHO HAVE LOST THEIR CHILDREN, SEVERELY INJURED MEN AND WOMEN FRIENDS WHO HAVE BURIED THEIR LOVED ONES, NEWS REPORTERS WHO WERE KILLED FOR SPEAKING THE TRUTH, AND DOCTORS WHO ARE SAVING LIVES.

I ASK YOU TO PLEASE STAND FOR THE OPPRESSED AND THE MILLIONS WHO HAVE BEEN AFFECTED BY THIS ONGOING GENOCIDE IN PALESTINE.

THE TIME IS NOW AND YOU MUST TAKE RESPONSIBILITY AND VOICE OUR CONCERNS.

LET US BE THE VOICE OF REASON THAT ADVOCATES FOR COMPASSION AND STANDS AGAINST INJUSTICE.

I URGE YOU TO PUT OUT A STATEMENT CALLING FOR AN IMMEDIATE AND PERMANENT CEASEFIRE INSO FOR THE SAKE OF HUMANITY.

NEXT BORA ALRI, WELCOME.

IF YOU COULD PLEASE STEP FORWARD AND STATE YOUR NAME AND ADDRESS INTO THE RECORD.

IT IS OVER HALF THE POPULATION OF DUBLIN, OUR CITY.

MY NAME IS BUS ARI AND I LIVE AT 6 2 6 0 POST ROAD.

I WAS HERE TWO WEEKS AGO.

I'M I'M ONE OF THE, UM, GIRLS THAT SUMAYA ALMAN WAS TALKING ABOUT EARLIER.

AND HONESTLY, I'M HURT BY YOUR ACTIONS.

I CAME HERE ASKING TO BE HEARD AND I HAVE NOT FELT THAT 30,000, 30,000 LIVES LOST.

THAT IS NOT JUST A NUMBER, IT'S A HEART WRENCHING REALITY.

TO PUT IT IN PERSPECTIVE,

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NOW CLOSE YOUR EYES AND PICTURE WAKING UP TO HALF OUR CITY GONE WIPED OUT.

YOUR SONS, YOUR DAUGHTERS, YOUR MOTHERS, YOUR FATHERS, YOUR NEIGHBORS, YOUR FRIENDS, ALL DEAD.

IN JUST FIVE MONTHS LIVES WERE EX EXTINGUISHED, LEAVING BEHIND A TRAIL OF GRIEF AND DESPAIR.

BUT IT'S NOT ONLY LIVES THAT WERE LOST, IT'S THE ONES THAT WERE LEFT BEHIND.

THE ONES THAT ARE STARVING, TRAPPED UNDER THE RUBBLE, UNABLE TO ACCESS MEDICAL CARE, LIVING IN CONSTANT FEAR, FATHERS CRADLING THEIR LIFELESS DAUGHTERS CHILDREN FORCED INTO ROLES THEY SHOULD NEVER HAVE TO BEAR.

MOTHERS GIVING BIRTH AMIDST DESTRUCTION, SONS SCAVENGING FOR FOOD HOMES REDUCED TO NOTHING BUT RUINS.

WE CANNOT TURN A BLIND EYE TO THIS SUFFERING.

WE CANNOT IGNORE THE CRIES OF HELP ECHOING THROUGH THE RUBBLE.

IT'S TIME TO ACT, IT'S TIME TO DO WHAT IS RIGHT.

I ASK THAT YOU, THE COUNCIL OF DUBLIN, CALL FOR AN IMMEDIATE IMPERMANENCE FIRE.

DO YOUR DUTIES AS HUMAN BEINGS.

LET US STAND TOGETHER, UNITED IN OUR SHARED HUMANITY, AND LET US SHOW COMPASSION AND EMPATHY.

ABOVE ALL, LET'S CHOOSE PEACE.

CALL FOR AN IMMEDIATE AND PERMANENT CEASE FIRE.

I, UH, RA WELCOME.

IF YOU COULD PLEASE STEP FORWARD AND STATE YOUR NAME AND ADDRESS INTO THE RECORD.

MY NAME'S AYA ASRA.

I LIVE AT 4 6 2 7 GWINNETT COURT, DUBLIN.

I'M NOT ORIGINALLY FROM ZA AND I'M NOT FROM PALESTINE, BUT YOU DON'T HAVE TO BE PALESTINIAN TO UNDERSTAND THAT THE KILLING OF ANY INNOCENT CIVILIAN IS WRONG HERE IN DUBLIN AND IN MOST PLACES IN THE WORLD.

WE'RE BUSY WITH WORK, SOCIAL GATHERINGS AND DINNER IN ZA.

THESE ROUTINES HAVE VANISHED, REPLACED BY GATHERING AROUND RARE AID PACKAGES ARE BURYING THEIR DEAD.

HERE IN DUBLIN, WE LIVE IN NICE HOMES WITH RUNNING WATER, FULL PANTRIES AND COMFORTABLE BEDS.

AND YOU'RE PROBABLY NOW EXPECTING ME TO SAY SOMETHING ALONG THE LINES OF HOW PEOPLE INZA DON'T HAVE THESE THINGS, BUT I'M GONNA PHRASE IT DIFFERENTLY.

THEY DID HAVE THESE THINGS.

AND TO TAKE SOMETHING AWAY FROM SOMEONE THAT THEY ONCE HAD IS EVEN MORE HEARTBREAKING AND SOMETHING THAT I WISH NONE OF US WILL EVER HAVE TO EXPERIENCE.

THE SAD THING IS THAT PEOPLE IN ZA AREN'T JUST REMINISCING ABOUT THEIR BEAUTIFUL FURNITURE.

THEY'RE NICE HOUSES AND THEIR BEDROOMS AND FULL CLOSETS.

THEY'RE WAY PAST THAT.

THEY'RE NOW MORE THAN EVER REMINISCING BASIC HUMAN RIGHTS.

SO MANY OF THEM, GIVEN THE OPPORTUNITY, WOULD GIVE THE WHOLE WORLD JUST TO BE ABLE TO SHOWER OR EAT A PIECE OF BREAD.

PEOPLE IN ZA ARE BEING DENIED THEIR BASIC HUMAN RIGHTS OF FOOD, SHELTER, SHELTER, SAFETY, AND CLEAN WATER.

BUT THEY'RE ALL BEING SUBJECTED TO TRAUMA WAY BEYOND OUR IMAGINATION HERE IN DUBLIN.

MANY OF US LIKE TO SAY WE HAVE CHILDHOOD TRAUMA.

AND I'M NOT TRYING TO INVALIDATE THAT TRAUMA 'CAUSE I'M SURE IT IS REAL, BUT IT'LL NEVER COMPARE TO THE TRAUMA HAPPENING IN ZEL TO BE TOLD BY YOUR PARENTS THAT WE ARE MOVING SOUTH BECAUSE FORCES SAID THAT THERE IS SAFE PASSAGE AND YOU AND YOUR FAMILY WALK FOR HOURS WITH NOTHING CARRYING A WHITE FLAG SYMBOLIZING PEACE ONLY TO SEE YOUR MOTHER OR YOUR BROTHER, UH, KILLED BY THE SAME FORCES WHO SAID THAT THEY WOULD BE SAFE.

TRAUMA IS BEING SENT TO THE HOSPITAL TO GET SURGERY OR HAVE A LIMB AMPUTATED AFTER A BOMBING WITHOUT ANESTHESIA AND WITHOUT YOUR FAMILY FOR SUPPORT.

SO TALK ABOUT LOSING SOMETHING YOU HAD, LIKE LOSING LIMBS, LOSING YOUR FAMILY, LOSING YOUR HOME, AND THE PAIN OF THAT SURGERY BEING INGRAINED IN YOUR MIND FOR AS LONG AS YOU LIVE.

ALWAYS ON REPEAT HERE IN DUBLIN, WHEN WE LOSE SOMEONE WE LOVE, WE TAKE LEAVE FROM WORK TO MOURN LOSS AND HAS THAT NOT ONLY ARE THEY DENIED BASIC HUMAN RIGHTS, BUT THEY CAN'T EVEN MOURN THEIR OWN FAMILIES.

AND I SAY ALL THIS, NOT JUST FEAR SYMPATHY, BUT I SAY THIS SO THAT YOU CAN SIMPLY CALL FOR A CEASEFIRE JUST FOR THAT.

JUST FOR YOU TO BE ABLE TO SAY THAT INNOCENT LIVES BEING KILLED FOR FIVE MONTHS STRAIGHT NEEDS TO COME TO AN END.

SURPRISINGLY I FELT NO PAIN.

LINDSAY AMMAR KWA, WELCOME.

IF YOU COULD PLEASE STATE YOUR NAME AND ADDRESS INTO THE RECORD.

UH, THANK YOU.

UH, MY NAME IS AMMAR KAWA AND I LIVE AT 6 8 3 0 SMORE WAY.

UH, I DID KNEE SURGERY ABOUT A WEEK AGO, AND

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AND THAT WASN'T BECAUSE I WAS A TOUGH GUY, BECAUSE I WAS DRUGGED THROUGHOUT THE, ALL, ALL OF THE DURATION OF THE OPERATION.

NOW, I COULD NEVER IMAGINE THE PAIN I WOULD, I WOULD'VE ENDURED HAD I NOT BEEN UNDER ANESTHESIA.

WELL, IF I AM IN GAZA, LIVING IN GAZA, THIS IS EXACTLY WHAT I WOULD HAVE ENDURED BECAUSE, BECAUSE OF THE WAR THAT'S HAPPENING, BECAUSE OF THE SHELLING, BECAUSE OF THE TARGETED KILLING OF, OF PEOPLE TARGETED, UH, UH, UH, BOMBING OF HOSPITALS, THERE IS NO BASIC NEEDS INCLUDING MEDICINE.

NOW.

IT IS, IT IS ONE PICTURE TO IMAGINE A 40-YEAR-OLD SUCH AS MYSELF, UH, HAVING, UH, SURGERY WITHOUT ANESTHESIA.

HOWEVER, IT'S HARD TO IMAGINE HOW A 7-YEAR-OLD WOULD HAVE HIS OR HER LIMBS AMPUTATED WITHOUT ANESTHESIA.

I MEAN, CAN YOU JUST HEAR HER CRIES? CAN YOU HEAR HER CRYING? CAN YOU HEAR HER PAIN IN HER CRY? CAN YOU SEE THE FRUSTRATION IN HER MOTHER WHEN SHE'S HOPELESS AND HELPLESS, NOT BEING ABLE TO DO ANYTHING TO HELP HER CHILD? AND, AND, AND I HONESTLY HEAR THAT, AND THAT KEEPS ME UP AT NIGHT AND IT SHOULD KEEP ALL OF US UP AT NIGHT.

NOW, I'M NOT A, UH, I'M, I'M NOT FROM GAZA.

I DON'T KNOW ANYONE IN GAZA, BUT WHAT I KNOW IS THAT THESE ARE HUMAN BEINGS THAT ARE BEING SLAUGHTERED IN A GENOCIDE THAT IS, UH, UH, UNFOLDING IN FRONT OF OUR EYES.

AND THE BASIC MINIMUM WE COULD DO IS SAY NO TO THIS AND TRY TO STOP IT.

AND THAT'S WHY I'M CALLING MY, UH, LOCAL REPRESENTATIVES IN THE CITY OF DUBLIN TO ISSUE A RESOLUTION FOR AN IMMEDIATE CEASEFIRE.

NOW, WHY WOULD WE NEED TO CALL FOR THAT? BECAUSE FIRST OF ALL, THIS IS THE HUMANE THING TO DO.

THIS IS THE RIGHT THING TO DO.

WE NEED TO BE ON THE RIGHT SIDE OF HISTORY.

IMAGINE WE WERE LIVING AT THE AGE OF THE HOLOCAUST AND WE HAD A CHANCE TO ACT AND WE DIDN'T.

WHAT IS GONNA BE WRITTEN ON US IN, IN THE BOOKS OF HISTORY? NOW, I, I, AS I'M READING THE, UH, UH, DUBLIN'S JOURNEY, THE FIRST BOOK THAT WAS, UH, ISSUED IN 2004 THAT TALKS ABOUT THE HISTORY OF DUBLIN, I AM SURE WE WILL HAVE FUTURE EDITIONS OF THIS BOOK.

AND I WANNA MAKE SURE THAT MY CITY IS ON THE RIGHT PATH OF HISTORY, MAKES THE RIGHT HUMANE DECISION, AND I WANNA MAKE SURE THAT FUTURE EDITIONS OF THE DUBLIN JOURNEY BOOK STATES THIS TIME WHEN DUBLIN TOOK A STAND AND SAID NO TO GENOCIDE AND STOP THE CEASEFIRE.

I WANT THE REFRAIN THAT THE FAMOUS REFRAIN TO SAY, TO SOUND SOMETHING LIKE DUBLIN, CITY OF BEAUTIFUL ROSES, CLEAN PARKS, AND WEALTHY CAUSES.

IF IT WEREN'T FOR YOUR VOTE ON CEASEFIRE CREATION, IT'D BE GONE TO HILL AND DAMNATION.

NEXT LINDSEY RA WELCOME.

IF YOU COULD PLEASE STATE YOUR NAME AND ADDRESS INTO THE RECORD.

IS SOMETHING THAT ALL HUMANITARIAN ORGANIZATIONS UNITED NATIONS ASKING FOR, FOR, I'M GONNA QUOTE ACTUALLY, UH, DOCTORS WITHOUT BORDERS.

MY NAME IS IAD EZRA.

I LIVE AT 4 6 2 7 GWINNETT COURT.

I AM AN OPHTHALMOLOGIST.

I'VE BEEN TEACHING AT OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY FOR THE PAST 15, 16 YEARS.

AND, UH, I'M STANDING IN FRONT OF YOU TO ASK FOR, UH, C FIVE DEMANDING FOR ASKING FOR A CEASEFIRE, UH, REQUEST AND DEMAND.

UH, PEOPLE IN GAZA HAVE BEEN ENDURING SUFFERING FOR THE PAST FIVE MONTHS.

EVERYBODY TALKED AHEAD OF ME, GAVE A LOT OF OF TESTIMONY AND STORIES THAT REALLY HEARTBREAKING FOR EVERYONE.

AND THE BOMBARDMENT IN THOSE CIVILIAN AREAS MADE THE AREAS UN REALLY CANNOT BE INHABITABLE ANYMORE.

THEY CANNOT, THE MOST OF THE HOUSES, HOMES BEING DESTROYED.

THE CALL OF CEASEFIRE IS REALLY NOT A POLITICAL STAND THAT WE ARE ASKING FOR.

IT'S VERY SIMPLE DEMAND FOR STOPPING OF THE KILLING THAT HAPPENING INDISCRIMINATELY.

THIS

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DOCTOR WITHOUT BORDERS MADE A STATEMENT RECENTLY BECAUSE AS PEOPLE MENTIONED EARLIER, UH, THE, THE PEOPLE WERE ASKING REZA TO GO TO SOUTH.

HOWEVER, NOW THE BOMBING AND THE WAR IS IN THE SOUTH.

THERE IS NOWHERE ELSE TO GO.

AND DR.

WITHOUT BORDER SAID, AND I'M CODING, DR.

WITHOUT BORDERS, IS CALLING FOR AN IMMEDIATE AND SUSTAINED CEASEFIRE TO SAVE LIVES AND RESTORE THE FLOW OF HUMANITARIAN AID.

SINCE THE ISRAEL II GOVERNMENT BEGAN CARRYING OUT MILITARY OPERATION IN RAFA, UH, IN FEBRUARY 9TH, THE SITUATION IN GAZA HAS ESCALATED TO NEW LEVEL OF EMERGENCY END OF CODE.

THIS WAR IS ACTUALLY USING OUR TAX MONEY AND THE WEAPONS THAT MADE IN UNITED STATES.

TAKING STAND IN THIS WAR IS IMPORTANT FOR US, AT LEAST.

WE ARE NOT SILENT AT THE TIME IN THE TIME OF INJUSTICE.

IF WE LEARN SOMETHING FROM DUBLIN, IRELAND BASICALLY WAR WILL GET US NOWHERE.

AND REALLY THE END OF THIS WILL BE A REAL PEACE PROCESS.

AND DEMANDING IT FOR A CEASEFIRE IS REALLY THE START OF THAT.

THANK YOU VERY MUCH.

NEXT, NADER ZAN, WELCOME.

IF YOU COULD PLEASE STATE YOUR NAME AND ADDRESS INTO THE RECORD.

MY NAME IS NATTER ZAN AND I RESIDE IN 6 2 9 6 ROSS BEND.

GOOD EVENING, MAYOR AND CITY COUNCIL MEMBERS, THANK YOU FOR THE OPPORTUNITY TO SPEAK THIS EVENING.

IT IS EASY TO LOOK AT THE DEATH AND DESTRUCTION THAT IS HAPPENING IN GAZA AND TO THINK THAT THIS IS SOMETHING THAT IS HAPPENING OVER THERE AND IT IS REMOVED FROM OUR LIVES HERE IN THE CITY OF DUBLIN.

HOWEVER, THIS COULD NOT BE FURTHER FROM THE TRUTH.

THERE ARE MEMBERS OF OUR COMMUNITY, YOUR CONSTITUENTS WHO HAVE FAMILY MEMBERS OR RELATIVES OR FRIENDS WHO ARE IN GAZA WHO ARE EXPERIENCING THE HORRIBLE HUMAN, UH, RIGHT ABUSES AND VIOLATIONS THAT WE SEE EVERY SINGLE DAY.

EVERY SINGLE DAY THEY WAKE UP NOT KNOWING WHETHER THEY WILL EVER RECEIVE A CALL EVER AGAIN FROM THEIR FAMILY MEMBERS OR FRIENDS, INFORMING THEM THAT THEY ARE WELL, THAT THEY ARE ALIVE, AND THAT THEY ARE OKAY AND SAFE.

SOMETHING THAT HAS BEEN STRESSED THAT THIS CITY COUNCIL TAKES SAFETY VERY SERIOUSLY.

IT IS IMPORTANT THAT WE AS YOUR CONSTITUENTS, AS COMMUNITY MEMBERS UNDERSTAND THAT YOU, OUR ELECTED REPRESENTATIVES RECOGNIZE OUR SUFFERING, THEIR SUFFERING AND THEIR PAIN.

AND YOU RECOGNIZE THAT THIS IS A HUMAN, THIS IS A SITUATION OF HUMANITY.

ON THE DUBLIN CITY COUNCIL WEBSITE, IT STATES THE VERY FIRST SENTENCE OF THE MISSION STATEMENT STATES, WE ARE AND ALWAYS HAVE BEEN A PROUD LOCAL DEMOCRACY, A PROUD LOCAL DEMOCRACY.

SO I LEAVE YOU WITH A VERY SIMPLE ASK TO LISTEN TO YOUR CONSTITUENTS AND ADOPT A CEASEFIRE RESOLUTION.

NEXT, DOWD RAS WELCOME.

IF YOU COULD PLEASE STATE YOUR NAME AND ADDRESS INTO THE RECORD.

MY NAME IS DAUD LARA.

I RESIDE AT 7 8 0 9 HOLLISTON COURT.

JAMES HOLT WAS MIRACULOUS, WAS MIRACULOUSLY GRANTED EIGHT THOU 800 ACRES BY THE COMMONWEALTH.

MY NAME IS DAUD LARA, A DUBLIN RESIDENT, A DUBLIN SCIOTO ALUMNI, A GRANDCHILD OF PALESTINIAN REFUGEES WHO WERE FORCED TO LEAVE THEIR HOMES AS A RESULT OF THE ZIONIST COLONIAL PROJECT ENACTED BY THE BRITISH EMPIRE.

IT'S A SHAME THAT WE MADE UNDER THESE CIRCUMSTANCES.

HOWEVER, THESE SU THESE CIRCUMSTANCES ARE ALL TOO FAMILIAR WITH OUR CONSTITUENTS THAT SIT IN THIS ROOM TODAY.

WE IN DUBLIN, SIT ON THE LAND OF DELAWARE, SHAWNEE AND WYANDOT WHILE WE AWARDED THEM MEASLY MEMORIALS AND NAMED OUR NEIGHBORHOODS AFTER THEM.

RARELY DO WE SIT AND TRULY PONDER ABOUT WHAT HAPPENED ON THIS LAND.

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WHAT HAPPENED TO THE NATIVES WAS A CRIME THAT MUST NEVER BE REPEATED AGAIN.

A CRIME THAT MUST NEVER BE REPEATED AGAIN.

WHERE TODAY THE NATIVES ARE SUBJECTED TO DESOLATE RESERVATIONS THAT STRIP AWAY ALL HOPES OF LIFE, SIMILAR TO THE REFUGEE CAMPS OF AND COUNTLESS OTHERS THAT HOUSE MILLIONS OF PALESTINIANS AROUND THE WORLD.

SEE, I WAS ONE OF THE LUCKY ONES.

MY PARENTS HAD JUST SKIMMED THAT OUTCOME OF BEING PLACED INTO A REFUGEE CAMP.

BUT I DON'T COME ASKING FOR YOUR PITY TODAY.

I COME ASKING FOR YOUR ACTION.

LIGHTING UP OUR DUBLIN BRIDGE IS AN ACT OF THEA THEATRICS.

IT IT DOES REPRESENT OUR MUSLIM COMMUNITY.

HOWEVER, A MEANINGFUL REPRESENTATION OF THIS MUSLIM COMMUNITY, WHAT TO BE SIGNING ON WOULD BE SIGNING ONTO A CEASEFIRE RESOLUTION.

YOU WOULD JOIN A COALITION OF VARIOUS OHIO CITIES THAT HAVE SIGNED ONTO A CEASEFIRE RELU RESOLUTION THAT WOULD CONDEMN THE DISPLACEMENT OF 1.3 MILLION REFUGEES THAT ARE CURRENTLY SITTING IN RAFA AS THEY AWAIT THE WAR CRIMINAL.

BENJAMIN NETANYAHU, WHO HAS DEFIED THE SITTING US PRESIDENT JOE BIDEN ONE CAN ONLY IMAGINE WHAT MIGHT HAPPEN IF THE ZIONIST FORGE FORCES ARE TO ENTER RAFA.

AND HE HAS HINTED AT IT TIME AND TIME AGAIN, INNOCENT CIVILIANS WILL BE TASKED WITH EITHER WITH CHOOSING AND ALTERNATING THAT WILL EITHER PERMANENTLY EXPEL THEM FROM THEIR LAND OR FALL VICTIM TO ANOTHER MASSACRE IN SIMILAR FASHION TO THE 30,000 PALESTINIAN, THEIR 30,000 PALESTINIAN BROTHERS AND SISTERS.

HOWEVER, MY 12 FAMILY MEMBERS WHO HAVE BEEN MURDERED WHAT WAS BY WHAT WAS LIKELY AN MK 82 BOMB, WILL NOT HAVE TO CHOOSE BETWEEN THE TWO EVILS.

HOWEVER, THOSE THAT MIRACULOUSLY SURVIVE THIS GENOCIDE WILL FACE TANKS PILLAGING THROUGH THE REMAINS OF THEIR HOMES THAT HAVE ALREADY BEEN DEMOLISHED BY US.

PROVIDED F 16 FIGHTER JETS, BODIES WILL BE CRUSHED AND DESECRATED, AND THE TENTS THAT HAVE ACTED AS HOMES FOR THESE REFUGEES WILL BE SUBJECTED TO GRAVES.

SO YOU, THE GOVERNMENTAL BODY OF DUBLIN THAT REPRESENT THIS CONSTITUENCY HAVE AN OPPORTUNITY TO PLACE PRESSURE ON OUR GOVERNMENT THAT HAS GREEN LIT, A FULL FLEDGED GENOCIDE IN REZA.

AS WE UNTO THE MONTH OF RAMADAN, A MONTH MEANT TO PROMOTE TRANQUILITY AND SOLACE.

THE PEOPLE OF LES WILL ONLY KNOWN BOMBARDMENTS AND MASSACRE.

PLEASE DO NOT BE A BODY THAT'S COMPLICIT IN GENOCIDE, RATHER BE A CATALYST THAT SHIFTS THE NARRATIVES IN IN THE SHIFTS.

A CAT SHIFTS THE NARRATIVE IN THE OPPOSITE DIRECTION BECAUSE THE PEOPLE OF LES DEPEND ON IT.

PLEASE STATE YOUR NAME AND ADDRESS INTO THE RECORD.

HOSPITALS WERE STRATEGICALLY BOMBED.

MY NAME IS FATIMA CHARI.

I RESIDE AT 5 8 7 6 TARTAN CIRCLE, SOUTH DUBLIN, OHIO.

DEAR RESPECTED MAYOR, ESTEEMED COUNCIL MEMBERS, GUESTS OF THIS MEETING.

MY NAME IS FIMA CHOUDRY.

I'M NOT PALESTINIAN, I'M NOT EVEN ARAB.

I WAS BORN AND RAISED IN CLEVELAND, OHIO.

I CAME TO COLUMBUS FOR THE OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY FOR MY EDUCATION.

I'M A BUCKEYE AT HEART AND I CONTINUE TO BE A DIEHARD BROWNS FAN.

I STAYED TO CONTINUE MY MEDICAL TRAINING AT OHIO HEALTH AND I MOVED TO DUBLIN BECAUSE OF ITS RESPECTED EDUCATIONAL SYSTEM.

IT IS KNOWN ACROSS THE STATE OF OHIO.

I HAVE FRIENDS WANTING TO MOVE TO COLUMBUS AND THEY COME HERE BECAUSE OF ITS EDUCATIONAL SYSTEM.

WE TAKE PRIDE IN THAT.

I COME TO YOU AS A HUMANITARIAN, A MOTHER, A PHYSICIAN, AND A PATRIOT, A US SOLDIER, SET HIMSELF ON FIRE TO BRING ATTENTION TO THIS GENOCIDE.

I'VE NEVER WITNESSED THAT.

I'VE BEEN THROUGH NINE 11 THE IRAQ WAR, AFGHANISTAN, A US SOLDIER WHO TOOK AN OATH TO PROTECT THIS COUNTRY WITH HIS LIFE.

AND HE TOOK HIS LIFE TO BRING ATTENTION TO THE ATROCITIES.

AND I AM, I'M EMBARRASSED TO SAY THAT I KNEW NONE OF THIS.

I KNEW NOTHING OF THE APO OCCUPATION OF PALESTINIAN PEOPLE, NOT EVEN ON MY RADAR.

MY FAMILY'S IN CLEVELAND, OHIO.

I HAVE NOTHING, NO PERSONAL VESTED INTEREST IN THAT OTHER REGION OF THE WORLD.

BUT IT WAS HONESTLY THIS ACT OF SELF EMULATION THAT BROUGHT ATTENTION ALONG WITH THE CONTINUED ATROCITY.

FOR THE PAST FIVE MONTHS.

HOSPITALS ARE SACRED.

I GAVE MY BLOOD, SWEAT AND TEARS AT RIVERSIDE METHODIST HOSPITAL AND GRANT MEDICAL CENTER.

DURING THE COVID PANDEMIC.

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WORKED WITH THE MOST VULNERABLE POPULATION, THE ELDERLY IN NURSING HOMES.

I THOUGHT I WAS IN A THIRD WORLD COUNTRY BECAUSE I DID NOT HAVE THE PROPER PPE, AND THOSE ELDERLY RESIDENTS WERE SCARED, AND I WAS THE ONLY ONE ALONG WITH THE NURSING STAFF THAT COULD COMFORT THEM.

I WORK WITH VETERANS AND I LISTEN TO THEIR STORIES.

WE ALL KNOW THAT WAR HAS LIFELONG PSYCHOLOGICAL AND PHYSIOLOGICAL EFFECTS ON OUR SOLDIERS, AND IT CONTINUES WITH OUR VETERANS.

BUT IN GAZA, IT'S NOT SOLDIERS.

IT'S THOUSANDS OF INNOCENT CHILDREN WHO ARE NOW AMPUTEES WITHOUT ANESTHESIA.

AND JUST THE THOUGHT OF THAT, I, I JUST, I CAN'T EVEN IMAGINE.

AND WHO ARE ORPHANS AND WHO CONTINUE TO BE TRAUMATIZED BECAUSE OF THE ASSESSMENT BOMBING DUBLIN AS A CITY RESPECTS ITS HISTORY.

WE PAY A HOMAGE TO OUR NATIVE AMERICAN TRIBES, THE SHAWNEE, THE YS SHA, THE Y AND DOT, AND THE DELAWARE.

WE HAVE A STATUE OF CHIEF LEATHER LIPS.

WE HAVE JOHN SHIELDS PARKWAY TO HONOR THE MAN WHO COINED THIS CITY BASED OFF OF HIS BIRTHPLACE, DUBLIN, OHIO.

WE ARE AN INCLUSIVE CITY AND WE RESPECT PEACE FOR ALL.

SO I'M CALLING ON YOU, MY ELECTED OFFICIALS TO CALL FOR A CEASEFIRE AND PEACE AND USE IT AS AN OPPORTUNITY.

WE'RE A PROGRESSIVE CITY.

WE'VE GOT AN AWESOME EDUCATIONAL SYSTEM, MEDICAL SYSTEM.

WE'VE GOT OHIO HEALTH, MOUNT CARMEL, OHIO STATE.

WITHIN THESE CITY REGIONS, WE ARE PROGRESSIVE CITY AND I WANT DUBLIN TO BE THE LEADER AND CALL FOR A CEASES FAR AND DEMONSTRATE TO THE STATE OF OHIO, UM, HOW WE ACKNOWLEDGE PEACE, FREEDOM, AND JUSTICE FOR ALL.

OF HIS PATIENTS, HIS FAMILY, HIS PEOPLE.

NEXT, ASMA DENI, WELCOME.

IF YOU COULD PLEASE STATE YOUR NAME AND ADDRESS INTO THE RECORD.

GOOD EVENING, ESMA DEJANI, 62 60 POST ROAD.

MY NAME IS ESMA DEJANI AND I AM A FAMILY PRACTICE PHYSICIAN AND I PROUDLY RELY RESIDE IN DUBLIN.

MY FATHER IS FROM WEST JERUSALEM.

HE WAS EXPELLED IN 1948.

HE WAS LUCKY TO BE ABLE TO GET AN EDUCATION AND BECOME A PHYSICIAN.

HE CAME TO THE UNITED STATES IN THE 1960S.

MY FAMILY WENT BACK TO THE MIDDLE EAST.

THEY WANTED TO GO BACK TO THEIR HOME IN PALESTINE, JERUSALEM, THAT IT WAS NOT AVAILABLE OR ALLOWED.

WE ENDED UP IN JORDAN.

SO I GREW, GREW UP IN JORDAN, BUT MY HEART IS WHERE MY LAND IN THE PURSUIT OF MY EDUCATION.

I CAME TO THE UNITED STATES AND I BECAME A PHYSICIAN.

THE ART OF HEALING IS WHAT MEDICINE IS ABOUT, AND I TAKE BIG PRIDE IN THAT THROUGH THIS GENOCIDE.

A LOT OF MY COLLEAGUES, PHYSICIANS THAT WENT WITH ME TO MEDICAL SCHOOL WERE KILLED.

AND US, ONE OF THEM, DR.

HAMMAN ALO, HE WAS THE ONLY NEPHROLOGIST IN THE NORTH OF RAZA.

HE REFUSED TO LEAVE HIS PATIENTS AND MOVE SOUTH.

WHAT HAPPENED TO HIM AFTER ONE OF HIS SHIFTS, HE WENT BACK TO HIS HOUSE IN NORTH OF RAZA AND AN AIRSTRIKE KILLED HIM.

HIS FATHER, HIS FATHER-IN-LAW, HIS TWO DAUGHTERS, HIS BROTHER-IN-LAW, AND TWO OF HIS BROTHERS-IN-LAW KIDS.

AND THIS IS JUST ONE STORY.

WHAT DID DR.

HAMAM DO? NOTHING.

HE WAS JUST TAKING CARE

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AND WHAT'S HAPPENING NOW IS A REPETITION TO WHAT HAS HAPPENED SINCE 1948.

THEY DON'T WANT US TO BE IN OUR LAND, AND THAT'S THE GOAL.

IF WE DON'T CALL FOR A CEASEFIRE, WHAT HAPPENED TO MY FATHER IS GONNA BE REPEATED AGAIN AND AGAIN AND AGAIN.

SO PLEASE, I URGE YOU TO CALL FOR A CEASEFIRE BECAUSE EVEN A SMALL ACT FROM YOU WILL MEAN A LOT TO THOSE PEOPLE WHO ARE UNDERGOING A GENOCIDE.

IF YOU COULD PLEASE STATE YOUR NAME AND ADDRESS INTO THE RECORD.

MOHAMED SAI.

TEN SEVEN HUNDRED UCK AWAY.

I AM A, A PALESTINIAN AMERICAN AND, UH, LOCAL.

AND I'M A PHYSICIAN HERE IN THE AREA.

UM, I'M SURE YOU GUYS HAVE HEARD ENOUGH, UM, SO FAR WHAT'S BEEN, AND I I'M SURE YOU HAVE SEEN ENOUGH EVEN BEFORE US SHOWING UP HERE.

THIS IS A VERY SENSITIVE ISSUE.

UM, REGARDLESS WHERE IT IS IN THE WORLD, SEEN 30, 40,000 PEOPLE DYING HAS TO MAKE US STOP AND THINK, CAN WE DO SOMETHING TO STOP THIS? IT COULD BE IN GAZA, IT COULD BE IN AFRICA, IT COULD BE IN ASIA, OR ANYWHERE IN THE WORLD.

THIS IS NOT ALLOWED.

WE SHOULD STOP AS REPRESENTATIVES, AS JUST NORMAL CITIZENS.

AS NO MATTER WHERE OUR, OUR SITUATION WHERE, WHERE WE ARE IN THIS WORLD, WE HAVE TO STOP.

FOR ME, AS A PHYSICIAN, WORKING DAY BY DAY, TRYING TO SAVE A SINGLE LIFE HERE AND THERE IN A SMALL COMMUNITY MEANS A LOT.

AS WE BECOME MORE INVOLVED FROM A POLITICAL STANDPOINT OR FROM WHATEVER THAT WE GO ON, WE CAN DO MORE.

WE AS PEOPLE OF DUBLIN HERE THAT CAME HERE TODAY ARE PART OF THE, OF THE, UH, GENERAL PUBLIC IN THE US AND 70% OF THE PEOPLE IN THE US ARE SAYING CEASE FIRE.

IT GOT TO THE POINT, EVEN THE VICE PRESIDENT IS SAYING IT NOW AND IT'S STILL GOING ON.

WHY ARE WE HERE? IF THAT'S THAT'S THE CASE, IT'S BECAUSE WE MIGHT, WE WANNA PUT MORE PRESSURE.

EVERY TOWN OUTSIDE IN THE WORLD RIGHT NOW THAT'S E EVEN MADE A DECISION TO, TO GO FOR A CEASEFIRE.

THEY DON'T THINK THEY'RE GONNA CHANGE ANYTHING, BUT MORE PRESSURE IS GONNA BRING A CHANGE.

EVENTUALLY, WE THINK AS THE PEOPLE OF DUBLIN HERE, IF WE GET TO MAKE YOU PASS THIS RESOLUTION, AND THAT GOES IN EFFECT, IT'S JUST GONNA ADD MORE AND MORE.

THERE ARE ALREADY AT LEAST FIVE, SIX CITIES IN OHIO THAT'S ALREADY WENT THAT WAY.

AT LEAST 75 CITIES IN THE UNITED STATES HAVE MADE THAT DECISION TO GO FOR A SIT, UH, RESOLUTION FOR CEASEFIRE.

THE MORE PRESSURE, THE MORE THAT'S GONNA BRING A CHANGE.

AND AT THE END OF THE DAY, WHEN WE PUT OUR PILLOW, WHEN WE PUT OUR HEAD IN THE PILLOW AT NIGHT WITH A HEATER ON WITH FAMILY SAFE, AT LEAST WE FEEL NOT GUILTY THAT WE HAVE DONE EVERYTHING IN OUR PART.

AND THAT'S HOW WE ALL SHOULD THINK.

NOT BECAUSE WE HAVE SOME TIES THERE.

YES, I'M PALESTINIAN AMERICAN.

YES, I HAVE MADE IT OUT AND ESCAPED WHEN I WAS FIF 17 AND MOVED TO THE US AND WENT TO SCHOOL AND GOT LUCKY.

BUT DOESN'T MAKE DOESN'T MAKE ME ANY DIFFERENT.

IT DOESN'T MAKE A DIFFERENT IF I SAW THAT HAPPENING IN CHINA OR IT'S HAPPENING IN ANYWHERE IN THE WORLD.

SO WE ALL HAVE TO STAND AND THINK IS NO MATTER WHAT IT IS, IS THERE A GOOD REASON TO KILL 40,000 PEOPLE? IT'S, THERE IS NEVER A GOOD REASON FOR THAT 40,000 PEOPLE.

AND ALL YOU NEED TO DO IS PULL UP YOUTUBE, PULL UP YOUR INSTAGRAM AND LOOK AT THE BODIES ALL OVER, KIDS LAYING AROUND ALL OVER IN GAZA.

IF THAT'S NOT ENOUGH FOR US TO KINDA STAND UP AND SAY WHAT'S GOING ON HERE? WE, WHAT WE DOING ABOUT THIS? WE HAVE TO DO SOMETHING.

AND THAT'S WHAT WE'RE HERE FOR.

WE APPRECIATE YOUR TIME FOR LISTENING TO US.

WE HOPE THAT YOU GUYS WILL MAKE SOMETHING DIFFERENT FROM AFTER LISTENING TO US AND THANK YOU.

IF YOU COULD PLEASE STATE YOUR NAME AND ADDRESS INTO THE RECORD.

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AND LIKE I SAID BEFORE, BEYOND RACE, CULTURE, RELIGION, THEY'RE SEEING THESE IMAGES, THEY'RE SEEING KIDS THEIR AGE WHO ARE EITHER DYING OR ARE NURSING THEIR YOUNGER ONES.

MY NAME IS AL SOHAIL IRIS, AND MY ADDRESS IS 4 4 1 1 LIMERICK LANE.

UM, GOOD EVENING COUNCIL MEMBERS, MAYOR AND THE ATTENDEES TODAY.

AND ASUM, THAT IS THE GREETING THAT WE AS MUSLIMS, UH, SAY TO EACH OTHER, WHICH MEANS MAY PEACE BE WITH YOU AND IT IS RESPONDED BY SAYING SALAM, WHICH MEANS MAY PEACE BE WITH YOU TOO.

SO, UM, I AM A DUBLIN RESIDENT FOR THE LAST 15 YEARS NOW, AND MY THREE KIDS HAVE GONE THROUGH THE DUBLIN CITY SCHOOLS.

I'VE GOT TWO KAUFMAN ALUMNI AND ONE WHO'S, UM, SOPHOMORE.

I WAS NOT SUPPOSED TO BE HERE BECAUSE HE HAD A VOLLEYBALL TOURNAMENT.

AND MOM FOUND OUT LAST MINUTE.

I'M LIKE, I HAD TO DO THIS OR I HAD TO RUSH, PICK HIM UP AND DROP HIM BACK HOME.

AND I WAS ABLE TO COME HERE RIGHT ON TIME.

SO, UM, YOU HAVE HEARD THE FIGURES AND THE NUMBERS.

UM, WE ALL HAVE SEEN VISUALS.

I THINK I WOULDN'T BE WRONG IF I ASSUME THAT YOU ALL HAVE SEEN THE VISUALS ALSO.

SO WHAT YOU HAVE HEARD IS, I FEEL GUILTY AND BURDENED BECAUSE MY TAX MONEY AS WE SPEAK IS KILLING SOMEONE.

IT'S JUST LIKE, I'VE PICKED UP A RIFLE AND I'VE SHOT SOMEBODY.

I I, IF I ASK EVERYBODY IN THE AUDIENCE, WOULD YOU WANT TO KILL SOMEONE, WOULD YOU RAISE YOUR HANDS? IF YOU WANNA KILL SOMEONE, WOULD YOU RAISE YOUR HANDS IF YOUR TAX MONEY IS KILLING SOMEONE? SEE, SO IT'S MY TAX MONEY.

MY CONSTITUTION GIVES ME THE SUPPORT AND GIVES ME THE STRENGTH TO STAND HERE AND ADDRESS YOU BECAUSE YOU GUYS, THE DUBLIN CITY COUNCIL IS LIKE AN UMBRELLA.

YOU ARE AN UMBRELLA FOR US AND WE ARE YOUR RESIDENCE.

SO THE UM, AND LIKE I SAID BEFORE, THE IMAGES ARE THERE, WE ALL CAN SEE IT.

A COUPLE OF YEARS AGO, MY SON, WHO'S A BUCKEYE NOW, I'VE GOT ONE BUCKEYE WHO GRADUATED NUMBER TWO, BUCKEYE.

AND UM, SO HE, I GOT UP IN THE MORNING AND HE WAS IN, UM, UH, IN THE HIGH SCHOOL AND HE'S LIKE, MOM, RBG DIED.

I'M LIKE, WHAT? HOW DO YOU KNOW I JUST GOT UP AND I'M JUST MAKING BREAKFAST? HE'S LIKE, WELL, I READ IT.

MY FRIEND WAS TELLING ME THAT.

I'M LIKE, SHOW ME.

WHAT IS THIS? SO, UM, OUR CHILDREN, SO K THROUGH 12 IN THE DUBLIN CITY SCHOOLS, UM, I DON'T KNOW WHAT THE AGE IS NOW OF SINCE I DON'T HAVE AN ELEMENTARY OR MIDDLE SCHOOL KID, BUT KIDS GET PHONED AT A VERY YOUNGER AGE.

THEIR SOURCE OF INFORMATION IS NOT MAINSTREAM MEDIA, MAINSTREAM MEDIA, UH, SENSOR, AND THEY WANNA MAKE SURE THE IMAGES WHICH ARE APPROPRIATE, ONLY THOSE IMAGES ARE SHOWN.

BUT UNFORTUNATELY THE SOCIAL MEDIA IS NOT.

SO MY KIDS HAVE ACCESS.

YOUR KIDS OR YOUR GRANDKIDS HAVE ACCESS TO TIKTOK, INSTAGRAM, YOU NAME IT.

AND IF THEY HAVE ACCESS, THEY ARE SEEING ALL THESE IMAGES.

SO ALL THESE IMAGES, AND IT DOESN'T MATTER WHAT YOUR RACE, CULTURE, OR YOUR BACKGROUND IS.

A 13-YEAR-OLD SEEING ANOTHER 13-YEAR-OLD BEING BOMBED TO DEATH SHATTERED AND HE'S CRYING AND THANKS TO TRANSLATION.

SO THEY'RE SPEAKING IN ARABIC, BUT THERE'S ENGLISH TRANSLATION DOWN THERE SO THEY CAN UNDERSTAND WHAT HE'S SAYING.

AND ONE OF THE KIDS, HE WAS I THINK FOUR YEARS OLD, WHICH ACTUALLY MOVED ME BEYOND, I CAN EVEN EXPLAIN.

HE'S LIKE, HE SHOT MY MOTHER, SHE WAS EXPECTING, HE SHOT MY FATHER AND I'M ALL BY MYSELF NOW.

SO THIS IS LIKE A FOUR, 5-YEAR-OLD KID, THEN 35 MOTHERS ARE KILLED EVERY DAY.

THE NUMBER CAN BE OFF ON 35.

I WAS SITTING THERE AND I WAS JUST COUNTING.

SO THIS IS YOUR, THIS ENTIRE ROLE THAT'S 35 MOTHER'S KILLED FOR WHAT? MY TAX MONEY.

SO I COME HERE TODAY, UH, TO EXPECT FROM YOU ALL TO DO SOMETHING.

I MEAN, DO SOMETHING BECAUSE OUR CHILDREN,

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AND UM, LIKE I SAID BEFORE, YOU GUYS ARE OUR UMBRELLA.

AND AN UMBRELLA PROVIDES PROTECTION.

YES, YOU WERE TALKING ABOUT PHYSICAL, UH, SECURITY, BUT THEN THERE'S EMOTIONAL SECURITY ALSO.

AND THANK YOU.

AND I'M GONNA END ON A QUOTE FROM THE KORAN.

IT IS, IF ONE INNOCENT LIFE IS TAKEN, IT'S, IT'S LIKE YOU HAVE KILLED THE ENTIRE HUMANITY.

THAT'S WHAT MY FAITH IS.

AND I'M HERE TODAY BECAUSE OF MY FAITH AND MY CONSTITUTION AND MY TRUST IN THE UMBRELLA, WHICH IS YOU GUYS.

IT'S ACTUALLY SHAPED LIKE AN UMBRELLA.

YOU GUYS ARE LIKE THIS.

AND WE'RE RIGHT HERE.

HAVE A GOOD EVENING.

NEXT AJMI HOKE, WELCOME.

IF YOU COULD PLEASE STATE YOUR NAME AND ADDRESS INTO THE RECORD.

MY NAME IS ARY HAWK.

I LIVE AT 4 2 3 7 CLAYTON COURT, DUBLIN, OHIO.

I'M AANG DESI AMERICAN MUSLIM, AND I'M HERE IN SOLIDARITY WITH MY PALESTINIAN AND ARAB-AMERICAN BROTHERS AND SISTERS.

BANGLADESH IS A SOUTH ASIAN COUNTRY, SO I AM NOT RELATED TO ANY PALESTINIAN OR ARAB-AMERICAN.

I HAVE BEEN PART OF THIS DUBLIN COMMUNITY SINCE 2002.

I'M A MOTHER, A WIFE, AND A CRIMINAL AND JUVENILE ATTORNEY.

I'M A FORMER MEMBER OF THE CHIEF'S ADVISORY COUNCIL HERE IN DUBLIN.

DEAR CITY COUNCIL MEMBERS, PEOPLE HAVE SPOKEN TO YOU WITH GRACE AND KINDNESS, AND I WISH I COULD ALSO, BUT I CANNOT THINK OF GAZA AND THE CHILDREN OF GAZA WITHOUT ANGER AND FURY BECAUSE IF I AM NOT ANGRY, THEN I WILL CRY.

I HATE IT WHEN SOMEONE EXPLAINS MY JOB TO ME, ESPECIALLY JOBS THAT I'VE BEEN DOING FOR A LONG TIME.

BUT CLEARLY, EVERY SINGLE ONE OF YOU NEED A REMINDER.

YOU HAVE BEEN ELECTED TO BE THE VOICE OF YOUR CONSTITUENTS, AND THAT INCLUDES ALL OF THEM, NOT JUST THOSE WHO REFLECT YOU.

AND EVERY DAY YOU IGNORE YOUR CONSTITUENTS.

YOU ARE TELLING THEM THAT IF YOU ARE NOT ON THIS TABLE, YOU ARE ON THE MENU.

HOW CAN YOU SIT UP THERE AND CONTINUE TO IGNORE YOUR CONSTITUENTS AFTER HEARING STORY AFTER STORY OF SORROW? HOW CAN YOU JUSTIFY DOING WHAT YOU ARE ELECTED TO DO WHEN YOU ARE NOT DOING IT? THESE ARE YOUR PEOPLE.

WE ARE YOUR PEOPLE AND WE ARE ASKING FOR YOU TO LISTEN.

THEY ARE CRYING OUT FOR HELP AND FOR YOU TO TAKE A STANCE ON CEASEFIRE AND PEACE.

ARE YOU AGAINST PEACE.

NEXT SHARAY AND ALI, WELCOME.

IF YOU COULD PLEASE STATE YOUR NAME AND ADDRESS INTO THE RECORD.

HELLO, MY NAME IS ALI.

UM, I LIVE ON 31 38 GRAND HILL PLACE.

MY NAME IS SHARAY.

UM, I AM ALI'S MOTHER.

I ALSO LIVE AT 31 38 GRANVILLE PLACE.

UM, WE ARE HERE AND WE JUST WANNA ADD THAT, UM, I DRAGGED MY SON HERE TODAY.

UM, OUR HOUSE CAT IS JUST IN A LOT OF PAIN RIGHT NOW, AND SHE'S, UM, KIND OF AT HER LAST LEG, BUT WE STILL WANTED TO COME HERE BECAUSE SEEING HER IN SO MUCH SUFFERING IS MAKING US SO SAD.

AND I LEFT HER WITH MY ELDEST SON, WE'VE HAD HER FOR 15 YEARS AND THAT'S OUR LIKE ANIMAL, LIKE MY LITTLE BABY.

BUT THEN I THOUGHT OF INE AND AND ALL THOSE CHILDREN SUFFERING AND PARENTS AND MOTHERS, AND I SAID, I HAVE TO COME HERE BECAUSE THAT IS MAKING ME SO SAD.

SO I CAN'T IMAGINE WHAT THOSE PEOPLE ARE GOING THROUGH.

SO HERE WE ARE.

DUBLIN CITY SCHOOLS SERVES ABOUT 16,448 STUDENTS.

UM, THANK YOU FOR ALLOWING US TO MEET WITH YOU TODAY.

UM, SO I'VE LIVED IN DUBLIN MY ENTIRE LIFE AND, UM, I'M A FORMER STUDENT OF DUB DUBLIN CIO HIGH SCHOOL.

UM, I'M PROUD TO BE PART OF A CITY THAT SEES DIVERSITY AND INCLUSION AS ONE OF ITS CAR CARDINAL, UH, VALUES.

I CAME HERE TODAY TO ASK FOR PEACE AND A PLACE WHERE CHILDREN ARE BEING KILLED AND STARVED ON A DAILY BASIS.

IT'S DIFFICULT TO COMPREHEND THE STAGGERING NUMBERS OF DEATHS IN GAZA.

SO HERE'S A DISTURBING COMPARISON FOR YOU.

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THERE HAVE BEEN 13,430 CHILDREN ACCOUNTED FOR AS KILLED IN GAZA GAZA THUS FAR.

SO ABOUT 80% OF THE STUDENTS, UM, IN DUBLIN CITY SCHOOLS CONSIDER ALL OF THE CHILDREN WHO ATTEND DUBLIN CITY SCHOOLS AND IMAGINE THAT OVER THREE FOURTHS OF THEM HAVE DIED.

THIS STARTLING COMPARISON REVEALS THE DEVASTATION CAUSED BY THE CONTINUING VIOLENCE OF GAZA.

IT SERVES AS A STARK REMINDER OF THE REGION'S CRITICAL NEED FOR PEACE AND HUMANITARIAN ASSISTANCE.

IT IS CRITICAL THAT YOU UNDERSTAND THE IDEA THAT WE'RE ALL HUMANS TREAT PALESTINIAN CHILDREN'S AS IF THEY WERE YOUR OWN FAILURE TO DO SO.

DEHUMANIZES THEM AND DEHUMANIZING PEOPLE ENABLES US TO DO COMMIT HORRIBLE ATROCITIES AND CRIMES AGAINST THEM.

SO IF YOU KNEW OR OBSERVED THE MAJORITY OF CHILDREN IN DUBLIN BEING SLAUGHTERED AT RISK OF BEING KILLED OR STARVING, WOULD YOU NOT DO EVERYTHING IN YOUR POWER TO STOP THAT? IT IS IMPORTANT TO SHOW EMPATHY AND COMPASSION TOWARDS ALL CHILDREN, REGARDLESS OF NATIONALITY AND BACKGROUND.

AND AS DUBLIN CITY SCHOOLS WOULD.

BY TREATING PALESTINIANS CHILDREN AS THE SAME, WITH THE SAME CARE AND CONCERN AS YOU WOULD YOUR OWN, YOU ARE HELPING TO PREVENT DEHUMANIZATION AND PROMOTING A PEACEFUL WORLD FOR ALL I IMPLORE YOU TO CONSIDER TAKING A STAND AGAINST THE VIOLENCE AND SUFFERING IN OUR WORLD, AND TO SUPPORT INITIATIVES THAT PROMOTE PEACE AND JUSTICE.

TOGETHER WE CAN MAKE A DIFFERENCE AND CREATE A BRIGHTER FUTURE FOR ALL.

WE'RE ASKING FOR AN IMMEDIATE AND PERMANENT CEASEFIRE.

I WAS NOT AS SMART AS ALI TO WRITE MY OWN SPEECH, SO I HAVE A POEM HERE FOR YOU GUYS.

UM, IT'S BY ZANA ASAM.

SHE'S A PALESTINIAN AMERICAN POET, WRITER AND EDITOR.

UM, IF YOU HAD HEARD EARLIER, THE, UM, MOTHERS AND FATHERS OF ZA WERE WRITING THEIR NAMES AND THEIR FAMILY'S NAME ON THEIR CHILDREN'S LIMBS BECAUSE, AND THEY DIE SOMETIMES THE ENTIRE FAMILY DIES AND NO ONE KNOWS HOW TO IDENTIFY THEM.

SO THIS, THIS WAS WRITTEN, UM, IN RESPECT TO THAT.

SO ZENA SAYS, WRITE MY NAME ON MY LEG, MAMA.

USE THE BLACK PERMANENT MARKER WITH THE INK THAT DOESN'T BLEED.

IF IT GETS WET, THE ONE THAT DOESN'T MELT IF IT'S EXPOSED TO HEAT, WRITE MY NAME ON MY LEG, MAMA.

MAKE THE LINES THICK AND CLEAR.

ADD YOUR SPECIAL FLOURISHES SO I CAN TAKE COMFORT IN SEEING MY MOM'S HANDWRITING WHEN I GO TO SLEEP.

SORRY, WRITE MY NAME, NAME ON MY LEG, MAMA AND ON THE LEGS OF MY SISTERS AND BROTHERS.

THIS WAY WE WILL BELONG TOGETHER.

THIS WAY WE WILL BE KNOWN AS YOUR CHILDREN.

WRITE MY NAME ON MY LEG, MAMA.

AND PLEASE WRITE YOUR NAME AND BABA'S NAME ON YOUR LEGS TOO.

SO WE WILL BE REMEMBERED AS A FAMILY.

WRITE MY NAME ON MY LEG, MAMA.

DON'T ADD ANY NUMBERS LIKE WHEN I WAS BORN OR THE ADDRESS OF OUR HOME.

I DON'T WANT THE WORLD TO LIST ME AS A NUMBER.

I HAVE A NAME AND I AM NOT A NUMBER.

WRITE MY NAME ON MY LEG, MAMA.

WHEN THE BOMB HITS OUR HOUSE AND THE WALLS CRUSH OUR SKULLS AND BONES, OUR LEGS, WE'LL TELL OUR STORY HOW THERE WAS NOWHERE FOR US TO RUN.

17 RESIDENTS AT CITY HALL.

THANK YOU LINDSEY.

NEXT.

NO FURTHER CITIZENS HAVE SIGNED IN AT THIS TIME.

OKAY, IS THERE ANYONE ELSE PRESENT THIS EVENING THAT WOULD LIKE TO SPEAK THAT HAS NOT HAS OPPORTUNITY TO DO SO? HEARING NONE.

UM, I'D LIKE TO START BY SINCERELY THANKING EACH OF YOU FOR TAKING THE TIME TO ENGAGE WITH YOUR LOCAL DEMOCRACY.

UH, DUBLIN IS HOME TO MANY DIFFERENT COMMUNITIES WITH DIVERSE PERSPECTIVES.

TRADITIONS IN YOUR WILLINGNESS TO SHARE YOUR THOUGHTS WITH US IS TRULY VALUED AND DEEPLY APPRECIATED.

OUR CITY MANAGER, MEGAN O. CALLAHAN, MET WITH A GROUP OF RESIDENTS ON THIS MATTER LAST WEEK.

I'D LIKE TO TURN IT OVER TO HER FOR A REPORT OF THE OUTCOME OF THAT MEETING.

THANK YOU MAYOR AND MEMBERS OF COUNCIL.

ON MARCH 5TH, I MET WITH A GROUP OF ABOUT

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SEVERAL, SEVERAL OF THOSE RESIDENTS ARE ALSO IN ATTENDANCE THIS EVENING.

THE MEETING WAS COORDINATED IN RESPONSE TO THE RESIDENT'S REQUESTS FOR THE CITY TO PASS A RESOLUTION CALLING FOR A CEASEFIRE IN GAZA.

JOIN ME.

JOINING ME AT THAT MEETING WERE POLICE CHIEF JUSTIN PECE, DIRECTOR OF OUTREACH AND ENGAGEMENT.

CHRISTINE NAIA, DIRECTOR OF COMMUNICATIONS AND MARKETING.

LIZZIE AUER, ASSISTANT TO THE CITY MANAGER KENDALL BLAKE, AND ASSISTANT LAW DIRECTOR YASIN ASH.

WE LISTENED TO THE CONCERNS, THE PERSPECTIVES, AND THE MANY PERSONAL STORIES SHARED BY THE COMMUNITY MEMBERS AND RECOGNIZE THE HEARTBREAKING NATURE OF THE SITUATION.

WE HAD A MEANINGFUL DISCUSSION AND I SHARED OUR ROLE AND OUR AUTHORITIES AS A LOCAL GOVERNMENT.

WE EMPHASIZED OUR COMMITMENT TO SAFETY, INCLUSION, AND THE WELLBEING OF ALL OF OUR RESIDENTS.

AND WE SHARED RESOLUTION 37 DASH 17, WHICH COUNCIL PREVIOUSLY PASSED TO COMBAT INTOLERANCE, NEGATIVE STEREOTYPING AND DISCRIMINATION.

AND WE RE REITERATED THAT THE TENANTS OF THAT RESOLUTION CONTINUE TO BE UPHELD BY CITY COUNCIL IN THE COMMUNITY.

WE ALSO SHARED A STATEMENT IN SUPPORT OF INCLUSION, SAFETY, AND CULTURAL UNDERSTANDING THAT WE JUST RELEASED IN DECEMBER AS WE CELEBRATED THE SAFE SPACE PROGRAM, WHICH PROVIDES HAVENS OF SAFETY, SECURITY, AND SUPPORT RESOURCES FOR THOSE EXPERIENCING HATE THREATS OR INTIMIDATION.

THE RESIDENTS INDICATED THAT THEY FEEL VERY SAFE IN LIVING IN DUBLIN, AND ALSO EXPRESSED CONCERNS ABOUT THE MENTAL WELLBEING OF RESIDENTS.

DURING THIS TIME, WE ASKED THE GROUP WHAT RE RESOURCES THE RESIDENTS MIGHT NEED TO SUPPORT THEIR SAFETY AND MENTAL WELLBEING.

AND WE INDICATED THAT THE CITY IS COMMITTED TO CONNECTING THEM TO THOSE RESOURCES.

I ALSO SHARED THAT I HAD SPOKEN WITH DUBLIN CITY SCHOOL SUPERINTENDENT, DR. JOHN MARSH HAUSEN, TO INQUIRE ABOUT ANY ISSUES OR CONCERNS IN THE SCHOOLS RELATED TO THE ONGOING CONFLICT.

HE REPORTED THAT THERE HAD NOT BEEN ANY SAFETY, HATE, OR INTOLERANCE ISSUES, AND THAT THE DISTRICT REMAINS FOCUSED ON EDUCATING STUDENTS AND ENSURING THEIR SAFETY AS WELL.

WE ALSO DISCUSSED THE CITY'S RELATIONSHIPS AND ONGOING COMMUNICATION WITH OUR ELECTED OFFICIALS AT THE STATE AND THE FEDERAL LEVELS.

AND WE ASSURED THE ATTENDEES IN THE MEETING THAT WE WOULD CONVEY THEIR CONCERNS, UM, WITH OUR REPRESENTATIVES WHILE THE GROUP WAS FAIRLY UNIFIED ON THE REQUEST FOR A CEASEFIRE RESOLUTION.

AND, UM, THEY ALSO SHARED A TEMPLATE OF A CEASEFIRE RESOLUTION FOR COUNCIL'S CONSIDERATION.

MANY DID INDICATE THAT A STATEMENT FROM THE CITY WOULD BE GREATLY APPRECIATED.

THE MEETING LASTED AS WAS MENTIONED EARLIER BY ONE OF THE SPEAKERS.

THE MEETING LASTED NEARLY TWO HOURS AND WAS FOLLOWED BY SEVERAL SMALLER CONVERSATIONS.

AFTER THE LARGER GROUP, UM, DISPERSED, I COMMITTED TO THE GROUP THAT I WOULD REPORT BACK TO CITY COUNCIL.

SO I THANK YOU FOR PROVIDING ME THE OPPORTUNITY TO SHARE THIS UPDATE WITH COUNCIL AS WELL AS MEMBERS OF THE PUBLIC THAT ARE WATCHING HERE IN COUNCIL CHAMBER AND ONLINE.

THANK YOU MEGAN.

UM, REALLY CAN'T REITERATE ENOUGH, UH, HOW MUCH WE VALUE HEARING FROM OUR RESIDENTS, UM, AND THE LEVEL OF COMMITMENT WE HAVE TO ONGOING DIALOGUE HERE IN THE CITY.

WITH EACH OF YOU.

UM, ON BEHALF OF CITY COUNCIL HERE TONIGHT, WE REAFFIRM THE CITY OF DUBLIN'S COMMITMENT TO PEACE AND UNDERSTANDING AMONG ALL PEOPLE.

THE STEADFAST DEDICATION EX IS EXEMPLIFIED BY OUR ACTIONS, OUR SERVICES, AND OUR INITIATIVES.

RESIDENTS NEED NOT LOOK ANY FURTHER THAN OUR PEACE POLL NEAR THE KAUFMAN PARK PAVILION, WHICH STATES MAY PEACE PREVAIL ON EARTH.

THIS INCLUDES THE WORD PEACE INSCRIBED IN 12 LANGUAGES SPOKEN BY DUBLIN RESIDENTS AND STUDENTS.

OUR COMMITMENT TO SAFETY, SECURITY, AND SUPPORT IS FURTHER DEMONSTRATED THROUGH OUR SAFE SPACE DUBLIN PROGRAM, WHICH PROMOTES SAFE HAVENS AND RESOURCES FOR ANYONE IN PERSONAL CRISIS AND THOSE WHO HAVE EXPERIENCED HATE CRIMES, THREATS OR INTIMIDATION.

ADDITIONALLY, DUBLIN HAS A RESOLUTION THAT COMBATS INTOLERANCE, NEGATIVE STEREOTYPING AND DISCRIMINATION RESOLUTION.

37 DASH 17 STATES THAT HATRED, FEAR, AND DISCRIMINATION AGAINST ANY INDIVIDUAL BASED ON RACE, RELIGION, AND NATIONAL ORIGIN IS UNACCEPTABLE.

WE, UM, HAVE ASKED CHRISTINE AKIA, OUR DIRECTOR OF OUTREACH AND ENGAGEMENT TO BE AVAILABLE, UM, OUTSIDE AFTER THIS TIME, UM, TO CONTINUE THAT CONVERSATION AND TO MAKE SURE THAT EVERYONE THAT CALLS DUBLIN HOME FEELS PERSONALLY SAFE IN THIS SPACE.

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OKAY, THE NEXT ITEM ON OUR

[CONSENT AGENDA]

AGENDA THIS EVENING IS THE CONSENT AGENDA.

IS THERE RE A REQUEST TO REMOVE ANY ITEM FROM THE CONSENT AGENDA, WHICH CONTAINS MEETING MINUTES FROM OUR FEBRUARY 26TH AND MARCH 4TH MEETING.

IS THERE A MOTION TO APPROVE THE CONSENT AGENDA? I WILL MOVE TO APPROVE THE CONSENT AGENDA.

SECOND.

JENNY, WOULD YOU PLEASE CALL THE ROLE MR. REER? YES.

VICE MAYOR OLU? YES.

READING, PUBLIC HEARING ORDINANCES ORDINANCE ZERO ONE DASH 24 AMENDING ZONING CODE SECTIONS 1 5 3 0.0 4 2 1 5 3 0.0 4 8 1 5 3 0.0 5 3 1 5 3 0.0 6 1 5, 3 0.159 AND 1 5 3 0.236 TO ADDRESS THE ADMINISTRATION APPROVAL CRITERIA.

SECOND,

[Ordinance 01-24]

OUR REPORT THIS EVENING IS FROM ZACH SCHO.

WELCOME ZACH.

THANK YOU VERY MUCH.

I DO HAVE A BRIEF PRESENTATION JUST TO GO OVER BACKGROUND INFORMATION FROM THE PREVIOUS MEETING, UH, FOLLOWING SOME QUESTIONS THAT WERE, WERE RAISED, SOME OF THE, REGARDING SOME OF THE, THE CHANGES.

UH, SO SOME BACKGROUND I WANTED TO SHARE THE ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT STRATEGY, UH, AS THIS WAS ADOPTED RECENTLY IN THE PAST COUPLE YEARS.

AND THIS STRATEGY WASN'T, WAS DESIGNED TO ADDRESS THE MOST PRESSING AND NEED PRESSING NEEDS OF THE CITY'S ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT LANDSCAPE AND IDENTIFY THE ELEMENTS AND INGREDIENTS TO A SUCCESSFUL POSITIONING FOR DOUBLING TO BUILD ON ITS STRENGTHS.

UM, THAT STRATEGY PROVIDED SEVERAL DIFFERENT STRATEGIES, THE ONE OF THEM BEING THAT, UH, MAKES DUBLIN MAKE DUBLIN'S DEVELOPMENT PROCESSES MORE TRANSPARENT AND PREDICTABLE.

SO THIS CREATING OPPORTUNITIES TO STREAMLINE PROJECTS, UH, FOR A MORE PREDICTABLE DEVELOPMENT PROCESS AND REASSURING OUR APPLICANTS THAT THERE IS NO UNCERTAINTY, UH, WITH THE PROCESS AND WHO THEY'RE GOING AND THE TIMING IN THAT.

UH, THIS REQUEST FOR A CODE AMENDMENT WAS PRESENTED AND REQUESTED BY PLAN AND ZONING COMMISSION, UH, BACK IN SUMMER OF 2023 TO ADDRESS, UH, THE SCOPE OF ADMINISTRATIVE APPROVALS AND TO IDENTIFY OPPORTUNITIES TO STREAMLINE PROCESSES.

UH, SHOWING THE SCREEN IS A CHART CHART THAT SHOWS THE THREE APPLICATIONS THAT WE HAD DISCUSSED LAST WEEK, AND ALSO IN YOUR PACKETS, UH, FOR THIS MEETING.

UH, NOT ALL APPLICATION TYPES ARE PROVIDED IN EACH DISTRICT AS THERE IS A COMBINATION OF ALL IN EACH OF THESE.

UH, WITH THIS PROPOSAL.

THERE ARE NO CHANGES TO ANY DEFINITIONS FOR THESE APPLICATIONS.

THE PROPOSED CHANGES DO APPLY ONLY TO THE DISTRICTS THAT ARE LISTED AND THERE'S NO CROSSOVER THERE.

UH, THERE ARE SIMILARITIES IN HOW THESE ARE WRITTEN, UH, BUT THERE ALL ARE ALSO DIFFERENCES AND THAT'S JUST BASED ON THE LEVEL OF REVIEW FOR EACH OF THOSE DISTRICTS.

SO, UH, THERE'S NO CROSSOVER IN HOW THESE ARE BEING APPLIED.

SO ADMINISTRATIVE APPROVALS ARE DETERMINED BY THE PLANNING DIRECTOR.

THESE REQUESTS ARE VERY MINOR IN SCALE AND USUALLY MORE LIKE FOR LIKE, OR, UH, SIMILAR IN CHARACTER TO WHAT'S EXISTING OR WHAT HAS BEEN APPROVED.

THE TIMELINE IS OF THESE IS LESS THAN TWO WEEKS AND THERE IS NO FEE.

UH, NEXT IS THE MINOR PROJECTS, WHICH IS REVIEWED BY ADMINISTRATIVE REVIEW TEAM.

UH, THESE ARE SMALL PROJECTS THAT DO HAVE SOME LIMITED COMMUNITY EFFECTS, AND THE TIMELINE HERE IS USUALLY BETWEEN FOUR AND SIX WEEKS, DEPENDING ON THE MEETING SCHEDULE.

AND THEN THIRD IS THE A FDP, WHICH IS REVIEWED BY THE PLAN AND ZONING COMMISSION.

THESE ARE PROJECTS THAT EXCEED THE REQUIREMENTS FOR MINOR PROJECTS IN THE BRIDGE STREET DISTRICT.

UH, THE TIMELINE CAN EXCEED THREE, SIX TO EIGHT WEEKS HERE.

SO WE, WE SEPARATED OUT ON THE SLIDES JUST TO GO OVER SOME OF THE, UH, REQUESTS AND WHERE THEY ARE SPECIFICALLY APPLICABLE IN THESE DISTRICTS IN THE WEST INNOVATION DISTRICT.

THE CHANGES FOR EXISTING SIGNS THAT CHANGES CONSISTENT IN THE MUR DISTRICT AND PUD AND THEN THE BRIDGE STREET DISTRICT.

UH, IT ALSO INCLUDES THE SIGNS AS WELL AS THE BUILDING MATERIALS AND ADMINISTRATIVE DEPARTURES.

UH, STAFF DID MAKE A FEW MINOR UPDATES AND PROVIDE SOME CLARITY FOR THE BUILDING MATERIALS AS THAT'S WHERE MOST OF THE QUESTIONS HAVE OCCURRED.

UH, SO STAFF ADDED LANGUAGE FOR STAFF TO APPROVE, UH, CHANGES ON BUILDINGS FOR COMPARABLE, UH, MATERIAL CHANGES.

THAT'S CONSISTENT WITH WHAT IS WRITTEN, BUT WE DID ADD CLARITY TO THAT TO ALLOW STAFF TO HAVE THAT FLEXIBILITY

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TO APPROVE THOSE.

AND THEN WE DID, UH, LEAVE THE MINOR PROJECT CRITERIA REMOVING THE 25%.

BUT AGAIN, THIS IS NOT INTENDED TO CHANGE THE SCOPE OF PROJECTS THAT PLANNING, THAT PLANNING COMMISSION WOULD SEE, OR A RT WOULD SEE.

UH, IT'S JUST TO, TO CARRY ON AND, AND CREATE THE, UM, DIFFERENT CATEGORIES AND THE DIFFERENT SCALES FOR WHICH, UH, A RT AND PLANNING COMMISSION WILL REVIEW.

AND THEN AGAIN, THE CHANGES, THESE HAVE NOT, UH, BEEN UPDATED REGARDING MENU BOARD SIGNS AND CONDITIONAL USE.

WITH THAT, I'M HAPPY TO ANSWER ANY QUESTIONS.

THANK YOU, ZACH.

UH, I WANNA TAKE A MOMENT FOR PUBLIC COMMENT.

IS THERE ANYONE PRESENT THIS EVENING THAT WOULD LIKE TO SPEAK WITH RESPECT TO THIS ORDINANCE? HEARING NONE COUNCIL QUESTIONS.

DISCUSSION, AMY? YEAH, I'LL GO AHEAD AND START.

UM, I'LL SAY THANK YOU FOR THE CHANGES TO THE BUILDING MATERIAL CLAUSE.

I APPRECIATE THAT.

I WANNA SAY I HAVE NO ISSUE WITH ALL BUT ONE CHANGE IN THIS ENTIRE DOCUMENT.

UM, THE ONLY ONE I HAD I TAKE ISSUE WITH IS UNDER MINOR PROJECTS IT SAYS MINOR PROJECTS DEFINED.

SO THIS IS A DEFINITION CHANGE.

IT'S, SO THERE'S A THROUGH F, THE ONLY ONE THEY CHANGING IS B.

AND IT IS GOING FROM, IT USED TO BE THAT A MINOR PROJECT COULD BE ANYTHING THAT WAS 25% OR LESS OF ANY ONE SIDE OF A BUILDING.

AND NOW THEY'RE SAYING A HUNDRED PERCENT ANY CHANGE, IT'S SAYING EXTERIOR MODIFICATIONS TO THE PRINCIPAL STRUCTURE THAT DO NOT CHANGE THE GROSS SQUARE FOOTAGE OF THE BUILDING.

SO IT'S, IT'S MOVING FROM, YOU'RE ONLY CHANGING 25% OF ONE SIDE TO YOU CAN CHANGE ANYTHING YOU WANT ON THE ENTIRE THING.

NOW GRANTED, IT WILL STILL HAVE TO MEET THE BRIDGE STREET CODE AS FAR AS TRANSPARENCY, YOU KNOW WHERE DOORS ARE LOCATED, WINDOWS, BUT YOU COULD STILL CHANGE THE COMPLETE LOOK OF THE BUILDING AND IT WOULD BE CONSIDERED A MINOR PROJECT, WHICH MEANS IT GOES TO A RT, WHICH MEANS IT'S NOT BEFORE OUR PLANNING AND ZONING COMMISSION, WHICH MEANS THE PUBLIC IS NOT COMMENTING.

I MEAN, GRANTED, A RT IS A PUBLIC MEETING, BUT IT HAPPENS DURING THE DAY.

AND LET'S BE REAL, NO ONE GOES TO THOSE MEETINGS .

UM, SO I'M CONCERNED OF WE'RE GOING FROM 25% TO NO LIMIT AT ALL.

UM, DO YOU HAVE A PROPOSED CHANGE? WELL, I, I WOULD PROPOSE, AND THE OTHER REASON I AM, WE'RE ONLY CHANGING IT FOR BRIDGE STREET.

IF IF, UM, I'M HEARING WHAT AMY'S SAYING AND SHE BRINGS UP GOOD POINTS MANY, MANY TIMES.

SO THIS EXACT SAME TEXT IS IN THE MUR, WHICH IS LIKE, UM, SOUTH OF METRO, ACTUALLY A LITTLE PORTION OF METRO.

AND IT REMAINS 25% OF THE, IT, IT'S THE SAME.

IT STAYS THE OLD WAY, THE 25%.

SO NOW YOU HAVE AN APPLICANT, A DEVELOPER COMES TO BRIDGE STREET AND THEY HAVE ONE DEFINITION FOR MITRE PROJECT, AND THEN THEY GO TO MRU, THEY HAVE A DIFFERENT DEFINITION OF, OF MINOR PROJECT AND PLANNING AND ZONING NOW HAS TWO DIFFERENT DEFINITIONS.

SO I JUST THINK IF, IF OUR STRATEGIC GOAL FOR ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT IS TO BE REDUCE UNCERTAINTY, I THINK BY CREATING TWO DIFFERENT DEFINITIONS THAT'S CAUSING PROBLEM.

SO I WOULD SAY KEEP IT THE SAME.

UM, I DON'T KNOW WHAT THIS IS PROHIBITING, I GUESS WE, I UM, ACTUALLY SPOKE WITH THAD TODAY AND HE CONFIRMED THAT ALL THE OTHER SECTIONS ABOUT MATERIALS, YOU KNOW, THE PERSON WHO WANTS TO COME IN AND CHANGE ALL OF THE SIDING THAT'S SIMILAR, THEY CAN STILL DO THAT.

IF WE DON'T MAKE THIS ONE CHANGE, EVERYTHING ELSE IS STILL VALID AND STILL WORKS.

SO MY SUGGESTION IS WE DON'T MAKE THIS CHANGE.

UM, I, I, I CONTINUALLY ASK LIKE, WHAT, WHAT IS THIS PREVENTING WHAT CAN'T HAPPEN BECAUSE OF THIS? HOW MANY APPLICATIONS ARE WE GETTING THAT WE'RE HAVING TO TURN AWAY AND SAY, NO, THIS ISN'T A MINOR PROJECT AND WE DON'T HAVE THOSE NUMBERS.

THIS IS JUST FOR THE FUTURE.

AND SO I'D RATHER STILL SEE IT JUST GO TO THE PLANNING AND ZONING COMMISSION RATHER THAN STAY AT A RT.

THAT'S JUST MY 2 CENTS.

I WOULD RECOMMEND NOT MAKING THAT CHANGE JUST TO THE MINOR PROJECT.

THE ONE SECTION ONE TWO B OR IT'S I I TWO B.

THAT'S MY SUGGESTION.

UM, YOU KNOW, I'D, I'D LIKE TO HEAR FROM PLANNING, UM, WHAT YOUR, WHAT YOUR OBJECTIVE HERE IS.

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AND SO I KNOW THAT PLANNING AND ZONING COMMISSIONERS PASSED THIS, SO THEY MUST HAVE FELT THAT THERE WAS SOME VALUE TO THIS.

AND TRYING TO UNDERSTAND IF YOU CAN HELP US, UM, IS THIS GONNA MAKE IT MORE EFFICIENT FOR YOU? IS THIS GONNA BE SOMETHING SIMPLY THAT WE'RE TALKING ABOUT, UM, PAINT AND SOME CHANGES ON THE SURFACE.

I MEAN, I DO KNOW SOME THINGS DO GET BOGGED DOWN QUITE A BIT SOMETIMES, ESPECIALLY WHEN IT'S YOU'RE JUST TRYING TO IMPROVE YOUR PROPERTY AND AFTER A PERIOD OF YEARS IT NEEDS TO BE REPAINTED AND REFRESHED AND ALL THAT.

AND IS THAT WHERE YOU'RE GOING WITH THIS? I GUESS HELP US UNDERSTAND A LITTLE BIT ABOUT WHY WE SHOULD GO AHEAD AND BE LENIENT WITH THAT.

UM, YOUR CONCERNS ARE ABSOLUTELY VALID AND WE SHARE THOSE SAME CONCERNS.

WE DO NOT WANT TO, UH, HAVE APPLICATIONS THAT HAVE SIGNIFICANT IMPACTS OR POTENTIALLY ADVERSE EFFECTS BE SOMETHING THAT'S NOT REVIEWED AND ALLOW PUBLIC COMMENT ON, UM, EXAMPLES OF THOSE WHERE THOSE HAVE GONE THROUGH THE AMENDED FILE DEVELOPMENT PROCESS BECAUSE THEY EXCEEDED MINOR PROJECT WOULD BE FIRST WATCH ON 1 61 AND THAT HAD SOME PRETTY SIGNIFICANT ALTERATIONS TO IT.

I BELIEVE THEY PAINTED SOME BRICK AS WELL.

UM, AND THEN THE PENZONE BASE ONE BUILDING, AGAIN, SIGNIFICANT CHARACTER CHANGE TO THE BUILDING THAT ALTERS THAT SITE AND MAYBE HAS SOME ALTERNATIVE, UH, IMPACTS ON FUTURE APPLICATIONS THAT MAY SET PRECEDENT.

SO VERY AWARE OF THAT THIS INTENDED CHANGE IS NOT, IT'S NOT TO CHANGE THAT, IT IS TO ALLOW A LITTLE BIT MORE DISCRETION IN TERMS OF THOSE APPLICATIONS.

UM, OBVIOUSLY TAKING AWAY THAT 25% DOES ADD DOES REMOVE A NUMERIC NUMBER THAT ALLOWS US TO PUSH UP.

AND I THINK THAT'S, THAT'S PART OF WHY THAT WAS IN THERE.

UM, BUT WITH THIS CHANGE, I THINK IT IS INTENDED TO ALLOW STAFF OR THE ADMINISTRATIVE REVIEW TEAM TO LOOK AT AN APPLICATION AND SAY, WE THINK THIS HAS A LOT MORE IMPACT TO EITHER THE, THE PROPERTY OR THE SURROUNDING AREA, UH, THAN WE'RE WILLING TO REVIEW.

SO THAT'S, THAT'S THE INTENT BEHIND WHY WE ARE DOING THIS.

NOT TO CHANGE WHAT TYPES OF APPLICATIONS WE'VE SEEN.

'CAUSE I, FOR THE MOST PART, IT'S GOING TO STAY THE SAME AS WHAT WE'VE SEEN BEFORE.

UM, BUT THAT'S THE INTENT BEHIND WHY WE'VE, WE'VE DECIDED TO MAKE THESE CHANGES.

UH, AND, AND I THINK THAT MAKES PERFECT SENSE AND I COMPLETELY SEE THE INTENT.

UM, BUT THERE'S ANOTHER SIDE OF THAT THAT, YOU KNOW, WE, WE LIKE TO THINK THAT WE MAKE CODE CHANGES FOR PEOPLE OTHER THAN US.

AND SO WHEN WE THINK THAT WAY, UM, LIKELY, YOU KNOW, YOU, AS LONG AS THE SQUARE FOOTAGE STAYED THE SAME, THERE COULD BE VERY SIGNIFICANT CHANGES.

HEIGHTS OF BUILDINGS COULD CHANGE.

UM, YOU KNOW, BECAUSE WE DON'T MEASURE THE CUBIC FOOTAGE.

SO AS LONG AS IT WAS WITHIN CODE, ANY, ANYTHING COULD HAPPEN.

YOU COULD HAVE SUBSTANTIVE CHANGES ON THE EXTERIOR OF THE BUILDINGS.

YOU COULD HAVE MAJOR CHANGES IN BUILDING HEIGHTS OR LOSS OF, UM, YOU KNOW, IF THERE WAS A ADDITIONAL RELIEF THAT WASN'T BUILT IN A BUILDING TO GIVE IT MORE CHARACTER THAT MAYBE WASN'T NECESSARY OR IT GOT TOO EXPENSIVE OR FOR, YOU KNOW, BIDS CAME BACK AND FOR SOME OTHER REASON, SOME FUTURE PEOPLE DOWN THE ROAD HAD TO DEAL WITH.

I, I WOULD BE SUPPORTIVE OF REMOVING THAT AND, AND SEE HOW THAT WENT AND IF THAT CAUSED US, UM, SIGNIFICANT HARDSHIP MOVING FORWARD.

IF THE REST OF IT GAVE YOU THE LATITUDE THAT YOU NEEDED AND THAT WAS NOT A HANGUP, UM, TO SEE IF THAT MET THE NEED AND THEN PERHAPS RELOOK AT IT AT, IN A FUTURE POINT IN TIME, THAT WOULD JUST, UM, IF I UNDERSTAND A LOT OF THESE WOULD HAVE FOUND THEIR WAY TO PLANNING AND ZONING AS A, UH, ON A CONSENT AGENDA.

IS THAT, I MEAN, SOME MORE MINOR? YES, THAT'S WHAT I UNDERSTOOD FROM LAST TIME.

SO I WOULD BE SUPPORTIVE OF THAT.

MOST OF THESE ARE COMING FROM CONSENT AGENDA, YEAH.

ITEMS. SO IN THAT INSTANCE, WE COULD STILL HAVE SOME EFFICIENCY, MEANING IT WOULD GO, IT WOULD GO TO A CONSENT AGENDA AND MOVED ON.

SO DOING WHAT AMY, UM, SUGGESTS, UM, MAKES SOME SENSE.

AND I A LOT OF SENSE.

UM, AND I THINK IT DOESN'T HAVE TO SLOW THE PROCESS DOWN IF IT ENDS UP ON A CONTENT CONSENT AGENDA.

WE'VE MADE GOOD PROGRESS IN SOME OF THESE OTHER ITEMS, BUT THAT ONE SEEMS TO BE LARGE ENOUGH THAT IT WOULD, IT SHOULD REMAIN IN FRONT OF PLANNING AND ZONING.

AND IF IT REMAINS IN THE CONSENTED AGENDA, IT COULD BE EFFICIENT, UM, TO MOVE SOME OF THOSE THROUGH.

BUT IF IT ISN'T, IT WOULD BE A, A, A PROBABLY GOOD STOP GAP MEASURE.

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AND, AND TO BE FAIR, THE, IF WE JUST TAKE THIS ONE CHANGE OFF ALL THOSE OTHER ITEMS, THE PAINT, THE BUILDING MATERIALS, THOSE CAN STILL BE ADMINISTRATIVELY, WELL, THOSE CAN BE ADMINISTRATIVELY APPROVED NOW.

THEY DON'T EVEN HAVE TO GO TO CONSENT.

SO THIS ONE THAT I'M ASKING WE NOT CHANGE IS FOR IN THE FUTURE, MAYBE IT'S NOT HOLDING UP ANYTHING NOW.

UM, AND IT'S NOT EVEN LEAVING IT 25%.

IF YOU THINK OF THE BUILDINGS IN BRIDGE PARK, THE ONE THAT'S GONNA MOST COMMONLY CHANGE IS THE TENANT SPACE MIGHT TURN OVER, RIGHT.

AND THEY WANNA CHANGE THEIR STOREFRONT.

WELL, THAT'S GONNA BE LESS THAN 25% AT THE FACE OF THAT BUILDING.

SO IT WILL STILL BE A MINOR PROJECT.

WHAT WHAT I'M WORRIED ABOUT IS THE ENTIRE BUILDING, EVERYTHING BEING ABLE TO BE CHANGED AND GOING TO A RT BECAUSE A LAWYER ARGUES, WELL, LOOK, I MEET NUMBER B, ALL MY EXTERIOR MODIFICATIONS TO THE PRINCIPAL STRUCTURE DON'T CHANGE THE SQUARE FOOTAGE.

AND THAT'S WHAT I'M WORRIED ABOUT.

AND I JUST DON'T SEE THE PROBLEM HAPPENING YET.

AND I'M JUST, I THINK IT MIGHT OPEN A CAN OF WORMS THAT WE MIGHT NOT WANT TO.

AND AGAIN, IT ALSO THEN CHANGES THIS DEFINITION TO THE OTHER, THE OTHER ZONING DISTRICT WILL REMAIN THAT 25%.

AND I THINK THAT CAUSES PROBLEM.

I, I, I HEAR WHAT YOU'RE SAYING, AMY AND I, I WOULD TEND TO AGREE WITH YOU.

I THINK WHENEVER WE MAKE A CHANGE, YOU ALWAYS HAVE TO ASK WHAT PROBLEM WE'RE TRYING TO SOLVE.

I'M NOT SURE THAT THIS IS ACTUALLY SOLVING A PROBLEM AND MAY END UP CAUSING FUTURE PROBLEMS THAT WE THEN HAVE TO GO BACK AND SOLVE AGAIN, .

UM, SO I, I APPRECIATE YOU BRINGING THAT DIALOGUE 'CAUSE IT, IT, IT WAS REALLY HELPFUL FOR ME.

'CAUSE THIS IS NOT MY AREA OF EXPERTISE.

UM, AND I WOULD BE SUPPORTIVE OF ESPECIALLY BECAUSE THEN IT'S NOT CONSISTENT ACROSS THE REST OF THE CITY AS WELL.

SO I'D ALSO BE SUPPORTIVE OF NOT MAKING THIS CHANGE.

I AGREE.

UM, I, AND I UNDERSTAND THE INTENT.

WE'RE TRYING TO STREAMLINE THINGS AND HELP DEVELOPERS MOVE THROUGH THE PROCESS MORE QUICKLY, SAVE THEM SOME MONEY, SAVE US SOME MONEY AND SOME TIME.

UM, I'M JUST AFRAID OF THE UNINTENDED CONSEQUENCES, THE INTENT.

WE INTEND TO DO A LOT OF THINGS, BUT UNFORTUNATELY IN PRACTICE THINGS GET KIND OF TURNED AROUND AND, UH, WE GET CHALLENGED.

SO I AGREE WITH WHAT AMY SAID.

YOU, UH, WE CAN JUST, YEAH.

GO.

UM, SO I, I GUESS I WOULD MAKE A MOTION TO, UM, APPROVE, UM, THIS ORDINANCE WITH THE CHANGE THAT WE'VE JUST DISCUSSED PER AMY'S RECOMMENDATION.

IS THERE A SECOND? SECOND.

I SECOND.

JENNY, WOULD YOU PLEASE CALL A ROLE VICE MAYOR LUDO? YES.

I REALLY APPRECIATE YOUR, ALL YOUR WORK ON THAT.

THIS BRINGS US

[Ordinance 02-24]

TO INTRODUCTIONS.

FIRST READING, PUBLIC HEARING AND ORDINANCE.

ORDINANCE NUMBER ZERO TWO DASH 24, CREATING A TAX INCREMENT FINANCING INCENTIVE DISTRICT FOR THE TOWNS ON THE PARKWAY.

DECLARING IMPROVEMENTS TO THE PARCELS WITHIN THE INCENTIVE DISTRICT TO BE A PUBLIC PURPOSE AND EXEMPT FROM REAL PROPERTY TAXATION, REQUIRING THE OWNERS OF THOSE PARCELS TO MAKE SERVICE PAYMENTS IN LIEU OF TAXES.

ESTABLISHING A MUNICIPAL PUBLIC IMPROVEMENT, TAX INCREMENT INCREMENT EQUIVALENT FUND FOR THE DEPOSIT OF THOSE SERVICE PAYMENTS, SPECIFYING THE PUBLIC INFRASTRUCTURE IMPROVEMENTS THAT BENEFIT OR SERVE PARCELS IN THE INCENTIVE DISTRICT AND AUTHORIZING COMPENSATION PAYMENTS TO THE DUBLIN CITY SCHOOL DISTRICT AND THE TOLLS CAREER AND TECHNICAL CENTER.

I'LL THANK YOU.

OUR STAFF REPORT WILL BE BY MATT STIFFLER.

WELCOME MATT.

UH, SERVICE PAYMENT REVENUE HAD THE TIF DISTRICT NOT BEEN IN PLACE.

MEMBERS OF COUNCIL.

THIS ORDINANCE WOULD ESTABLISH THE TOWNSEND PARKWAY INCENTIVE DISTRICT.

THIS INCENTIVE DISTRICT IS LOCATED, UH, GENERALLY IN THE AREA ON THAT MAP WHERE THE RED.IS LOCATED INSIDE THE BRIDGE STREET DISTRICT.

UH, THIS IS THE AREA CO COVERED BY THE COOPERATIVE AGREEMENT BETWEEN THE CITY OF DUBLIN AND DUBLIN CITY SCHOOLS.

THE RELEVANT FINANCIAL CONSIDERATIONS UNDER THIS AGREEMENT ARE THAT BEGINNING IN 2014, THE CITY WILL HAVE THE ABILITY TO AUTHORIZE VARIOUS TAX INCENTIVES, INCLUDING TIFFS WITHIN THE BRIDGE STREET DISTRICT, AND THEY PROVIDE FOR THE FOLLOWING INCENTIVES.

IN YEARS ONE THROUGH 15, THE CITY WILL RECEIVE 100% OF THE SERVICE PAYMENT REVENUE IN YEAR 16 THROUGH 30.

DUBLIN CITY SCHOOLS WILL RECEIVE 10% OF THE,

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IN CONSIDERATION FOR THIS FINANCIAL STRUCTURE, THE CITY IS MAKING A $1.5 MILLION PAYMENT TO THE DUBLIN CITY SCHOOL DISTRICT FROM 2014 THROUGH 2045 AND A $2 MILLION PAYMENT IN 2046.

IN TOTAL, THE CITY WILL MAKE PAYMENTS OF $50 MILLION OVER THIS 33, UH, 33 YEAR PERIOD SINCE 2014, THE CITY HAS CREATED A NUMBER OF TIF DISTRICTS IN THE AREA COVERED BY THE COOPERATIVE AGREEMENT.

UH, THE RELEVANT ONES FOR TONIGHT'S DISCUSSION INCLUDE TULLER 40 AND TULLER 41.

ALSO RELEVANT IS THE BRIDGE PARK INCENTIVE DISTRICT, WHICH WAS CREATED IN 2015.

THE COOPERATIVE AGREEMENT BETWEEN THE CITY AND THE SCHOOLS GIVES US THE ABILITY TO EXECUTE TIFF AGREEMENTS UNDER SECTION 57 0 9 POINT 40 AND 41.

AND WE'LL SEE SOME OF THOSE DIFFERENCES LATER.

BUT IT'S ALL SECTIONS OF THOSE, UH, SECTIONS OF OHIO REVISED CODE.

WITH REGARD TO THE TULLER 40 AND TULLER 41 TIFF, YOU CAN SEE THAT THOSE, UH, TWO ORDINANCES WERE PASSED LATE IN 2014, EARLY IN 2015.

THEY COVER THE TWO PARCELS IN QUESTION HERE.

THE BLUE PARCELS THAT ARE NOT PART OF THAT GREEN BOX ARE WHAT WE WOULD KNOW TODAY.

AS THE TELLER FLATS DEVELOPMENT, THE TELLER FLATS DEVELOPMENT, UH, APPARENTLY WAS EXPECTED TO CONTINUE NORTHWARD AT LEAST A COMMERCIAL PRODUCT.

AN APARTMENT A FOUR RENT PRODUCT WAS EXPECTED TO CONTINUE NORTHWARD.

THAT 41 IS A DIFFERENCE IN TYPE, BUT NOT IN, UH, PRODUCT COMPATIBILITY.

IT WOULD ALSO COVER COMMERCIAL PRODUCTS.

IT JUST GIVES THE CITY MORE FLEXIBILITY TO PAY FOR PRIVATE IMPROVEMENTS AS WELL AS PUBLIC IMPROVEMENTS THAT WAS DONE TO MAINTAIN MAXIMUM FLEXIBILITY BECAUSE THE CITY ACTUALLY OWNED THAT SITE AT ONE TIME.

THAT WAS THE OLD BUYER'S CAR DEALERSHIP.

THAT IS NOT THE FLEXIBILITY THAT WE'RE SEEKING TO EXECUTE TODAY.

WE WERE NEVER, WE NEVER WENT FORWARD ON THAT CAPABILITY.

WE JUST WANTED TO PRESERVE IT IN THE FUTURE WHEN WE CREATED THESE TIFFS IN 2014.

WITH REGARD TO, UH, THE ORDINANCE BEFORE YOU TODAY IN 2014, THE TULLER 40 TIFF WAS CREATED UNDER SECTION 57 0 9 40 B.

WE NEED TO CREATE A TIFF TODAY UNDER SECTION C.

THE RELEVANT DIFFERENCE BETWEEN THESE TWO SECTIONS IS SECTION B ALLOWS YOU TO CAPTURE THE INCREMENTAL VALUE FROM COMMERCIAL PROPERTIES THAT INCLUDES APARTMENTS AND FOUR RENT TOWN HOMES.

THAT WAS WHAT WAS EXPECTED TO BE CONSTRUCTED HERE IN 2014.

UNDER SECTION C, WHICH IS REFERRED TO AS AN INCENTIVE DISTRICT, YOU ARE ALLOWED TO CAPTURE THE INCREMENTAL VALUE FROM OWNER OCCUPIED HOUSING.

THAT CAN INCLUDE CONDOS AND OTHER FOR SALE TYPE PRODUCTS, INCLUDING SINGLE FAMILY DEVELOPMENTS.

YOU CAN SEE THERE THAT CITY COUNCIL'S TAKEN SEVERAL ACTIONS TO APPROVE, UH, SECTION ONE, TWO, AND THREE OF THIS DEVELOPMENT OVER THE PAST YEAR.

WITH REGARD TO CREATING AN INCENTIVE DISTRICT, WE PROVIDED NOTICES, UH, ON FEBRUARY 6TH TO THE RELEVANT PARTIES.

THESE INCLUDED FRANKLIN, UH, FRANKLIN COUNTY, WASHINGTON TOWNSHIP, AND THE DUBLIN CITY SCHOOLS WE'RE REQUIRED TODAY TO HAVE A PUBLIC HEARING AND FIRST READING, UH, THERE'S A REQUIREMENT OF 30 DAYS BETWEEN THE FIRST AND SECOND HEARING.

SO UNFORTUNATELY THE WAY THE DATES LINE UP OUR FIRST HEARING IN APRIL IS A FEW DAYS TOO EARLY.

SO WE WILL BE HAVING THIS AT THE APRIL 22ND MEETING.

WE WILL HAVE OUR SECOND HEARING.

FINALLY, UNDER FINANCIAL CONSIDERATIONS, THIS PROJECT INCLUDES 154 ATTACHED SINGLE FAMILY UNITS ESTIMATED TO BE AROUND FIVE OR $600,000.

THE ESTIMATED ANNUAL SERVICE PAYMENT REVENUE, UH, IS ESTIMATED TO BE 1.5 TO $1.9 MILLION ANNUALLY.

THESE SERVICE PAYMENT REVENUES COULD BE USED TO MAKE THE FOLLOWING PUBLIC IMPROVEMENTS.

THE JOHN SHIELDS PARKWAY PHASE ONE AND TWO IMPROVEMENTS, WHICH TOTALED $17.7 MILLION FUNDING.

THAT WAS A MIX OF DEBT AND ADVANCES THE REPAYMENT OF ADVANCES TO THE GENERAL FUND OR THE CAPITAL IMPROVEMENTS FUND THAT TOTAL $40 MILLION.

UH, WE ALSO HAVE ANNUAL DEBT SERVICE PAYMENTS FOR OTHER PUBLIC IMPROVEMENTS IN BRIDGE STREET THAT ARE CURRENTLY TOTALING BETWEEN 3.3 AND $4 MILLION IN INCOME TAX REVENUES ANNUALLY.

AND THEN FINALLY, WE ARE MAKING THE $1.5 MILLION ANNUAL PAYMENT OUT OF AN ADVANCE FROM THE GENERAL FUND STAFF RECOMMENDS APPROVAL OF THIS ORDINANCE AT THE APRIL 22ND, UH, MEETING OF CITY COUNCIL.

AND I'M AVAILABLE TO ANSWER ANY QUESTIONS.

THANK YOU MATT.

UH, IS THERE ANYONE PRESENT THIS EVENING FROM THE GENERAL PUBLIC THAT WOULD LIKE TO SPEAK RELATIVE TO THIS ORDINANCE? HEARING NONE COUNCIL QUESTIONS, DISCUSSION.

CAN I JUST ASK A COUPLE CLARIFYING QUESTIONS? IS THAT, UM, SO TOLER FLATS HAS ITS OWN TIFF, IS THAT RIGHT?

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THE TELLER 40 TIFF IS THE AREA IN BLUE HERE.

SO, UM, THAT, THAT TIFF IS THAT THAT WHOLE AREA.

SO TELLER FLATS IS ENCASED IN THE LEFTMOST, UH, BLUE SQUARES.

SO DO WE HAVE TO AMEND THE, THAT TIFF TO THEN, BECAUSE WE'RE CREATING A NEW ONE? THAT'S A GOOD QUESTION.

WE DO NOT BECAUSE WE NEVER, UH, YOU CREATE A TIFF PARCEL BY PARCEL AND WE NEVER CREATED, WE NEVER, UH, INITIALIZED THE TIFF ON THESE PARCELS SO WE DON'T HAVE TO REPEAL IT.

SO WE DIDN'T ACTIVATE IT EXACTLY THING.

HAD WE ACTIVATED IT, WE WOULD HAVE TO REPEAL IT.

AND THEN THE, THE PAYMENT THAT'S GOING TO THE, SO WE'RE CREATING A NEW TIF FOR THIS, IT HAS ITS OWN SEPARATE PAYMENT TO THE SCHOOL? NO, THERE'S ONLY ONE PAYMENT THAT, SO WE'RE NOT ADDING A NEW PAYMENT.

THAT'S THE EXISTING PAYMENT THAT WE'RE ALREADY PAYING IS THIS IS INCLUDED? THAT'S CORRECT.

ALRIGHT.

THAT PAYMENT COVERS THE ENTIRETY OF THE BRIDGE STREET DISTRICT.

THAT, THAT'S WHAT I THOUGHT.

I JUST WANTED TO MAKE SURE AT WHATEVER POINT IN TIME IT COMES IN.

SO ANY NEW TIFF, LIKE, SO WE'RE NOT, BECAUSE WE'RE CREATING A NEW ONE, IT DOESN'T ADD, WE'RE NOT ADDING THE PAYMENT AMOUNT.

I WANNA BE CLEAR HERE.

WE'RE NOT ADDING TO OUR $1.5 MILLION ANNUAL PAYMENT.

BUT WE'RE ADDING TO THE OVERALL PERCENTAGE.

UNDER THE BACK 15 YEARS OF THE AGREEMENT, WE ARE PAYING 10% OF THE TIF REVENUES TO THE SCHOOL.

SO WE ARE CREATING RIGHT.

'CAUSE WE'RE GETTING MORE REVENUE, WE'RE PAYING.

BUT THE, THE, WE'RE NOT INCREASING THE PAYMENT BY CREATING NO, BY DIVIDING THAT, I GUESS AND CREATING A NEW ONE.

NO.

THAT ANSWERS MY QUESTION.

ABSOLUTELY.

JUST QUESTION, JUST TO CLARIFY, MATT, BECAUSE WE, THIS IS, COULD YOU PUT THAT SLIDE BACK UP REAL QUICK? YEAH.

WITH THE NO, NO.

THE LAST ONE WITH THE PERCENTAGES.

SO DURING YEARS 16 THROUGH 30, JUST CLARIFY FOR ME.

SO I UNDERSTAND THEY RECEIVED 10% OF WHAT THEY WOULD'VE RECEIVED, UM, IF IT HADN'T NOT BEEN IN PLACE, THEY STILL RECEIVED THE 1.5 PLUS THE 10% IF IT HADN'T BEEN IN PLACE, NOT 10% OF WHAT IT IS VALUED AT TODAY OR DURING YEAR 16 THROUGH 30, IT'S CURRENT MARKET VALUE.

RIGHT? THEY GET 10% OF THE CURRENT MARKET VALUE DURING THE YEAR 16 THROUGH 30.

THAT'S CORRECT.

SO IF THIS TIFF REMAINED PERFECTLY FLAT AT, SAY $2 MILLION ANNUALLY IN YEAR 16 THROUGH 30, THEY WOULD RECEIVE $200,000 OF THESE SERVICE PAYMENT REVENUES ANNUALLY FOR THOSE 15 YEARS.

BUT DURING THE YEAR 16 THROUGH 30, THE, THE PRICE OF THAT PROPERTY IS QUITE A BIT MORE.

SO THEY, THEY RECEIVE THE 10% OF PROPERTY, THEY RECEIVE THE 10%.

I WOULDN'T, I WOULDN'T NECESSARILY ASSUME THAT THE REVENUE WOULD INCREASE BECAUSE PROPERTY TAXES GENERALLY STAY FLAT OVER TIME.

SO THERE MAY BE SOME INCREASE, BUT I WOULDN'T ASSUME THAT IT, IT INFLATES WITH PROPERTY VALUES.

THANKS.

THANKS FOR EXPLAINING THAT.

INTRODUCTIONS FIRST READING ORDINANCES, ORDINANCE ZERO THREE DASH 24 AMENDING THE ANNUAL APPROPRIATIONS FOR FISCAL YEAR ENDING DECEMBER 31ST, 2024.

ANYTHING ELSE? ALRIGHT, THIS IS SCHEDULED FOR SECOND READING, PUBLIC HEARING ON APRIL THE 22ND.

[Ordinance 03-24]

AND WE WILL STAY WITH MR. STIFFLER FOR THE STAFF REPORT.

YES.

GOOD EVENING AGAIN, MEMBERS OF COUNSEL ORDINANCE OH THREE DASH 24 AMENDS 2024 APPROPRIATIONS.

IT'S ALSO KNOWN AS THE Q1 SUPPLEMENTAL.

THE THIS, UH, SUPPLEMENTAL ORDINANCE CONTAINS RE APPROPRIATIONS OF CAPITAL PROJECTS THAT WERE APPROVED IN PRIOR YEAR BUT NOT EXECUTED OR ENCUMBERED BY THE EXPIRATION OF THOSE APPROPRIATIONS.

AS WELL AS A FEW NEW APPROPRIATIONS FOR ITEMS THAT WERE, UM, EXECUTED AFTER THE OPERATING BUDGET HAD ALREADY BEEN ADOPTED IN 2023.

THERE ARE, UH, EXPLANATIONS FOR EACH APPROPRIATION IN THE MEMO MEMO, BUT I'M HAPPY TO PROVIDE ANY ADDITIONAL INFORMATION.

I THINK CONSTRUCTION WAS GENERALLY USED THERE, BUT OKAY.

IS THERE ANYONE PRESENT THIS EVENING THAT WOULD LIKE TO SPEAK RELATIVE TO THIS ORDINANCE? HEARING NONE COUNCIL QUESTIONS, DISCUSSION.

I JUST HAVE CLARIFYING QUESTION AND IT ACTUALLY MIGHT BE MORE FOR ENGINEERING THAN YOU.

SO WE'RE ADDING, UM, SECTION THREE, THE 270,000, WHICH ISN'T A WHOLE LOT.

SO THIS IS WHERE MY CONFUSION IS.

'CAUSE IT SAYS WE'LL ALLOW THESE PROJECTS PREVIOUSLY APPROVED TO CONTINUE CONSTRUCTION IN 2024 AND THAT INCLUDES THE WATER LINE EXTENSION AREA THREE C, WHICH IS TAUNT AREA.

BUT IT WAS MY IMPRESSION THAT WE'RE JUST FINISHING ENGINEERING AND WE'RE NOT ACTUALLY CONSTRUCTING ANYTHING.

SO IS THAT JUST A KIND OF A, SO THAT, THAT SHOULD SAY WHEN WE, THAT SHOULD SAY CONTINUED DESIGN NOT CONSTRUCTION.

IS THAT I WOULD AGREE WITH THAT STATEMENT.

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I JUST, THAT IS A, I HAVE RESIDENTS WHO ARE READY FOR IT TO BE CONSTRUCTED AND USING THE WORD CONSTRUCTION I UNDERSTAND TO ME, TO THEM IS LIKE DIGGING IN THE GROUND.

SO, AND, AND THE, THE LIKEWISE, THE SAME COMMENT GOES TO SECTION FOUR BELOW THE 175,000.

IT SAYS TO CONTINUE CONSTRUCTION IN 2024, AGAIN INCLUDES SEWER EXTENSIONS, THREE C, UM, ONE B AND ONE THING.

AGAIN, THAT'S THE ANTE AREA.

I WILL AMEND THAT VERB IN THE SECOND READING TO BETTER REFLECT.

I JUST DON'T WANNA GET PEOPLE'S HOPES UP 'CAUSE I, IT WAS MY IMPRESSION THAT WE'RE JUST DESIGNING IT, SO THANK YOU.

YES, MATT, NORMALLY WHEN THE SUPPLEMENTALS COME OUT, YOU GIVE US AN EXCELLENT CHART ABOUT WHAT HAPPENS TO THE GENERAL FUND, ET CETERA, BEGINNING AND UM, THAT WAS NOT INCLUDED.

AND IS THAT, OR I MISSED IT.

UM, IS THAT BECAUSE REALLY THESE DON'T HAVE ANY IMPACTS ON THAT? NO, THERE SHOULD BE A A THE LAST PAGE OF, DID I MISS IT? OH MY GOSH.

THE MEMO SHOULD HAVE A CHART.

THERE IS A GENERAL FUND IMPACT.

OH MY GOODNESS.

OKAY, THERE IT IS.

SORRY, THE VERY END I MISSED IT.

ABSOLUTELY.

AND THE GENERAL FUND IMPACT IS, THERE'S A SIGNIFICANT GENERAL FUND IMPACT FOR THIS ORDINANCE BECAUSE WE HAD TO MOVE SOME ADVANCES, UH, TO, UH, CHANGE THE FUNDING STRUCTURE OF THE BRIGHT ROAD CORRIDOR FROM GENERAL FUND CASH TO POTENTIALLY DEBT FINANCING.

SO THAT CREATED A NEED TO CREATE AN ADVANCE IN THE GENERAL FUND AND AN ADVANCE REPAYMENT IN THE FOUR OH FUND.

4 0 4 FUND.

IF I RECALL, I THINK THE ONLY NEW APPROPRIATIONS IN THE GENERAL FUND WERE FOR ABOUT $140,000 FOR THE POLICE GRANTS.

THE REST OF IT WAS CAPITAL.

SO I'D HAVE TO LOOK THROUGH THE ORDINANCE AGAIN, BUT I DON'T BELIEVE THERE WAS A LARGE IMPACT ON THE GENERAL FUND.

GREAT, THANK YOU.

AND, AND I APOLOGIZE FOR NOT, I DON'T KNOW, I, IT DIDN'T RESOLVE THE FIRST TWO TIMES, BUT, UM, THANK YOU FOR THAT.

AND IT, IT, THOSE THAT'S VERY HELPFUL.

SO I APPRECIATE THAT.

ZERO FOUR DASH 24, AUTHORIZING THE PROVISION OF CERTAIN INCENTIVES TO SAR NOVA H-C-L-L-C TO INDUCE IT TO PURCHASE AN OFFICE BUILDING FOR THE RELOCATION OF THE COMPANY'S EXISTING OFFICE AND THE EXPANSION OF THAT OFFICE AND ITS ASSOCIATED OPERATIONS AND WORKFORCE WITHIN THE CITY AND AUTHORIZING THE EXECUTION OF AN ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT AGREEMENT.

I OKAY.

OTHER COMMENTS? ALRIGHT, WE WILL LOOK FORWARD TO HEARING ADDITIONAL INFORMATION ABOUT THOSE SLIGHT CHANGES AND, UH, AT SECOND READING, PUBLIC HEARING ON MARCH THE 25TH, ORDINANCE

[Ordinance 04-24]

I'LL DO IT.

AND OUR STAFF REPORT WILL BE FROM JENNA GEHRING.

WELCOME JENNA.

MEMBERS OF COUNCIL.

WE HAVE BEEN IN DISCUSSIONS WITH SAR NOVA ON THE EXPANSION OF THEIR COMPANY WITHIN THE CITY OF DUBLIN.

SAR NOVA IS A SPECIALTY MEDICAL SALES SERVICE AND DISTRIBUTION COMPANY.

SONOVA WAS FOUNDED IN DUBLIN IN 2009 AND IS THE LEADING NATIONAL PROVIDER OF E EMERGENCY MEDICAL AND ACUTE CARE PRODUCTS CURRENTLY LOCATED ON TUTTLE CROSSING BOULEVARD.

SONOVA CONTINUES TO GROW AND THE COMPANY IS CONSIDERING THE PURCHASE OF A 50,000 SQUARE FOOT FACILITY IN DUBLIN TO LOCATE THEIR SHARED SERVICE CENTER.

THE ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT AGREEMENT PROPOSES SAR NOVA IS A 10% PERFORMANCE INCENTIVE ON WITHHOLDINGS OVER THREE YEARS, VALUED AT $170,000 FOR THE TERM OF THE AGREEMENT AND CONSIDERATION OF THE COMPANY'S INVESTMENT AND PLANNED WORKFORCE GROWTH IN DUBLIN.

THE PROJECT WOULD RESULT IN THE RETENTION OF 192 EXISTING JOBS AND THE CREATION OF 15 JOBS BASED WITHIN THE CITY.

BY DECEMBER 31ST, 2028.

THE PROJECT IS ANTICIPATED TO BRING APPROXIMATELY 2.6 MILLION IN NET WITHHOLDINGS THROUGH 2028.

THE STATE OF OHIO INTENDS TO APPROVE ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT AND INCENTIVES FOR SAR NOVA TO HELP RETAIN AND EXPAND ITS WORKFORCE IN INVESTMENT IN OHIO.

STAFF RECOMMENDS COUNSEL APPROVES THIS ORDINANCE ON MARCH 25TH AND I'M HAPPY TO ANSWER ANY QUESTIONS COUNSEL MAY HAVE AT THIS TIME.

INTRODUCTIONS, PUBLIC HEARING VOTE

JENNA.

IS THERE ANYONE PRESENT THIS EVENING THAT WOULD LIKE TO SPEAK RELATIVE TO THIS ORDINANCE? HEARING NONE, UH, COUNSEL QUESTIONS, DISCUSSION? HEARING NONE, WE WILL LOOK FORWARD TO SECOND READING, PUBLIC HEARING SCHEDULED FOR MARCH THE 25TH.

[Resolution 08-24]

RESOLUTION, RESOLUTION ZERO EIGHT DASH 24 DECLARING CERTAIN CITY OWNED PROPERTY AS SURPLUS AND AUTHORIZING THE CITY MANAGER TO DISPOSE OF SAID PROPERTY IN ACCORDANCE WITH SECTION THREE 7.07 OF THE DUBLIN CODIFIED ORDINANCES.

I'M JOSEPH.

SO AFTER ALL OF THAT PROCESS IS DONE, THEN WE WILL MOVE TO, UH, PUT THESE VEHICLES, UH, REPLACEMENT VEHICLES AND EQUIPMENT ON GOV DEALS FOR THE MOST PART.

IN OUR STAFF REPORT WILL BE FROM BRIAN ASHFORD.

UM, WE HAVE NEW REPLACEMENT VEHICLES AND EQUIPMENT ARRIVING AT A FASTER PACE AND IT HAS IN THE RECENT YEARS.

SO WE HAVE A PRETTY EXTENSIVE LIST OF VEHICLES AND EQUIPMENT THAT WE WOULD LIKE TO DISPOSE OF AS THESE, UH, NEWER VEHICLES OR REPLACEMENT VEHICLES COME IN.

SO, UM, WE'LL BE DOING THAT AS THE VEHICLES ARE READY TO GO.

MANY OF THEM ARE GONNA BE, UH, TRANSFERRED, UH, INTO C AND G VEHICLES.

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SO I'D BE HAPPY TO ANSWER ANY QUESTIONS.

VERY GOOD, THANK YOU.

IS THERE ANYONE PRESENT THIS EVENING THAT WOULD LIKE TO SPEAK RELATIVE TO THIS RESOLUTION? HEARING NONE.

COUNCIL QUESTIONS.

DISCUSSION, BRIAN, AFTER READING THE, UH, MAKE AND MODEL AND THE MILEAGE, IT'S TIME TO GET RID OF 'EM.

I DON'T, I DIDN'T SEE A GOOD BUY IN THE WHOLE LIST.

SO , LET'S MOVE THEM OUT.

YEAH, I WOULD SAY SO.

UH, ANY OTHER COUNCIL QUESTIONS? DISCUSSION? UH, HEARING NONE? JENNY, WOULD YOU PLEASE CALL THE RULE? MS. OSA? YES.

MR. KEELER? YES.

VICE MAYOR LUDO? YES.

MS. REINER? YES.

MS. FOX? YES.

MAYOR AM ROSE GROOMS? YES.

[Resolution 09-24]

IT BRINGS US TO RESOLUTION ZERO NINE DASH 24, ACCEPTANCE OF A FINAL PLAT FOR THE SUBDIVISION OF 9.09 ACRES TO ESTABLISH 27 SINGLE FAMILY LOTS, TWO PUBLIC RIGHTS AWAY AND 0.31 ACRES OF PUBLIC OPEN SPACE FOR AVONDALE WOODS.

SECTION TWO.

I'LL REDUCE IT.

AND WE'LL GO BACK TO ZACH FOR OUR STAFF REPORT.

THANK YOU VERY MUCH AND GOOD EVENING AGAIN.

I HAVE A BRIEF PRESENTATION FOR YOU FOR THIS FINAL PLAT.

UH, THIS FINAL PLAT IS INTENDED TO ESTABLISH PROPERTY LINES, EASEMENTS, OPEN SPACE, AND PUBLIC RIGHT OF WAY FOR AVONDALE WOODS.

SECTION TWO.

UH, THIS IS A PROJECT, A LONG TIME COMING AS IT BEGAN, UH, BACK IN 2014 WITH THE REZONING.

THE FINAL DEVELOPMENT PLAN FOR THIS SECTION WAS APPROVED IN FEBRUARY OF 2023.

UH, THE SITE IS 9.09 ACRES IN SIZE, AND AGAIN ZONED IN THE PLAN UNIT DEVELOPMENT DISTRICT OF AVONDALE WOODS.

THIS FINAL PLAT IS 4 27, SINGLE FAMILY LOTS, TWO EXTENSIONS OF PUBLIC RIGHT OF WAY, AND THREE RESERVES CONTAINING 0.31 ACRES OF OPEN SPACE.

ALL LOTS AND EASEMENTS AND OPEN SPACES ARE CONSISTENT WITH THE APPROVED PRELIMINARY DEVELOPMENT PLAN AS WELL AS THE FINAL AND DEVELOPMENT PLAN.

UM, AND ALL LOTS DO MEET THE REQUIREMENTS OF THE DEVELOPMENT TAX STAFF IS RECOMMENDING APPROVAL OF THIS.

HAPPY TO ANSWER ANY QUESTIONS.

COUNCIL QUESTIONS, DISCUSSION.

UH, IS THERE ANYONE PRESENT THIS EVENING THAT WOULD LIKE TO SPEAK RELATIVE TO THIS APPLICATION? HEARING NONE.

THE, UM, THIS PROJECT, IS IT FULLY, UM, FUNDED WITH AN HOA? IT'S STILL IN CONSTRUCTION, SO IT'D STILL BE WITH THE DEVELOPER RIGHT NOW.

IT'S, PARDON? IT'S STILL UNDER CONSTRUCTION CURRENTLY.

SO IT'S STILL WITH THE DEVELOPER.

BUT AFTER THAT IT WOULD BE HOA.

YES.

BUT THERE IS, WE'RE GONNA HAVE A FORCED CORRECT.

HOA CORRECT.

THAT'S GONNA MAINTAIN THIS CORRECTLY.

THAT WON'T COME BACK TO US LATER ON.

CORRECT.

OTHERS? HEARING NONE.

JENNY, WOULD YOU PLEASE CALL ROLL MS. CRAM? YES.

VICE MAYOR LUDO? YES.

RESOLUTION 10 DASH 24 AUTHORIZING THE CITY MANAGER TO ENTER INTO A COLLECTIVE BARGAINING AGREEMENT WITH THE FRATERNAL ORDER OF POLICE, OHIO LABOR COUNCIL REGARDING WAGES, HOURS, AND TERMS AND CONDITIONS OF EMPLOYMENT FOR EMPLOYEES WITHIN THE COMMUNICATION TECHNICIAN BARGAINING UNIT.

[Resolution 10-24]

GREAT.

OUR STAFF REPORT THIS EVENING WILL BE WITH JENNIFER MTI.

WELCOME, JENNIFER.

MEMBERS OF COUNCIL RESOLUTION 10 DASH 24 AUTHORIZES THE CITY MANAGER TO ENTER INTO A COLLECTIVE BARGAINING AGREEMENT FOR THE 2024 THROUGH 2026 FISCAL YEARS WITH THEIR FRATERNAL ORDER OF POLICE.

THE OHIO LABOR COUNCIL, THE NEW COLLECTIVE BARGAINING AGREEMENT WAS RATIFIED BY MEMBERS OF THE COMMUNICATION TECHNICIAN BARGAINING UNIT ON MARCH 4TH.

THE DETAILS OF THE FINANCIAL IMPACT ARE OUTLINED IN THE MEMO TO COUNCIL, BUT INCLUDES WAGE INCREASES FOR EACH YEAR OF THE CONTRACT, AND A SHIFT DIFFERENTIAL RATE INCREASE FROM A DOLLAR 25 TO A DOLLAR 40 PER HOUR.

STAFF RECOMMENDS THAT COUNCIL APPROVE RESOLUTION 10 DASH 24.

IS THERE ANYONE PRESENT THIS EVENING THAT WOULD LIKE TO SPEAK RELATIVE TO THIS LEGISLATION? HEARING NONE COUNCIL QUESTIONS, DISCUSSION.

HEARING NONE.

JENNY, WOULD YOU PLEASE CALL THE ROLE MS. FOX? YES.

VICE MAYOR LUDO? YES.

MR. RINER? YES.

MR. ROSA? YES.

MR. KEELER? YES.

TO THE OTHER BUSINESS PORTION OF OUR AGENDA, AND WE HAVE THE SOLAR ECLIPSE INFORMATION AND DORA EXTENSION REQUEST.

THIS BRINGS US

[OTHER BUSINESS]

OUR STAFF REPORT WILL BE FROM ALLISON LAROI.

OF WHERE WE ARE? 'CAUSE I'M NOT SURE WE HAD AN UPDATE.

GOOD EVENING, MEMBERS OF COUNCIL.

UM, BUT THIS IS A LITTLE HIGH .

UM, SO WE'RE JUST UNDER A MONTH AWAY FROM, WHICH IS REALLY A, A HISTORIC EVENT, WHICH WILL HAPPEN IN DUBLIN

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ON APRIL 8TH.

AND, UM, AT 3:11 PM ON THAT DAY, WE WILL HAVE 90 SECONDS OF A TOTAL ECLIPSE HERE IN DUBLIN.

UM, AND WE DID CONFIRM THAT EVERY INCH OF DUBLIN IS WITHIN THE, UM, TOTALITY.

SO IT'S GONNA BE A PRETTY EXCITING DAY.

I THINK WE DO KNOW, UM, WE'VE BEEN WORKING FOR OVER A YEAR WITH THE EMASS AND, AND THE COUNTIES OF THE STATE AND THROUGHOUT, UM, THE AREA, BECAUSE I THINK A LOT OF PEOPLE ARE TRYING TO DECIDE WHAT IS ACTUALLY GONNA HAPPEN ON THAT DAY.

OF COURSE, THIS IS A VERY WEATHER DEPENDENT EVENT.

UM, BUT WE DO EXPECT AT THIS POINT THERE SHOULD BE A LOT OF TRAFFIC TRAVELING THROUGH DUBLIN AND TO DUBLIN AS DUBLIN IS ONE OF THE ONLY CITIES IN FRANKLIN COUNTY THAT WILL HAVE THE PATH OF TOTALITY.

IN FACT, I THINK IT'S THE ONLY ONE WHERE THE ENTIRE CITY IS IN THE PATH OF TOTALITY.

SO, UM, SOME OF THE THINGS THAT ARE GOING ON, UM, I FEEL LIKE EVERY WEEK WE FIND OUT ANOTHER SCHOOL HAS BEEN CLOSING.

SO, UM, WE DO KNOW THAT MOST OF THE SCHOOLS WILL BE CLOSED ON THE DAY, UM, SO THAT PEOPLE WILL, UM, EITHER STAY HOME AND WATCH IT OR THEY WILL WANT TO, UM, DO SOMETHING.

THERE'S, SO THERE'S SOME EVENTS THAT ARE HAPPENING.

ONE OF THE NEWEST ONES THAT WAS, UH, ANNOUNCED WAS THE SOUL CELEBRATION AT THE ZOO, WHICH I THINK WILL BE, UM, A FAIRLY GOOD EVENT AND PRETTY POPULAR.

AND WE KNOW SOME OF OUR BUSINESSES LIKE VASSO IS PLANNING TO HAVE, UM, A BIG EVENT LIKE THEY'VE DONE FOR THE FIREWORKS AND SOME OTHER EVENTS, UM, FOR THE, THE, UM, ECLIPSE AS WELL AS VISIT DUBLIN AS DOING THEIR EVENT.

THEIR EVENT IS REALLY FOR THE OUT OF TOWN VISITORS.

UM, AND THEN SOME OF OUR LOCAL ONES, SUCH AS HILLIARD AND WORTHINGTON ARE DOING SOME EVENTS.

SOME OTHER TOWNS AROUND US HAVE DECIDED NOT TO DO EVENTS BECAUSE THEY ARE WORRIED ABOUT SOME OF THE TRAFFIC THAT'S GONNA BE COMING THROUGH TOWN.

UM, SO ONE OF THE THINGS WE'VE TALKED ABOUT IS THE SLOGAN IS REALLY GONNA BECOME EARLY AND STAY LATE.

UH, WE HAVE HEARD SOME STORIES ABOUT SOME MAJOR TRAFFIC IMPACTS.

IT'S ALMOST LIKE A NORMAL FIREWORK SHOW.

EVERYTHING HAPPENS AT THE ONE POINT AND EVERYBODY WANTS TO LEAVE AT THE SAME TIME.

UM, SO WE ARE, UM, TRYING TO DO A FEW THINGS TO KEEP PEOPLE HERE IN DUBLIN AND ALSO TO, UM, GIVE OUR BUSINESSES SOME EXTRA BUSINESS THAT DAY.

AND SO WE ARE CALLING WHAT THE DUBLIN AND THE DARK COMMUNITY VIEWING EVENTS.

AND ONE OF THEM WILL BE IN KAUFMAN PARK JUST ACROSS THE ROAD HERE IN THE FIELD.

AND WE'LL HAVE A DJ AND SOME JUGGLERS.

UM, JUST SOME MINOR THINGS TO KIND OF KEEP PEOPLE INTERESTED WHILE THEY'RE WAITING FOR THE ECLIPSE TO HAPPEN.

AND THEN OVER IN RIVERSIDE CROSSING PARK, WE ALSO ARE GONNA HAVE THE LED, UM, JUGGLERS AND SOME FIRE TWIRLERS AND SOME DIFFERENT THINGS.

WE'VE PUT OUT AN APPLICATION IF ANYBODY WANTS TO COME AND BE A VENDOR, NO FOOD VENDORS.

'CAUSE DOWN THERE WE WANNA MAKE SURE PEOPLE ARE GOING TO THOSE RESTAURANTS.

UM, AND WE ARE ALSO GOING TO BE GIVING OUT, UM, SOME OF THE, THE GLASSES.

WE HAVE 2,500.

I THINK ONE OF THE THINGS WE, WE'VE BEEN FINDING IS A LOT OF PEOPLE DO HAVE THE GLASSES.

SO I THINK WE HOPE THAT SHOULD BE ENOUGH BECAUSE IT SEEMS LIKE A LOT OF PEOPLE ARE DOING THOSE RIGHT NOW.

UM, THE COMMUNITY RECREATION CENTER IS HAVING A, UM, LIKE THEY, LIKE THEY NORMALLY DO ON A SCHOOL DAY, OFF A CAMP DAY.

AND, UM, COSI WILL ALSO HAVE A BIG EVENT AS WELL AS PASSING OUT GLASSES.

SO IN SUPPORT OF OUR DOWNTOWN BUSINESSES AND THEIR EFFORTS.

UM, AND WE'RE ENCOURAGING THEM TO OPEN A LITTLE BIT EARLY.

IF THEY DON'T NORMALLY DO A LUNCH OR A BREAKFAST, MAYBE DO THAT BECAUSE WE KNOW A LOT OF VISITORS WILL BE IN TOWN.

AND, UM, ON THAT PART, WE WOULD LIKE TO EXTEND THE DORA ON THAT DAY TO ENCOURAGE PEOPLE TO COME EARLY, SPEND SOME TIME.

AND THEN ONCE THE ECLIPSE HAPPENS TO SPEND SOME MORE TIME IN THE DISTRICT HELPING OUR BUSINESSES.

SO WE, UM, NORMALLY THE DOOR ON MONDAY NIGHT WOULD JUST BE FOUR TO 8:00 PM AND WE ARE REQUESTING, UM, EXTENDING THAT FROM ONE TO 8:00 PM ON THAT DAY.

UM, SO WE WOULD CAPTURE PEOPLE AFTER LUNCH AND GET THEM TO JUST KIND OF HANG OUT DOWNTOWN AND ENJOY THE AREA.

SO WE ARE RECOMMENDING APPROVAL OF THIS.

WE ALSO WILL BE COMING BACK TO COUNCIL WITHIN THE NEXT MONTH OR SO.

WE ARE GETTING A LOT OF REQUESTS FROM, UM, BOTH OUR VISIT, THE VISIT DUBLIN BOARD BUSINESSES DOWN IN, UM, DOWNTOWN DUBLIN, AS WELL AS OUR DOWNTOWN DUBLIN STRATEGIC ALLIANCE.

UM, JUST SAYING, WHAT CAN WE DO? 'CAUSE I THINK THERE'S SOME CONFUSION SOMETIMES WE HAVE DIFFERENT TIMES EVERY DAY.

SO WE, WE WILL COME BACK TO COUNCIL WITH SOME IDEAS OF HOW WE MIGHT MAKE THAT A LITTLE CLEARER FOR EVERYBODY.

UM, BUT I CAN ANSWER ANY QUESTIONS THAT YOU MIGHT HAVE ABOUT IT.

GREAT.

THANK YOU ALLISON.

MM-HMM.

UH, IS THERE ANYONE PRESENT THIS EVENING THAT WOULD LIKE TO SPEAK RELATIVE TO THIS ITEM? HEARING NONE COUNCIL QUESTIONS.

DISCUSSION.

THANK YOU FOR YOUR WORK ON THIS.

IT IS EXCITING, ISN'T IT? SO I'M LOOKING FORWARD TO THAT.

UM, WHEN YOU COME BACK WITH YOUR SORT OF, UM, SUGGESTED CHANGES, COULD YOU GIVE US AN UPDATE AND A BIT ON THE NUMBERS AND JUST SORT

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I KNOW IT'S BEEN QUITE A SUCCESS, BUT IF YOU COULD ADD THAT I'M MM-HMM.

IF NOT ALREADY PLANNED.

THAT'D BE GREAT.

UM, WE'LL HAVE THE, THE, THE ONE WAY WE DO KNOW IS THE NUMBER OF CUPS THAT WE'VE BEEN, UM, BECAUSE WE DO SELL 'EM OUT OF OUR OFFICE, SO WE DO KNOW THE NUMBER THAT GO OUT.

AND I THINK YOU'RE RIGHT, I THINK IT'S BEEN OVER A YEAR AND A HALF, MAYBE TWO YEARS EVEN SINCE I'VE COME BACK WITH A REPORT ON IT.

AND, AND WE DO THAT.

WE COMMITTED THAT WE WOULD DO THAT AS, SO THAT SEEMS LIKE A PERFECT TIME, SO THANK YOU VERY MUCH.

YEP.

QUESTION THE, UH, SOLAR GLOSSES GIVEAWAY.

THAT WAS PRETTY BRILLIANT BECAUSE, YOU KNOW, YOU CAN HAND SOMEBODY A CARD, BUT YOU GIVE 'EM SOMETHING LIKE THAT, IT'S SOMETHING THEY CAN USE.

AND I KNOW KROGER'S SELLING FOR A DOLLAR 99 AND I GOT A, YOU KNOW, IT WAS, THIS IS A BRILLIANT PIECE OF MARKETING.

WITH ALL THE DUBLIN INFORMATION STAMPED ALL THE WAY AROUND THEM.

AND WE ARE HOPING THAT PEOPLE KEEP THESE AS KEEPSAKES.

I, I FORGET HOW MANY YEARS IT IS TILL THE NEXT ONE.

BUT THESE, THESE ARE ONE OF THOSE THINGS YOU CAN SHOW YOUR GRANDCHILDREN AND SAY, LOOK AT THIS .

I JUST HAD ONE COMMENT.

I MEAN, I, I WOULD BE SUPPORTIVE ACTUALLY STARTING THE DOOR, LIKE AT NOON BECAUSE OF THESE RESTAURANTS THEY OPEN AT 11 FOR LUNCH.

SO BY THE TIME YOU'RE DONE WITH LUNCH AT NOON, YOU MIGHT WANNA START WALKING AROUND.

BUT I'VE ALSO, LIKE THE NEWS HAS BEEN TALKING ABOUT THIS EVERY DAY.

SO THE, THE EVENT IS ACTUALLY LIKE TWO TO FOUR STARTING AT TWO.

IT'S STARTING TO COVER AND THEN BY TAKE AN HOUR TO GET IT COVERED AND THEN IT TAKES AN HOUR TO UNCOVER IT.

YES.

SO, I MEAN, I I WOULD SUPPORT STARTING IT AT NOON IF ANYONE ELSE THAT, THAT'S JUST, I THINK WE'RE GONNA HAVE A LOT OF PEOPLE HERE.

NOON.

IT IS.

READY FOR MOTION? I WAS GONNA MAKE A MOTION TO GRANT THE DOOR EXTENSION FOR MONDAY, APRIL THE EIGHTH TO THE HOURS AS REQUESTED AND AMENDED TO BE NOON.

I WILL SECOND THAT.

I'LL SECOND IT.

JENNY, WOULD YOU PLEASE CALL THE ROLL? MR. REINER? YES.

MR. KEELER? YES.

MS. OSA? YES.

MS. FOX? YES.

VICE MAYOR ELTO? YES.

US TO THE STAFF COMMENTS PORTION OF OUR AGENDA.

THIS BRINGS

[STAFF COMMENTS]

MEGAN? GOOD EVENING.

MEMBERS OF COUNCIL.

I'D LIKE TO BEGIN BY SHARING THE GOOD NEWS THAT THE CITY WON THE OHIO CITY AND COUNTY MANAGEMENT ASSOCIATION PLACEMAKING AWARD FOR RIVERSIDE CROSSING PARK.

THIS AWARD HIGHLIGHTS INNOVATIVE WAYS THAT COMMUNITIES CREATE UNIQUE PUBLIC SPACES, AS WELL AS THE NORTHWEST 33 COUNCIL OF GOVERNMENTS WAS ALSO RECOGNIZED BY THE OCMA WITH THE INTERGOVERNMENTAL COOPERATION AWARD FOR THE COLLABORATIVE EFFORTS IN THE BETA DISTRICT.

THIS AWARD RECOGNIZES OUTSTANDING PROGRAMS DEVELOPED OUT OF STRATEGIC PARTNERSHIPS.

STAFF ATTENDED THE 2024 OCMA ANNUAL CONFERENCE A COUPLE WEEKS AGO WHERE THE AWARDS WERE ANNOUNCED.

SO I'D LIKE TO CONGRATULATE EVERYONE FOR THE HARD WORK AND THE WELL-DESERVED RECOGNITION.

THE COMMUNITY HEALTH NEEDS ASSESSMENT ADVISORY COMMITTEE MET ON FEBRUARY 9TH TO REVIEW THE DRAFT REPORT, WHICH INCLUDED INFORMATION AND DATA FROM THE FOCUS GROUPS, STAKEHOLDER INTERVIEWS, THE REPRESENTATIVE SURVEY, AS WELL AS THE COMMUNITY POLL.

THE COMMITTEE THEN PARTICIPATED IN A WORKSHOP TO IDENTIFY THE TOP FOUR PRIORITY COMMUNITY HEALTH NEEDS.

WORKING GROUPS ARE BEING IDENTIFIED FOR EACH OF THE PRIORITY HEALTH NEEDS THAT WERE DETERMINED, UM, AS WELL AS STRATEGIES AND TIMELINES TO ADDRESS THE NEEDS AND STAFF ANTICIPATES PRESENTING THE DRAFT COMMUNITY HEALTH NEEDS ASSESSMENT REPORT TO CITY COUNCIL IN LATE SPRING.

VOTING IS NOW OPEN AT USA TODAY TO VOTE FOR THE DUBLIN IRISH FESTIVAL AS ONE OF THE TOP CULTURAL FESTIVALS IN THE COUNTRY LAST YEAR.

THE FESTIVAL PLACE THIRD OVERALL.

SO WE'D LIKE TO SEE IF WE CAN MOVE UP THIS YEAR IN THE RANKINGS.

YOU CAN VOTE ONCE A DAY FROM EACH OF YOUR DEVICES UNTIL MARCH 18TH.

AND ALSO ON MARCH 18TH, THE LINEUP FOR THE DUBLIN IRISH FESTIVAL WILL BE RELEASED ALONG WITH A NEW DUBLIN IRISH FESTIVAL WEBSITE.

TICKET SALES FOR THE FESTIVAL WILL BE BEGIN AND WILL BEGIN UNTIL APRIL 1ST, THE TICK, OR, AND UNTIL APRIL 1ST.

THE TICKETS WILL BE AT THEIR LOWEST PRICE FOR THE YEAR.

OUR ANNUAL STAY OF THE CITY EVENT IS THIS THURSDAY, MARCH 14TH.

AT THE EXCHANGE AT BRIDGE PARK.

THERE'LL BE A COMMUNITY RECEPTION BEGINNING AT SIX, WHICH WILL INCLUDE SEVERAL ENGAGEMENT STATIONS.

THE PRESENTATION WILL START AT SEVEN AND THIS YEAR WE HAVE INVITED VARIOUS MEMBERS OF OUR COMMUNITY TO HELP SHARE HIGHLIGHTS FROM LAST YEAR AS WELL AS OUR UPCOMING INITIATIVES.

TOPICS WE'LL INCLUDE FIBER TO EVERY HOME INITIATIVE.

THE FINAL STAGES OF OUR ENVISION DOUBLING COMMUNITY PLAN UPDATE REVITALIZATION OF METRO, AS WELL AS TRANSPORTATION.

TRANSFORMATIVE TRANSPORTATION PROJECTS, INCLUDING POSSIBILITY OF PASSENGER RAIL STATION AND A BUS RAPID TRANSIT CORRIDOR HERE IN DUBLIN SHOULD BE AN INFORMATIVE AND ENGAGING EVENING AND ALL IN THE COMMUNITY ARE INVITED TO ATTEND THAT EVENT.

THE DCRC REFRESH CONTINUES TO PROGRESS THROUGH PHASE THREE.

STAFF AND MSA DESIGN HAVE DISTILLED AND ANALYZED ALL THE FEEDBACK RECEIVED TO PRODUCE RENDERINGS FOR REVIEW.

THESE RENDERINGS WILL BE SHARED,

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UM, FOR FEEDBACK AT THE MARCH 12TH CSAC MEETING, THE MARCH 13TH COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT MEETING, WHICH IS THE THIRD COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT MEETING FOR THAT PROJECT.

AND THEY'LL ALSO BE ON DISPLAY AT THE EXHIBITION AREA AT THE STATE OF THE CITY ADDRESS ON THURSDAY.

SO THERE'S THREE DIFFERENT OPPORTUNITIES THIS WEEK TO ENGAGE IN THAT PROJECT.

RESIDENTS ARE ALSO WELCOME TO ATTEND THOSE EVENTS OR, UM, TO SUBMIT FEEDBACK OR INPUT VIA THE DCRC REFRESH WEBSITE.

CITY OF DUBLIN IS CONTRACTED WITH BURGESS AND NIPPLE TO PERFORM PRELIMINARY ENGINEERING AND ASSOCIATED TASKS FOR THE PUBLIC WATER UTILITY AND SANITARY SEWER UTILITY EXTENSION TO EXISTING DEVELOPED PROPERTY POLICY.

VIRS AND NIEL WILL BE SENDING SURVEY LETTERS TO RESIDENTS WITHIN THE UNSERVED AREAS TO OBTAIN MORE INFORMATION REGARDING THEIR PRIVATE UTILITY SYSTEMS AND INTEREST IN CONNECTING TO THOSE PUBLIC UTILITIES.

STAFF WILL BE CONDUCTING AN IN-PERSON PUBLIC MEETING ON MARCH 27TH AND MARCH 28TH AND A VIRTUAL PUBLIC MEETING ON APRIL 10TH TO FURTHER DISCUSS THE POLICY WITH THE RESIDENTS.

SO I WANTED TO PROVIDE COUNSEL A HEADS UP THAT THOSE LETTERS WILL BE GOING OUT TO THE RESIDENTS.

AND THEN LASTLY, AS PART OF THE UPDATE OF THE RIVERSIDE CROSSING PARK MASTER PLAN, A NEW BASE MAP OF THE AREA SURROUNDING THE PARK AND THE RIVER MUST BE CREATED.

SO IN THE COMING WEEKS, RESIDENTS, YOU WILL SEE CREWS AROUND THE PARK PROPERTY.

SO WE'LL HAVE SURVEYORS ON SITE PLACING FLAGS AND MARKINGS.

UM, THEY'LL BE MARKING THE GROUND WITH TEMPORARY PAINT, WEATHER PERMITTING.

SO JUST WANTED TO GIVE YOU A HEADS UP ABOUT THOSE ACTIVITIES.

AND THAT'S ALL I HAVE FOR THIS EVENING.

VERY GOOD.

WILL BRING US TO, UH, COUNCIL ROUND TABLE.

UM, I DO NOT BELIEVE WE HAVE ANY COUNCIL REPORTS AT THIS TIME, WHICH

[COUNCIL ROUNDTABLE]

AND I WILL START AT MY FAR RIGHT, AMY.

SO I'LL JUST SAY A QUICK THANK YOU TO STAFF AND ACTUALLY ALL OF OUR VOLUNTEERS REALLY AND PARTICIPANTS IN THE PARADE.

AND FOR WHOEVER MADE SURE IT DIDN'T RAIN AND I THINK EVERYTHING TURNED OUT REALLY WELL, ANOTHER SUCCESSFUL PARADE.

AND JUST ONE COMMENT, SHOUT OUT SINCE WE WON'T MEET BEFORE ELECTION DAY NEXT WEEK, SOME OF THE POLLING PLACES THAT CHANGED.

I KNOW A LOT OF THE PEOPLE THAT NORMALLY VOTE AT CIO HIGH SCHOOL HAVE BEEN NOW SWITCHED OVER TO HOPEWELL.

SO JUST PAY ATTENTION.

GO OUT AND CHECK AND MAKE SURE YOU KNOW WHERE YOU'RE SUPPOSED TO VOTE.

THANK YOU, JAMIE.

UM, THANKS TO ALLISON AND THE SPECIAL EVENTS AND ALL THE STAFF WHO CAME OUT AND HELPED WITH THE PARADE.

IT WAS GREAT.

UM, ANDY AND I DID MEET WITH, UH, DR.

MARCH HAUSEN ON THE, UM, EDUCATIONAL ALLIANCE.

SO WE'LL JUST GIVE YOU A REAL QUICK, QUICK BRIEF ON THAT.

UM, DR.

MARCH HAUSEN, WE MET ON MARCH 4TH.

UM, THERE WAS, THERE IS CONCERN AS WE ALL KNOW, THAT FOR FUTURE SCHOOL FUNDING, UM, GREATER COLUMBUS AND THE SURROUNDING AREAS TO THE NORTHWEST CONTINUE TO GROW.

AND IT'S ESSENTIAL.

AS DR.

MARCH HAUSEN MENTIONED THAT ALL SECTORS AND GOVERNMENT ENTITIES WORK TOGETHER.

UM, THE CITY, UH, THE DISTRICT HAS FORMED AN ADMINISTRATIVE HOUSING COMMITTEE TO MEET WITH DEVELOPERS AND MUNICIPAL LEADERS TO REVIEW POTENTIAL HOUSING DEVELOPMENTS AND PROPOSALS.

AND THE KEY MESSAGE THAT WE GATHERED IS THAT AS THE STUDENT POPULATION IN DUBLIN CITY SCHOOLS CONTINUES TO GROW DUE TO THE NEW HOUSING DEVELOPMENTS, IT'S CRUCIAL TO ENSURE THAT FUNDING SOURCES PROVIDED FOR THIS INCREASE IN ENROLLMENT AND THAT TO, UH, ADDRESS THE RISING PRESSURES ON OPERATING A NEW BUILDING COSTS.

THE DUBLIN CITY SCHOOLS HAVE TAKEN MULTIPLE PROACTIVE STEPS.

THOSE INCLUDE MEETINGS AND DISCUSSIONS WITH LOCAL OFFICIALS, DEVELOPERS, AND REGIONAL PARTNERS, AS WELL AS THE DRAFTING OF SOME STATE LEGISLATION.

AND THE SCHOOLS ARE ACTIVELY ENGAGED IN ONGOING CONVERSATIONS, UM, WITH STATE LEGISLATORS.

AND THEY'RE HOPEFUL THAT THEIR PROPOSALS WILL RECEIVE SOME PRODUCTIVE CONSIDERATION.

AND I THINK ANDY MIGHT WANNA ADD A COUPLE OF THINGS HERE TOO.

UH, DR.

MARCIA HAS UN REITERATED HIS APPRECIATION FOR THE COLLABORATIVE PARTNERSHIP BETWEEN DUBLIN CITY SCHOOLS AND THE CITY OF DUBLIN AND THE LONG HISTORY OF WORKING TOGETHER.

THEY'RE ESPECIALLY APPRECIATIVE OF THE DUBLIN POLICE SUPPORT THAT HAS PROVIDED DISTRICT-WIDE, INCLUDING, UH, AREAS OF COLUMBUS.

GROUNDBREAKING FOR ELEMENTARY.

NUMBER 15 IS SCHEDULED FOR APRIL 25TH.

THE NEW ELEMENTARY SCHOOL WILL BE LOCATED ON EXISTING LAND ADJACENT TO JEROME HIGH SCHOOL'S TRACK AND STADIUM.

THE ENTRANCE IS OFF CASHIER LANE AND THE DISTRICT IS WORKING WITH THE CITY OF DUBLIN TO MITIGATE ANY POTENTIAL TRAFFIC CONCERNS.

REAL BRIGHT AND BOLD COLORS, SORT OF IMPRESSIONISTIC ART.

THANKS.

GO BACK TO YOU.

ANY, ANYTHING ELSE FOR ROUND TABLE? NO, JOHN? YEAH, I JUST WANNA SAY THAT THE, UH, VETERAN'S DINNER IS TOMORROW NIGHT AT SIX 30 AT THE SAUDI, UH, RESERVE COUNTRY CLUB, AND EVERYONE IS INVITED TO THAT.

UM, AGAIN, I WANNA REMIND YOU THAT ECHOES OF MEMORY IS A NEW ART SHOW THAT WE'VE JUST BROUGHT IN.

AND IF YOU WANT SOMETHING UPLIFTING, JUST TAKE A QUICK WALK THROUGH THAT

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I GOT A SNEAK PREVIEW OF IT WHILE THEY WERE HANGING IT.

IT'S WELL WORTH SEEING.

VERY, VERY WELL EXECUTED, UH, ALONG WITH THE ARTS.

DONE, DONE, DONE, DONE.

DUN DUN.

YOU MAY HAVE SEEN THE GIANT SNAILS.

THEY'RE ORANGE.

WHAT MATERIAL WAS IT? ? PARDON? WHAT MATERIAL? YOU KNOW, THEY'RE, THEY'RE PLASTIC.

I WRAPPED ON 'EM AND THEY MUST HAVE CAME IN A HUGE BOX.

'CAUSE THEY MUST EIGHT FEET TALL AND AND YOU'VE SEEN THEM.

THEY'RE REALLY ABSOLUTELY STUNNING.

SAID I, I WAS LIKE, THEY CAN'T BE INFLATABLE.

NO, THEY'RE, BECAUSE THEY WOULD, THERE'S NOTHING HOLDING DOWN.

THEY DO HAVE A SANDBAG INSIDE OF 'EM TO STABILIZE 'EM.

I MEAN, SOMETIMES ART CAN BE DRY AND DEPRESS AND SOMETIMES YOU JUST NEED SOMETHING WHIMSICAL AND FUNNY WHEN YOU'RE DRIVING BY IT.

THESE THINGS ARE REALLY UNUSUAL.

THEY'RE GIANT SNAILS.

THEY WERE DONE IN MILAN, ITALY.

SOMEONE SAID CHILDREN ARE COMING NEXT IN BOXES.

I DUNNO IF IT'S TRUE OR NOT.

WE DO OWN THEM, BY THE WAY.

SO THEY WILL BE MOVED AROUND TO DIFFERENT PLA THEY'RE NOT HERE VISITING.

THEY'RE PERMANENTLY OURS.

AND I'M SURE THEY'LL BE MOVED AROUND DIFFERENT PLACES IN THE CITY.

SO YOU COULD GET SLUG BAIT AND MAYBE A TRACK BOON TO YOUR .

YOU CAN SELL, YOU CAN SELL SOME SLTA.

UH, BUT GIANT, UH, THEY'RE, UH, THEY'RE JUST AMAZING.

I MEAN, THEY, THEY DO MAKE YOU LAUGH WHEN YOU DRIVE BY.

YOU JUST LOOK AT 'EM AND GO, THAT'S SO ABSURD.

IT'S HILARIOUS.

UM, SO ANOTHER PROUD ART EDITION TERM OR, UH, CIVIC ARTS PROGRAM.

AND THEN I WANT TO JUST, UH, HATS OFF TO THE IRISH, UH, MARKETING, UM, WITH THE BILLBOARDS IN IRELAND.

ABSOLUTELY BRILLIANT.

UH, FREE PINT THE OTHER ISLAND, IRELAND IS WHAT THE SIGN SAID.

IT WAS JUST ABSOLUTELY BRILLIANT.

AND YOU THINK, WELL, YOU KNOW, WE'RE GONNA HAVE TO GIVE AWAY FREE BEER.

I'M NOT KNOW HOW MANY IRISH REALLY CAME FOR THE FREE BEER THAT WE PROMISED, BUT THAT THING WENT, I'M SURE ACROSS THE COUNTRY, GOT TONS OF HITS AND, UH, WAS A VERY CLEVER ADVERTISING PROGRAM.

THESE SIX IRISH POLICEMEN.

AND THEY'RE REALLY COOL LOOKING UNIFORMS, BY THE WAY.

SO THEY TOOK ADVANTAGE OF IT THAT WERE IN OUR PARADE.

AND THEY ALSO SAID THEY DIDN'T HAVE TO BUY A SECOND, UH, PINT.

THE PEOPLE IN DUBLIN WERE SO NICE AT THE FAO, THEY JUST TOOK CARE OF 'EM.

SO AGAIN, UM, ALLISON, THANK YOU FOR A GREAT ST.

PATRICK'S DAY PARADE.

A LOT OF, A LOT OF WHIMSY COMING HERE, ANDY.

SO I TOO WOULD LIKE TO THANK STAFF FOR THEIR MONUMENT MONUMENTOUS EFFORT OF SETTING UP THE PARADE IN THE MONSOON AND TURNING THE RAIN OFF BY 10 O'CLOCK.

UM, IT ALWAYS ASTOUNDS ME HOW OUR, OUR CITIZENS OR RESIDENTS TURN OUT IN DROVES.

I THINK THREE DEEP IN SOME SPOTS.

IT WAS A DAY OF GIVING AWAY LOTS OF CANDY AND RECEIVING THESE, THIS IS A LIMITED EDITION.

A YOUNG MAN GAVE THIS TO MY WIFE, UM, AS SHE HANDED HIM SOME CANDY.

SHE SAID, I, I'D LIKE YOU TO HAVE THIS.

AND SHE SAID, ARE YOU SURE? AND HE SAID, IT'S ABSOLUTELY, IT'S A LIMITED EDITION.

SO WE WILL KEEP THIS FOREVER.

THANK YOU, KATHY.

I DIDN'T GET ANY LIMITED EDITIONS, BUT, UM, BUT YES, THANK YOU TO STAFF.

IT, IT, IT MAKES YOU FEEL GOOD.

AND THAT'S, THAT'S FANTASTIC.

SO THANK YOU VERY MUCH.

AND JOHN, I'M, WE'RE GONNA HAVE TO THINK OF SOME SLUG SLOGANS, HUH? YES.

FOR THOSE BEING, IT'S SLOWER IN DUBLIN.

IT'S SLOWER.

SOMETHING.

I'M, I'M JOTTING THEM DOWN HERE.

SO THANKS ALL, APPRECIATE IT.

I ALSO REPEAT MY, UM, GRATITUDE FOR A REALLY WONDERFUL PARADE.

UM, IT WAS NICE TO SEE SOME PEOPLE I KNEW, SOME PEOPLE I DIDN'T KNOW AND JUST HAVE A REALLY GREAT TIME.

UM, HOWEVER, VERY IMPORTANTLY WE HAVE SOMEONE ABOUT TO CELEBRATE A BIRTHDAY.

OUR MAYOR CHRIS WEDNESDAY.

YOU TURN 29.

HAPPY 29TH.