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OKAY, I WOULD LIKE TO CALL THE MONDAY, MAY 6TH, 2024, REGULAR DUBLIN CITY COUNCIL MEETING TO ORDER.
JENNY, WOULD YOU PLEASE CALL THE ROLE VICE MAYOR LUDO? HERE.
I'LL MAKE A MOTION TO ADJOURN TO EXECUTIVE
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SESSION FOR THE PURPOSES OF PREPARING FOR CONDUCTING OR REVIEWING NEGOTIATIONS OR BARGAINING SESSIONS WITH PUBLIC EMPLOYEES CONCERNING THEIR COMPENSATION OR OTHER TERMS AND CONDITIONS OF THEIR EMPLOYMENT.JENNY, WOULD YOU PLEASE CALL THE ROLL? MR. KEELER? YES.
UH, WE WILL RECONVENE THIS MEETING AT 7:00 PM IN THIS LOCATION.
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RECONVENE THE MONDAY, MAY 6TH DUBLIN CITY COUNCIL MEETING.UM, WOULD YOU PLEASE STAND FOR THE PLEDGE OF ALLEGIANCE? JANE? WOULD YOU LEAD US PLEDGE ALLEGIANCE TO THE FLAG OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA AND THE REPUBLIC FOR WHICH STANDS? ONE NATION UNDER GOD IN LIBERTY JUSTICE TRIAL.
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THE CONSENT AGENDA THIS EVENING, IS THERE A REQUEST TO REMOVE ANY ITEM FROM THE CONSENT AGENDA CONSISTING OF THE APRIL 22ND REGULAR CITY COUNCIL MEETING? MINUTES? NONE.UH, I'LL MAKE A MOTION TO APPROVE, APPROVE THE CONSENT AGENDA.
JENNY, WOULD YOU PLEASE CALL THE ROLL? MR. REINER? YES.
[CITIZEN COMMENTS]
TAKE CITIZEN COMMENTS.THIS IS AN OPPORTUNITY FOR CITIZENS TO COMMENT ON ANY TOPIC THAT IS NOT ON THIS EVENING'S AGENDA.
AS A REMINDER, WE ASK THAT YOU PLEASE SIGN IN ON THE KIOSK JUST OUTSIDE THE CHAMBER, AND WE'LL RECOGNIZE YOU TO PROVIDE YOUR COMMENTS AT THE APPROPRIATE TIME.
UH, WE DO HAVE A FIVE MINUTE, UH, TIME LIMIT.
THE GREEN LIGHT WILL BE ON WHEN THERE'S 30 SECONDS REMAINING.
THE YELLOW LIGHT WILL FLASH AND WHEN TIME IS UP, THE UH, RED LIGHT IN AN INDICATOR WILL SOUND.
SO WITH THAT, UH, LINDSAY, DO WE HAVE ANYONE SIGNED IN TO SPEAK THIS EVENING? GOOD EVENING, MEMBERS OF COUNCIL.
WE HAVE SEVERAL MEMBERS, UH, REGISTERED TO SPEAK.
UH, I RESIDE AT 6 2 9 6 ROSS BEND FOR SEVERAL WEEKS.
NOW, MANY RESIDENTS OF DUBLIN HAVE COME BEFORE YOU TO SPEAK ABOUT THE ATROCITIES THAT ARE HAPPENING IN GAZA.
THEY STOOD BEFORE YOU AS THEY DETAILED THE HORRORS THAT THOSE IN GAZA HAVE TO FACE EVERY SINGLE DAY.
WHILE COMMUNITY MEMBERS HERE IN DUBLIN, WHILE COMMUNITY MEMBERS HERE IN DUBLIN FACE ANGUISH NOT KNOWING IF THEIR FAMILY MEMBERS ARE ALIVE OR NOT, THEY STOOD BEFORE YOU ASKING FROM YOU THAT THEY, THAT YOU USE THE POWER THAT YOU HAVE, WHICH IS THE POWER OF THE VOICE TO ADOPT A CEASEFIRE RESOLUTION.
THEY KNOW THAT THIS ADOPT, THAT THIS RESOLUTION WILL NOT END WHAT IS HAPPENING IN GAZA.
HOWEVER, IN ITS ADOPTION, IT SIGNIFIES THAT THE CITY OF DUBLIN UNDERSTANDS WHAT IS HAPPENING IN GAZA, THE ATROCITIES THAT ARE HAPPENING THERE, THAT THE CITY OF DUBLIN RECOGNIZES ITS COMMUNITY MEMBERS WHO ARE HURTING HERE, AND IT ALSO STANDS ALONGSIDE THEM IN BASIC HUMANITY AND DECENCY.
HOWEVER, IT SEEMS THAT THESE WORDS HAVE FALLEN ON DEAF EARS AS NO SUCH CEASEFIRE WAS EVER EVEN CONSIDERED.
TWO WEEKS AGO, I STOOD BEFORE HE, I STOOD BEFORE YOU AND I TOLD YOU THAT BY REFUSING TO SPEAK ON THIS ISSUE, YOU ARE SENDING A MESSAGE, A MESSAGE THAT STATES THAT NOT ONLY ARE YOU INDIFFERENT ABOUT THE DECIMATION OF INNOCENT CIVILIANS, BUT THAT YOU ALSO ARE INDIFFERENT ABOUT THE CRACKDOWN OF PROTESTS HAPPENING ON COLLEGE CAMPUSES.
AND TO THAT, I SAY YOUR MESSAGE WAS RECEIVED WHEN A FEW DAYS LATER ON OSU CAMPUS COLUMBUS POLICE FORCIBLY SUPPRESSED FREE SPEECH DURING A PROTEST ON OSU CAMPUS.
THE COUNCIL ON AMERICAN ISLAMIC RELATIONS OR CARE OHIO OUTREACH DIRECTOR STATED AND I QUOTE, IT IS ALARMING TO RECEIVE
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REPORTS OF PROTESTORS HAVING THEIR HIJABS RIPPED OFF AND BEING ARRESTED WHILE IN PRAYER.MUSLIM STUDENTS ARE NOT JUST FEELING UNSAFE ON CAMPUS, BUT ARE BEING ACTIVELY CRIMINALIZED.
IN THE, IN THAT SAME MEETING, YOU MADE IT A POINT TO MAKE IT KNOWN THAT THE CITIZENS' COMMENTS PORTION OF THE CITY COUNCIL MEETING IS NOT A PLACE WHERE YOU CAN EN ENGAGE IN DIALOGUE.
AND TO THAT, I SAY CONGRATULATIONS.
YOU'VE EXCUSED YOURSELF FROM SPEAKING DURING THIS MOMENT.
HOWEVER, YOU HAVE NOT EXCUSED YOURSELF FROM SPEAKING OUT AT ALL.
YOU HAVE NOT EXCUSED YOURSELF FROM MAKING A STATEMENT ON SOCIAL MEDIA INDICATING AN IOTA OF EVIDENCE THAT WHAT HAS BEEN SAID IN FRONT OF YOU FOR WEEKS HAS EVEN REACHED YOUR EARS.
YOU HAVE NOT EXCUSED YOURSELF FROM MAKING A PUB A PRESS RELEASE INDICATING THAT YOU ARE AWARE OF WHAT IS HAPPENING AND THAT YOU STAND WITH THE CITIZENS, YOUR OWN CONSTITUENTS HERE IN DUBLIN WHO ARE HURTING BECAUSE OF WHAT IS HAPPENING IN GAZA.
RATHER, YOU HAVE REMAINED SILENT AND YOUR SILENCE IS DEAFENING.
YOU HAVE FAILED TO USE YOUR VOICE WHEN YOUR CONSTITUENTS TIME AND TIME AGAIN HAVE SPOKEN TO YOU AT LENGTH ASKING YOU TO DO SO.
AND WHILE YOU MAY HAVE LISTENED TO US, YOU ABSOLUTELY HAVE NOT HEARD US.
COME NOVEMBER, WE WILL MAKE OUR VOICES HEARD AND YOU CAN COUNT ON THAT.
IF YOU'LL PLEASE COME FORWARD AND STATE YOUR NAME AND ADDRESS INTO THE RECORD.
HELLO, MY NAME IS HANNAH MASU.
UM, SO LET ME FIRST INTRODUCE MYSELF AS AN AMERICAN AND A DUBLIN HOMEOWNER HERE IN DUBLIN.
UH, SECONDLY, I'M A DATA PERSON.
MY CAREER AND MUCH OF MY LIFE RELIES HEAVILY ON ANALYZING, EVALUATING, AND SHARING DATA.
SO LET ME TAKE A MOMENT TO DESCRIBE WITH DATA HOW THIS CURRENT CRISIS IN PALESTINE WILL INFLUENCE THE POLITICS OF OUR REGION, STATE AND COUNTRY IN CENTRAL OHIO, INTERNATIONAL IMMIGRANTS HAVE ACCOUNTED FOR MORE THAN 50% OF THE POPULATION GROWTH OVER THREE YEARS, ALLOWING COLUMBUS TO BE OHIO'S FASTEST GROWING METROPOLITAN AREA.
22% OF OUR REGION'S STEM WORKERS ARE IMMIGRANTS, WHICH IS ESPECIALLY RELEVANT AS WE WELCOME COMPANIES SUCH AS INTEL, AMAZON, GOOGLE.
IN A RECENT DISPATCH ARTICLE, IMMIGRANTS WERE ESTIMATED TO HAVE CONTRIBUTED $712 MILLION IN STATE AND LOCAL TAXES IN 2019, AND THE NEW AMERICAN POPULATION IS ONLY GROWN SINCE THEN.
HERE IN COLUMBUS, MANY IMMIGRANTS COUNTRIES OF ORIGINS ARE PREDOMINANTLY MUSLIM, SUCH AS SOMALIA, PAKISTAN, JORDAN, MOROCCO.
THIS MATTERS IN THIS CONTEXT BECAUSE ACCORDING TO PEW RESEARCH, 64% OF AMERICAN MUSLIMS SIDE HEAVILY WITH THE PALESTINIAN PEOPLE.
IN THIS CURRENT CONFLICT, ALMOST 70% OF MUSLIM AMERICANS STRONGLY FAVOR HUMANITARIAN AID TO PALESTINIANS AND 63% VIEW BIDEN'S APPROACH AS UNFAVORABLE.
NOW, LET ME PUT THIS ALL TOGETHER.
THE FUTURE MAKEUP OF OUR REGION IS CHANGING.
AS NEW AMERICANS MOVE HERE, MANY WILL BE COMING FROM POPULATIONS THAT HAVE BEEN ESPECIALLY APPALLED BY THE US GOVERNMENT SUPPORT AND CONTRIBUTION TO THIS GENOCIDE.
AND THEY WILL SOON BE SPEAKING WITH THEIR DOLLARS AND THEIR VOTES HERE IN OUR COMMUNITY THAT WILL AFFECT EACH ONE OF YOU.
WHETHER YOU PLAN TO CONTINUE YOUR POLITICAL CAREER HERE IN DUBLIN OR MOVE ON TO REGIONAL, STATE OR NATIONAL POLITICS.
DATA ASIDE, MY PARENTS' HUSBAND AND MY ADOPTED DAUGHTER ARE FIRST GENERATION AMERICANS.
I'M A SECOND GENERATION AMERICAN.
MY SON IS A THIRD GENERATION AMERICAN, SO I HAVE A PRETTY GOOD VIEW OF HOW WE AS A COMMUNITY ARE MOVING FORWARD, EVOLVING.
MY PARENTS TAUGHT ME TO KEEP MY HEAD DOWN, WORK HARD, AND MAKE SOMETHING OF MYSELF HERE.
AND I AND MANY OF MY PEERS DID JUST THAT.
SO WE ARE NOW TEACHING OUR CHILDREN TO PUT THEIR HEADS UP, WORK HARD, AND MAKE SOMETHING OF THEMSELVES.
OUR GENERATIONAL WEALTH IS GROWING STRONGER AND DEEPER, AND OUR GENERATIONAL VOICES ARE GROWING LOUDER.
THIS IS A MOVEMENT THAT KNOWS THAT DURING THE CIVIL RIGHTS MOVEMENT, WHEN PROTESTORS FIRST TRIED TO PEACEFULLY MARCH ACROSS THE EDMUND PETTUS BRIDGE, POLICE STOPPED THEM WITH BATONS, WHIPS AND TEAR GAS, BUT ACTIVISTS BRUSHED THEMSELVES OFF AND CAME BACK FOR WHAT WE ALL RECOGNIZE AS A PICTURE.
PERFECT MARCH LED BY DR. KING ACROSS THAT SAME BRIDGE JUST A COUPLE DAYS LATER.
THIS IS A MOVEMENT WHOSE STUDENTS TRIED TO PEACEFULLY PROTEST AT OSU JUST WEEKS AGO, SUFFERED INJURIES AND BRUTAL ARREST BY POLICE, BUT ACTIVISTS BRUSHED IT OFF.
THEY CAME BACK IN GREATER NUMBERS
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A WEEK LATER AND SAT AND PROTEST NO LESS POWERFUL THAN WHEN THEY STOOD TALL A WEEK PRIOR.THIS IS A MOVEMENT THAT WILL BRUSH OURSELVES OFF AS MANY TIMES AS IT TAKES.
AND PLEASE KNOW THIS, WE ARE GROWING, WE ARE LEARNING, AND WE ARE NOT GOING AWAY.
AND YOUR POLITICAL FUTURES WILL DEPEND ON US.
IF YOU'LL PLEASE COME FORWARD AND STEP STATE YOUR NAME AND ADDRESS INTO THE RECORD.
I RESIDE AT 5 7 4 1 STOCKTON WAY IN DUBLIN, OHIO.
I, LIKE MANY OTHERS, HAVE BEEN FOLLOWING THE CONVERSATIONS IN THE CITY COUNCIL IN REGARDS TO THE CEASEFIRE RESOLUTION.
ON MARCH 25TH, MAYOR AROSE GROOMS RESPONDED TO THE CITIZENS IN THIS ROOM STATING THAT DUBLIN HOLDS A FIRM COMMITMENT TO PEACE, THAT WE SHARE A DESIRE FOR PEACE TO BE RESTORED, AND THAT WE WANT A SAFE AND INCLUSIVE ENVIRONMENT FOR ALL AS CONS.
AS A CONSTITUENT, THIS IS EXACTLY WHAT I HOPE FOR, FOR MY CITY, FOR IT TO BE RECOGNIZED AS A RESILIENT, CONNECTED, AND GLOBAL CITY OF CHOICE.
AS RESIDENTS OF DUBLIN, WE CAN COUNT OURSELVES AMONGST THE MOST PRIVILEGED HUMAN BEINGS LIVING ON THIS PLANET WITHOUT EXAGGERATION.
AS WE WITNESS THE HISTORIC AND CATASTROPHIC LEVELS OF VIOLENCE IN THE MIDDLE EAST, WE HAVE TO ASK OURSELVES, HOW WILL WE LIVE OUR LOFTY VALUES IN THIS MOMENT? AS A MENTAL HEALTH PROVIDER CARING FOR HIGH RISK ADOLESCENTS, I WITNESSED THE TOLL OF THE CYCLE OF SELF-DESTRUCTIVE BEHAVIORS ON MY PATIENTS AND THEIR FAMILIES ON A DAILY BASIS, WHETHER IT BE THROUGH VIOLENCE AND SELF HARM, SUICIDAL IDEATION OR SUBSTANCE USE, THESE BEHAVIORS OFTEN STEM FROM A FALSE SENSE OF SELF OF CONTROL OR A DESIRE FOR SECURITY SECURING ONESELF IN THESE MOMENTS.
IT IS TRUE FRIENDS AND FAMILY THAT PLAY THE CRITICAL ROLE IN HELPING OUR PATIENTS CONFRONT THAT PAINFUL REALITY.
THAT THE THING THAT YOU ARE CLINGING TO THAT MAKES YOU FEEL SAFE, THAT MAKES YOU FEEL IN CONTROL, IS IN FACT HARMING YOU.
IT IS HARMING YOUR WELLBEING AND THE VERY GOALS THAT YOU ARE, YOU ARE AIMING TO SECURE FOR YOURSELF.
OUR OWN PAINFUL REALITY JUST IS THAT DESPITE OUR DESIRE TO SUPPORT OUR FRIENDS AND TO SEE THEM ENJOY A PEACEFUL EXISTENCE, THAT WE ARE SO PRIVILEGED TO ENJOY.
OUR ACTIONS THUS FAR HAVE DONE NOTHING TO IMPROVE STABILITY OR THE SECURITY OR EVEN FREE PEOPLE WHO ARE TRAPPED IN CAPTIVITY.
I ASK YOU TODAY FOR THE SAKE OF OUR SHARED VALUES AND FOR OUR FRIENDS THAT YOU CONSIDER A NEW COURSE OF ACTION AND JOIN THE CALL FOR PEACE.
IF YOU'LL PLEASE COME FORWARD AND STATE YOUR NAME AND ADDRESS INTO THE RECORD.
SO SORRY, 62 60 POST ROAD, DUBLIN, OHIO.
THE UNFOLDING EVENTS TODAY ON THE NEWS WHERE THE CEASEFIRE WAS ACCEPTED OR IN THE PROPOSAL THAT WAS PROPOSED TO THE PALESTINIAN SIDE WAS ACCEPTED, BUT THE ISRAELI SIDE RESPONSE FOR THEIR OWN PROPOSAL WAS TO START THE INVASION OF RAFA.
SO THIS TELLS US THAT THE STORY, THIS STARTED A HUNDRED YEARS AGO AND THE ETHNIC CLEANSING THAT STARTED A HUNDRED YEARS AGO IS WHAT THE ISRAELIS ARE AFTER.
IT WAS NEVER ABOUT OCTOBER 7TH, IT WAS NEVER ABOUT THE HOSTAGES.
IT'S ABOUT DISPLACING, ETHNICALLY CLEANSING, AND NOW THE GENOCIDE OF RAZA.
WE CAME HERE OVER AND OVER AND OVER.
WE TRIED TO HELP YOU TO BE ON THE RIGHT SIDE OF HISTORY, BUT EITHER YOU REFUSED OR YOU DIDN'T HAVE THE COURAGE TO BE ON THE RIGHT SIDE OF HISTORY.
I DON'T KNOW IF I SHOULD BE SORRY OR NOT, BUT
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WE WILL SEE YOU AT THE POLLS.IS ANTHONY PRESENT? NO PUBLIC WANTS.
IF YOU'LL PLEASE STEP FORWARD AND STATE YOUR NAME AND ADDRESS INTO THE RECORD.
I'M 72 40 MURFIELD, UH, IN DUBLIN, OHIO.
SO, UM, THANK YOU FOR GIVING ME THE TIME.
UH, I APPRECIATE THE TIME THAT YOU GUYS GIVEN US TO TALK TO YOU TODAY.
I AM NOT JUST A RESIDENT ENTREPRENEUR IN DUBLIN, BUT I'M ALSO A, I ALSO SERVE, I'M AS A CIO FOR A COUPLE OF ORGANIZATIONS HERE IN IN DUBLIN AS WELL.
UM, MY JOURNEY AS A CO-FOUNDER AND ACTIVE MEMBER OF VARIOUS ORGANIZATIONS IN DUBLIN HAS BEEN DEEPLY INTERTWINED WITH MY COMMITMENT TO COMMUNITY GROWTH AND SHARED VALUES.
UM, I'VE, I'VE BEEN, UH, ACTIVE SUPPORTER OF THE DUBLIN CHAMBER OF COMPASS AS WELL.
UH, OVER THE YEARS AS BUSINESS OWNERS, UH, GRAVITATE, WE GRAVITATE TOWARD COMMUNITIES THAT RES RESONATE WITH OUR VALUES AND FOSTER GROWTH.
IN RETURN, WE CONTRIBUTE TO THESE COMMUNITIES BY CREATING JOBS AND GENERATING INCOME.
WE ARE HERE BECAUSE OUR UNDERSTANDING OF OUR CORE VALUES OF HU HUMAN BEINGS HAVE BEEN VIOLATED.
WE NEED TO HAVE THE RIGHT TO FREE TO LIVE FREELY HAVE SHELTER OVER OUR HEADS AND FOOD ON OUR TABLES.
THIS IS NOT SOMETHING THAT WE LACK IN DUBLIN, BUT WE ARE TELLING OUR KIDS THAT IT'S OKAY THAT OTHERS IN GAZA ARE NOT ALLOWED TO HAVE.
MY THREE DAUGHTERS ARE HIGH SCHOOLERS AND COLLEGE STUDENTS GROWING INTO CARING, INTO CARING AND LOVING ADULTS THAT WANT TO HELP WITH EVERY, EVERYONE AROUND US.
AND MY WIFE AND I HAVE THE OBLIGATION TO WALK THE WALK AS WE PREACH THE TALK.
THEY WILL START VOTING THIS YEAR AND DISCUSSION ON THE TABLE, ON THE DINNER TABLE HAS BEEN AROUND VOTING RIGHTS AND HOW WE SHOULD SUPPORT THE LI, THE LI, THE LISTENING AND INDIVIDUALS THAT ARE WILLING TO MAKE THE CHANGE.
UH, THROUGHOUT MY TENURE, THE ORGANIZATIONS THAT I'VE BEEN PART OF EMPLOY HUNDREDS IF NOT THOUSANDS OF INDIVIDUALS IN DUBLIN AND OHIO.
IT IS MY RESPONSIBILITY TO ENSURE THAT THE TAXES AND JOB GENERATED THEN THE JOBS GENERATED FROM THESE EFFORTS DO NOT SUPPORT THE LOSS OF INNOCENT LIVES.
I UNDERSTAND THAT IN PREVIOUS MEETINGS, WE'VE URGED THE COUNCIL TO FOLLOW THE LEAD OF COLUMBUS AND HILLIARD IN SUPPORTING THE CEASEFIRE.
TODAY I ASK THE COMMITTEE TO DO THE SAME AGAIN.
I'M HAVING DIFFICULTY IN UNDERSTANDING WHY, WHY YOU PURSUED AND PRESERVING INNOCENT LIVES AND BASIC HUMAN RIGHTS IS MET WITH RESISTANCE.
FOR ALL THE REASONS I STAND BEFORE YOU TODAY, NOT JUST AS A FATHER, HUSBAND, A BUSINESS OWNER, BUT AS A FEARING TAX, AS A GOD-FEARING TAXPAYER GUIDED BY MORAL CONSCIOUS.
I URGE YOU TO SUPPORT THE CALL FOR CEASEFIRE, CONSISTENCIES FIRE IF, IF SYMBOLICALLY, EVEN IF SYMBOLICALLY AS MEMBERS OF THE GLOBAL HUMAN RACE, LET US EXTEND A HAND OF AID AND COMPASSION TO 1 MILLION, TO THE 1 MILLION PLUS INDIVIDUALS SITTING IN TENTS IN GAZA TODAY, ENSURING THAT OUR COMMUNITIES, TAXES, ELECTED OFFICIALS AND MORAL OBLIGATIONS DO NOT SUPPORT THE GENOCIDE.
PLEASE STEP FORWARD AND STATE YOUR NAME AND ADDRESS INTO THE RECORD.
I LIVE AT 6 2 6 0 POST ROAD FOR OVER TWO MONTHS.
YOU WERE SPOKEN TO BY COURAGEOUS, VIRTUOUS, AND WONDERFUL PEOPLE OF ALL AGES.
WE ASKED, WE DEMANDED, WE TOLD YOU ABOUT THE PLIGHT OF THE PALESTINIANS, ABOUT THE PEOPLE OF ZA.
WE TOLD YOU ABOUT THEIR HERITAGE, THEIR STORIES, THEIR LIVES, THEIR LOST HERITAGE, THEIR LOST STORIES, THEIR LOST LIVES.
WHY WON'T YOU STAND UP FOR OUR COMMUNITY? WE'VE SHARED WITH YOU THE COMPLEX TRAUMA WE'VE BEEN EXPERIENCING.
WE SHARED WITH YOU THE HORRIFYING HISTORY.
WHO KNEW IT WOULD BE SO RADICAL TO BE HUMAN? WHO KNEW IT WAS SO HOPELESS TO BE HUMAN? WHO KNEW SOME OF YOU WEREN'T WILLING TO BE HUMAN? THIS EXPERIENCE HAS TAUGHT US ALL MANY THINGS.
IT HAS CHANGED THE WAY WE VIEW THE WORLD.
IT IS NOT ZA WHO NEEDS US, BUT IT IS US WHO NEEDS ZA.
WE UNDERSTAND THAT IT'S HARD TO DO THE SAME, THE HARD.
WE UNDERSTAND THAT IT IS HARD TO DO THE RIGHT THING.
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WE FEEL IT TOO, BUT THAT SHOULDN'T MAKE US WORK ANY LESS HARD.IN FACT, IT SHOULD MAKE US WORK HARDER.
FOR ME, RAZA IS THE STEADY BEAT OF A DRUM, THE RIPPLES OF A POND, THE POUNDING OF THE RAIN, THE WARM EMBRACE OF A MOTHER, THE SPARK IN THE CHILD'S EYE.
APPARENTLY TO SOME OF YOU, REZA, ALONG WITH ALL OF ITS PEOPLE, AREN'T WORTH IT.
WE GAVE YOU SO MANY CHANCES, SO MANY CHANCES TO BE ON THE RIGHT SIDE OF HISTORY, SO MANY CHANCES TO DO THE MORAL THING AND SO MANY CHANCES TO HEAR US, BUT YOU THREW IT AWAY.
I FIND IT SO FITTING TO MENTION ONE OF THE VERSES OF THE KORAN, WHICH STATES INDEED IT IS NOT THE HEARTS THAT IT IS NOT THE EYES THAT ARE BLINDED, BUT THE HEARTS.
SOME OF YOU HAVE ACTIVELY CHOSEN MEETING AFTER MEETING TO KEEP BLINDING YOUR OWN HEART.
IT FEELS LIKE YOU DON'T CARE ABOUT HOW OUR COMMUNITY IS HURTING.
SOME OF YOU DID NOT TRY TO FURTHER EDUCATE YOURSELVES, DID NOT READ, DID NOT ASK.
WE'RE HERE TO TELL YOU THAT WE WILL NOT PUT UP WITH THIS.
WE WILL NOT LISTEN TO YOUR VOICES VOID OF EMOTION AND FULL OF HYPOCRISY.
WE WILL MEET YOU AT THE POLLS.
IF YOU'LL PLEASE COME FORWARD AND STATE YOUR NAME AND ADDRESS INTO THE RECORD.
MY NAME IS BUSA ARI AND I LIVE AT 6 2 6 0 POST ROAD, EVENING.
JUST EVENING BECAUSE TODAY IS DAY 212 OF THE MASSACRE, YEAR 75 OF THE GENOCIDE.
TODAY MARKS OVER TWO MONTHS SINCE WE CAME TO YOU ASKING FOR OUR VOICES TO BE HEARD.
I'M HORRIFIED AND DISGUSTED BY YOUR LACK OF HUMANITY.
WE'RE DONE WITH YOUR DISMISSAL, YOUR IGNORANCE, YOUR AMBIGUITY.
WE HAVE POURED OUR HEARTS TO YOU, HOPING THAT YOU WOULD HAVE JUST AN SLIVER OF HUMANITY AND CALL FOR PEACE.
BUT ALL YOU SEEM TO HAVE DONE IS STARE BACK AT US WITH EMPTY FACES.
NEXT YEAR I TURN 18, AND NEXT YEAR ALSO HAPPENS TO BE THE YEAR THAT SOME OF THESE SEATS ARE UP FOR REELECTION.
THIS SERVES AS AN IMPORTANT REMINDER THAT WE HAVE THE POWER AND WE WILL NOT REST UNTIL WE SEE OUR VALUES ARE REFLECTED IN THE GOVERNMENT.
FROM THE CITY LEVEL ALL THE WAY TO THE FEDERAL LEVEL.
YOU WANT US TO STOP UPSETTING YOU, TO STOP BEING HARSH, TO STOP HURTING YOU.
THEN MAYBE FIRST YOU SHOULD HAVE SOME EMPATHY FOR THE PALESTINIANS.
IF OUR MERE WORDS ARE UPSETTING YOU, IMAGINE THE PAIN THAT THE PALESTINIANS ARE GOING THROUGH.
IF YOU CAN'T TOLERATE THESE STATEMENTS, IMAGINE THE KIDS IN ZA WHO CAN'T TOLERATE THE ISRAELI BOMBS.
DO YOU WANT US TO STOP CALLING YOU OUT? THEN MAYBE IT'S TIME YOU CALL FOR A CEASEFIRE.
IF YOU'LL PLEASE COME FORWARD AND STATE YOUR NAME AND ADDRESS INTO THE RECORD.
AS A CHILD, GROWING UP IN THE PRESTIGIOUS CITY OF DUBLIN, I WAS ALWAYS TAUGHT THAT DUBLIN WAS THE BEST, THE BEST ONE.
IT CAME TO SCHOOL, THE BEST ONE.
IT CAME TO ATHLETICS AND THE BEST ONE, IT CAME TO RECREATION FROM WHEN I WAS IN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL.
THIS WAS POUNDED INTO MY BRAIN.
I GREW UP THINKING THAT DUBLIN WAS THE BEST CITY TO BE IN, AND I FELT ON TOP OF THE WORLD.
AS I GREW UP AS AN ARAB MUSLIM GIRL, I BEGAN TO REALIZE THAT DUBLIN WASN'T QUITE WHAT I THOUGHT IT WAS.
MOST OF THE TIME, I WAS SURROUNDED WITH LITTLE TO NO DIVERSITY.
THIS DIDN'T REALLY BOTHER ME BECAUSE I HAD MY OWN CLOSE CIRCLE OF FRIENDS.
THEN WHEN MY FAMILY MADE THE DECISION TO MOVE INTO BALANCE TREE, THIS WOULD CAUSE ME TO ATTEND HILLIARD CITY SCHOOLS.
I GAINED SOME PERSPECTIVE IN THE BEGINNING.
LIKE MOST KIDS, I DID NOT WANT TO MOVE.
I HAD MY FRIENDS AND I KNEW EVERYBODY AROUND ME.
THEN AFTER A FEW MONTHS IN HILLIARD, I REALIZED THIS WAS ONE OF THE BEST THINGS THAT HAVE EVER HAPPENED TO ME.
I WAS SURROUNDED WITH SUCH A, I WAS SURROUNDED WITH SUCH A DIVERSE GROUP OF PEOPLE.
THE DISTRICT MANAGED TO MEET EVERYBODY'S NEEDS.
WHEN ME AND MY FRIENDS WENT TO THE HILLIARD CITY SCHOOL BOARD AND REQUESTED OUR HOLIDAY AID OFF, THEY APPLAUDED US AND HELPED US GET THE DAY OFF.
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THEY VALUED US AND LISTENED TO OUR VOICES, UNLIKE WHAT I FEEL HERE TODAY.HOWEVER, WHEN A FRIEND OF OURS ATTEMPTED TO DO THE SAME THING IN DUBLIN, THE SUPERINTENDENT MADE IT EVEN HARDER.
THEY PASSED A RESOLUTION TO STOP HER FROM GETTING THE DAY OFF.
SOMEWHERE AROUND THIS TIME, I BEGAN TO QUESTION EVERYTHING.
I GREW UP THINKING MAYBE DUBLIN WASN'T THE BEST AT EVERYTHING.
MY SUSPICIONS HAVE BEEN CONFIRMED DURING THE PAST FEW MONTHS.
DUBLIN CLAIMS TO BE A DIVERSE CITY THAT MEETS THE NEEDS OF ITS PEOPLE.
YOU GUYS EVEN USE MUSLIMS ON YOUR SOCIAL MEDIA PAGES TO KEEP UP THIS IMAGE.
THE TRUTH IS, DUBLIN IS NOTHING BUT AN IMAGE.
YOU PRIDE YOURSELF ON YOUR DIVERSITY, DIVERSITY AND YOUR INCLUSION, BUT YOU FAIL TO RECOGNIZE AND CONDEMN A CONFLICT THAT IS TEARING APART THE PEOPLE YOU CLAIM TO CARE ABOUT.
YOU CANNOT USE US FOR YOUR DIVERSITY AND INCLUSION CAMPAIGNS ALL WHILE FAILING TO CALL FOR A CEASEFIRE.
WE HAVE COME TO YOU TIME AND TIME AGAIN, AND YOU HAVE FAILED US.
THIS PAST MONTH HAS TAUGHT ME THAT DUBLIN IS NOT BETTER THAN ANY OTHER CITY.
ALL THAT DUBLIN DOES IS MAINTAIN A FAKE IMAGE OF SUPERIORITY OVER IN HILLIARD.
IT TOOK THEM TWO MEETINGS TO PASS A PEACE RESOLUTION.
MEANWHILE, IN THE SUPERIOR CITY OF DUBLIN, WE HAVE BEEN HERE TH FOR THREE MONTHS AND WE'VE GOTTEN NOTHING BUT THE MAYOR SNARKY, NEGLIGENT RESPONSES.
YOU HAVE HEARD STORIES OF FAMILIES BEING BLOWN INTO BITS AND HOUSES BEING ABSOLUTELY DEMOLISHED, BUT YOU DIDN'T CARE.
THE ONLY THING THIS CITY COUNCIL CARES ABOUT IS MAINTAINING THE DUBLIN IMAGE.
THE DUBLIN IMAGE IS THE LEAST OF EVERYBODY.
THERE'S A GENOCIDE BEING COMMITTED.
YOU HAVE THE POWER TO HELP THEM, BUT YOU'RE NOT USING IT.
YOU ARE COMPLICIT IN THEIR GENOCIDE.
WINSTON CHURCHILL ONCE SAID, WHEN THERE'S GREAT POWER, THERE'S A RESPONSIBILITY IN THIS CITY.
YOU HAVE GREAT POWER AND YOU HAVE GREAT RESPONSIBILITY, A RESPONSIBILITY TO REPRESENT THOSE WHO ELECTED YOU.
BY NOT DOING SO, YOU ARE ABUSING YOUR POWER.
LUCKY FOR US, WE ARE PROTECTED BY DEMOCRACY.
IF WE DO NOT WANT YOU TO REPRESENT US ANY LONGER, WE CAN REPLACE YOU AND I PROMISE YOU THAT WE WILL USE THIS POWER TO THE FULLEST.
COME NOVEMBER, WE WILL REMEMBER.
PLEASE COME FORWARD AND STATE YOUR NAME AND ADDRESS INTO THE RECORD.
I LIVE AT SIX A 3 6 8 3 0 BARR MOWAY.
LAST THURSDAY I WAS ARRESTED AT OSU.
I MET ADJUNCT, ADJUNCT FACULTY AND A RESEARCH SCIENTIST THAT WORK AT OSU AND I WAS ARRESTED FOR SITTING ON GRASS, LITERALLY FOR SITTING ON GRASS IN MY OWN CAMPUS AND MY JAIL CELL.
I WAS HUMILIATED, MY HIJAB WAS RIPPED OFF.
MY RELIGIOUS RIGHTS WERE ALL VIOLATED.
I WAS DENIED AN
I WAS STRIP STRIPPED, SEARCHED IN FRONT OF MALE OFFICERS, AND EVERY SINGLE RELIGIOUS RIGHT I COULD THINK OF WAS VIOLATED.
AND IN MY JAIL CELL, I WAS ACTUALLY THINKING ABOUT YOU.
HOW DID YOU ALLOW MY SUFFERING TO HAPPEN? HOW DID OUR LACK OF LEADERSHIP, YOUR LACK OF SPINE, YOUR LACK OF COURAGE, CONTRIBUTE TO MY SUFFERING? HOW YOUR INACTION, YOUR SILENCE, ALLOWED FOR THE CONSTITUTIONAL RIGHTS OF THE STUDENTS ON CAMPUS TO BE VIOLATED? THE ONLY THING THAT KEPT ME STRONG IN A JAIL CELL AT JACKSON PIKE WAS HAVING READ THE SYRIAN PRISON HORROR STORIES.
I TOLD MYSELF IT COULD HAVE BEEN WORSE.
CI, I CAME FROM SYRIA, THE LAND OF DICTATORSHIP AND TYRANNY AND AUTHORITARIAN REGIME, AND I CHOSE TO COME TO THIS COUNTRY 25 YEARS AGO FOR WHAT IT STANDS FOR, THE FREEDOM OF EXPRESSION, THE FREEDOM OF SPEECH, THE HUMAN RIGHTS, THE HUMAN DIGNITY, AND THE RESPECT THAT WE HAVE TO HUMAN VALUE.
ALTHOUGH MY FAITH IN THOSE VALUES WERE SHAKEN, WAS SHAKEN ON APRIL 25.
I STILL HAVE BELIEF IN THIS COUNTRY AND THE DEMOCRACY
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IT STANDS FOR.AND ONE OF THOSE GREAT PILLARS IS THE POWER OF THE VOTE.
AND I STILL GOING TO HOLD ONTO THAT AND I WILL SEE YOU, SEE YOU AT THE POLLS.
AMAR, WHAT? YOU DON'T CARE TO SHARE? OKAY.
PLEASE COME FORWARD AND STATE YOUR NAME AND ADDRESS INTO THE RECORD.
MY ADDRESS IS 5 8 6 0 BURY LANE.
THANK YOU FOR ALLOWING US TO SPEAK HERE TODAY.
AFTER SIX MONTHS OF A TELEVISED BRUTAL MASSACRE, IT SHOULDN'T BE SO HARD TO ISSUE A STATEMENT CALLING FOR THE END OF THE VIOLENCE OR EVEN A STATEMENT IN SUPPORT OF LOCAL AMERICAN STUDENTS' RIGHTS TO PARTICIPATE IN PROTEST AND IN PROTECTION OF THEIR FIRST AMENDMENT RIGHTS.
IF EVERYTHING YOU'VE SEEN AND HEARD HASN'T PUSHED YOU TO ACT, THEN NOTHING THAT WE CAN SAY, NOTHING THAT WE SAY, SORRY.
UM, NOTHING WE SAY WILL MOVE YOU TO HAVE A CONSCIENCE OR AT LEAST CARE ABOUT PRESERVING THE RIGHTS THIS COUNTRY WAS FOUNDED UPON.
ELECTION SEASON IS COMING UP AND YOU CAN BE SURE THAT WE'RE ACTIVELY MOBILIZING TO DELIVER A CANDIDATE WHO NOT WILL, WHO WILL NOT ONLY LISTEN TO US AND LISTEN TO THE CONSTITUENTS AND LISTEN TO WHAT THE PEOPLE WANT, BUT SOMEONE WHO IS STRONG ENOUGH TO STAND FOR WHAT'S RIGHT EVEN IF IT'S NOT POPULAR.
IF YOU'LL PLEASE COME FORWARD AND STATE YOUR NAME AND ADDRESS INTO THE RECORD.
I LIVE AT 5 7 5 8 FINNEGAN COURT.
UM, I WOULD LIKE TO PRESENT MAYBE AN ALTERNATIVE PERSPECTIVE THAN THE ONE THAT YOU'VE BEEN THINKING ABOUT.
I THINK THAT YOU HAVE BEEN THINKING ABOUT THIS AS THE OPINION OF ONE GROUP AS OPPOSED TO THE OPINION OF ANOTHER GROUP OR SUPPORTING ONE POLICY POSITION AS OPPOSED TO SUPPORTING ANOTHER POLICY POSITION.
I'M REALLY, REALLY TIRED OF PEOPLE TELLING ME I SUPPORT YOU, BUT I I HAVE HAD COUNTLESS PEOPLE TELL ME I SUPPORT YOU, BUT THIS IS COMPLICATED.
I SUPPORT YOU, BUT SO AND SO IS FEELING HURT OR FEELING ANGRY OR, UH, YOU KNOW, SAD.
UM, BECAUSE OF GENERATIONAL TRAUMA, I'M NOT ASKING YOU TO SUPPORT ME.
I ACTUALLY DON'T THINK ANY OF THESE PEOPLE ARE ASKING YOU TO SUPPORT THEM AS INDIVIDUALS, WE ARE ASKING YOU TO SUPPORT WHAT IS RIGHT.
WE ARE ASKING YOU TO SUPPORT PEACE.
THAT'S NOT HARD AND THAT'S NOT COMPLICATED.
WE ARE ASKING YOU TO SUPPORT DEMOCRACY, AND I HOPE IF YOU HAVE HAD YOUR EYES OPEN TO WHAT HAS BEEN HAPPENING ON COLLEGE CAMPUSES OVER THE PAST WEEK TO TWO WEEKS IN THIS COUNTRY, YOU START TO UNDERSTAND THE IMPLICATIONS OF NOT SUPPORTING PEACE AND NOT SUPPORTING DEMOCRACY AND SEE WHAT HAPPENS WHEN OUR TAX DOLLARS ARE USED TO, TO, TO SUPPRESS OTHER PEOPLES AND TO CONFISCATE THEIR LANDS AND TO KILL THEM AND TO SLAUGHTER THEIR BABIES.
I KNOW THAT AS CITY COUNCIL MEMBERS, YOU MIGHT NOT SEE IT AS YOUR PURVIEW TO TALK ABOUT INTERNATIONAL AFFAIRS.
BUT THAT'S JUST WHERE WE FIND OURSELVES.
THIS IS A CAMPUS ISSUE BECAUSE THAT'S WHAT THIS HAS BECOME.
AND SO WE ALL FIND OURSELVES IN A HARD PLACE AND YOU HAVE A DECISION TO MAKE.
WE WE'RE WATCHING AND WE ARE MOBILIZING AND WE ARE WORKING BECAUSE IT'S TIME TO CHANGE.
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THANK YOU, LINDSAY.NEXT, THOSE ARE ALL OF THE COMMENTS, UM, THAT HAVE SIGNED IN FOR THIS EVENING, BUT I DO HAVE SOME COMMENTS THAT WERE SUBMITTED ONLINE.
WE RECEIVED ABOUT 10, UH, COMMENTS, UH, REGARDING THE CEASEFIRE IN GAZA, AND WE WILL SHARE THOSE IN THEIR ENTIRETY WITH CITY COUNCIL AT AFTER THIS MEETING.
UM, ANOTHER COMMENT WAS RELATED TO THE LOSS OF CITY IDENTITY.
THIS IS FROM ERIC NEEGLE, 55 48 MOSSY CREEK DRIVE.
AS A PROUD RESIDENT OF DUBLIN, OHIO, I WAS DEEPLY DISTURBED TO REALIZE THAT THERE ARE AT LEAST 14 OTHER INSTANCES OF CITIES ATTEMPTING TO IMPERSONATE THE REAL DUBLIN IN OHIO.
SOME OF THE MOST WORRISOME OFFENDERS INCLUDE DUBLIN, CALIFORNIA, AND DUBLIN, GEORGIA.
JOHN SHIELDS CLAIMED THE NAME DUBLIN FOR OHIO BACK IN 1810.
THESE IMPERSONATORS IN CALIFORNIA AND GEORGIA THEN COPIED THE NAME IN 1850 AND 1812 RESPECTIVELY.
PEOPLE ALL OVER THE WORLD SHOULD BE ABLE TO BEAR THE NAME D HEAR THE NAME DUBLIN, AND NOT NEED TO WONDER WHICH DUBLIN.
IN FACT, I RESEARCHED ONLINE TO SUBMIT THIS FORUM.
EVEN GOOGLE WAS TRICKED AND GAVE ME A LINK TO DUBLIN, CALIFORNIA'S CITY COUNCIL PAGE.
THIS IS UNACCEPTABLE TO LET IMPOSTERS COPY OUR NAME AND LEACH OFF OF OUR SUCCESS.
MEMBERS OF DUBLIN CITY COUNCIL HAVE AN OBLIGATION TO TAKE BACK THEIR CITY'S IDENTITY AND PUT THESE COPYCATS IN THEIR PLACE.
I IMPLORE MEMBERS OF DUBLIN CITY COUNCIL TO ISSUE A FORMAL CHALLENGE AGAINST THESE FRAUDS.
YOU NEED TO FOLLOW THE VISION OF JOHN SHIELDS AND ENSURE THAT WE ARE NOT JUST DUBLIN OF OHIO, BUT DUBLIN OF AMERICA.
THE FAILURE TO ISSUE THIS DECLARATION SHOWS YOUR COMPLIANCE IN ALLOWING OUR IDENTITY TO BE RIPPED AWAY FROM US.
AND THAT CONCLUDES THE CITIZEN COMMENTS.
UM, I BELIEVE PHIL HARTMAN, OUR ASSISTANT LAW DIRECTOR, HAS COMMENTS THAT HE WOULD LIKE TO MAKE.
UH, I'VE BEEN ASKED AS THE REPRESENTATIVE OF THE LAW DIRECTOR'S OFFICE TO PROVIDE FURTHER CONTEXT AND CLARITY TO THE PUBLIC COMMENT SECTION AND COUNCIL'S ROLE IN GOVERNING THE CITY.
UH, CITY COUNCIL MEMBERS ARE CHARGED WITH REPRESENTING ALL CITY CONSTITUENTS WHILE UPHOLDING THE OBLIGATIONS AND DUTIES OF OUR CHARTER.
THE CITY'S CHARTER DOES NOT SUPPORT CITY COUNCIL CONSIDERING LEGISLATION, UH, REGARDING INDIVIDUAL, UH, INTERNATIONAL CONFLICTS SUCH AS A POLITICAL OR MILITARY ACTION.
THERE IS NO RECORD OF CITY COUNCIL DOING SO IN THE PAST.
TO THAT END, THE PREAMBLE OF THE CITY CHARTER NOTES THAT IT WAS ADOPTED TO SECURE THE BENEFITS OF HOME RULE AND TO EXERCISE THE POWERS OF LOCAL SELF-GOVERNMENT.
NOTHING IN EITHER OF THE CITY CHARTER OR CODIFIED ORDINANCES DISCUSSES ADDRESSES OR MENTIONS COUNCIL PASSING LEGISLATION RELATED TO NATIONAL OR INTERNATIONAL ISSUES WITHOUT A DIRECT RELATIONSHIP TO THE CITY.
AS A REMINDER, PUBLIC COMMENT SECTION IS AN OPPORTUNITY FOR MEMBERS OF THE PUBLIC TO INFORM CITY COUNCIL ABOUT THEIR VIEWS.
UH, DO NOT EXPECT COUNCIL TO COMMENT.
THE GOAL OF THE CITY IS TO HOLD COUNCIL MEETINGS WHERE ALL PEOPLE FEEL SAFE AND COMFORTABLE AND TO ATTEND AND EXPRESS THEIR VIEWS IN AN ALL-INCLUSIVE ENVIRONMENT.
UH, FOR THOSE WHO TESTIFIED THIS EVENING, I'D LIKE TO SAY ON BEHALF OF MY FELLOW CITY COUNCIL MEMBERS, I AGAIN WANNA THANK YOU EACH AND EVERY ONE OF YOU FOR ATTENDING THIS MEETING AND PROVIDING A HEARTFELT COMMENT.
WE CONTINUE TO BE MOVED BY THE STORIES AND PERSPECTIVES YOU HAVE SHARED WITH US, AND WE UNDERSTAND YOUR DESIRE TO SPEAK ABOUT THE ONGOING VIOLENCE.
PLEASE BE ASSURED THAT YOUR DUBLIN CITY COUNCIL IS LISTENING ATTENTIVELY TO YOUR CONCERNS, AND WE STAND FIRM IN OUR COMMITMENT TO PEACE, HARMONY UNDERSTANDING.
AMONG ALL THAT CALL THE CITY OF DUBLIN HOME.
I WANT TO EMPHASIZE THAT WE HAVE HEARD YOUR CONCERNS ABOUT THE USE OF YOUR TAX DOLLARS, AND WE RE REITERATE THAT NONE OF THE CITY'S TAX REVENUE IS TRANSFERRED TO ANY STATE OR NATIONAL GOVERNMENT.
ADDITIONALLY, NO TAX DOLLARS HAVE BEEN SPENT ON INVESTMENTS THAT SUPPORT ANY FOREIGN COMPANIES OR COUNTRIES, AND THERE ARE NO DIRECT BOND ISSUANCES OF ANY TYPE OF FOREIGN BROKERAGE.
AS WE HAVE CONSISTENTLY STATED, DUBLIN CITY COUNCIL DOES NOT CREATE LEGISLATION REGARDING IN INDIVIDUAL INTERNATIONAL CONFLICTS AS THEY DO NOT PERTAIN TO THE ROLE AND RESPONSIBILITIES OF LOCAL GOVERNMENT.
AND THERE IS NO RECORD OF COUNCIL DOING SO IN THE PAST.
AS OUR ASSISTANT LAW DIRECTOR STATED, PUBLIC COMMENT IS AN OPPORTUNITY FOR MEMBERS OF THE PUBLIC TO INFORM CITY COUNCIL ABOUT THEIR VIEWS.
AND COUNCIL MEMBERS DON'T ENGAGE IN ANY DIALOGUE DURING THIS TIME.
WE ARE HERE TO SIMPLY LISTEN, BUT I ASSURE YOU, WE HEAR YOUR COMMENTS AND WE HEAR YOUR CONCERNS.
WE CONTINUE TO FOCUS ON PROVIDING A SAFE AND WELCOMING ENVIRONMENT FOR ALL HERE IN THE CITY OF DUBLIN.
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WE SINCERELY APPRECIATE YOUR PARTICIPATION.AND NOW I WOULD LIKE TO TURN TO CITY MANAGER MEGAN O' CALLAHAN, UH, FOR ANY COMMENTS? I DON'T HAVE ANY ADDITIONAL COMMENTS.
THIS BRINGS US TO THE SECOND READING PORTION OF OUR AGENDA THIS EVENING, ORDINANCES
[Ordinance 06-24]
ORDINANCE ZERO SIX DASH 24, ADOPTING AND ENACTING A SUPPLEMENT TO THE CODE OF ORDINANCES FOR THE CITY OF DUBLIN, OHIO.OUR STAFF REPORT WILL BE FROM PHIL HARTMAN.
UH, ARE THERE ANY QUESTIONS? WE DID AN INITIAL, UH, DISCUSSION ABOUT THE, UH, ORDINANCE AND, UM, THE GOAL IS TO PROHIBIT ANY OF THIS CULTIVATING SALES OF MARIJUANA WITHIN THE, UH, CITY BOUNDARIES.
UM, ARE THERE ANY QUESTIONS ON THE, THAT HAVE COME UP IN THE LAST TWO WEEKS? OKAY.
I WANNA TAKE A MOMENT FOR PUBLIC COMMENT.
IS THERE ANYONE PRESENT THIS EVENING THAT WOULD LIKE TO SPEAK REGARDING THIS LEGISLATION? HEARING NONE COUNCIL QUESTIONS.
DISCUSSION AS THERE ARE NO CHANGES FROM FIRST READING.
JENNY, WOULD YOU PLEASE CALL THE RULE MAYOR AROSE GROOMS? YES.
[Ordinance 07-24]
SEVEN DASH 24 AUTHORING THE PROVISION OF CERTAIN INCENTIVES TO HUSKY MARKETING AND SUPPLY COMPANY TO INDUCE IT TO LEASE AN OFFICE BUILDING FOR THE RELOCATION OF THE COMPANY'S EXISTING OFFICE AND EXPANSION OF THAT OFFICE AND ITS ASSOCIATED OPERATIONS AND WORKFORCE WITHIN THE CITY AND AUTHORIZING THE EXECUTION OF AN ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT AGREEMENT.JENNA GEARING WILL HAVE OUR STAFF REPORT.
AS YOU'LL RECALL, STAFF HAS BEEN WORKING WITH CENOVUS ON THE EXPANSION OF THEIR COMPANY AND LOCATION OF THEIR US HEADQUARTERS WITHIN THE CITY OF DUBLIN.
THE PROPOSED INCENTIVE IS FOR 15% ON INCOME TAX WITHHOLDINGS OVER FIVE YEARS VALUED UP TO 442,000.
IN CONSIDERATION OF THE COMPANY'S CONTINUED INVESTMENT IN PLANNED WORKFORCE GROWTH IN DUBLIN, THERE HAVE BEEN NO CHANGES TO THE PROPOSED ORDINANCE AND STAFF RECOMMENDS COUNSEL'S APPROVAL HERE WITH US THIS EVENING, REPRESENTING CENOVUS, OUR DAN DANFORD, ASSISTANT GENERAL COUNSEL, AND ERIC ZI ZI, I'M SORRY IF I PRONOUNCED YOUR NAME WRONG.
UH, SENIOR VICE PRESIDENT OF US REFINING AND THEY'LL BE HAPPY TO ANSWER ANY QUESTIONS YOU MAY HAVE.
IS THERE ANYONE PRESENT THIS EVENING THAT WOULD LIKE TO SPEAK RELATIVE TO THIS LEGISLATION? HEARING NONE WILL WELCOME THE APPLE THE APPLICANT UP TO MAKE A COMMENT.
GOOD EVENING, UH, MAYOR AND COUNCIL MEMBERS, UH, THANK YOU FOR, FOR HOSTING US.
I'M, UH, SENIOR VICE PRESIDENT OF SUNNOVA ENERGY, SENIOR VICE PRESIDENT OF THE US REFINING.
UM, REALLY APPRECIATE THE, THE INVITATION TO SPEAK WITH YOU.
APPRECIATE THE OPPORTUNITY AND, AND THE EMBRACE YOU'VE HAD OF OUR COMMITMENT TO OHIO AND OUR COMMITMENT TO DUBLIN.
SONOVAS EMPLOYS, UH, OVER 1200, UH, HIGHLY SKILLED MEN AND WOMEN IN OHIO, UH, INCLUDING OVER A HUNDRED HERE IN DUBLIN.
OUR AVERAGE SALARY IN OHIO IS OVER $165,000 A YEAR.
SO THESE ARE VERY HIGHLY SKILLED, HIGHLY, UH, COMPENSATED JOBS, UH, THAT ARE FANTASTIC FOR THE COMMUNITY AND FANTASTIC FOR THE PEOPLE.
WE'RE LOOKING TO BRING OVER A HUNDRED MORE OF THESE JOBS HERE TO DUBLIN, SPECIFICALLY AS OUR COMMITMENT TO DUBLIN, OUR COMMITMENT TO OHIO, AND OUR COMMITMENT TO CONTINUE TO GROW THIS BUSINESS.
SO AGAIN, APPRECIATE THE OPPORTUNITY TO SPEAK WITH YOU, APPRECIATE YOUR SUPPORT.
AND WITH THAT, I'LL TURN IT OVER TO, UH, MY COWORKER, DAN.
GOOD EVENING, MAYOR AND COUNCIL MEMBERS.
I SERVE AS SUNNOVA'S ENERGY'S DIRECTOR AND ASSISTANT GENERAL COUNCIL.
I'M PLEASED TO BE HERE TONIGHT AND THANKFUL TO THE CITY COUNCIL'S SUPPORT OF SUNNOVA'S GROWING OPERATIONS IN DUBLIN AND ACROSS OHIO.
SONOS GREATLY APPRECIATES THE EFFORTS THAT JENNA GORING AND JEREMIAH GRACIA HAVE PUT INTO THIS ECONOMIC INCENTIVE PACKAGE.
WE ALSO APPRECIATE THE STRONG SUP, STRONG SUPPORT FOR COMMUNITY LEADERS, INCLUDING JENNY AROSE WITH THE DUBLIN CHAMBER OF COMMERCE AND THE CITY MANAGER MEGAN OC CALLAHAN KEPT.
COLLECTIVELY, YOU HAVE MADE DUBLIN A GREAT PLACE TO DO BUSINESS.
WE LOOK FORWARD TO CALLING DEVIN HOME FOR MANY YEARS.
THANK YOU AGAIN FOR YOUR SUPPORT AND WE'RE HAPPY TO ANSWER ANY QUESTIONS.
QUESTIONS, COMMENTS FROM COUNSEL.
WE ARE CERTAINLY GLAD THAT YOU'RE HERE AND IF THERE'S EVER ANYTHING THAT WE CAN BE OF SERVICE, PLEASE DON'T HESITATE, YOU KNOW WHERE WE ARE, SO PLEASE DON'T HESITATE TO REACH OUT.
JENNY, WOULD YOU PLEASE CALL THE ROLL? MS. OSA? YES.
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OKAY.[Ordinance 08-24]
INTRODUCTIONS.FIRST, READING ORDINANCES, ORDINANCE ZERO H 20 DASH 24 TO PROHIBIT ADULT USE MARIJUANA CULTIVATION PROCESSING AND RETAIL DIS DISTRIBUTION WITHIN THE CITY OF DUBLIN.
AND TO INCLUDE VAPING WITHIN THE DEFINITION OF SMOKE.
OUR STAFF REPORT WILL BE FROM PHIL HARTMAN.
UH, THE, THE, THIS, UH, IS THE INTRODUCTION OF THE ORDINANCE THAT WILL PIGGYBACK ON THE MEDICAL PROHIBITION TO MARIJUANA IN THE CITY, THE CULTIVATION AND SELLING OF THE SAME.
UH, WHAT WE WILL BE DOING WITH THIS ORDINANCE IS PROHIBITING IT FROM RECREATIONAL SALES.
UH, WE HAD HELD OFF FOR A WHILE WAITING TO SEE IF THE LEGISLATURE WAS GONNA AMEND IT IN ANY WAY THAT WOULD FORCE US TO GO BACK.
AT THIS POINT, IT DOESN'T APPEAR THAT THERE ARE GOING TO BE ANY AMENDMENTS BEFORE IMPLEMENTATION.
UM, ADDITIONALLY WE ADDED INTO, UH, COPY THE STATE CODE, THE DEFINITION OF SMOKING TO ALSO INCLUDE VAPING.
UM, SO THAT'S ALSO PART OF THIS AMENDMENT AND I CAN ANSWER ANY QUESTIONS IF ANYONE ON COUNCIL HAS 'EM.
IS THERE ANYONE PRESENT THIS EVENING THAT WOULD LIKE TO SPEAK RELATIVE TO THIS LEGISLATION? HEARING NONE COUNCIL QUESTIONS, DISCUSSION.
I WANNA SAY THANK YOU FOR FIXING THE LOOPHOLE FOR MAKING SURE WE MATCH WITH THE STATE ON THE VAPING ISSUE.
APPRECIATE YOU BRINGING IT UP.
THE SECOND READING PUBLIC HEARING WILL BE SCHEDULED FOR MAY 20TH ON THAT ITEM, THIS BRINGS US TO INTRODUCE
[Resolution 23-24]
INTRODUCTION, PUBLIC HEARING VOTE RESOLUTION RESOLUTION 23 DASH 24, WAIVING COMPETITIVE BIDDING REQUIREMENTS PURSUANT TO SECTION 8.04, PARAGRAPH C OF THE REVISED CHARTER OF THE FOR THE PURCHASE OF BEER FOR THE 2024 DUBLIN IRISH FESTIVAL.AND ALLISON LAROY WILL HAVE OUR STAFF, OUR STAFF REPORT.
MEMBERS OF COUNCIL TONIGHT, I COME TO YOU AS I DO ANNUALLY TO ASK FOR THE WAIVER OF THE PURCHASE OF BEER.
SPECIFICALLY FOR THE IRISH FESTIVAL.
WE HAVE HAD A LONG HISTORY WITH BOTH, UH, DIAGEO AND MOLSON COORS COMPANIES FOR GUINNESS.
AND, UM, COORS, OBVIOUSLY, THEY ALSO BOTH PAY A SPONSORSHIP FEE OF $25,000 A PIECE AND AN ADDITIONAL 10,000.
AND IN KIND SUPPORT, UH, WE ARE VERY LUCKY, I BELIEVE, TO KEEP THIS LEVEL OF HISTORICALLY OUR LEVEL OF BEER SALES HAVE GONE DOWN AS WHISKEY HAS GONE UP.
AND ALSO IN GENERAL, THE LEVEL OF BEER SALES ACROSS THE COUNTRY IS GOING DOWN AS WELL.
SO THEY HAVE STAYED AT THEIR SAME LEVEL EVEN THOUGH WE HAVE ACTUALLY, UM, BEEN BUYING LESS FOR THEM.
BUT THIS YEAR WE DO HAVE $145,000 BUDGETED FOR THIS PURCHASE.
AND WE ASK THAT YOU, UM, APPROVE THIS WAIVER TONIGHT.
COUNCIL QUESTIONS, DISCUSSION? HEARING NONE, JENNY, WOULD YOU PLEASE CALL THE ROLE MS. CRAM? YES.
[Resolution 24-24]
RESOLUTION 24 DASH 24 APPOINTING MEMBERS TO THE VARIOUS BOARDS AND COMMISSIONS OF THE CITY OF DUBLIN AND THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE BRIDGE PARK NEW COMMUNITY AUTHORITY.AND OUR REPORT WILL BE FROM THE CHAIR OF THE ADMIN COMMITTEE.
UM, AS WE APPROACH THE END OF COMMISSION TERMS, WHICH IS MAY 31ST, 2024, THERE ARE A NUMBER OF VACANCIES TO BE FILLED ACROSS OUR VARIOUS BOARDS AND COMMISSIONS.
WE'RE REALLY VERY FORTUNATE TO HAVE A NUMBER OF VERY TALENTED COMMUNITY MEMBERS WHO HAVE RAISED THEIR HAND FOR CONSIDERATION TO SERVE.
WE APPRECI APPRECIATE EVERYONE WHO CAME FORWARD TO VOLUNTEER THEIR TIME TO SERVE THEIR COMMUNITY, AND WE, UM, APPRECIATE THOSE WHO ARE ROLLING OFF THEIR TERMS THIS YEAR AS WELL.
AS YOU KNOW, COUNCIL SPENT THE LAST SEVERAL MONTHS COMPLETING THE ASSESSMENT AND INTERVIEW PROCESS FOR THE AVAILABLE POSITIONS AND POTENTIAL REAPPOINTMENTS.
AND I'M DELIGHTED TO BRING FORWARD THE FOLLOWING CANDIDATES FOR YOUR CONSIDERATION FOR APPOINTMENT THIS EVENING.
SO THERE'S A, A BIT OF A LIST HERE, BUT I'M GOING TO READ THEM ALL.
SO, UM, APPOINTMENT TO THE PLANNING AND ZONING COMMISSION.
GARY ALEXANDER AND JASON DESLER.
APPOINTMENT TO THE ARCHITECTURAL REVIEW BOARD, LISA PRATT MCDANIEL AND SEAN KOTTER.
UH, APPOINTMENT TO THE BOARD OF ZONING APPEALS.
GARRETT ANDERSON AND JOEL KRETZ.
APPOINTMENT TO THE COMMUNITY SERVICES ADVISORY COMMISSION.
ANN BOWMAN AND KATHY AXEL APPOINTMENT TO THE PERSONNEL BOARD OF REVIEW.
JIM RENARD APPOINTMENT TO THE BRIDGE PARK NEW COMMUNITY AUTHORITY, YOUNG KIM AND MARY LYNN REDDY APPOINTMENT TO THE INCLUSION ADVISORY COMMITTEE.
AMARA, EMRAN MALLEK AND MING YU.
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ADVISORY COMMITTEE.TRACY OWENS, SEAN CLIFTON, BODY GARE AND MICHAEL KEHO.
APPOINTMENT TO THE CHIEF'S ADVISORY COMMITTEE.
RONALD BARNES EMIRATE ARO DEWINE.
DEWINE MAYNARD, UM, GARETH GO AND YIN SINGH APPOINTMENT TO THE DUBLIN ARTS COUNCIL.
MIKE STOLL APPOINTMENT TO THE VISIN DUBLIN BOARD OF OHIO BOARD SHARON MCGEE.
AN APPOINTMENT TO THE TAX BOARD OF REVIEW.
WE LOOK FORWARD TO SEEING THEIR THOUGHTFUL CONTRIBUTIONS AND, UM, TO THE RESPECTIVE BOARD.
SO I'M DELIGHTED AND PLEASED TO BRING THESE TO COUNCIL FOR YOUR CONSIDERATION THIS EVENING.
THANK YOU FOR THAT THOROUGH REPORT.
UH, IS THERE ANYONE PRESENT THIS EVENING THAT WOULD LIKE TO COMMENT REGARDING THIS LEGISLATION? HEARING NONE COUNCIL QUESTIONS, DISCUSSION.
I JUST HAD ONE COMMENT AND I WANTED TO THANK ALL THE BOARD AND COMMISSION MEMBERS WHO OR COMMITTEE MEMBERS WHO AGREED TO RENEW.
QUITE A FEW OF THOSE ARE PEOPLE WHO'VE ARE CONTINUING WITH US AND HAVE DONE A GOOD JOB.
AND THEN, UM, WELCOME TO OUR NEW MEMBERS.
I ALSO JUST WANTED TO SAY THANK YOU TO, UM, JAMIE ON STAFF WHO, UM, ON JENNY'S STAFF WHO HAS REALLY HELPED MAKE THIS PROCESS SO MUCH BETTER IN THE PAST.
WE, AND I WANNA REMIND OUR RESIDENTS, ALL OF OUR RESIDENTS, THAT WE HAVE A YEAR LONG APPLICATION PROCESS AND TO REALLY ENCOURAGE THEM TO GO OUT AND, UM, FIND A BORDER COMMISSION THAT'S INTERESTING TO YOU.
WATCH A COUPLE OF, UH, COMMITTEE OR BOARD MEETINGS, UM, AND, AND PUT YOUR HAND UP 'CAUSE WE'RE THRILLED TO TALK TO EACH AND EVERY ONE OF YOU.
WE HAVE CERTAINLY BEEN BUILT ON VOLUNTEERISM, SO WE APPRECIATE THESE PEOPLE STEPPING FORWARD AND, UM, WILLING TO, TO SERVE THEIR FELLOW DUBLINS IN THAT SPACE.
UH, WITH THAT, JENNY, WOULD YOU PLEASE CALL THE ROLE MS. FOX? YES.
[OTHER BUSINESS]
OKAY.THIS BRINGS US TO THE OTHER BUSINESS PORTION OF OUR AGENDA THIS EVENING.
FIRST UP IS ALCOHOL SALES FOR THE 2024 DUBLIN IRISH FESTIVAL AND 5K.
AND AGAIN, WE WILL GO BACK TO ALLISON LEROY WITH OUR STAFF REPORT.
UM, THIS ONE SPECIFICALLY, WE DO REQUIRE, UH, COUNCIL APPROVAL TO SELL ALCOHOL ON CITY OWNED PROPERTY.
UH, ONE ADDITION BESIDES COFFMAN PARK THAT WE HAVE THIS YEAR IS THE 5K AFTER PARTY.
UH, WE HAD OUR FIRST 5K AFTER PARTY LAST YEAR, AND WE ACTUALLY SOLD OUT OF OUR REGISTRATIONS A COUPLE DAYS AHEAD OF TIME.
SO WE KNOW, WE THINK THE PARTY REALLY HELPED ENCOURAGE THAT.
SO WE'RE CONTINUING THE PARTY THIS YEAR.
WE, UM, THE ONLY DIFFERENCE IS WE SOLD THE ALCOHOL LAST YEAR ON PRIVATE PROPERTY AND THIS YEAR WE'RE JUST MOVING IT INTO THE CITY PARKING LOT, JUST FOR LOGISTICAL REASONS.
SO THAT IS THE ONE CHANGE THIS YEAR COMPARED TO, UM, PREVIOUS YEARS.
SO WE ARE JUST REQUESTING FOR, UM, ALCOHOL SALES.
AUGUST 2ND, THIRD, AND FOURTH IN KAUFMAN PARK AND ALCOHOL SALES AT 20 FOLEY SOUTH HIGH STREET ON THURSDAY, AUGUST 1ST FOR THE 5K.
IS THERE ANYONE PRESENT THIS EVENING THAT LI WOULD LIKE TO MAKE PUBLIC COMMENT REGARDING THIS LEGISLATION? HEARING NONE COUNCIL QUESTIONS, DISCUSSION? HEARING NONE.
IS THERE A MOTION TO APPROVE THE SALE OF ALCOHOL AT THE 2024 DUBLIN IRISH FESTIVAL AND 5K? I'LL MAKE THE MOTION AND A SECOND.
JENNY, WOULD YOU PLEASE CALL THE ROLL? MR. REINER? YES.
THE DUBLIN COMMUNITY RECREATION CENTER REFRESH UPDATE.
OUR STAFF REPORT THIS EVENING WILL BE WITH FROM TRACY.
GOOD EVENING, MEMBERS OF COUNCIL.
WE'RE HERE TO PROVIDE AN UPDATE ON THE DUBLIN COMMUNITY RECREATION CENTER.
THE COUNCIL MEMO IN YOUR PACKET GAVE AN UPDATE AS TO HOW WE'VE GOTTEN TO THIS POINT, SO I WON'T GO THROUGH THAT WITH YOU.
UM, I THINK WE ALL KNOW WHY WE'RE HERE TO TALK ABOUT THE REFRESH.
UM, WE'VE HAD AN AGING FACILITY.
WE'VE SEEN CHANGES IN PROGRAM DESIGN AND TRENDS.
WE'VE SEEN DEMOGRAPHIC SHIFTS IN OUR COMMUNITY, LARGER COMMUNITY.
UH, WE'VE HAD THE ADOPTION OF THE MASTER PLAN, THE PARKS AND RECREATION MASTER PLAN.
WE'VE DONE SOME SURVEYING OF MEMBERS AND WE'VE HAD, UM, VERY SIGNIFICANT COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT IN THE PROCESS SO FAR.
THESE ARE THE QUESTIONS THAT WE ASKED THE COMMUNITY.
WHEN WE HAD THE FIRST TWO PUBLIC INPUT MEETINGS, WE HAD THREE COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT MEETINGS.
THE FIRST TWO WERE TO ASSESS CURRENT CONDITIONS, AND THEN THE THIRD PUBLIC ENGAGEMENT MEETING WAS TO SHOW SOME RENDERINGS
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THAT WE'LL GO THROUGH THIS EVENING.WHAT WE HEARD BACK FROM THE COMMUNITY PROBABLY WOULDN'T SURPRISE YOU.
UM, THERE WERE COMMENTS ABOUT OVERCROWDING WANTING MORE GYM SPACE, MORE POOL SPACE, UM, ADDITIONAL SPACE FOR LAP SWIMMING, UM, LOCKER ROOM REVISIONS.
UM, A DESIRE FOR THE CAFE SPACE TO COME BACK.
I THINK EVERYONE KNOWS SUBWAY WAS POPULAR WHEN IT WAS THERE.
UM, ADDITIONAL FITNESS SPACE, UM, AND PLAYGROUND SPACE FOR KIDS.
SOME OF THE INFO, UM, SOME OF THE TOPICS UP HERE WILL BE ADDRESSED WITH A PARKS AND RECREATION MASTER PLAN AS OPPOSED TO THE REFRESH.
SO JUST TO PUT SOME GUARDRAILS ON THE CONVERSATION FOR THIS EVENING, THE REFRESH IS, UM, AN AESTHETIC REFRESH FOR THE RECREATION CENTER.
IT DOESN'T EXPAND THE FOOTPRINT OF THE FACILITY WITH A SMALL EXCEPTION FOR THE TEEN LOUNGE, UM, THAT WE'LL GO THROUGH.
SO WE HAVE, UH, KEITH HALL WITH MSA DESIGN HERE WITH US TO RUN US THROUGH THE PRESENTATION.
UM, SHOW YOU SOME IMAGES AND RENDERINGS.
AND AGAIN, THESE ARE, THESE ARE OVERARCHING OR OVER OVERARCHING DESIGNS.
THEY'RE NOT, UM, SPECIFIC TO CHOICES IN COLORS OR MATERIALS YET.
WE'RE NOT QUITE THAT FAR DOWN THE ROAD.
SO ONE OF THE THINGS I WANNA POINT OUT ON THIS, ON THIS PARTICULAR SLIDE, THE ONE THING I WANT TO WANT Y'ALL TO FOCUS ON IS REALLY, WELL, A COUPLE THINGS LIGHTER AND BRIGHTER AS I GO THROUGH A LOT OF THESE IMAGES.
UM, MULTI-GENERATIONAL, UM, IS THE OTHER ONE AS WELL AS THE USE OF SPACE.
UM, THESE ARE ITEMS THAT HAVE CONTINUALLY COME UP THROUGH THE PROCESS, WHICH IS, BY THE WAY, IT'S BEEN A VERY EXCITING PROCESS.
UM, AND, AND I THINK WE'VE REALLY GOT OUR ARMS AROUND, UM, WHAT THIS PROJECT COULD BE, WHAT THIS REFRESH COULD BE, AND I THINK THE COMMUNITY WOULD BE VERY EXCITED ABOUT IT.
BUT I'M GONNA RUN, THIS IS A PRETTY LONG PRESENTATION AND I WANNA RUN, YOU KNOW, I'M GONNA RUN THROUGH IT PRETTY QUICKLY, BUT I WANT YOU TO FOCUS ON LIGHTER AND BRIGHTER, MULTI-GENERATIONAL AS WELL AS FLEXIBLE, UM, BLENDED USE OF SPACE.
THOSE ARE THREE PRIMARY, UM, DESIGN PRINCIPLES THAT REALLY IMPACTED MOST OF OUR DECISION MAKING AS WE RAN THROUGH IT.
UH, THIS IS JUST A SITE PLAN THAT SHOWS THE CURRENT LAYOUT OF THE, UH, OF THE FACILITY.
UM, WHERE YOU SEE THAT BIG BLUE.IN THE MIDDLE OF THE PLAN IS THE PRIMARY, UM, ENTRANCE TO THE, UH, UM, PLAN OR TO THE FACILITY.
UM, AND THEN THE OTHER SECONDARY ENTRANCES SORT OF SWUNG AROUND ON THE NORTH SIDE WITH VEHICULAR ACCESS THAT, THAT SWINGS AROUND THE ENTIRE, UH, ENTIRE FACILITY AS YOU CAN SEE WITH THE RED DASH LINE.
UM, A COUPLE THINGS TO NOTICE ABOUT THIS IS THAT THE MAJORITY OF THE PARKING IS ON THE NORTH SIDE AT THE SECONDARY ENTRANCE.
UM, THAT'S JUST A MATTER OF FACT.
IT WOULD TAKE A, A, A BIG EFFORT TO, TO MODIFY THAT.
WE'RE NOT SAYING IT'S WRONG, I JUST WANT EVERYBODY TO HAVE THAT IN THEIR, UM, IN THEIR EYESIGHT.
UM, WE THOUGHT IT WAS IMPORTANT TO, UM, GRAPHICALLY ANALYZE THE EXISTING FACILITY.
UM, I'M NOT GONNA GO THROUGH EACH OF THE SQUARE FOOTAGES LISTED UP THERE, BUT YOU CAN START TO SEE WHAT WE'VE DONE IS WE'VE COLOR CODED, UM, ALL THE DIFFERENT SPECIFIC PROGRAM AREAS IN THE BUILDING ITSELF THAT WE HAVE, UM, THAT WE HAVE TOUCHED THROUGH THIS PROCESS TO SOME DEGREE.
SO FOR EXAMPLE, BLUE IS AQUATICS, THE GREEN WOULD BE FITNESS, THE PINK WOULD BE MORE SOCIAL OR GATHERING SPACE, ET CETERA, AND, AND SO FORTH.
AND THESE COLORS ARE CONTINUOUS THROUGHOUT THE PRESENTATION.
AS WE GOT INTO THE PROJECT, UM, AS WE MOVED THROUGH THE PROCESS, WE WERE ABLE TO ACTUALLY EXPAND ON SOME SPACE, UM, WITH VERY LITTLE MOVEMENTS.
UM, ONE OF THEM, TRACY BROUGHT UP WITH THE, UH, THE TEEN CENTER.
THERE IS A SMALL ADDITION THAT WE ARE DOING TO THE WEST OF THE BUILDING RIGHT NEAR THE MAIN ENTRANCE THAT I SPOKE TO EARLIER.
AND THEN THE SECOND IS WE WERE ABLE TO EXPAND SPACE WITHIN THE, WITHIN THE BUILDING, PRIMARILY OFF THE EXISTING TRACK LEVEL.
UM, THAT DOES NOT INCLUDE HAVING THE ADD ON, YOU KNOW, AN EXTERIOR SHELL.
SO THAT IS REALLY INEXPENSIVE SPACE.
IT'S INEXPENSIVE AREA TO GRAB WITHOUT A HUGE EFFORT.
WE'RE JUST ABLE TO EXPAND OUT INTO THAT EXISTING TWO STORY ATRIUM, CREATE A LITTLE BIT OF EXTRA SPACE FOR FITNESS, WHICH WE SAW AS A PRIMARY NEED.
UM, AS WE WENT THROUGH THE, UM, PROGRAMMING.
UM, THIS IS JUST SHOWING ALL THE AREAS THAT WE TOUCHED WITHIN THE BUILDING.
SO AS YOU GO DOWN THE PLAN KEY ON THE SIDE, EVERYTHING HAS GOTTA STRIKE THROUGH IT.
AS HIGHLIGHTED, SOMETHING IS BEING DONE.
SOMETHING MAY BE AS LITTLE AS PAINT ON THE WALLS, MAYBE
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SOME CARPET, SOME LIGHTING, SOMETHING MAY BE A COMPLETE RENOVATION OF THE EXISTING SPACE.SO COMPLETELY GUTTED, REPLAN AND REWORKED.
UM, YOU KNOW, FOR THE LONG-TERM FUTURE, UM, AS YOU WALK INTO THE BUILDING, THE REAS, ONE OF THE PRIMARY REASONS I POINTED AT THAT MAIN ENTRANCE IS BECAUSE THIS IS YOUR FIRST IMPRESSION OF THE FACILITY RIGHT NOW, IN THE UPPER RIGHT HAND CORNER, IT'S, IT'S KIND OF A, IT'S A BROWN SPACE.
IT'S NOT WHAT I WOULD CALL LIGHT AND BRIGHT.
UM, THE WORD WE LIKE TO USE IS VERY INSTITUTIONAL, HAS A LOT OF HARD SURFACES IN IT.
UM, AND IT'S, IT'S VERY VACANT IN TERMS OF ITS USAGE.
SO OUR APPROACH TO THIS IS TO REALLY MAKE IT FEEL LIKE THAT HOSPITALITY SPACE.
SO THINK ABOUT WALKING INTO A LOBBY OF A HOTEL.
IT'S A PLACE YOU WANT TO GATHER.
IT'S A PLACE THAT YOU WANT TO SOCIALIZE.
SO, UM, REALLY SOFTENING THE WALLS UP BY ADDING, YOU KNOW, COVERING THAT CMU, THE BLOCK UP WITH, UM, DRYWALL.
UM, A NEW NEUTRAL COLORED FLOORING MATERIAL.
UM, EXPANDING AND ENHANCING THE NATURAL LIGHT COMING INTO THE SPACE, BETTER LIGHTING, UM, AND MAKING THIS A SPACE THAT PEOPLE WANT TO GO TO.
SO SOMEPLACE WHERE MOM AND DAD CAN GO TO WHILE SWIM LESSONS ARE BEING ARE GOING ON, OR SOMEPLACE THAT YOU CAN JUST MEET SOMEONE FOR A CUP OF COFFEE AND HAVE A CONVERSATION.
THIS IS ANOTHER VIEW AS YOU TURN THE CORNER, THE DIAGRAM DOWN IN THE LOWER RIGHT TELL PRETTY MUCH SHOWS WHERE THE VIEW IS OCCURRING.
UM, RIGHT NOW THERE IS A, THERE USED TO BE A SUBWAY THAT IS NO LONGER THERE.
SO, UM, WE HAVE RECOGNIZED THE NEED FOR A NEW VENDING SPACE.
UM, AND THAT'S, WE'VE CREATED THIS LITTLE NOOK, UH, WELL THE NOOK IS THERE.
SO WE'VE CAPTURED THAT LITTLE NOOK AND THAT WILL BECOME A VENDING SPACE WITH, YOU KNOW, PRODUCTS AND STUFF THAT, UM, UH, THE USERS OF THE FACILITY WILL BE, UH, UM, WILL USE.
UH, THIS IS, I TOUCHED ON THIS EARLIER ABOUT EXPANSION OF SPACE.
UH, THIS IS THAT EX EXISTING TWO STORY VOLUME THAT YOU, UM, REALLY ENGAGE WITH, YOU KNOW, RIGHT AFTER YOU CHECK OUT.
AND, UM, OVER TIME SOME OF THE FITNESS AREA HAS EXPANDED OUT INTO THIS SPACE.
SO WE'RE LOOKING TO, TO CLEAN THAT UP A LITTLE BIT.
AND AGAIN, JUST HO YOU KNOW, MAKE IT A LITTLE BIT MORE OF A HOSPITALITY SPACE AS YOU LOOK AT THE RENDERING UP THERE AT THE TOP.
UM, EVERYTHING WHERE YOU SEE THE, UM, THE SORT OF THE, THE LINES WITH THE WOOD CEILING IN IT, THAT'S, THAT'S KIND OF THE, THE, UH, THE EXPANSION THAT WE'RE PROPOSING TO COME OFF OF THE EXISTING TRACK LEVEL.
SO BRINGING THAT OVER, UM, CAPTURING MORE SPACE BELOW FOR FITNESS BECAUSE IT'S TAKEN SOME OF THAT TWO STORY SPACE OUT AND IT'S DEFINING THAT SPACE A LITTLE BIT BETTER, AS WELL AS CREATING MORE SPACE UPSTAIRS FOR ADDITIONAL FITNESS.
UM, ALSO ANOTHER BIG PROJECT, UM, WITHIN THE FACILITY IS, UH, THE REWORK OF THE, UM, OF THE EXISTING LOCKER ROOMS. I THINK WE ALL KNOW THIS IS, THIS IS A LONG OVERDUE PROJECT.
UM, THERE'S, THERE'S ISSUES, UM, THAT WE COULD SIT UP HERE AND TALK ABOUT ALL NIGHT.
BUT THE, UM, THE PRIMARY, UM, APPROACH TO THIS IS JUST REALLY BETTER PLANNING FOR BETTER USABILITY AND MORE DURABLE, CLEANER FINISHES.
SO, AND GETTING BACK TO LIGHTER AND BRIGHTER.
UM, SO AS YOU LOOK AT THIS, WE SAT DOWN AND WE REALLY LOOKED AT THE PLANNING OF IT TO TRY TO, YOU KNOW, CREATE MAYBE A LITTLE MORE PRIVACY WITHIN THE LOCKER ROOMS. UM, WE ALSO EXPANDED ON THE, UH, AND, AND MADE THEM LARGER.
UM, THE, THE FAMILY LOCKER ROOMS, EVERYTHING IS, UM, DESIGNED TO BE A, YOU KNOW, COMPLETELY A DA COMPLIANT, UM, WHICH IS ALSO A, UM, A, A BIG IMPROVEMENT.
AND THEN AS YOU START TO GET INTO THE RENDERINGS, AGAIN, I WOULD JUST SAY FOCUS ON LIGHTER, BRIGHTER, MAYBE A LITTLE MORE OF A HOSPITALITY APPROACH TO THESE AREAS.
UM, SO THEY'RE MORE ATTRACTIVE AND, UH, MORE INVITING AT THE END OF THE DAY.
A PLACE WHERE PEOPLE WANT TO BE, AND CLEANABLE AND DURABLE, AGAIN, THE LOCKER ROOMS SOME MORE VISION.
THEN AS WE GET IN THE POOL, THIS IS A, THIS IS AN AREA THAT IS IN A LOT OF NEED OF SOME AESTHETIC, UM, IMPROVEMENTS.
UM, I THINK THE PICTURES SPEAK FOR THEMSELVES.
UM, WE ALWAYS JOKE THAT IT HAS THIS, YOU KNOW, WHERE ARE THEY SERVING THE PIZZA BECAUSE IT KIND OF HAS A PIZZA ITALIAN RESTAURANT FLAVOR TO IT WITH THE CHECKERBOARD AND SO FORTH.
SO, UM, WE'RE RECOMMENDING, UH, TO SIMPLIFY THAT, UM, AND, AND REALLY ENHANCE THIS SPACE.
UM, THIS IS THE, UM, THE LEISURE PULL ITSELF.
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AND THEN AS YOU CAN SEE, IT'S JUST, YOU KNOW, ADDING A LITTLE BIT MORE NEUTRAL COLOR TO THE SPACE.AND THEN ONE OF THE THINGS WE'RE STUDYING IS THE IDEA OF, UM, BRINGING THE POOL DEPTH UP A LOT, A LITTLE BIT SO THAT THE, UH, THE ZERO ENTRANCE, ZERO ENTRY IS NOT AS STEEP, UM, AND BECOMES A DA COMPLIANT WITHIN ITSELF TOO.
SO I WOULD SAY THESE ARE NOT BIG MOVES, BUT THEY ARE NEEDED MOVES.
YOU'RE STILL, THE POOL SHAPE IS STILL GONNA BE THE SAME.
EVERYTHING'S JUST GONNA BE IMPROVED TO SET THIS POOL UP FOR USAGE OVER THE NEXT 20, 30 YEARS, WHATEVER IT MAY BE.
WE ARE NOT REPLACING PULL EQUIPMENT, WE'RE NOT CHANGING ANY OF THE FILTERING SYSTEMS AS PART OF THIS.
UM, AS WE GET INTO IT, WE MIGHT FIND THERE MIGHT BE SOME OF THOSE ELEMENTS THAT THAT MIGHT COME INTO PLAY.
UM, BUT THE, THE, THE CHARGE WITH THIS IS JUST REALLY A, A REFRESH AND TO SOME DEGREE A REBRANDING OF THE SPACE.
UM, THE FITNESS AREA IS REALLY, TODAY, IN TODAY'S ENVIRONMENT, THIS IS A, IT'S, IT'S DARK.
IT'S NOT WELL-DEFINED WHERE SOME OF THE, THE MATERIALS, WHERE SOME OF THE MACHINES ARE AND SO FORTH.
UM, SO WE ARE PROPOSING, THIS IS JUST SOME EXISTING PHOTOS, AND YOU'RE GONNA USE ME, HEAR ME USE THE WORD AGAIN.
LIGHTER, BRIGHTER, CLEANER, MORE INVITING, UM, AND REALLY GETTING IN AND REALLY TOUCHING, YOU KNOW, AND, AND REINVENTING THIS SPACE.
SO, ORGANIZING STRENGTH TRAINING VERSUS CARDIO TRAINING VERSUS PERFORMANCE TRAINING.
AND THEN WE WERE ABLE TO REORGANIZE SOME OF THE PLAN.
THAT'S THE GREEN SPACE, IS TO CREATE SOME ADDITIONAL EX EXERCISE ROOM SPACE, UM, WHICH IS A, IS VERY VALUABLE.
THEN AS YOU MOVE UP TO THE TRACK, A RESURFACING OF THE TRACK, UM, AS WELL AS IF YOU LOOK OVER IN THE PLAN, THE UPPER RIGHT LEFT HAND CORNER OF THAT PLAN, THAT'S WHERE THAT LITTLE EXPANSION OF THE, UH, OF THE MEZZANINE, AS WE WOULD, AS WE CALL IT, IS, IS ABLE TO BE DROPPED IN WITH, WITH, UM, UM, VERY LITTLE COST ASSOCIATED WITH IT.
AND THEN THIS IS, STARTS TO LOOK AT THE SPACES, UM, YOU KNOW, A RUBBERIZED FLOOR, LED LIGHTING.
UM, THE CEILING IN THE SPACE IS, IS PRETTY HEAVY RIGHT NOW WITH A, WITH, JUST BECAUSE OF EVERYTHING THAT'S GOING ON WITH IT.
UM, REALLY JUST, YOU KNOW, IT'S GONNA STAY THE SAME.
UM, YOU'RE STILL GONNA HAVE THE DUCT WORK AND EVERYTHING MOVING THROUGH IT, BUT LIGHTER, BRIGHTER UP IN THERE TO MAKE THAT CEILING GO UP AND AWAY AS BEST WE CAN.
AND THEN AS YOU START TO LOOK AT THE, THE TWO STORY VOLUME SPACE THAT IS WITHIN IT, YOU CAN START TO SEE THE STRENGTH, UH, THE STRENGTH TRAINING DOWN BELOW WITH THE TRACK, UM, COMING AROUND AT THE TOP.
AND IF YOU LOOK IN THE BACK OF THIS RENDERING, THAT'S WHERE THAT EXTENSION OF THE, UH, OF THE FITNESS AREA IS.
AND THEN THIS IS JUST A VIEW OF THE FITNESS THAT, UM, NEW FITNESS SPACE THAT WE'RE CREATING TOO.
UM, THE TEEN AREA, UM, WE'RE NO LONGER GONNA CALL IT THE TEEN AREA.
SO, UM, THAT GETS BACK TO MY ORIGINAL THING, MULTI-GENERATIONAL.
WE REALLY WANT PEOPLE TO COME TO THIS SPACE AND SOCIALIZE AND HANG OUT TOGETHER.
SO THE FACILITY NEEDS TO PROMOTE THAT.
THE FACILITY NEEDS TO SUPPORT THAT.
UM, HOPEFULLY THEY WILL COME AND DO IT.
UM, AND THAT'S HOW WE SEE THE TEEN SPACE.
HOW DO WE GET MORE PEOPLE TO COME USE THIS SPACE AND FEEL LIKE THEY'RE PART OF IT? SO, UM, IDEALLY YOU WANT TEENAGERS HANGING OUT IN THERE WITH SENIORS.
THAT WOULD BE THE IDEAL SITUATION.
SO PART OF THAT IS IT NEEDS TO BE LARGER.
SO THAT COURTYARD THAT'S OUT THERE, THAT IS A VERY UNDERUTILIZED SPACE.
IT REALLY HAS NO IMPACT ON THE ARCHITECTURE OF THE BUILDING.
UM, YOU KNOW, IT STILL REQUIRES US TO BUILD INSULATED WALLS, INSULATED ROOF WITH ADDITIONAL MECHANICAL SYSTEMS. SO IT'S NOT AS INEXPENSIVE AS EXTENDING OUT THE MEZZANINE, LIKE YOU HEARD ME SPEAK TO A LITTLE BIT EARLIER, BUT IT IS STILL RELATIVELY EASY SPACE TO CAPTURE.
UM, AND THEN, AS I NOTED, IT'S JUST AN UNDERUTILIZED SPACE AT, AT THIS MOMENT IN TIME.
UH, WE ARE LOOKING AT BRINGING IN, UM, UH, WHERE THE CAPTURED SPACE IS, ESPORT AND ESPORTS AREA, UM, AS WELL AS HAVING PING PONG AND JUST GAMING AND OTHER, YOU KNOW, OTHER TYPES OF ACTIVITIES THAT COULD BE SUPPORTED BY THIS SPACE.
SO CREATING LITTLE CORNERS FOR DIFFERENT AGES OF KIDS TO COME TO, UM, AND, AND DIFFERENT AGES OF PEOPLE.
SO VERY ACTIVE, FUN, WELL LIT, BRIGHT SPACE.
AND THEN THE TALLIS VERY POPULAR SPACE, RIGHT? UM, JUST IN NEED OF SOME UPDATING.
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OF THIS SPACE SEEMS TO WORK VERY WELL FOR WHAT IT IS.UM, SO WE'RE JUST LOOKING AT IN THIS REALLY JUST, UH, TO GET IN AND, UM, UPDATE THE FINISHES.
SO YOU CAN SEE UP IN THE UPPER RIGHT HAND CORNER, IT'S, THERE'S, AGAIN, GETTING BACK TO A LOT OF THE BROWNS.
THE LIGHTING IS, IS NOT AT, YOU KNOW, TO A LEVEL THAT IT SHOULD BE.
MAYBE GOING TO MORE OF A HOSPITALITY APPROACH ON THE LIGHTING, AS WELL AS ALL THE FINISHES IN THERE.
AND THEN NOW WHAT WE'RE CALLING THE LOUNGE AREA IS THE SENIOR AREA.
SO AGAIN, A SPACE THAT EVERYBODY CAN GO TO AND EVERYBODY CAN SOCIALIZE IN.
THIS IS JUST SOME EXISTING PICTURES, SO PRETTY DATED.
AND THEN THE NEW PLANS STILL HAVE SOME OFFICES IN THERE WITH SOME STORAGE.
AND THE PRINCIPLE FOR THE DESIGN OF THIS SPACE IS TO REALLY MAKE IT MORE OF A HOSP HOSPITALITY TYPE SPACE.
UM, THAT CAN BE USED FOR MANY TYPES OF THINGS, WHETHER IT'S, UH, BOARD GAMES, WHETHER IT'S, UM, A, A WINE TASTING, WHETHER IT'S, YOU KNOW, CROCKPOTS FOR LUNCH OR WHATEVER IT MAY BE.
JUST MAKE IT A VERSATILE SPACE THAT EVERYBODY FEELS COMFORTABLE IN.
AND THEN THIS IS JUST THE RENDERINGS.
AND ULTIMATELY, AND I'M GONNA KIND OF MAYBE DUMB THIS DOWN A LITTLE BIT, BUT MAKE IT FEEL LIKE A CAFE, A COMFORTABLE CAFE THAT PEOPLE LIKE GOING TO, YOU KNOW, WHERE YOU LIKE TO GO AND SHARE A CUP OF COFFEE OR, OR EVEN SIT DOWN AND MAYBE PLAY CARDS, OR JUST HAVE A CONVERSATION, START TO LOOK AROUND THE ROOM, STILL HAVE THE FIREPLACE IN THERE.
AND, UH, THIS HAS A LOT OF NATURAL LIGHT COMING INTO IT, WHICH WE'RE EMBRACING.
AND THEN NEXT TO IT IS A SPACE THAT'S, IT'S, IT'S A LITTLE BIT UNDERUTILIZED AS JUST A CATERING KITCHEN RIGHT NOW, UM, THAT SERVICES THE TICE, UM, AS A CATERING KITCHEN, IT HAS LIMITED USES TO IT.
SO CATERER PULLS UP, TAKES THE FOOD IN, PLUGS IT IN, YOU KNOW, PREPS, IT, PLATES IT, IF THEY MIGHT, TAKES IT OUT, BRINGS IT BACK.
AND IT'S JUST A TRANSITION SPACE FOR THEM TO GO THROUGH SERVICING THE SPACE.
SO WE'VE FLIPPED IT AND WE'VE SAID WE'RE GONNA MAKE THIS A DEMONSTRATION KITCHEN.
IT'S A PLACE WHERE PEOPLE CAN GO, UM, WORK AS IN GROUPS OR EVEN HAVE SOMEBODY ELSE COME IN AND TEACH, DO, YOU KNOW, GIVE COOKING LESSONS AND SO FORTH.
SO, A PRETTY EXCITING SPACE, UM, IN MY OPINION.
UM, REALLY EMBRACING THE NATURAL LIGHT.
THE, UM, THE SPACE IS, IS FRANKLY A LITTLE BIT OFF THE BEATEN PATH.
IT'S NOT, YOU KNOW, IT'S NOT IN THE COMMUNITY CENTER WHERE PEOPLE WALK BY EVERY DAY.
SO WE'RE REALLY LOOKING AT, UM, REALLY OPENING THIS TO THE OUTSIDE.
I MENTIONED THAT LARGE PARKING LOT TO THE NORTH.
A LOT OF YOUR MEMBERSHIP COMES IN THROUGH THAT NORTH DOOR.
SO THEY WILL BE COMING IN THROUGH HERE, AND THEY WILL HAVE VISUAL, WE'RE GONNA OPEN, YOU CAN SEE ON THE RIGHT SIDE, UM, VISUAL, WE'RE GONNA PUT WINDOWS IN.
SO I HAVE VISUAL SIGHT LINES INTO THE SPACE.
SO IF THIS WERE AN INTERIOR SPACE, WE'D WANT THE SAME THING.
A LOT OF, UM, VISUAL PENETRATION TO IT.
UM, WE'RE JUST, THAT, THAT VISUAL PI VISUAL PENETRATION IS, IS MOVING TO THE OUTSIDE OF THE BUILDING.
IT'S MORE EXTERIOR RELATED, AND IT JUST SO HAPPENS THAT THE MAJORITY OF THAT PARKING IS AT, AT THAT SIDE OF THE BUILDING.
AND A LOT OF YOUR MEMBERS ARE COMING THROUGH HERE.
SO WE THINK THAT THAT'S, THAT'S PRETTY VALUABLE.
AND THEY'LL, AND THEY'LL SEE THE ACTIVITY GOING ON IN THERE AND WANNA BE PART OF THAT AT SOME POINT IN TIME.
AND THEN THE BIG QUESTION OF THE DAY, SO THIS, THIS ALL LOOKS GREAT, RIGHT? UM, BUT IT ALL COMES DOWN TO WHAT IT COSTS.
UM, SO WE SPENT SOME TIME, UH, PROJECTING COST AND, AND TAKING THIS INTO CONSIDERATION.
UM, BACK TO THE AREAS, WHAT WE'VE DONE WITH THIS IS KNOWING THAT THE PROJECT IS, IS PROBABLY GONNA NEED TO BE PHASED EITHER FINANCIALLY OR JUST FROM A CONSTRUCTION PERSPECTIVE.
WE HAVE BROKEN DOWN THE COST BASED ON AREAS WITHIN THE BUILDING.
SO YOU CAN SEE ALL THE GREEN IS FITNESS RELATED.
UM, A LOT OF THE, THE, THE PURPLES UP THERE ARE LIKE THE SOCIAL SPACES RELATED.
UM, WE HAVE INCLUDED THE MOBILITY HUB, WHICH IS A, IS A PREVIOUS PROJECT THAT I BELIEVE HAS COME IN, UM, IN FRONT OF YOU.
AND THEN ALSO NUMBER 11 UP THERE IN THE RIGHT HAND CORNER, WHICH IS AN OUTDOOR, UH, FITNESS PERFORMANCE BASED TRAINING CENTER THAT IS INCLUDED IN THIS ESTIMATE TWO.
UM, IT'S SET UP TO ALLOW YOU TO PULL THE TRIGGER ON CERTAIN PROJECTS.
UM, BUT IT'S ALSO SET UP TO ALLOW YOU TO BUY EVERYTHING BEFORE I SHOW YOU THE NUMBERS.
I WOULD HIGHLY RECOMMEND THAT WE, THAT WE BID THIS, UM, KIND OF ON A, ON A KIND OF A, ON A CMR PROCUREMENT METHOD, THAT MEANS CONSTRUCTION MANAGER AT RISK.
AND IT'S, 'CAUSE IT'S PROBABLY GONNA TAKE THEM SEVERAL YEARS AT PROBABLY AT LEAST TWO TO GET THROUGH THE ENTIRE RENOVATION OF THE PRO THROUGH THE RENOVATION WORK.
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PRIMARILY BECAUSE OF THE, THE BUILDING STAYING OPEN IN OPERATIONAL DURING CONSTRUCTION.WE CAN ONLY TAKE SOME THINGS DOWN WHILE OTHER THINGS ARE BEING WORKED ON.
SO THE PERFECT, AND MOST EASIEST EXAMPLE OF THAT IS IN AQUATICS.
YOU DON'T WANT TO TAKE ALL OF AQUATICS DOWN, OTHERWISE YOU'RE GONNA HAVE A LOT, YOU'RE GONNA HAVE A LOT OF PHONE CALLS.
SO WE'RE ABLE TO DO ONE SIDE WHILE THE OTHER SIDE REMAINS OPERATIONAL, AND THEN COME BACK AND DO THE OTHER SIDE.
SO WE'RE GONNA HAVE TO FIND SOME PIVOT SPACE AND LOOK AT THINGS A LITTLE DIFFERENTLY FOR SOME OF THESE OTHER THINGS.
UM, BUT JUST SORT OF KEEP THAT IN MIND THAT IT'S PROBABLY BETTER TO BRING SOMEBODY ON UPFRONT, LET THEM PHASE IT, WORK WITH, UM, UM, STAFF IN TERMS OF OPERATIONAL SPEC, YOU KNOW, HOW IT CAN REMAIN OPERATIONAL AND, AND HOW WE CAN PIVOT AROUND THINGS, UM, AND THEN MOVE FORWARD WITH THE PROJECT IN THAT MANNER.
SO THIS IS THE OUTLAY OF COST.
UM, AS I MENTIONED, WE BROKE IT DOWN INTO CERTAIN CATEGORIES.
I'M NOT GONNA GO THROUGH ALL THE NUMBERS AND SPECIFICALLY, BUT YOU CAN SEE THE BIG AREAS AND THOSE, THOSE THAT WAS INTENTIONAL TO, AGAIN, ALLOW CERTAIN THINGS TO BE PULLED ASIDE AND EXECUTED INDIVIDUALLY.
BUT AT ULTIMATELY, WHEN YOU GET TO THE BOTTOM LINE, UM, WE ARE LOOKING AT ABOUT A 21 TO $22 MILLION PROJECT AT THE END OF THE DAY.
UM, AND THAT'S, UM, YOU KNOW, THAT'S A BIG NUMBER.
UM, BUT THIS IS, THIS IS A BIG PROJECT AND IT, I PROMISE YOU IT WILL HAVE BIG IMPACT, UM, ON THE LONG-TERM USAGE AND, UM, SUSTAINABILITY OF THE FACILITY TOO.
UM, AND SO STAFF IS SEEKING FEEDBACK FROM COUNCIL REGARDING THE PROJECTS IDENTIFIED AND IS ALSO RECOMMENDING REFERRAL, THE FUNDING PLAN FOR THIS PROJECT TO THE FINANCE COMMITTEE FOR FURTHER DISCUSSION.
BE GLAD TO ANSWER ANY QUESTIONS AND TAKE YOUR FEEDBACK.
UM, IS THERE ANYONE PRESENT THIS EVENING THAT WOULD LIKE TO SPEAK RELATIVE TO THIS PRESENTATION? HEARING NONE, COUNCIL QUESTIONS? DISCUSSION? UH, I HAVE THREE, UH, QUESTIONS FOR YOU.
I WAS SORT OF INTERESTED IN THE, UM, YOU KNOW, SWIMMING POOL, PUBLIC SWIMMING POOL'S, ABOUT 25 YEAR LIFE.
AND THEN, YOU KNOW, OURS IS THERE AND YOU SAID, WELL, YOU KNOW, WE'RE GONNA DO SOME MINOR IMPROVEMENTS TO IT.
IS THAT BECAUSE IT'S INDOORS THAT YOU THINK, HEY, YOU KNOW, YOU GUYS AREN'T GONNA HAVE TO TEAR IT OUT AND REBUILD IT? IS, IS THAT, IS THAT THE IDEA OR? SO A LITTLE BIT.
SO THE 25 YEAR LIFESPAN ON A POOL IS SOMETHING YOU WILL HEAR THOSE OF US IN THE DESIGN COMMUNITY THROW OUT, BECAUSE THAT'S KIND OF WHAT WE'VE BEEN TOLD.
BUT WHAT WE ARE FINDING ON THESE POOL STRUCTURES SPECIFICALLY RATED TO, YOU KNOW, RELATED TO LIKE STAINLESS STEEL AND EVEN EVEN CONCRETE TO SOME EXTENT, IS THAT THEY ARE GOING FAR BEYOND WHAT THEIR ORIGINAL LIFESPAN WAS.
NOW THAT DOESN'T MEAN THEY'RE MAINTENANCE FREE.
SO PART OF THIS PROJECT WILL BE DRAIN THE POOL, GO IN, UM, REPAIR THE VESSEL, SO, UM, YOU KNOW, NEW SURFACES WITHIN THE VESSEL AS NEEDED.
UM, NEW JOINT TREATMENTS, THINGS OF THAT NATURE.
UM, AND THEN YOU'RE PROBABLY, YOU'RE, BECAUSE THE VESSEL ITSELF IS IN, IS IN REALLY GOOD SHAPE, YOU'RE PROBABLY GONNA SUSTAIN THAT USABILITY FOR ANOTHER 20, 25 YEARS.
NOW, THAT'S NOT TO SAY THAT YOU'RE NOT GOING TO HAVE TO GET BACK IN THERE AND, AND DO THAT SORT OF THING AGAIN AT SOME POINT IN TIME.
UM, BUT THE, YOU KNOW, THE, GIVEN THE CONDITION OF 'EM, THEY, YOU KNOW, THEY ARE ABLE IN, IN THE RIGHT MAINTENANCE, THEY ARE ABLE TO CONTINUE OPERATING THE WAY THEY ARE.
YOU TALKED ABOUT THE, UH, FITNESS AREA AND SWITCHING IT TO A RUBBERIZED FOUR, WHICH IS GONNA BE A LOT EASIER TO CLEAN THAN CARPET.
I DON'T KNOW IF THEY ARE OR NOT, BUT, SO LET ME ASK YOU ABOUT THIS.
WHEN YOU MOVE TO RUBBERIZED FLOOR, YOU GOT A LOT OF PEOPLE IN THERE.
THERE'S A LOT OF EQUIPMENT RUNNING.
IS THERE A BIG NOISE FACTOR THERE? THERE IS NOT.
IT, IT'S A STILL A SOFTER MATERIAL.
UM, SO STILL HAS, UM, WHAT WE CALL AN STC RATING, UM, THAT'S COMPARABLE OR SIMILAR TO CARPET.
UM, BUT YEAH, YOU'RE NOT GONNA NOTICE IT IN THAT SPACE.
AND I GOTTA SAY THAT THE, UM, I LOVE THE KITCHEN REHAB 'CAUSE THAT IS JUST DEAD SPACE.
AND THAT GETS US BACK TO THE HEALTHY BY, UH, CHOICE BY DUBLIN, UM, COOKING CLASSES.
IF THAT BECOMES AN ATTRACTIVE SPACE, WE CAN GET BACK INTO THAT MODE OF OPERATION WHERE WE'RE TEACHING OUR RESIDENTS AND OUR PEOPLE TO COOK BETTER, LIVE BETTER, AND, MM-HMM.
WE FIND THAT, YOU KNOW, WE, WE DO THESE TYPES OF PROJECTS, UM, AND EVEN, UM, IN A LOT OF CASES WITH OHIO STATE, UM, THEY
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USE THAT AS, AS PART OF THEIR, UM, REHABILITATION, THE HEALTHY COOKING THING.AND THEY'VE IMPLEMENTED THAT IN A LOT OF THEIR FACILITIES TOO.
IT'S, IT'S A NICE, UH, VALUE ADDED AMENITY PROGRAM, UM, FOR THE, FOR THE FACILITY.
WELL, I, I THINK THE SUGGESTIONS AND THE DESIGN CONCEPT IS BEAUTIFUL AND WE DEFINITELY NEED TO DO IT, BUT I GOTTA ADMIT AS STICKER SHOCK
I MEAN, I'D LIKE TO HAVE A KITCHEN LIKE THAT
UH, IT JUST SEEMS, I MEAN, THEY JUST, WHEN I SAW IT, I, IT, I JUST THOUGHT THAT'S UNREASONABLE.
YOU'RE NOT BUILDING OUT, YOU'RE JUST REPLACING THE CABINETRY AND THE TABLES AND FRESHENING UP AND PUTTING SOME WINDOWS IN.
I, THAT'S JUST HOW I, I'M JUST WONDERING.
SO IF THESE ARE REASONABLE BECAUSE IT'S SO HIGH THAT, UM, IT JUST SEEMS AWFULLY HIGH.
SO WE'RE, WE'RE GONNA HAVE TO STRIP THE EXISTING SPACE DOWN AND WE'RE ESSENTIALLY BUILDING A COMMERCIAL KITCHEN.
SO IT REQUIRES A HOOD OVER THE STOVE, FOR EXAMPLE, A COMMERCIAL COOKING HOOD THAT IS GONNA HAVE TO GO UP AND THERE'S GONNA BE A FAN ON THE ROOF WITH MAKEUP, AIR, THAT WHOLE SYSTEM BY ITSELF ALONE.
AND I KNOW, YOU KNOW, I'M PRETTY FAR AWAY FROM A MILLION DOLLARS IF YOU THREW, BUT THAT WHOLE SYSTEM ALONE, YOU'RE IN AT 75,000, $80,000 BEFORE I'VE DONE ANYTHING ELSE.
UM, WE ARE PUTTING IN A, A, UH, YOU KNOW, KIND OF, I WOULD CALL IT A BACK OF HOUSE AREA THAT'S GOT A LOT OF PLUMBING ASSOCIATED WITH IT.
WE'RE GONNA HAVE TO PUT IN A GREASE INTERCEPTOR WITH IT.
WE HAVE THREE POT SINKS, TWO BOWL SINKS, HAND WASHED SINKS, ALL THAT STUFF THAT HAS TO GO IN.
UM, I KNOW A MILLION DOLLARS MIGHT SEEM LIKE A LOT, BUT, UM, AT THE END OF THE DAY, WE'RE GONNA SPEND UP NEAR THAT.
WE HAVE TO, UM, BY PUTTING THE HOOD IN THERE, I HAVE TO, BY ALL THE AIR COMING OUT, I HAVE A DIFFERENT AIR REQUIREMENT CREATED FOR THE SPACE WITH ITSELF THAT I'M NOT SURE THE EXISTING BUILDING CAN ACCOMMODATE.
SO WE'RE GONNA HAVE TO SUPPLEMENT THAT IN ONE WAY OR ANOTHER.
UM, YOU KNOW, I MENTIONED THOSE WINDOWS GOING INTO THE WALL ALONG THAT, THAT MAIN ENTRANCE, WE'RE GONNA HAVE TO CUT THAT INTO AN EXISTING WALL SYSTEM OVER THERE.
SO I I CAN, I CAN KIND OF KEEP GOING.
HERE IT IS, YOU KNOW, IS IT A MILLION TO 1,000,001? MAYBE, MAYBE NOT.
BUT AT THE SAME TIME, UM, YOU KNOW, IT'S, IT COULD BE.
AND, AND, AND WHEN I PRESENT THAT COST, I, YOU KNOW, IT, IT, SOME OF IT IS, IS I DON'T WANNA COME BACK TO YOU AND TELL YOU, WELL THAT $800,000 KITCHEN NOW IS A MILLION DOLLAR KITCHEN, AND THEN WE GOTTA HAVE THAT CONVERSATION.
RIGHT? SO I HAVE ONE MORE QUICK QUESTION ABOUT THAT, BECAUSE IT'S, NOW THAT YOU'VE EXPLAINED THAT, IT'S THAT LEVEL OF COMMERCIAL KITCHEN, AND IT HAS BEEN USED BY CATERERS FOR THE THAIS ROOM.
SO NOW THIS COULD POSSIBLY BE A KITCHEN THAT COULD BE FLEXIBLE ENOUGH TO BE USED IN A RESTAURATEUR, COULD COME IN, MAKE MEALS, AND THEN SERVE THE THAIS ROOM, AND THERE COULD BE SOME INCOME COMING FROM PARTIES OR THAT SORT OF THING.
THAT, THAT WAS ONE OF THE DRIVING, UM, DESIGN PRINCIPLES BEHIND THE KITCHEN.
UM, WILL THEY BE ABLE TO COOK EVERYTHING? YOU CAN'T COOK AND SERVE 200 PEOPLE OUT OF THIS KITCHEN, UM, BUT COULD THEY COME IN AND, YOU KNOW, PREP SOME THINGS FOR A GROUP OF LIKE 30? OH, PROBABLY.
SO MY FIRST QUESTION IS, WHERE, WHERE DOES PICKLEBALL FIT INTO ALL THIS
I CAN CROSS THAT OFF THE LIST THEN.
SO, YOU KNOW, AS, AS, AS JANE SAID, YOU'RE NOT INCREASING THE FOOTPRINT, BUT YOU'RE SQUEEZING, IT LOOKS LIKE YOU'RE SQUEEZING ABOUT 5,000 SQUARE FEET MORE FOR FITNESS AND WELLNESS, WHICH, YOU KNOW, YEAH.
I GUESS THE HIGH LEVEL QUESTION I WOULD ASK, AND IT'S KIND OF ALONG THE LINES OF WHAT JANE SAID.
UM, IF I WALKED INTO, IF WE DID IT ALL AT ONCE AND I WALKED IN HERE AFTER THE REFRESH AND I KNEW THAT WE SPENT $20 MILLION ON IT AS A RESIDENT, WOULD I LOOK AROUND AND SAY, I GET IT.
OR SAME FLOOR PLAN, DIFFERENT TILE, DIFFERENT PAINT A LITTLE BRIGHTER.
I GUESS I WANT TO, I WANT TO KNOW THAT WE'RE GETTING BOOM FOR THE BUCK.
I'M, I'M, I'M INVOLVED 80, $81 MILLION
WE'RE SPENDING A QUARTER OF THAT, AND WE'RE GETTING A LOT OF COSMETIC CHANGES.
SO, YOU KNOW, I DON'T KNOW WHAT THE SILVER BULLET IS.
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UM, I LIKE ALL OF THE THINGS THAT YOU'VE DONE.AGAIN, THE ADDITIONAL FITNESS SPACE WE NEEDED THAT THE, UH, OUTDOOR SPACE, UM, IS GOOD FOR THE FOLKS THAT LIKE TO DO WEIGHT TRAINING AND THAT KIND OF STUFF.
FUNCTIONAL FITNESS, THE, THE LOUNGE, I THINK WE USED TO CALL THAT THE SENIOR LOUNGE.
IS THAT RIGHT? THAT'S CORRECT.
AND NOW WE'RE MORE OR LESS ABANDONING THAT NAME AND CALLING IT THE LOUNGE.
AND IT'S OPEN FOR ANY GENERATION, RIGHT? THAT'S THE IDEA.
YOU WANT THE YOUNG AND THE OLD TO MIX.
I GUESS THE QUESTION I WOULD ASK IS, CAN WE HAVE A BISTRO OR CAFE IN THE LOUNGE AND MAYBE DO AWAY WITH THAT KIND OF CUBBY THAT'S OUT IN THE LOBBY THAT WE, WHERE SUBWAY WAS OR WHATEVER YOU WOULD ENVISIONED GOING IN THERE AT SOME FUTURE.
I PICTURE VENDING MACHINES AND POT MACHINES.
IT SEEMS TO ME THAT PEOPLE LIKE TO GATHER AROUND KITCHENS AND, UM, COFFEE.
YOU HAD PLANNED ON HAVING COFFEE IN THE LOUNGE ANYWAY.
SO, YOU KNOW, COULD WE KILL TWO BIRDS WITH ONE STONE BY DOING THAT? THANK YOU.
AND I KNOW, UM, FROM SPEAKING WITH RESIDENTS WHO SPENT TIME TO, UH, SHARE THEIR THOUGHTS, THEY'RE VERY EXCITED ABOUT IT.
IT IS, UM, IT, IT NEEDS A FACELIFT.
SO I HAD A COUPLE COMMENTS AND THEN I HAD A COUPLE QUESTIONS OF, UM, TO ANDY'S POINT, I DO THINK ONE OF THE THINGS THAT I HEAR A LOT, AND IT'S A, A FLOW THING, IS THERE'S NOT ENOUGH ROOM FOR FITNESS ACTIVITIES.
I THINK THE CHANGES THAT YOU'RE GONNA MAKE TO HAVE MORE FITNESS ROOMS IS GONNA BE APPLAUDED.
SO TO ANDY'S POINT, ARE THEY GONNA FEEL THE DIFFERENCE? I THINK IT'S GONNA BE MORE THAN COSMETIC.
I THINK I, I LIKE THE IDEA OF PUSHING THAT OUT AND CHANGING THAT.
I THINK THAT'S GONNA FEEL MORE MODERN AND FRESH AND AS WELL AS GIVE IT MORE EQUIPMENT.
MY ONLY COMMENT THERE IS, UM, MOVING UP AND DOWN THAT TRACK, JUST GETTING THE FLOW RIGHT FROM SOMEONE WHO JOGS IT VERY SLOWLY.
UM, THAT, UM, JUST THAT FLOW OF TRAFFIC UP THERE IS SOMETHING THAT WE ONLY GOTTA THINK ABOUT OR THAT'S GONNA BE, UM, A BIT OF AN ISSUE.
UM, AS FAR AS THE CUP OF COFFEE.
AND YOU MENTIONED THAT A COUPLE TIMES.
I KNOW THERE WAS SOME THOUGHT ABOUT MAKING, UM, THE ABILITY FOR A FOOD TRUCK TO PULL UP OR SOMETHING.
OTHER THAN JUST A VENDING, BECAUSE I DON'T THINK THE VENDING MACHINE THING IS GONNA BE ALL THAT EXCITING, BUT THE ABILITY TO HAVE DIFFERENT FOLKS COME, UM, WILL CREATE THE ENERGY THAT ACTUALLY YOU WANT IN THAT SPACE.
BUT ANYWAY, UM, SO THOSE, SOME, SOME COMMENTS.
UM, I DIDN'T SEE ANYTHING ABOUT THE ABBEY THEATER.
UM, AND I, THE THEATER ITSELF IS, IS ONE QUESTION, BUT THE ENTRYWAY, THERE'S A HECK OF A LOT OF SPACE THERE THAT, THAT COULD BE USED FOR SOMETHING.
BUT I DIDN'T SEE THAT IN HERE.
AND IF YOU COULD SHARE SOME COMMENTS ON THAT AND A LITTLE MORE ABOUT THE UPSTAIRS.
'CAUSE WE DIDN'T REALLY GET A CHANCE.
I SAW THAT ON YOUR DRAWING WITH SOME DOLLARS ATTACHED TO IT.
SO, SO AS FAR AS THE ATHERE GOES, THE F FOOTPRINT OF THAT IS NOT CHANGING AND WE'RE NOT REALLY TOUCHING ANYTHING INSIDE OF IT.
BECAUSE THAT WALL, THAT GLASS WALL THAT'S OUT THERE IS PRETTY COMPLICATED TO GET INTO.
UM, YOU'RE GONNA BE, YOU'RE GONNA BE SPENDING RESOURCES ON SOMETHING THAT I THINK WOULD HAVE, WOULD NOT HAVE SIGNIFICANT IMPACT.
BUT OUTSIDE OF THAT WALL, WE ARE TAKING ALL NEW FINISHES DOWN ALONG THERE, UP THE STAIRS.
AND THEN UPSTAIRS WE STILL HAVE A LITTLE BIT OF PROGRAMMING TO, TO THINK THROUGH UP THERE IN TERMS OF WHAT IT WANTS TO BE.
SO THERE IS, THERE IS, UM, THERE'S RESOURCES CARRIED IN THAT ESTIMATE TO GO UP THERE AND DO THINGS LIKE HELP THEM REORGANIZE THEIR OFFICES, UM, MAYBE REPURPOSE SOME OF THE PROGRAM SPACE THAT IS CURRENTLY UP THERE, UM, AND THEN, YOU KNOW, JUST MAKE THAT BETTER, MORE USABLE SPACE.
IT'S, IT'S KIND OF IN THE BACK.
UM, SO IDEALLY, UM, WANT TO GET IN THERE, SAME THINGS, LIGHTER, BRIGHTER, AND THEN, YOU KNOW, FUNCTIONALLY MAKE IT FLOW AND MAYBE WORK A LITTLE BIT BETTER AS YOU GET INTO IT.
UM, BUT AS FAR AS THE ABBEY THEATER GOES, THERE'S ONCE, ONCE YOU GET IN, THE WAY IT EXISTS TODAY IS THE WAY IT'S GONNA EXIST AT THE END OF THIS RENOVATION.
I WILL JUST MAKE A COMMENT AGAIN, THERE'S SO MUCH OF THAT ENTRANCE SPACE, AND RIGHT NOW, SADLY, WE HAVE BIG DRUMS OF STUFF THAT'S COVERED THERE, AND I, I DON'T UNDERSTAND WHAT THAT'S ABOUT, BUT, UM, I MEAN, THERE'S SPACE THERE TO BE USED FOR SOMETHING FUNCTIONALLY, AND I SO YOU'RE SAYING THAT SPACE WILL CHANGE OR NOT, THAT SPACE WILL CHANGE, SO THAT, THAT THE MAIN IMAGE THAT I SHOWED YOU WITH ALL THE FURNITURE YES.
AND THAT MAIN HALLWAY THAT WILL CONTINUE AROUND THE CORNER.
SO, SO THAT CONCEPT FLOWS AROUND THE
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CORNER, IT'S JUST HOW FAR AROUND THE CORNER ARE WE GONNA TAKE IT? AND WE NEED TO, WE NEED TO SOLVE THAT AT SOME POINT IN TIME BECAUSE THAT'S WHERE, YOU KNOW, FOLKS GATHER TO YOUR POINT AND SAY, YEAH, OKAY.UM, AND, AND THAT'S A NICE SPACE BACK THERE.
'CAUSE IT'S KIND OF OFF THE BEATEN PATH.
SO SOMEBODY CAN GO BACK THERE AND HAVE ONE ON TWO, YOU KNOW, ONE-ON-ONE CONVERSATIONS OR WHATEVER, AND BE OUT OF THE MAIN AREA ALSO.
AND I DIDN'T KNOW IF I DIDN'T, DOES THIS PLAN INCLUDE ANY EXTERIOR? IT DOESN'T, BUT WHAT I WOULD TELL YOU, I I, I THINK THERE'S ENOUGH CONTINGENCY MAYBE BUILT INTO THIS TO DO SOME SMALL IMPROVEMENTS OUTSIDE.
UM, UNLESS YOU WANTED TO MAKE BIG MOVES, UM, YOU KNOW, WE REALLY FOCUSED FOR THIS STUDY.
WE REALLY FOCUSED EVERYTHING ON THE INTERIOR OF THE BUILDING.
I MEAN, WE DID HAVE CONVERSATIONS ABOUT, YOU KNOW, ONE ENTRANCE VERSUS THE OTHER, AND, YOU KNOW, WHAT DO YOU WANT TO DO ABOUT IT, YOU KNOW, AND, AND, AND WHAT WOULD BE IN A BETTER APPROACH FOR IT VERSUS NOT.
UM, THAT JUST ELEVATES THE PROJECT TO AN ENTIRELY DIFFERENT LEVEL WHEN YOU START LOOKING AT SOME OF THOSE THINGS.
UM, SO OUR FOCUS FOR THIS STUDY WAS REALLY THE INTERIOR.
I DON'T THINK THAT STOPS US FROM, YOU KNOW, MAYBE HAVING SOME RESOURCES AVAILABLE TO GO OUT AND, AND DO SMALL THINGS LIKE, YOU KNOW, REDO SIGNAGE OR MAYBE PAINT SMALL AREAS OR SOMETHING LIKE THAT.
SO, BUT, AND WE CAN CONTINUE TO EXPLORE THAT.
SO, UH, THINKING OUT FIVE YEARS, 10 YEARS, LET'S SAY WE RUN OUT OF RUN OUTTA SPACE AND WE NEED, WE DO NEED TO EXPAND.
UM, HAVE YOU SEEN PUBLIC-PRIVATE PARTNERSHIPS? YOU KNOW, WE HAVE THREE, THREE HOSPITALS HERE IN THE CITY OF DUBLIN.
UM, AND A NUMBER OF THEM HAVE SAID THAT THEY REALLY WANT TO BE SUPPORTIVE OF THE COMMUNITY.
UM, IF WE NEEDED TO ADD ON, I GUESS, TO THE EAST, UH, MAYBE IF THIS IS 20 MILLION, MAYBE THAT'S 50 TO 75 OR WHATEVER.
UM, HAVING A CONTRIBUTION FROM ONE OF THOSE OUTFITS.
THERE HAS BEEN A LOT OF HIGH LEVEL CONVERSATION THROUGHOUT THIS ENTIRE PROCESS ABOUT EXPANSION OPPORTUNITIES, UM, ABOUT, WELL, IF WE WERE GOING TO EXPAND, WE MIGHT CONSIDER PUTTING IT IN A, ANOTHER PART OF THE COMMUNITY.
AS FAR AS THE PRIVATE, UM, PUBLIC PARTNERSHIPS UA IS, IS KIND OF JUST LIKE THAT.
UM, YOU KNOW, OHIO STATE IS OCCUPYING, I THINK ABOUT 40,000 SQUARE FEET OF THAT BUILDING.
ABOUT 40,000 SQUARE FEET OF THAT BUILDING, MULTIPLE FLOORS.
UM, AND IT'S, IT'S THERAPY TYPE OF, UH, STUFF.
SO, UM, IF, YOU KNOW, IF, IF YOU'RE GETTING, IF IF YOUR KNEE GOT RE OPERATED ON, YOU WOULD BE ABLE TO GO HERE FOR REHAB ON YOUR KNEE, FOR EXAMPLE.
AND THEY ARE SHARING SPACE WITHIN THE FACILITY TOO.
SO WHEREAS WE TALKED ABOUT THE DEMONSTRATION KITCHEN, UM, THE CITY MADE A DECISION NOT TO BUILD A DEMONSTRATION KITCHEN, BUT OHIO STATE IDENTIFIED A NEED FOR IT.
SO THEY BUILT A DEMONSTRATION KITCHEN THAT THEN EVERYBODY ELSE WILL BE ABLE TO USE.
SO THERE'S, THEY'RE SHARING THEIR FACILITIES, THEY'RE SHARING LIKE THE ENTRANCE COMING INTO THE BUILDING.
UM, SO IT IS, IT, IT IS DONE HILLIARD'S DOING THE SAME THING TO A DEGREE.
UM, REYNOLDSBURG HAS THE SAME THING GOING ON.
UM, UM, AND I THINK UPPER OR, UM, NEW ALBANY HAS, HAS DONE THAT TOO.
SO IT'S, IT'S VERY, VERY COMMON AND I THINK WOULD BE A, AN OPPORTUNITY HERE.
UM, BECAUSE, UM, A COUPLE OF THESE AREAS HAVE NOT BEEN TARGETED LIKE THE ABBEY THEATER, I'M ASSUMING THAT THE LIGHT AND BRIGHT PAINT, I MEAN, THERE WON'T BE AREAS THAT WILL RE REMAIN EXACTLY THE SAME.
THERE'S NOTHING WORSE THAN A REMODEL WHERE PART OF THE HOUSE LOOKS OLD AND TIRED AND THE REST OF IT LOOKS FRESH AND NEW.
WILL WE BE ABLE TO AT LEAST DO THE LIGHT AND BRIGHT SORT OF THING? IN THE CASE OF THE ABBEY THEATER, YOU KNOW, WE, WE DID NOT INCLUDE ANY WORK IN THERE WHATSOEVER.
BUT I'LL GO BACK TO WHAT I SAID EARLIER.
IF THERE'S SOME OF THIS, THESE THINGS HANGING OUT THERE, MAYBE REDOING SOME EXTERIOR SIGNAGE.
IF IT'S A MATTER OF GOING IN AND REPAINTING AND PUTTING SOME NEW CARPET IN, THOSE ARE NOT HIGH EXPENDITURE TYPE ITEMS. WE JUST NEED TO MANAGE IT, UM, AS WE GO THROUGH THE PROCESS, UM, AND, YOU KNOW, KEEP OUR FINGERS CROSSED THAT THERE'S ENOUGH MONEY BUILT INTO THAT BUDGET THAT COULD CAPTURE THOSE THINGS.
IT GETS BACK TO YOU'RE, YOU'RE BETTER OFF
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TO GO AND ENGAGE WITH, YOU KNOW, ON YOUR PROCUREMENT UPFRONT VERSUS TRYING TO DO THIS IN A BUNCH OF DIFFERENT PROJECTS.EVERY TIME YOU EXECUTE A PROJECT HERE, HERE, HERE AND THERE, YOU'RE PAYING FOR MOBILIZATION ACROSS EVERY SINGLE ONE OF THOSE VERSUS ONE BIG MOBILIZATION, AND THEN THE PROJECT IS PHASED.
SO THAT'S, THAT'S KIND OF SOME OF THE THINKING BEHIND IT.
A LOT OF IT'S GONNA DEPEND ON PROCUREMENT.
A LOT OF IT'S GONNA DEPEND ON WHAT'S GOING ON IN THE ECONOMY AT THE TIME.
AND WE SOLVED 30% INFLATION, WHICH QUITE QUITE A, A LOT OF FOLKS LIKE ME JUST TO CRAWL UNDER THEIR DESK AND NOT SAY ANYTHING ABOUT COST.
UM, SO, BUT I THINK THINGS HAVE LEVELED OUT AND IS, AND, AND PEOPLE SEEM TO BE COMING BACK AND, AND WANTING TO DO, OR A LITTLE MORE AGGRESSIVE, I SHOULD SAY, IN TERMS OF THEIR APPROACH TO DOING WORK.
I WAS IN THIS FACILITY ON SATURDAY, AND IT IS IN DIRE NEED OF SOME UPDATE.
IT WAS, YOU CAN TELL THE SURFACES AREN'T GETTING CLEAN ANY LONGER, AND IT CERTAINLY, UM, THERE NEEDS TO BE A LOT OF ATTENTION TO DETAIL THERE.
SO, UM, WITH THAT, I WILL MAKE A MOTION TO REFER THE FUNDING PLAN FOR THIS PROJECT TO THE FINANCE COMMITTEE FOR FURTHER DISCUSSION.
JENNY, WOULD YOU PLEASE CALL THE ROLE MS. CRAM? YES.
THIS BRINGS US TO THE BEAUTIFY YOUR NEIGHBORHOOD GRANTS FOR SPRING 2024.
I'D, UH, LIKE TO ABSTAIN AS ONE OF MY DESIGNERS HAD HELPED ON ONE OF THESE PROJECTS.
THANK YOU, MAYOR AROSE GROOMS AND, UH, GOOD EVENING COUNCIL MEMBERS.
THIS IS A REQUEST FOR APPROVAL OF THE SPRING 2024 BEAUTIFY NEIGHBORHOOD GRANT APPLICATIONS.
TOTAL AVAILABLE FUNDING FOR THE 2024 PROGRAM YEAR IS $32,000 WITH A $5,000 MAXIMUM REQUEST PER APPLICATION.
THE CITY RECEIVES SIX GRANT REQUESTS THIS SPRING, WHICH TOTAL JUST OVER $26,652.
APPROXIMATELY $5,347 IS AVAILABLE FOR FALL APPLICANTS.
THE COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT COMMITTEE RECOMMENDED APPROVAL OF SIX GRANTS REQUESTS, UH, WITH CONDITIONS OF APPROVAL.
PLANNING IS RECOMMENDING APPROVAL OF THOSE REQUESTS TO CITY COUNCIL.
AND WITH THAT, I'M HAPPY TO ANSWER ANY QUESTIONS.
THANK YOU FOR THE STAFF REPORT.
IS THERE ANYONE PRESENT THIS EVENING THAT WOULD LIKE TO SPEAK RELATIVE TO THIS ITEM? AGENDA ITEM.
COUNCIL QUESTIONS, DISCUSSION? HEARING NONE, I WILL MAKE A MOTION TO APPROVE THE BEAUTIFY YOUR NEIGHBORHOOD GRANTS AS RECOMMENDED BY THE COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT COMMITTEE.
JENNY, WOULD YOU PLEASE CALL THE ROLE MS. CRAM? YES.
THIS BRINGS US TO THE RIVERSIDE CROSSING PARK MASTER PLAN UPDATE, AND OUR STAFF REPORT WILL BE FROM MATT EARMAN.
GOOD EVENING, MEMBERS OF COUNSEL.
UM, IT'S HARD TO BELIEVE IT'S BEEN EIGHT YEARS SINCE WE APPROVED THE ORIGINAL MASTER PLAN FOR THIS PARK BACK IN 2016.
WE'VE CERTAINLY SEEN A LOT OF DEVELOPMENT BOTH IN THE PARK AND AROUND THE PRIVATE SECTOR.
UM, GETTING US AN OPPORTUNITY TO STUDY THE PARK AS, AS WELL AS THE PROCESS WE WENT THROUGH FOR OUR PARKS AND RECREATION MASTER PLAN.
WE HEARD, UH, SEVERAL DIFFERENT TOPICS THAT COULD BE OR SHOULD BE RELATED TO THIS PARK.
UH, ONE OF THOSE PROJECTS IS ACTUALLY TAKING A LOOK AT THE MASTER PLAN AND UPDATING IT BASED ON THOSE, UH, THAT FEEDBACK.
SO WE HAVE, UH, PARTNERED AGAIN WITH OUR FRIENDS FROM MKSK.
UH, THEY WERE THE ORIGINAL MASTER PLAN DESIGN FOR THE PARK.
UH, SO WE ARE CONTINUING ON THAT FRONT, UH, TO CON, UH, KEEP THE, KEEP THE, UH, MOMENTUM GOING.
UM, I WILL SAY THAT, UH, A LOT OF OUR EFFORTS ARE MAKING SURE THAT WHATEVER IT IS WE DO WITH THIS PARK IS COMPLIMENTING THE SURROUNDING AREA, FUTURE POTENTIAL DEVELOPMENTS THAT WE HAVE, UM, BEEN AWARE OF, UM, SO FAR.
SO WE'RE MAKING SURE THAT WE'RE COORDINATING ALL THESE EFFORTS TO MAKE SURE THAT WE ARE HITTING ALL THE NEEDS OF THE COMMUNITY.
SO WITH THAT, TIM SCHOENBERGER JOINS US, UH, FROM MKSK THIS EVENING TO PRESENT SOME PRELIMINARY THOUGHTS, UM, AND SOME OF THESE CONCEPTS.
WHAT WE'RE TRYING TO DO IS TRY TO GET OUT IN FRONT OF THIS WITH YOU FIRST BEFORE WE TAKE THIS TO THE PUBLIC, BECAUSE WE WANNA MAKE SURE THAT WE ARE ON TRACK, UH, WE'RE IN THE RIGHT DIRECTION, WE'RE HEADED IN THE RIGHT, UM, RIGHT DIRECTION, AND MAKING SURE THAT WHEN WE DO GO OUT TO THE PUBLIC,
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WE AT LEAST HAVE SOME OF THE INPUT FROM CITY COUNCIL PRIOR TO THOSE MEETINGS.SO SOME OF THE KEY ELEMENTS YOU'LL SEE IN THE PARK, UM, ARE, ARE FROM THE PARKS AND RECREATION MASTER PLAN AND OTHER TYPES OF, UM, INPUT SESSIONS THAT HAVE OCCURRED, SUCH AS, UH, KAYAK LIVERY, CLIMBING WALL VIA FERRATA, UM, MAYBE EVEN LIGHTING, THE 1 61 BRIDGE, UM, HIGH ROPES COURSE, BOTANICAL GARDEN EVENT, LAWN IMPROVEMENTS AND SO FORTH.
SO WE ARE, UH, GONNA GO THROUGH THIS LIST WITH YOU THIS EVENING.
UM, HAVE A FEW DIFFERENT CONCEPTUAL THINGS FOR YOU TO LOOK AT, UM, AND MAKE SURE THAT WHATEVER IT IS WE DO GOING FORWARD MEETS YOUR EXPECTATIONS.
SO WITH THAT, I'LL TURN THIS OVER TO TIM.
MY NAME'S TIM SCHULLENBERGER, MKSK.
I'M ONE OF THE SENIOR PRINCIPALS, UH, WITH THE FIRM.
UM, JOHN WOODS, UH, IS OUR SENIOR DESIGNER, AND UNFORTUNATELY, HE FELL ILL THIS WEEKEND HERE, SO YOU GET ME THIS EVENING HERE.
I ALSO GOT, UH, HARRAN WANG, UH, WITH US, WHO'S ALSO ONE OF THE PRIMARY TEAM MEMBERS, UH, AS WELL THAT WE'VE BEEN, UH, WORKING WITH ON THE PROJECT THUS FAR.
UM, I'M GONNA FLIP TO THE, TO THE FIRST IMAGE HERE.
THIS HERE IS THE SNAPSHOT OF THE 2016, UH, APPROVED MASTER PLAN.
AND IF YOU RECALL, YOU KNOW, ALL THE FOCUS WAS BASICALLY ON THE EAST BANK WITH, YOU KNOW, WITH THE, UH, BRIDGE PARK DEVELOPMENT.
AND THE WEST BANK WAS ALWAYS LEFT, UM, YOU KNOW, VERY NATURAL, UM, YOU KNOW, FROM THAT END.
AND, AND SO THERE'S BASICALLY, BASICALLY A LOT OF PLACEHOLDERS, UM, YOU KNOW, IN THAT PLAN.
BUT IT'S, IT'S SERVED AS PURPOSE.
IT'S GOT US, IT, IT, IT'S GOT US TILL TO TODAY.
AND THESE ARE THE AREAS, UH, THAT WE'VE IDENTIFIED MAINLY JUST FOR, UH, ENLARGEMENTS, UH, PURPOSES.
NOT REALLY TIED TO PHASING OR ANYTHING, UH, BUT JUST EACH OF THESE AREAS ARE SIGNIFICANT, YOU KNOW, ON THEIR OWN, YOU KNOW, STANDING ON THEIR OWN.
AND THEN GOING TO KINDA AN OVERVIEW OF THE ENTIRE PLAN.
THE THING TO THINK ABOUT IS THE PARK OBVIOUSLY SPANS BOTH SIDES OF THE RIVER AND EACH SIDE OF THE PARK, EACH SIDE OF THE RIVER WILL HAVE A DIFFERENT PERSONALITY WITH THIS PARK, RIGHT? SO WE'RE TALKING KIND OF BIG PICTURE HERE.
THE EAST SIDE IS, IS, IS IS MORE URBANIZED MORE OF AN ORNAMENTAL LANDSCAPE WHERE EVERYTHING'S CONTROLLED.
IT'S LANDSCAPED, IT'S YOUR EVENT LAWN AREA, RIGHT? LOTS OF PEOPLE, WINTER, SUMMER, YOU KNOW, ALL YEAR ROUND.
YOU KNOW, I TEND TO JUDGE OUR PROJECTS BY MY ADULT CHILDREN.
WHERE DO THEY GO AND HANG OUT? THEY COME HERE A LOT.
UM, AND, AND, AND SO, YOU KNOW, I I THINK THAT'S A, YOU KNOW, A, A GOOD BELLWETHER FOR, YOU KNOW, KIND OF THAT MULTI-GENERATIONAL ATTRACTION, YOU KNOW, YOU KNOW, WITH THIS, WITH, WITH THIS WHOLE AREA.
SO AS YOU WOULD TRAVEL ACROSS THE DUBLIN LAKE BRIDGE AND YOU REACH THE, YOU KNOW, THE WEST PARK OF, OF, OF RIVERSIDE CROSSING PARK, THE PERSONALITY OVER THERE IS BASICALLY NATIVE, IT'S NATIVE TREES, NATIVE GROUND PLANE.
WE WANT TO GET PEOPLE INTO IT, RIGHT? WE, YOU KNOW, WE BASICALLY WANT TO ACTIVATE IT, YOU KNOW, YOU KNOW, THROUGH ACCESS.
AND SO, UH, WE HEARD A LOT OF THAT.
I THINK FROM THE, FROM THE MASTER PLAN.
WE'VE ALSO, YOU KNOW, UM, WHAT'S GREAT ABOUT IT IS THE, IS THE BRIDGE GIVES YOU LIKE A, UH, A BALCONY, IF YOU WILL, TO LOOK INTO THE PARK AND YOU CAN SEE WHERE YOU WANT TO GO.
SO IF YOU SEE A MYRIAD OF TRAILS, RIGHT, WHETHER ELEVATED, YOU KNOW, IN THE WOODLAND AREAS OR ON THE GROUND PLANE, YOU CAN KIND OF POINT TO AND IT HELPS YOU ORIENT WHERE, WHERE YOU WOULD LIKE TO GO IN THAT PARK.
AND SO, SO THIS PLAN BASICALLY, UH, REFLECTS THAT.
THERE'S, THERE'S A LOT OF AT GRADE TRAILS, THERE IS, UH, A CANOPY WALK IN SOME OF THE, UH, MORE HEAVILY TREAT AREAS, UH, AND WE UTILIZE THE CANOPY WALK TO BASICALLY CREATE ACCESS, UH, ALONG NORTH RIVERVIEW, UH, STREET IS, YOU KNOW, IS THE EMBANKMENT THAT DROPS DOWN TO ESSENTIALLY THE FLOODPLAIN LEVEL OF THAT PARK.
THAT'S THE MOST CHALLENGING PART OF, OF THE, UH, OF THE WEST BANK, IS HOW DO WE GET PEOPLE DOWN THERE IN AN ACCESSIBLE MANNER.
AND SO, IN THE MASTER PLAN, YOU KNOW, IN THIS, IN THIS FIRST 35% CUT AT IT, WE SPENT, UH, TIME LOOKING AT THE GRADES BECAUSE THE FORM IS GOING FORMS THE WALKWAYS ARE GONNA BE DRIVEN BY THE GRADIENTS THAT YOU CAN ACHIEVE FOR ACCESSIBILITY IN THAT.
SO, UH, SO IT IS, IT, IT'S LIKE WE'RE TAKING A STEP INTO THE DE DESIGN DEVELOPMENT JUST TO MAKE SURE THAT THE TRAILS CAN WORK IN THE CONFIGURATION WITH THAT, YOU KNOW, WITH THE GRADES THAT ARE OUT THERE.
AND, AND SO THIS IS A FAIRLY REALISTIC OVERVIEW PLAN, UH, YOU KNOW, FROM THAT, EVEN IF WE'RE A MASTER PLAN LEVEL, UH, WITH IT.
BUT WHAT'S INTERESTING IS, YOU KNOW, IF, AND IF ANY OF YOU HAVE BEEN OUT THERE AND WALKED IN ANY GREAT DETAIL, THE, THE WOODED AREA, YOU KNOW, ESPECIALLY FROM DUBLIN,
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YOU KNOW, BETWEEN THE DUBLIN LINK BRIDGE AND THE 1 61 BRIDGE, IT'S ALMOST LIKE A ROOM WHEN YOU'RE IN IT.THE TREE CANOPY CREATES THE CEILING, THE GROUND PLANE, YOU KNOW, IS BASICALLY, YOU KNOW, PRETTY BARE.
IT'S, YOU KNOW, BASICALLY HONEYSUCKLE AND, AND, UM, A MIX OF STUFF AND A LOT OF LEAVES, YOU KNOW, AT THAT POINT.
AND SO I THINK AS WE DEVELOP THAT, UM, YOU, AND WE'LL SEE, AND YOU'LL SEE SOME IMAGERY IN HERE THAT YOU CAN MAKE A PRETTY COMPELLING, YOU KNOW, WOODLAND LANDSCAPE THAT'S, YOU KNOW, THAT'S A FLOODPLAIN, YOU KNOW, ORIENTED TYPE, YOU KNOW, TYPE OF PARK.
WILL IT GO UNDERWATER? UH, YOU KNOW, MAYBE A COUPLE TIMES A YEAR? YES.
YOU KNOW, IF YOU REMEMBER WHEN THE BRIDGE WAS BEING BUILT, THERE WAS A TIME WHEN, I FORGET, I FORGET WHAT DATE IT WAS, IT WAS, UH, BUT THE WATER CAME ALL THE WAY UP TO ALMOST RIVERVIEW STREET AT THAT POINT.
SO WE JUST HAVE TO KEEP THAT IN MIND.
YOU KNOW, WITH THE IMPROVEMENTS THAT ARE BEING PLANNED IN HERE, THEY HAVE TO, THEY HAVE TO BE ABLE TO WITHSTAND FLOODING, UM, TO GET 'EM BACK ONLINE REQUIRE, YOU KNOW, NOT, NOT A LOT OF MAINTENANCE, RIGHT? WE DON'T WANT TO CREATE SOMETHING THAT'S GONNA, UM, BE CHALLENGING FROM A MAINTENANCE STANDPOINT.
SO WE'RE TRYING TO BALANCE ALL THESE, ALL THESE ITEMS, YOU KNOW, WITH, WITH THIS VERY NATIVE LANDSCAPE.
BUT WHAT'S, WHAT'S, I THINK WHAT'S REALLY DYNAMIC IN IT IS, IS THAT, UM, AND, AND, AND SOME OF THESE IMAGES HERE THAT, THAT YOU SEE THAT WILL SHOW ANY ENLARGEMENTS ON THE NEXT SHEET, UM, START TO SHOW WHAT IT COULD BE TO HOVER EITHER ABOVE OR BE IN THIS, IN THIS NATIVE LANDSCAPE.
AND THEN AS THE PARK WOULD EXPAND NORTH OVER TIME, OBVIOUSLY THERE'S ACQUISITIONS AND, YOU KNOW, A BRIDGE AND SEVERAL OTHER THINGS THAT WILL TAKE, TAKE YEARS TO, YOU KNOW, YOU KNOW, YEARS TO ACCOMMODATE.
UM, BUT IF YOU START LOOKING AT THE OVERALL GREEN SPACE THAT, THAT THE RIVERSIDE CROSSING PARK, YOU KNOW, COULD COMMAND IT, IT'S, IT'S, IT'S BECOMING YOUR CENTRAL PARK FOR THE MOST PART.
THAT'S, THAT'S, THAT'S KIND OF WHERE IT'S HEADING WITH THAT.
SO, WALKABILITY, CONNECTABILITY, UM, UH, JUST IN, THERE'S A LOT OF PEOPLE THAT VISIT THIS AREA NOW.
AND SO I THINK IT, IT WOULD BE ABLE TO SOAK UP A LOT MORE PEOPLE EXPERIENCE THE PARK AS WELL AS JUST THE BRIDGE AND GOING BACK AND FORTH, YOU KNOW, UH, BACK AND FORTH ACROSS THE BRIDGE FROM THAT END.
SO THAT'S, THAT'S, THAT, THAT'S KIND OF THE OVERVIEW.
AND CERTAINLY ON THE EAST BANK, NOT TO, NOT TO DOWNPLAY THAT, BUT THERE'S, THERE'S IMPROVEMENTS FOR THE EVENT LAWN AREA, RIGHT? TO HELP, UH, SUPPLEMENT WITH OUR PROGRAMMING THAT THAT'S BEING LOOKED AT FOR THAT.
UM, CERTAINLY THE PROMENADE, THAT'S A LONG RIVERSIDE DRIVE, YOU KNOW, YOU KNOW, WHEN THAT, WHEN THAT COMES ALONG, A LITTLE MORE URBAN EDGE TO THAT.
AND THEN, UH, EVEN A LITTLE, UH, GARDEN AREA, UM, THAT, THAT WE HAD, UH, THAT HAD, HAD, HAD COME UP AS ONE OF THE REQUESTED PROGRAM ELEMENTS.
AND THESE ARE SOME OF THE PRECEDENT IMAGERY THAT WE PULLED TOGETHER THAT, YOU KNOW, BASICALLY SUPPORT A LOT OF THE IDEAS, AND A LOT OF IT, YOU KNOW, DOES SUPPORT THE, YOU KNOW, THE, THE CANOPY WALK.
AND IF YOU LOOK AT THESE, UM, YOU KNOW, WHAT YOU, WHAT YOU NOTICE IS THAT THE MATERIALS, WHETHER IT'S STEEL OR, OR A, OR A WOOD OR WOOD COMPOSITE, RIGHT? THEY'RE BASICALLY OF NATURE.
THEY LOOK LIKE THAT, RIGHT? SO WE, SO, SO ANY OF THE, ANY OF THE MATERIALS THAT WE WOULD UTILIZE IN, YOU KNOW, IN THE WEST PARK, WE WANT IT TO BE OF THOSE MATERIALS.
SO WHEN YOU'RE IN IT, IT LOOKS SEAMLESS FROM THAT.
UM, THERE CAN BE SOME FUN THINGS MIXED IN, YOU KNOW, LIKE YOU CAN SEE THERE, YOU KNOW, YOU KNOW, THE ONE, THE ONE LITTLE PARK IN POLAND WHERE THEY HAVE ESSENTIALLY, UM, NETS THAT, YOU KNOW, YOU KNOW, THAT YOU CAN HANG IN, YOU KNOW, IN, YOU KNOW, IN THE DECK.
UM, CERTAINLY THE ROPES COURSE, WHICH WOULD LIKELY BE A THIRD PARTY VENDOR, RIGHT? UM, YOU KNOW, COULD, YOU KNOW, COULD CERTAINLY BE, YOU KNOW, BE, UH, IN INCORPORATED IN, YOU KNOW, INTO IT.
UM, I THINK THE OTHER COMPELLING THING IS ON THE, UH, ON THE CANOPY WALK, YOU COULD HAVE SEATING AREAS.
IT'S NOT JUST A, A WALK, BUT YOU COULD GO UP THERE AND SIT AND EITHER HANG OUT IN THE TREETOPS OR HANG OUT IN MAYBE THE EDGE OF THE, OF THE WOODLAND AREA AND OVERLOOK, YOU KNOW, WHO'S, YOU KNOW, WHO'S, UM, WALKING BELOW YOU.
THERE'S JUST A LOT OF, A LOT OF ELEMENTS, CERTAINLY THE RIVERFRONT ACCESS AND GETTING PEOPLE DOWN THERE.
UM, ONE THING THAT WE NOTICED WHEN WE WALKED THAT SITE LAST, LAST, UH, FALL WAS RIGHT DOWN BY THE RIVER.
UM, IT'S, IT'S QUIET, BUT YET YOU CAN HEAR THE BUZZ AT TIMES ABOVE YOU, YOU KNOW, UH, AT BRIDGE PARK, NOT SO MUCH ON THE, ON THE, UH, OLD DUBLIN SIDE, AND THEN THE SIZE OF THE TREES THAT ACTUALLY HANG OVER THE RIVER, AND THE, AND THE SPECIES IS JUST A SPACE THAT PEOPLE DON'T GET TO THAT OFTEN, YOU KNOW, ALONG THIS CORRIDOR.
UH, THEN THERE'S THE WHOLE KAYAKING, CANOEING THING, AND, YOU KNOW, THAT LITTLE, UH, ENT THAT, THAT WE WOULD CREATE FOR THAT.
UM, WHEN WE, WE SPOKE TO ONE OF OUR SUB CONSULTANTS EARLY ON IN THE PROCESS WHEN WE WERE, UM, YOU KNOW, INTERVIEWING FOR THE PROJECT IS, IS THEY WERE VERY, UM, INTRIGUED BY THE RIVER CORRIDOR IN GENERAL, FROM O'SHAUGHNESSY DOWN TO GRIGGS.
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THEY FELT THAT THAT RUN WOULD BE A GREAT, UM, KAYAK CANOE, FAMILY ORIENTED RUN.AND IT'S, IT'S EASILY SCALABLE.
SO LET'S SAY YOU WANTED TO RUN THE FIRST PART FROM O'SHAUGHNESSY DOWN TO, UH, TO THIS, YOU KNOW, TO BRIDGE PARK IF YOU WANTED TO RUN, YOU KNOW, THE REST OF IT, YOU KNOW, YOU COULD.
UM, AND SO THEY WERE VERY INTRIGUED BY THAT, UH, ASPECT OF IT.
SO THERE'S, THIS IS PROBABLY LINKED TO A, A, A GRANDER PICTURE OF WHAT YOU COULD DO WITH THAT RIVER AND, AND, AND HOW BEST TO USE IT.
BUT THIS STOP, OR EVEN PUT IN POINT, UH, THE DIFFERENCE HERE IS THAT THIS WOULD BE ACCESSIBLE.
SO IF WE, UH, YOU KNOW, NEEDED TO HAVE THAT, YOU KNOW, FOR LARGER GROUPS, UM, OF FOLKS TRYING TO, YOU KNOW, USE THE RIVER FROM AN ACCESSIBLE MEANS, WE WOULD HAVE THAT IN THERE.
UM, AND SO, SO THAT'S WHAT'S INTRIGUING ABOUT IT.
SO IN, IN MUCH LIKE THE DOWNTOWN COLUMBUS RIVERFRONT, YOU KNOW, THE GRADE CHANGE THERE WAS IMMENSE AS WELL, BUT EVERY WALKWAY IN THERE IS ACCESSIBLE.
AND SO THE GOAL, YOU KNOW, EVEN THOUGH IT'S EVEN MORE OF A CHALLENGE HERE WITH THE GRADE, WE THINK IS CERTAINLY DOABLE, AND IT WOULD ALLOW BASICALLY ACCESSIBILITY FOR ALL, YOU KNOW, TO THIS WHOLE AREA.
SO THAT'S REALLY WHAT'S DRIVING OUR, OUR WHOLE TRAIL AND, AND, AND, AND CANOPY WALK, YOU KNOW, SYSTEM HERE, YOU KNOW, WITHIN THIS CONCEPT.
UM, LET'S GO ONTO THE NEXT ONE HERE.
SO IF WE ZOOM INTO KIND OF AREA A, YOU CAN START TO SEE, YOU KNOW, THE, THE, THE SHADOWED PATHWAY THAT'S LIGHT BROWN.
THAT WOULD BE THE CANOPY WALK.
AND YOU CAN SEE IT TAKES OFF FROM, UH, RIVER, YOU KNOW, UH, UH, SOUTH RIVER VIEW, UH, OR IN NORTH RIVER VIEW IN SEVERAL LOCATIONS, RIGHT? AND THAT'S BASICALLY TO TRAVERSE THAT SLOPE TO GET, YOU KNOW, TO GET YOU DOWN INTO THE PARK AND HAVE YOU MEET UP WITH THE OTHER TRAILS.
THE LIGHTER TRAILS WOULD BE THE TRAILS ON THE GROUND PLANE THAT WOULD FOLLOW THE GROUND PLANE AND WOULD, AND WOULD ESSENTIALLY, YOU KNOW, GO UNDERWATER IN LARGE EVENTS.
UH, FROM THAT THERE WOULD BE RESPITE SEATING AREAS ALONG THE RIVER.
UM, YOU KNOW, MUCH LIKE SOME OF THE IMAGERY THAT WE HAD SHOWN, YOU KNOW, LARGE BOULDERS, LARGE SLABS THAT YOU COULD SIT ON, RIGHT? SO, UM, NOT FURNITURE THAT HAVE TO BE CLEANED OFF, RIGHT? YOU KNOW, FROM FLOODING.
AGAIN, VERY NATURAL APPROACH TO, YOU KNOW, SOLVING SIMILAR ISSUES.
THE OTHER PART THAT'S INTERESTING DOWN THERE IS THERE'S A LOT OF REMNANT STONE WALLS THAT LOOK LIKE IT BASICALLY, UM, UH, DEPICTED THE, THE, THE PROPERTY LINES OF THE, YOU KNOW, OF THE LANDOWNERS ALONG THE RIVER.
THERE'S A TANNERY, UH, DOWN THERE, WHICH THERE'S STILL SOME RUINS, UH, YOU KNOW, FROM THAT.
AND WE'VE, WE, WE'VE HAD A LOT OF DISCUSSION ABOUT, YOU KNOW, DO WE LEAVE IT AS IS? DO WE ACTUALLY RESTORE IT SO IT'S EVEN MORE VISIBLE, UH, FROM THAT? BUT I THINK ALL THAT'S POSSIBLE AS YOU WOULD GET INTO THE DESIGN OF IT, AND THERE'S A HISTORY THAT YOU COULD, THAT YOU COULD TELL, UM, YOU KNOW, FROM THAT.
AND, AND, UH, SO WE COULD SEE SIGNAGES THAT TALKS ABOUT WHAT THIS AREA WAS USED FOR, UM, OVER THE YEARS AND, AND, AND, AND THE, CERTAINLY THE FLOOR AND THE FAUNA, YOU KNOW, THAT WOULD GO ALONG WITH IT.
SO IT, IT SHOULD HAVE A HIGH EDUCATION VALUE, I THINK AS WELL, YOU KNOW, WITHIN THIS, UH, CERTAINLY THERE'S DEVELOPMENT, YOU KNOW, WITH THE KATCH, UH, UH, UH, UH, PROPERTIES THAT ARE BEING LOOKED AT THERE ON, ON NORTH RIVERVIEW AND ALL THAT.
AND, AND WE'RE, WE'RE, WE'RE TRYING TO STAY CLOSE TO THAT TO SEE WHAT, WHAT A ACCESS POINTS, YOU KNOW, WOULD, YOU KNOW, THAT WE COULD LINK UP WITH, YOU KNOW, WITH THE PARK THAT WOULD MAKE SENSE.
UM, AS WELL AS THE ACCESSIBLE ROUTE FROM NORTH HIGH STREET, DOWN THROUGH THE NORTH HISTORIC DISTRICT TO GET TO THE PARK, RIGHT? SO YOU, YOU REALLY WANT EVERYTHING TO BE ACCESSIBLE.
SOME OF THE ROOTS MAY BE A LITTLE MORE CIRCUITOUS THROUGH THE, YOU KNOW, THROUGH THE OLD TOWN.
UM, BUT WE'VE GOT A COUPLE IDEAS, UM, THAT WILL CONTINUE TO WORK, YOU KNOW, WORK THROUGH, UH, A AS WE, AS WE GO FORWARD HERE.
SO AREA B, WHICH IS, YOU KNOW, JUST TO THE, UH, NORTH OF A, UH, IS, IS, UM, SHOWS THE, THE ROPES COURSE CHALLENGE CLIMBING WALL, UH, UH, A TYPE OF DEVELOPMENT.
AND THE REASON WE HAVE THIS NORTH IS BECAUSE WHEN YOU'RE WALKING ACROSS A DUBLIN RINK, BRI BRIDGE, WE, WE THINK THE VIEWS NEED TO BE PRESERVED, RIGHT? WE DON'T WANT OTHER, CALL IT, UM, ACTIVITIES.
VERY WELL SEEN, RIGHT? WE WANT IT TO, YOU KNOW, TO THAT, THAT VISUAL CORRIDOR TO REMAIN.
WE ALSO WANNA REFOREST, YOU KNOW, SOME OF THAT AREA THAT WAS DENUDED DURING THE CONSTRUCTION, RIGHT? LET'S START GETTING THE TREES PLANTED, RIGHT? GETTING IT BACK TO WAY, YOU KNOW, THE WAY THAT IT WAS, UM, UH, IN, IN YEARS.
NOW, OBVIOUSLY, WE'RE NOT GONNA WANNA HAVE TREES VERY CLOSE TO THE BRIDGE, RIGHT? BUT, YOU KNOW, IT'LL, IT'LL WANT TO FILTER, YOU KNOW, FILTER, UH, YOU KNOW, DOWN TO THE BRIDGE, YOU KNOW, IN A, IN, IN A LOT, A LIGHTER MANNER AS YOU GET CLOSE TO IT.
SO THOSE ARE KIND OF THE GUIDING PRINCIPLES, YOU KNOW, AS THIS LANDSCAPE'S DEVELOPED ON THIS WEST
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SIDE.THEN YOU CAN SEE THE, THE ACCESS DRIVE, WHICH COMES OFF JUST NORTH OF THE, OF THE, UH, OF THE BRIDGE THERE, OR THE, OR THE CULVERT, YOU KNOW, IF YOU WILL, UM, OFF, OFF NORTH RIVERVIEW, IT, IT, IT TIPS OFF RIGHT THERE, DROPS DOWN INTO THE, UH, THE FLOODPLAIN AREA WHERE WE'RE SHOWING A PARKING AND A DROP OFF AREA, UH, FOR THE, YOU KNOW, FOR THE, UH, KAYAK AND CANOE AREA.
WE ALSO, UH, ARE SHOWING ON THE UPPER PART OF THAT, UM, YOU KNOW, A RESTROOM AND LIKELY CANOE, UH, OR, OR, UH, A KAYAK STORAGE, MAYBE EVEN RENTAL LOCKERS.
THERE'S, THERE'S NOW FACILITIES WHERE YOU CAN GO UP, SWIPE A CARD, PULL A KAYAK OUT, FILL IT IN A RIVER, GO DOWN RIVER, TOSS IT BACK IN A, YOU KNOW, IN A, IN A, IN ANOTHER LOCKER AT THE NEXT DROP OFF POINT.
AND SO YOU'RE SEEING A LOT OF, YOU KNOW, A LOT OF THAT HAPPEN ON A LOT OF, UH, RIVERWAYS.
IT JUST, YOU KNOW, IT'S LESS PEOPLE TO, YOU KNOW, TO, YOU KNOW, TO MANAGE IT.
UM, BUT YET IT PROVIDES, YOU KNOW, KIND OF INCREDIBLE ACCESS, YOU KNOW, FOR THE PUBLIC.
SO WE'RE STARTING TO THINK THROUGH, YOU KNOW, THOSE KINDS OF THINGS, YOU KNOW, WHO ARE THOSE VENDORS, YOU KNOW, IS THAT SOMETHING THAT YOU KNOW, THAT THE CITY WANTS TO TAKE ON OR NOT, RIGHT? BECAUSE IT'LL AFFECT, YOU KNOW, YOU KNOW, THE, THE DESIGN AND THE PROGRAM FOR THE DESIGN.
WHEN YOU GET INTO THAT, YOU KNOW, INTO THAT POINT, THE SHADED AREA OBVIOUSLY IS WHERE THE CURRENT PROPERTY OWNERSHIP, UM, UH, DROPS OFF, UH, WITH THAT.
AND YOU CAN SEE THE, YOU KNOW, THE, THE, THE FUTURE JOHN SHIELDS BRIDGE, YOU KNOW, WHERE, YOU KNOW WHERE IT'S PLANNED, AT LEAST TO DATE, YOU KNOW, WHEN THAT, WHEN THAT COMES ONLINE, UM, AND OBVIOUSLY THE ACQUISITIONS AND, YOU KNOW, AND THOSE PROPERTIES WILL TAKE SOME TIME, BUT IT, IT, IT WILL BE VERY ADDITIVE TO THE PARK.
AND THE THOUGHT IS, IS THAT THE SAME CONCEPT WOULD JUST EXPAND NORTH, UM, ALL IN THAT FLOODPLAIN AREA.
AND, YOU KNOW, THUS INCREASING THE, IN, IN INCREASING THE PARK AREA AND THE PARK THAT WE'VE SHOWN ON THE WEST BANK, TO GIVE YOU AN IDEA OF THE AMOUNT OF TRAILS IN THERE RIGHT NOW, THERE'S 1.3 MILES OF TRAILS ON THAT WEST BANK THAT WANDERS THROUGH THAT WHOLE PARK, RIGHT? SO IF YOU START TAKING A FEW LAPS IN THERE, YOU CAN START TO SEE, YOU KNOW, YOU KNOW WHAT, YOU COULD GET IT, IT'D BE A GREAT, YOU KNOW, A GREAT WALKING FACILITY FOR, YOU KNOW, ALL THE RESIDENTS, UM, IN THE, YOU KNOW, IN THIS AREA.
UM, AGAIN, THIS IS MORE THE MORE OF THE FUTURE EXPANSION OF THE PARK.
YOU KNOW, IT, YOU KNOW, WHEN, WHEN ACQUISITION ALLOWS FROM THAT, UM, LOOKING UP, YOU KNOW, YOU KNOW, THROUGH, YOU KNOW, THROUGH THE WEST, UM, IN, IN, UH, INDIAN RUN, INDIAN RUN THROUGH THERE, THERE'S OBVIOUSLY A, YOU, YOU CAN SEE THE WALKWAY IN THE AERIAL THAT'S UP AT THE UPPER LEVEL OF IT.
THIS, THIS CONCEPT SHOWS TRYING TO GET DOWN INTO, UH, YOU KNOW, THE INDIAN RUN GORGE THERE, AND ESSENTIALLY WITH A BOARDWALK OR AT GRADE OR SOME MIX, UH, TO MAKE YOUR WAY UP TO THE NORTH TO SEE THE FALLS, WHICH IS KIND OF ON THAT, THAT THAT LEFT FORK THERE.
YOU KNOW, AS IT, AS IT GOES UP, UM, WITH IT, IT'S, IT'S THE, YOU KNOW, THE GORGE IS, IS PRETTY INTERESTING.
UH, AS YOU GET DOWN IN IT, CERTAINLY ON THE, UH, NORTH SIDE OF IT, THERE'S, YOU KNOW, THERE'S, THERE'S PRIVATE PROPERTIES, UM, THAT BACK UP TO THAT AS, YOU KNOW, YOU KNOW, TO, TO THAT RAVINE.
AND SO WE'RE TRYING TO STAY TO THE, YOU KNOW, TO THE, UH, SOUTH SIDE, YOU KNOW, OF THAT JUST KIND OF A NATURAL BARRIER, UH, FROM THAT END IN, IN, IN THIS CONCEPT.
UM, BUT IT'S A, IT'S A SPECIAL AREA THAT, UH, WE THINK WE CAN GET, UH, YOU KNOW, PEOPLE DOWN THERE AS WELL TO, YOU KNOW, TO ENJOY THAT.
UM, AS WE JUMP BACK ACROSS THE RIVER TO THE EAST BANK, UM, THIS, HERE'S THE, UM, UH, UH, LANDSCAPE GARDEN AREA, AND IT, IT'S OBVIOUSLY A, YOU KNOW, A BIG SLOPE, RIGHT? THAT, THAT FALLS ALONG THE, UH, THE, UH, PLAZA THERE, RIGHT? WHICH IS THE MAINTENANCE AREA BELOW THE, YOU KNOW, BELOW THE MAIN SHELTER.
AND SO, YOU KNOW, THE PATHWAY SYSTEM WOULD LIKELY BE SOME KIND OF A ZIGZAG, UH, YOU KNOW, TO NAVIGATE THAT.
BUT YOU COULD HAVE, YOU KNOW, ALL KINDS OF GARDENS.
YOU COULD HAVE, UM, RESPITE AREAS WITHIN IT.
UM, YOU COULD PROBABLY HAVE SOME LITTLE MINI PLAZA AREAS, YOU KNOW, IN THERE IF SOMEBODY WANTED TO HAVE A SMALL, SMALL WEDDING, UH, YOU KNOW, AT THAT POINT.
BUT IT'D BE REAL SMALL, UM, FROM THAT END.
UM, BUT THAT AREA, YOU KNOW, BEING ON THE ORNAMENTAL SIDE OF THE RIVER, THIS WOULD BE A LOGICAL AREA, YOU KNOW, FOR A GARDEN, UH, YOU KNOW, KIND OF A, CALL IT MINI BOTANICAL, YOU KNOW, DISPLAY GARDEN, YOU KNOW, FROM THAT END.
UM, THEN THE EVENT LAWN AREA, OBVIOUSLY IT WOULD CONTINUE TO FUNCTION AS IT DOES TODAY, JUST LOOKING FOR MORE IMPROVEMENTS, YOU KNOW, UH, WATER POWER, UM, UH, UH, SANITARY CONNECTION, ET CETERA FOR LARGER EVENTS.
UH, FROM THAT END, THE PROMENADE, UM, OBVIOUSLY HAS BEEN, UM, YOU KNOW, CONCEIVED, YOU KNOW, EVEN IN THE, IN THE 16 PLAN.
AND, AND IT'S, UH, IT'S, IT, IT STILL CAN BE IMPLEMENTED.
IT, IT, IT MAKES THE EDGE ALONG RIVERSIDE DRIVE A LITTLE MORE, UH, URBAN.
IT ALSO STARTS TO GET ELEVATED SEAT AREAS AND SWING AREAS THAT ARE SLIGHTLY ELEVATED ABOVE THE LAWN THAT OVERLOOKS
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THAT.UM, AND, AND, AND CERTAINLY SOME, THESE ARE A LOT OF THE PROGRAMS THAT YOU CAN, YOU KNOW, SEE IN, IN OUR LITTLE, UH, WINDOW, UH, VIGNETTES.
UM, YOU KNOW, THROUGH THEIR, UH, YOU KNOW, THROUGH THAT, THROUGH THAT WHOLE AREA.
IF YOU RECALL, THESE WERE THE, UH, THREE DIMENSIONAL, UM, RENDERINGS OF THE PROMENADE AREA, UH, ALONG RIVERSIDE DRIVE.
YOU CAN SEE WHERE THE, WHERE THE MAIN WALK IS VERSUS WHERE THE, UH, THE KIND OF THE PERGOLA SWINGS ARE, RIGHT? THERE'S A, THERE'S A GREEN SEPARATOR THERE THAT HELPS SEPARATE YOU FROM THE, UH, THE WALKWAY ALONG RIVERSIDE DRIVE VERSUS FROM THE SWING SIDE THAT OVERLOOKS THE EVENT LAWN, UH, UH, AREA WITHIN THAT.
SO WITH THAT, THAT'S KIND OF THE, THE, THE, THE END OF THE, UH, OF THE CONCEPTS.
AND WHAT WE'RE LOOKING FOR, UH, AS MATT INDICATED, IS WE WANT TO BE ABLE TO TAKE, TAKE THIS TO THE PUBLIC, UH, SHARE THESE INITIAL IDEAS WITH THEM, UM, AND LISTEN, SEE WHAT, SEE WHAT COMES BACK, WE'RE ALWAYS KIND OF SURPRISED AT WHAT WE HEAR.
THERE'S ALWAYS A GOOD IDEA OR TWO OR THREE THAT COME OUT OF THE PUBLIC OR MIX US, RETHINK SOMETHING THAT WE'VE NOT THOUGHT OF.
AND SO WE FEEL THAT'S THE NEXT LOGICAL STEP IF COUNSEL AGREES, UH, THAT WE'RE ON THE RIGHT DIRECTION, UH, IN THIS MASTER PLAN, LIKE I SAID, WE'RE AT, WE'RE AT ROUGHLY 35% OF THAT PROCESS AT THIS POINT.
SO THAT I'LL TURN IT BACK OVER.
SO WITH THAT, WE WOULD LOVE TO HEAR YOUR FEEDBACK AND UH, WE'LL GO FROM THERE.
UH, IS THERE ANYONE PRESENT THIS EVENING THAT WOULD LIKE TO SPEAK RELATIVE, UH, TO THIS AGENDA ITEM? I DO BELIEVE THAT WE HAVE A COUPLE ON ONLINE COMMENTS AND THEN WE'LL TAKE THE IN-PERSON ONES.
UH, DAVID VENNY IS HERE TO SPEAK.
IF YOU WOULD PLEASE COME FORWARD AND STEP STATE YOUR NAME AND ADDRESS INTO THE RECORD.
IS THERE ANY WAY TO BRING UP AREA A ON THE SCREEN? THERE SURE IS.
WE'LL, JUST BECAUSE THAT'S WHAT WE'RE GONNA BE TALKING ABOUT.
WE'LL LET HIM CUE, CUE IT UP HERE.
I LIVE AT 56 SOUTH RIVERVIEW STREET, WHICH IS THE SOUTHERN ADJACENT PROPERTY TO THE, THE NEW PARK.
AND I HAVE TO SAY THIS IS SUPER, SUPER IMPRESSIVE AND AMBITIOUS.
UM, I SEE THIS BEING A GIANT DESTINATION, UM, AND A BIG DRAW FOR OUR AREA.
AND THAT'S WHY ON BEHALF OF THE RESIDENTS ON SOUTH RIVERVIEW AND THE HISTORIC DISTRICT, WE WOULD LIKE TO BE PART OF THIS BECAUSE IT DEFINITELY CHANGES THE CHARACTER OF OUR AREA.
UM, MY DAD WORKED FOR ASHLAND CHEMICAL FOR 40 YEARS AND HE'D GO ON JOGS DOWN BLAZER RINGS, AND THEN RUN DOWN SOUTH RIVERVIEW IN THE BACK OF WATERFORD.
AND HE WAS SUPER EXCITED WHEN HE FOUND OUT THAT I WAS GONNA LIVE ON SOUTH RIVERVIEW STREET.
'CAUSE LIKE PEOPLE DRIVE BY THAT PLACE ALL THE TIME AND THEY JUST DON'T KNOW.
AND, UH, YEAH, SO OUR LITTLE SECRET THING IS BECOMING MUCH LESS SECRET NOW.
AND I'M CURIOUS, OR, OR I WANNA WORK WITH THE CITY AND OUR, MY NEIGHBORS TO MAKE THAT GO AS SMOOTHLY AS POSSIBLE BECAUSE I KNOW HOW MUCH EVEN FOUR CARS PARKED ON OUR STREET AFFECT US JUST BECAUSE THERE'S BASICALLY NO PARKING FOR THAT, UH, FOR DUBLIN SPRINGS PARK.
UM, I KNOW DUBLIN IS VERY CAPABLE OF ENGAGEMENT WHEN THEY, THEY CHOOSE TO BE.
UM, YOU GUYS ARE REALLY GOOD AT SENDING OUT POSTCARDS WHEN PARADES ARE COMING.
IF MY NEIGHBORS WANNA CHANGE THEIR PAINT COLOR, DO AN UNAPPROVED COLOR, THE A RB IS GONNA SEND ME A POSTCARD AND LET ME KNOW THAT A MEETING'S COMING UP TO DISCUSS THAT AND HASH IT OUT.
UM, I THINK THIS IS DEFINITELY ONE OF THOSE THINGS WHERE WE NEED TO BE EXTRA VIGILANT ABOUT INCLUSION OF THE RESIDENTS BECAUSE THIS HAS THE POTENTIAL TO REALLY, REALLY CHANGE, CHANGE OUR STREET.
AND THIS IS JUST GONNA BE A LOT OF VOLUME I SEE COMING FROM THIS, UM, JUST BECAUSE IT'S SO GREAT.
UM, SO SPECIFICALLY MOVING FORWARD, IF WE CAN JUST HAVE A PLACE AT THE TABLE, I WOULD LIKE THAT VERY MUCH.
NOT JUST ME, BUT I'VE GOT OTHER NEIGHBORS HERE PRESENT TODAY AND, UM, I'VE SENT OUT EMAILS ABOUT PEOPLE BECAUSE WE JUST FOUND OUT ABOUT THIS COMING, UH, WITH THE MEETING WITH MATT ON FRIDAY.
AND, UH, THE RESPONSE HAS BEEN LIKE, OH, THAT'S, THAT'S INTERESTING.
SO WE, WE'D LIKE TO DEFINITELY BE PART OF THIS.
UM, ON A SECOND SORT OF PERSONAL LEVEL, THE SOONER YOU CAN MOVE THE KAYAK COMPANY, THE BETTER.
UM, WHEN IT FIRST ARRIVED OR, OR ARRIVED IN 22, WE HAD EIGHT BOATS.
NOW THIS YEAR WE'RE UP TO 30 AND THAT'S ALL IN DUBLIN SPRINGS PARK, WHICH MEANS WHEN THEY'RE OPERATING, THEY BASICALLY MONOPOLIZE THE
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PARK.UM, SO THE SOONER WE CAN MOVE THAT NORTH, THE BETTER.
UM, AND YEAH, THANK YOU FOR THE OPPORTUNITY.
I HOPE, UH, WE CAN CONTINUE THIS CONVERSATION MOVING FORWARD.
WELL, IT CERTAINLY IS ALWAYS OUR INTENTION TO ENGAGE AND WE HOPE THAT, UH, YOU'LL HAVE EVERY OPPORTUNITY.
I KNOW MATT WILL HAVE YOUR CONTACT INFORMATION.
I'M ASSUMING MATT, YOU'RE PUTTING TOGETHER AN EMAIL DISTRIBUTION LIST FOR EVERY TIME, EVERY MEETING THAT'S GOING TO BE HELD HERE.
WE WILL COMMUNICATE THAT AND DIRECTLY TO, UH, THE RESIDENTS THERE ALONG THE RIVER AS WELL.
SO IF ANY POINT YOU'RE, YOU'RE NOT HEARING FROM US, LET US KNOW.
I JUST, I'M TRYING TO AVOID SURPRISES.
IF YOU COULD PLEASE COME FORWARD AND STATE YOUR NAME AND ADDRESS UNDER THE RECORD.
KURT SCHMIDT, 97 SOUTH RIVERVIEW.
WE MOVED HERE EIGHT, NINE YEARS AGO, SEVEN MEETINGS TO GET MY APPROVALS.
IT WAS A ARDUOUS PROCESS, BUT IT WAS A GOOD PROCESS BECAUSE THE RESULT HAS BEEN, WE'RE REALLY EXCITED ABOUT THE AREA.
SO I GUESS, YOU KNOW, AND I SEE KEITH'S PRESENTATION AND IT LOOKS PRETTY, BUT THIS IS A SENSITIVE AREA.
AND WHEN YOU GET KAYAKS RELOCATING AT 10 O'CLOCK AT NIGHT DOWN YOUR STREET, WHEN YOU HAVE PEOPLE COMING IN PARKING WHEN THERE'S NO PARKING TO UNLOAD KAYAKS, IT IS, I GUESS I WAS SURPRISED BECAUSE IF SUNRISE KAYAK WAS NAMED TRAPPER JOHNS, THEY WOULDN'T BE HERE.
I MEAN, THEY CAME IN AND NOW THEY HAVE 30 KAYAKS AND WE HAVE A, YOU KNOW, LOT THAT GOES TO THE RIVER.
MY WIFE IS A TWO PERSON SWING THERE IN THE YARD, AND WE SIT THERE AT NIGHT AND NOW ALL OF A SUDDEN IT'S SCREAMING AND GIGGLING AND LANDING ON OUR LAND.
AND I THINK PEOPLE NEED TO REALLY THINK THROUGH THE UNINTENDED RAMIFICATIONS.
HE DIDN'T SHOW YOU THE PICTURES OF THE PEOPLE DRAGGING THE KAYAKS THROUGH HIS YARD BECAUSE THEY, THEY DON'T WANT TO KAYAK ANYMORE.
THE FACT OF THE MATTER IS, THERE WAS A PRIOR INSTALLATION ACROSS THE RIVER, SOME CODE VIOLATION, THEY THREW 'EM OUT.
BUT THAT'S A BUSINESS AREA THERE.
AND THAT WOULD BE A LOT LESS INTRUSIVE ON OUR NEIGHBORHOOD.
AND THAT WOULD, YOU KNOW, I THINK CONSIDER THE HERITAGE THAT WE'VE ALL BEEN ASKED TO MAINTAIN.
MATT WAS KIND ENOUGH TO COME OUT FRIDAY, MEET WITH US.
THIS IS THE FIRST I HAD HEARD ABOUT IT, BUT THEN I REALIZED THE CONTRACT'S BEEN, THIS IS THE THIRD YEAR, SO THIS HAS BEEN GOING ON.
AND, AND SO THAT REALLY CAUSED ME TO COME DOWN HERE TONIGHT.
I THINK THE, UH, LIGHTED KAYAKS AT NIGHT AGAIN, UH, WHETHER IT'S TEENAGE KIDS GIGGLING OR COLLEGE KIDS.
AND I, YOU KNOW, I MADE THE COMMENT ABOUT THE COOLERS.
YOU KNOW, THEY DON'T CARRY WATER IN THOSE COOLERS.
I MEAN, YOU KNOW, AND SO NOW WE HAVE THE JOB OF GOING DOWN AND CLEANING UP ALONG OUR PROPERTY.
AND I JUST THINK, AGAIN, YOU KNOW, I NOTED THAT MATT SAID THAT THE, UH, LIVERY WAS SUPPOSED TO BE UP FURTHER BY THE PEDESTRIAN BRIDGE.
AND HE SAID THAT IT WAS ON THE SCHEDULE FOR 27.
I'D ENCOURAGE YOU TO MOVE IT UP BECAUSE IT IS HAVING AN IMPACT ON US.
AND A LOT OF PEOPLE DON'T LIKE TO COME TO EVENING MEETINGS.
AND I, I UNDERSTAND THAT, BUT I THINK IT'S IMPORTANT TO HAVE, YOU KNOW, SO YOU CAN AT THE END OF THE DAY SAY, IS THIS FAIR? IS THIS FAIR TO THE RESIDENTS THAT LIVE THERE NOW? BECAUSE THE KAYAKS ARE ALL BEING PUSHED TO THE WEST SIDE OF THE RIVER BECAUSE THEY'RE SAYING SOME OF THE EAST SIDE IS NOT AS NAVIGABLE.
SO WE'VE GOT 'EM RIGHT UP AGAINST OUR SHORELINE.
AND AGAIN, UM, I THINK DAVID WOULD TELL YOU WE HAD A KAYAK TURNOVER AND THEY'RE, YOU KNOW, RE YELLING TO BE RESCUED.
I MEAN, THIS IS, YOU KNOW, AGAIN, 30 KAYAKS.
A LOT OF PEOPLE, THOSE ARE ONE HOUR RENTALS.
AND I'D APPRECIATE YOU SAYING TO YOURSELF IF YOU OWNED A PROPERTY THERE, HOW YOU WOULD FEEL ABOUT IT.
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SO I APPRECIATE YOUR TIME AND HEY, PARTS OF THIS ARE GORGEOUS AND MANAGED CORRECTLY.IT'LL BE A GREAT ASSET, BUT MANAGED INCORRECTLY, IT'LL HAVE AN A, UH, UH, REAL ACTIVE, UH, I IMPACT ON THE REST OF US.
I, YOU KNOW, PRIORITIZATION WILL CERTAINLY BE PART OF THE CONVERSATION WHEN WE GATHER PUBLIC INPUT.
SO, UM, ALL OF THAT WILL COME BACK AND, AND WE'LL PUT TOGETHER THE SCHEDULE OF, OF HOW WE WILL PROCEED FORWARD.
AND CERTAINLY THE RESIDENTS COMMENTS WILL BE, UM, EXTREMELY VALUABLE.
JENNY OR LINDSAY, DO WE HAVE SOMEONE ELSE? UH, YES, I HAVE SOME COMMENTS ONLINE.
FIRST FROM ANNA JONES AT 37 SOUTH RIVERVIEW STREET.
I'M UNABLE TO ATTEND THE MAY 6TH, 2024 MEETING, BUT I DID WANNA SUBMIT A COUPLE COMMENTS AND QUESTIONS ABOUT THE RIVERSIDE CROSSING PARK MASTER PLAN UPDATE.
I AM VERY INTERESTED IN THE NEAT PARK THAT YOU HAVE PLANNED, BUT I'M A BIT CONCERNED ABOUT CONGESTION AND PARKING ON OUR STREET AS IT IS.
LOTS OF PARK PATRONS PARK IN AND AROUND MY FRONT YARD DURING THE SUMMER MONTHS, AND I AM CONCERNED THAT THIS WILL INCREASE.
I'M HAPPY FOR THE KAYAK COMPANY TO BE RELOCATE, RELOCATED.
THE COMPANY TENDS TO BLOCK THE WALKING PATHS IN THE EXISTING PARK.
SO IT IS DIFFICULT FOR ME AND MY FAMILY TO USE OUR NEIGHBORHOOD PARK OR TO WALK OUR DOGS IN THE AREA.
I OFTEN HAVE TO STEP OVER AROUND KAYAKS TO WALK MY DOGS.
I WOULD SUPPORT THE KAYAK LIVERY MOVING BEFORE THE PROPOSED 2027 DATE.
I WOULD ALSO SUPPORT MORE INFORMATIONAL MEETINGS AND FEEDBACK SESSIONS WITH SOUTH RIVERVIEW RESIDENTS TO BETTER CONVEY OUR NEIGHBORHOOD'S NEEDS.
AND I THINK YOU HAVE ONE MORE, ONE MORE COMMENT.
THIS ONE IS FROM ANGIE KNEE, 55 SOUTH RIVERVIEW STREET.
I AM EXCITED ABOUT THE PARK PLAN AND LOOK FORWARD TO ITS COMPLETION, BUT WOULD LIKE TO ENSURE INCREASED VEHI VEHICLE TRAFFIC IS PROACTIVELY ADDRESSED ON RIVERVIEW.
CURRENTLY THE NARROW STREET ALLOWS FOR CARS TO PARK ON BOTH SIDES, AND SOME RESIDENTS HAVE LIMITED OR NO DRIVEWAYS AT MY HOME PARK AND KAYAK VISITORS PARK AND BLOCK OUR FRONT PATHWAY MAILBOX, WHICH LIMITS OUR ABILITY TO USE OUR FRONT DOOR AND HIT OUR LIMESTONE WALL, WHICH OUTLINES THE FRONT OF OUR PROPERTY.
THERE IS SPEEDING ON BLACKSMITH, A NARROW ALLEY, WHICH IS DANGEROUS TO PEDESTRIANS, BUT ESPECIALLY KIDS THAT LIVE ON THE STREET.
MY WORRY IS THE PARK ENHANCEMENTS WILL INCREASE CURRENT CHALLENGES FOR RESIDENTS.
COULD YOU EXPLORE NO PARKING SIGNS, NO PARKING DURING CERTAIN HOURS, OR PARKING FOR RESIDENTS WHO HAVE A PARKING PERMIT TO ENSURE VEHICLE TRAFFIC IS KEPT IN CHECK.
COULD YOU EXPEDITE THE KAYAK COMPANY'S RELOCATION TO LESSEN THE TRAFFIC TO THE AREA? APPRECIATE YOUR ATTENTION TO THIS MATTER.
AND I'M SURE YOU'LL RESPOND TO THEM WITH THE, UH, OPPORTUNITY FOR PUBLIC ENGAGEMENT.
THANK THEM FOR THEIR COMMENTS AND BE SURE THAT WE, UM, APPRECIATE THOSE AND WE'LL TAKE 'EM INTO CONSIDERATION.
COUNCIL QUESTIONS, DISCUSSION.
UM, YOU KNOW, MATT AND I AGREE WITH THE RESIDENTS THAT, UH, THIS IS AN AMENITY WE'VE BEEN TALKING ABOUT FOR A LONG TIME, THE KAYAKING AND, UH, YOU KNOW, I THINK THAT SHOULD BE, UH, ONE OF OUR FIRST PRIORITIES TO TRY TO GET THAT BECAUSE THAT'S A FAIRLY SIMPLE AMENITY.
THE QUESTION I HAVE IS THE ELEVATION OF THE PARKING LOT.
IS THAT SUCH THAT IT'S, UM, I DON'T KNOW WHAT THE SLOPE IS OVER THERE, BUT YOU KNOW, THE WAY YOU'VE GOT IT LAID OUT HERE, THAT'S A PRETTY BIG PARKING LOT AND I'M SURE WE NEED IT.
AND THAT GIVES PEOPLE UP HERE ON RIVERVIEW STREET, SOME PEACE.
SO YOU KNOW WHAT THE ELEVATION IS FOR THAT? IS THAT A YEAH, IF, IF, IF YOU WALK THAT PROPERTY, YOU KNOW, THE INITIAL SLOPE THAT DROPS DOWN FROM, UM, HIGH STREET IS WHERE MOST OF THE GRADE IS, AND THEN IT FLATTENS OUT FOR QUITE A, FOR QUITE A WAYS AND THEN IT DROPS AT THE RIVER.
SO WHERE THE PARKING LOT IS, IS BASICALLY AT GRADE, YOU KNOW, TO, YOU KNOW, TODAY.
AND THEN THE, THE KAYAK, YOU KNOW, UM, CALL IT LAGOON AREA RIGHT.
IS BASICALLY WOULD HAVE THE SLOPES INTO IT.
SO WE HAVE IT LOOKED AT TO BE LIKE A, A LAWN THAT SLOPES DOWN TO THE WATER SO THAT YOU COULD, YOU KNOW, DRAG THE KAYAKS DOWN.
IT ALSO HAS AN ACCESSIBLE PATH DOWN TO THE ACCESSIBLE DOCK WITH THAT.
SO THE, YOU KNOW, THE, THE PARKING LOT IS AT BASICALLY THE GRADE OF THE LOT NOW.
SO THAT, THAT'S WHAT ENABLES IT TO HAPPEN.
UM, WILL IT GO UNDER IN A FLOOD? SURE.
THE FLOOD GOES ALL THE WAY UP TO RIVERVIEW BANK ON THAT.
IS IT VERY DEEP? NOT THAT DEEP AT THAT POINT? SO THE REASON I WAS INTERESTED IN THAT, 'CAUSE AS YOU, YOU KNOW, IF IT'S THAT GRADE, IT'S GONNA BE A LOT LESS EXPENSIVE TO BUILD THIS 'CAUSE IT'S FAIRLY SHORT RUN OFF OF NORTH RIVERVIEW, THE DRIVEWAY GOING BACK INTO THE PARKING LOT.
AND THAT SHOULD BE A FAIRLY INEXPENSIVE YES.
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I KNOW WE'VE TRIED TO WORK WITH, UM, I DON'T KNOW WHERE WE'RE AT WITH COLUMBUS, UH, AS A LAUNCH SITE UP AT O'SHAUGHNESSY.HAVE YOU EVER I HAVE REACHED OUT TO THEM, BUT I HAVE NOT HEARD BACK.
SO THAT CONVERSATION WILL, 'CAUSE THAT'S THE NORMAL LAUNCH SITE THEY HAVE AMBER LEE.
HUH? WE HAVE THE LAUNCH SITE AT AMBER LEE PARK.
WELL WE DO AND BUT REALLY IT'S NICER TO LAUNCH UP THERE.
I USED TO USE THAT ALL THE TIME FOR CANOES AND KAYAKS.
AMBER LEE, YOU GOTTA TAKE 'EM ALL THE WAY AND DROP, DUMP IT DOWN THE STEPS THIS WAY YOU CAN TAKE, GO ALL THE WAY DOWN A SLOPE ASPHALT.
SO WE, I'D LIKE TO SEE US WORK WITH COLUMBUS.
I KNOW YOU AND I HAVE TALKED ABOUT THIS TO TRY TO GET THAT BE THE LAUNCH SITE FOR THIS THING TO GET IT OUTTA THE WAY.
YOU KNOW, WHEN WE DID THE MASTER STUDY PLAN FOR THIS, UM, THERE WAS SOME CONVERSATION ABOUT, UM, COMPANIES THAT COME IN AND HELP PAY FOR SOME OF THIS STUFF, THESE AMENITIES THAT YOU'VE PUT IN THIS PLAN.
THAT, AND I, I DON'T KNOW WHAT THE MARRIAGE HAS BEEN BETWEEN MKSK AND THAT HUGE STUDY WE'VE LAUNCHED, UM, BUT THERE WAS SOME DISCUSSION THAT THERE ARE COMPANIES THAT COME IN AND DO SOME OF THESE AMENITIES AND I DON'T KNOW WHERE YOU'RE AT WITH THAT OR IS IT TOO EARLY? I KNOW THE PERSON THAT WE HIRED FOR THAT SAID, HEY, YOU KNOW, THERE'S, THERE'S SOME OPPORTUNITY HERE FOR YOU GUYS ACTUALLY IF, IF, IF THIS IS THE PROCESS FORWARD.
CERTAINLY WE WANT TO ENGAGE WITH THEM EARLY IN THE PROCESS AS PART OF THE DESIGN SO THAT WE MAKE SURE THAT WHATEVER IT IS WE'RE DESIGNING WORKS FOR A THIRD PARTY.
UH, BUT WE WOULD, UM, SOLICIT RFPS FOR THAT ONCE WE GOT TO A POINT WHERE WE FELT COMFORTABLE WITH WHERE WE WERE HEADED.
SO WE WOULD DEFINITELY PURSUE THAT.
WELL, YOU KNOW, BECAUSE YEAH, IF YOU BRING IN A COMMERCIAL COMPANY TO DO SOMETHING LIKE THE AERIAL WALK OR WHATEVER, THE ADVENTURE TRAIL OR WHATEVER YOU WANT TO CALL IT, THEY MIGHT RELOCATE THAT TO ANOTHER PART AND CHANGE THIS MASTER PLAN.
IT'S GOOD TO SEE YOU INCORPORATED THE, UH, GARDEN.
WE HAVE BEEN TALKED ABOUT, WE'VE TALKED A LONG TIME ABOUT THE, UM, HAVING SOME KIND OF GARDEN AND MAYBE A WEDDING PAVILION ON THE EAST SIDE OF THE BRIDGE, UH, AS YOU GO ACROSS THE BRIDGE TO THE RIGHT.
SO I'M GLAD TO SEE THAT INCORPORATED IN THERE.
I DON'T, YOU KNOW, A ZIGZAG PATTERN.
I DON'T KNOW IF IT'S GONNA BE THAT, BUT, UM, IT'S, IT'S A GOOD, THAT'S A GOOD, UH, AMENITY ALSO, I THINK.
'CAUSE WE SEE A LOT OF WEDDINGS ON THIS BRIDGE, PEOPLE COMING OUT THERE.
SO WE WERE THINKING AS A, UH, POSSIBLE, UH, SOURCE OF FUNDRAISING A A UH, PAVILION.
THERE COULD BE AS LITTLE AS 16 BY 16, BUT SITTING IN A GARDEN SITE.
OTHER COMMENTS? MY NEPHEW GOT ENGAGED ON THE BRIDGE.
WE WERE ALL CREEPING ON THE, UH, ON THE, UH, VIDEO CAMERA WATCHING
UH, JUST SOME INITIAL HIGH LEVEL THOUGHTS.
UH, I'M NOT REAL SUPPORTIVE OF THE CANOPY WALK.
I THINK IT WOULD BE A LITTLE OVERKILL.
I THINK WE SHOULD KEEP IT A LITTLE MORE NATURAL.
MAYBE A PORTION OR A SMALLER PORTION IF NEEDED TO GET AN ACCESSIBLE GRADE DOWN TO THE LOWER LEVEL.
UM, BUT I JUST THINK IT WOULD BE WAY TOO EXPENSIVE.
IT WOULD BE WAY TOO INTRUSIVE IN THE ENVIRONMENT IN MY PERSONAL OPINION.
I THINK IT, UM, LIKEWISE, I'M NOT REAL SUPPORTIVE OF THE BOARDWALK ALONG THE INDIAN RUN, UM, DOWN IN THE GORGE.
I THINK THAT SHOULD BE LEFT NATURAL.
I DON'T KNOW THAT WE SHOULD INVITE, UH, MORE PEOPLE DOWN INTO THERE NECESSARILY.
UH, SO THOSE TWO KIND OF POPPED OUT AT, UM, ME NOW.
I DEFINITELY WANNA MAKE IT ACCESSIBLE THAT PEOPLE CAN GET DOWN TO THAT LOWER LEVEL AND ENJOY THE TRAILS.
UM, I'M JUST THINKING ALL THE FLOODPLAIN INTRUSIONS WE WOULD HAVE IF WE HAD TO HAVE, UM, PEERS PUT IN TO SUPPORT THAT CANOPY WALK.
UH, SO THAT, AND THEN REGARDING THE KAYAK LAUNCH, I THINK THE WAY YOU HAVE IT PROPOSED, IT'S NOT ON PROPERTY WE CURRENTLY OWN.
UH, AND IF THAT IS GONNA BE A PRIORITY OF SOMETHING THAT WE WANNA DO, I THINK WE NEED TO MAKE SURE IT IS LOCATED ON PROPERTY WE CURRENTLY OWN, UM, FOR SHORT TERM SOLUTIONS, I THINK WE HAVE PLENTY.
WE COULD GO IN AT CCIO PARK, WE COULD GO IN AT THE TWO 70 OVERPASS WHERE PEOPLE PUT STUFF IN NOW.
UM, BUT IF IT IS, ENDS UP BEING A PRIORITY OF COUNCIL THAT WE DO WANNA MOVE UP A KAYAK OR SOMETHING LIKE THAT, WE CAN'T BE PUTTING IT ON PROPERTY WE DON'T OWN.
SO THOSE ARE JUST, UH, SOME OF MY HIGH LEVEL INITIAL THOUGHTS ON WHAT YOU SAID.
JUST, UH, COUNCIL MEMBER GRAHAM, THANK, JUST FOR REFERENCE THAT THAT ACTUALLY IS PROPERTY THAT WE OWN.
THERE'S A PORTION OF THAT PARKING LOT THAT WOULDN'T BE BUILT YET, BUT BY AND LARGE, THE FACILITY WOULD BE ABLE TO BE ACCOMMODATED ON EXISTING PARKLAND.
BECAUSE I THOUGHT THE PARTS OF THE LINE ON THIS MAP SHOWS ABOUT FOUR PARKING SPOTS IN, DO WE OWN FURTHER? WE OWN TO THE DOTTED LINE AND THE GRAY SHADED
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AREA.OH, ALL THE WAY OVER TO THAT, YES.
SO WE DO OWN THAT PARCEL THAT HAS A D AND E.
YOU KNOW WHAT, UM, THE ENTIRE RIVERFRONT IS SUCH A PRECIOUS AMENITY.
AND, AND IT'S LIKE EVERYTHING ELSE.
I MEAN, YOU CAN IMAGINE WONDERFUL THINGS, BUT IT'S REALLY AN IT'S BALANCE TO BE ABLE TO GET, UH, PEOPLE OUT THERE TO REALLY ENJOY NATURE, AS AMY SAID, AND THEN ALSO HAVE SOMETHING EXCITING AND NEW.
SO I LOVE THE CANOPY WALK, BUT MAYBE SHRUNK DOWN SOME.
I I DO FEEL AS IF THE ENTRANCEWAY ON SOUTH RIVERVIEW WOULD JUST BECOME SO PROBLEMATIC.
UM, THERE MIGHT BE AN ENTRANCEWAY, BUT THERE'S LITERALLY NO PARKING THERE, THERE'S JUST NONE.
AND SO EVEN FOUR CARS THAT CAME, IT'S TOO MUCH.
IT'S NOT EVEN HARDLY TOO TWO CARS WIDE.
SO, AND I, AND I ALSO THINK THAT WE HAVE AN ENTIRE RIVER UP TO O SHAUGHNESSY, SO LET'S TRY TO MOVE THE ENERGY AWAY FROM THE RESIDENTIAL.
BUT MOST IMPORTANTLY, I THINK, UH, WHEN IT COMES TO THE RIVERFRONT, ONE OF THE REASONS I LIKE THE CANOPY WALK, IF WE CAN GET TO A POINT WHERE IT'S NOT ENORMOUS, IS THAT THERE IS A BEAUTY OF SEEING THE RIVER FROM ABOVE, LIKE YOU SAID AT THE LINK.
UM, AND THERE'S A, AND IT PRESERVES SOME OF THE SERENITY OF BEING AT THE BOTTOM AND HAVING PEACE AND QUIET.
SO THERE'S, THERE'S THIS, I DON'T KNOW IF THE ROPES COURSE YOU'D, THAT SEEMS VERY ACTIVE.
I THINK THERE, TO ME, THE RIVERFRONT THERE BECAUSE IT'S SO ACTIVE AND URBAN ON THE OTHER SIDE NEEDS TO BE MORE SUBDUED.
CALM DOWN SO THAT YOU CAN HEAR THE BIRDS.
YOU CAN S YOU CAN SEE THE, THE EAGLES AND THE TREES.
YOU DON'T DISTURB THE NATURAL FLORA AND FAUNA THAT'S DOWN THERE AND THAT YOU ACTUALLY CAN ENJOY A NATURAL SETTING.
I THINK, UM, THAT WE JUST NEED TO MAKE SURE THAT, UM, THAT THE RIVERFRONT THAT WE ALL LOVE, ESPECIALLY THE HISTORIC PART, BECAUSE THOSE ARE TEACHING VIGNETTES.
IF YOU DO TAKE A KAYAK DOWN THERE, YOU CAN ALMOST IMAGINE WHAT IT WAS LIKE PRIOR TO ANY CONSTRUCTION ALONG THERE.
SO, YOU KNOW, I I THINK IT'S A CALMING EFFECT THAT WE NEED TO BE THINKING ABOUT.
SO I'LL START WITH, UM, SOUTH RIVERVIEW STREET.
I THINK, YOU KNOW, WE, WE NEED TO WORK TO ELIMINATE TRESPASSING.
I MEAN, IT, I BELIEVE THAT, UM, FOLKS CARRYING A CANOE UP FROM THE, THE RIVER ON SOMEBODY'S PROPERTY THAT'S TRESPASSING.
SO IF THE VENDOR THAT WE'RE WORKING WITH IS, IS RESPONSIBLE FOR LAUNCHING THOSE SPECIFIC KAYAKS, I THINK THEY NEED TO GIVE THESE FOLKS KIND OF A TUTORIAL WHEN THEY'RE HANDING OFF THE LIFE JACKETS AND THE, THE WARS AND STUFF.
UM, DO NOT TRESPASS ON PRIVATE PROPERTY.
IF THERE'S AN EMERGENCY, OBVIOUSLY YOU MIGHT NEED TO DO THAT, BUT I JUST THINK THERE NEEDS TO BE A REMINDER.
I, I DON'T KNOW THAT IF I WERE A RESIDENT, I'D POST NO TRESPASSING SIGNS.
BUT THAT'S UP TO THE RESIDENT.
UM, WE JUST NEED TO DISCOURAGE THAT AND MAYBE PUT UP SIGNS HERE AND THERE.
AND THEN, UH, CAMPUS AND GERMAN VILLAGE HAVE PERMIT PARKING.
I DON'T SEE ANY REASON WHY WE CAN'T HAVE PERMIT PARKING ON, UH, SOUTH RIVERVIEW STREET.
IT'S, YOU KNOW, YOU'RE DREAMING BIG.
IT'S A LITTLE CEDAR POINT ISH.
UM, I THINK THERE'S JUST A LOT GOING ON AND I THINK MAYBE SCALING IT BACK A BIT, YOU KNOW, I WORRY ABOUT CLIMBING WALLS AND ROPES COURSES.
UM, I THINK MAYBE THAT'S A LITTLE TOO MUCH.
THERE'S A BALANCE BETWEEN ACTIVATING AND OVERDOING IT.
I WILL SAY THAT THOSE ELEVATED WALKWAYS ARE, YOU KNOW, THEY KIND OF BLOW MY MIND.
AND I THINK IT WOULD BE PRETTY COOL TO EXPERIENCE, BUT I THINK WE NEED TO BE VERY CAREFUL ABOUT WHERE WE DO IT AND THE EXTENT THAT WE DO.
I WILL, UM, NOT REITERATE, REITERATE, BUT WE'LL ECHO THE CONCERNS ABOUT NORTH RIVER VIEW STREET.
SO, UM, WE SHOULD MOVE THAT UP.
WE SHOULD MAKE THESE, THESE ADJUSTMENTS.
HOW MANY PARKING SPOTS IN THERE IN THE PART WE OWN NOW, ROUGHLY? DO YOU HAVE A NUMBER? I'M ESTIMATING MAYBE 20 IN, IN THAT LOT THERE.
YEAH, I MEAN, I, I THINK IF WE BUILD JUST A FRACTION OF WHAT'S HERE THAT
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WILL BE WOEFULLY INSUFFICIENT.SO I THINK THE CONNECTIVITY OF THIS AND HOW YOU FLOW AND GET PEOPLE UP AND DOWN AS A BIKE RIDER, I'M SITTING HERE TRYING TO IMAGINE HOW I'M GOING TO BIKE THERE.
AND SO THE CONNECTIVITIES OF THOSE PATHS, IF YOU MAKE IT SO I CAN PARK, UM, OR, YOU KNOW, GET MY BIKE AT AT THE, THE PARKING GARAGE AND FIND MY WAY DOWN HERE AND MAKE IT EASY FOR ME TO FIND MY WAY DOWN HERE, HOPEFULLY WE CAN EASE SOME OF THE TRAFFIC FLOW.
BUT 32 SPOTS IS NOT GONNA, I MEAN, WITH ALL OF THESE THINGS IT, I, I CAN'T IMAGINE THAT THAT'S GONNA BE SUFFICIENT.
SO I THINK WE HAVE TO THINK ABOUT THAT.
UM, ADDITIONALLY, EITHER THE CONNECTIVITY OR, OR MORE PARKING.
UM, I, I ACTUALLY LIKE THE CLIMBING WALL IN SOME OF THESE, I THINK APPROPRIATELY, UM, RE FORESTED.
I THINK THEY COULD BE WONDERFUL DISCOVERY POINTS.
AND AGAIN, MULTICULTURAL, MAYBE WE'RE NOT GONNA CLIMB THAT WALL, BUT I KNOW A LOT OF PEOPLE WHO WOULD LOVE TO DO THAT.
SO MAYBE NOT ALL OF IT, BUT I'M FOR ACTIVATING THE PARK.
UM, AND I LIKE THAT IT'S, IT'S MORE HIDDEN IN THERE, BUT I, I, I'M FOR THAT, I THINK THE CANOPY WALK IS LOVELY.
I MEAN, JUST THE COST OF IT ALONE MIGHT BE A, MIGHT BE, BUT YOU KNOW, WHERE IT OVERLOOKS THE WATER, WHATEVER.
AGAIN, FINDING WONDERFUL DISCOVERY POINTS IN THE MIDDLE OF THIS ARE, IS AS INTERESTING AS THE PARK ITSELF.
SO HOW WE FIGURE OUT HOW TO DO THAT EFFECTIVELY.
BUT I AM ABSOLUTELY FOR ACTIVATION.
UM, I I JUST THINK IT, IT'S JUST A WONDERFUL AMENITY.
SO FIGURING HOW TO DO THAT, GETTING THE PARKING.
UM, AGAIN, I'M, I, I CAN'T FIGURE OUT HOW I'D BIKE IT.
SO I MEAN, GETTING THE CONNECTIVITY, I KNOW THERE WAS A LOT OF DISCUSSION IN THE ENVISION DUBLIN ABOUT BIKE PATHS AND WALKING PASS BEING WIDER AND THAT TO BE OUR NEW STANDARD.
UM, JUST SO WE, I THINK WHATEVER NEW STANDARDS WE SHOULD, WE SHOULD INCORPORATE THOSE.
BUT, UM, I, AND I VERY MUCH APPRECIATE THE, AS YOU KNOW, THE ACTIVATION OF THE OTHER PARK AND GETTING IT AT GRADE SO WE CAN ACTUALLY ACTIVATE THAT PARK THAT WE BUILT.
SO, UM, I WOULD SUPPORT THOSE AS WELL.
SO AGAIN, I, I LOVE THE IDEAS.
I GUESS IT'S, YOU'RE GONNA TAKE IT OUT NOW AND SEE WHICH ONES RESONATE THE MOST AND THAT'S GONNA BE A REALLY IMPORTANT STEP.
UM, 'CAUSE ALL IS PROBABLY NOT FEASIBLE.
BUT, UM, THANK YOU VERY MUCH, CHRISTINA.
I'LL KEEP IT SUPER SHORT AND SWEET 'CAUSE WE'RE GETTING LATE, BUT, UM, CERTAINLY I SUPPORT TRYING TO FIND SOME SOLUTIONS FOR OUR RESIDENTS ON SOUTH RIVER STREET.
UM, WHAT THEY'RE DESCRIBING DOESN'T FEEL OKAY TO ME.
UM, I, I AM FOR ACTIVATING THIS SPACE.
I DO THINK MAYBE SOME OF THE SCALE NEEDS TO COME DOWN AND, AND CERTAINLY I'M REALLY, REALLY IN, UM, EXCITED ABOUT LISTENING TO RESIDENT, UH, FEEDBACK ON WHAT WE BRING OUT TO THEM.
AND, AND I THINK THAT'S ESSENTIALLY THE QUESTION HERE IS, ARE WE SUPPORTIVE OF GETTING THIS OUT INTO THE PUBLIC? AND, UM, YOU KNOW, THE ANSWER FOR ME IS, YEAH, I WANT TO HEAR FROM, FROM WHAT OUR RESIDENTS HAVE TO SAY AND, AND HOW THEY SEE THEMSELVES USING THE PARK, WHETHER THEY'RE A BIKER.
'CAUSE I THINK THAT'S REALLY IMPORTANT.
OR PARENTS WITH YOUNG KIDS, PARENTS WITH OLDER KIDS, UM, FOLKS WITH ACCESSIBILITY, UM, CONCERNS AND, AND THINGS OF THAT NATURE.
SO, AND, AND I KNOW THAT YOU'LL BE REACHING OUT TO THEM AND DOING A GREAT JOB AT IT, MATT.
YOU KNOW, IT'S GONNA BE SOME TIME BEFORE WE CAN GET THAT CANOE LIVERY BUILT, UH, REGARDLESS OF WHAT, WHERE IT IS ON THE CALENDAR AND, AND IF THAT, THAT VENDOR IS UTILIZING THAT MORE KAYAKS THAN WHAT WE ANTICIPATED, MAYBE WE TEMPORARILY RELOCATE THEM TO SCIOTO PARK WHERE WE ALL ALREADY HAVE THAT AVAILABILITY, UM, IN PLACE UNTIL, UH, WE, SUCH A TIME THAT THIS COULD BE FINISHED.
BUT I, I AGREE WITH SEVERAL OF MY COLLEAGUES, IT FEELS LIKE WE'RE DOING A BIT TOO MUCH ON THIS SPACE.
SO, YOU KNOW, IF YOU ARE DOWN IN, IN THIS PARK ON THE WEEKEND, IT'S PACKED THERE.
AND, UM, IT'S REALLY OVERUSED.
IT, IT IS A HARD PLACE TO HAVE A RESPITE SPACE OR TO HAVE ANY QUIET OR TO REALLY ENJOY NATURE BECAUSE IT'S SO ACTIVE.
YOU KNOW, WE HAVE SPENT SO MUCH MONEY AND HAVE ACQUIRED, YOU KNOW, SIGNIFICANT PROPERTY UP THE RIVER TO SOTO PARK.
AND I THINK IF YOU WERE DOING A HIGH ROPES COURSE, THERE IS AMPLE ROOM TO DO THAT AT SOTO PARK AND A CLIMBING WALL.
AND IT WOULD BE NICE TO BE ABLE TO STRETCH THIS PARK OUT AND DISPERSE PEOPLE OVER A BROADER SPACE.
UM, A LOT OF THESE USES CAN BE DONE JUST SODA PARK.
WE HAVE THAT BEAUTIFUL FOOTPATH NOW THAT WILL TAKE YOU ALL THE WAY UP THERE, UM, ADJACENT TO RIVERSIDE DRIVE.
WE WOULD HAVE TO WORK ON A CROSSING PIECE, BUT I DON'T THINK THAT THAT'S A HURDLE THAT WE CAN'T OVERCOME.
SO, UM, I I REALLY WOULD LIKE TO LEAVE THE, UM, INDIAN RUN RELATIVELY UNTOUCHED.
WE HAVE, YOU KNOW, HOW WILL, HOW WILL WE BE ABLE TO SAY TO A DEVELOPER WHO WANTS TO DEVELOP WEST OF THIS
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TO SAY, OH NO, YOU CAN'T GO INTO THE PARK THAT'S PROTECTED SPACE.AND OH, BY THE WAY, WE HAVE 5,000 PEOPLE TRAVERSING IT EVERY SATURDAY AND SUNDAY AFTERNOON.
SO I, IF WE ARE GOING TO BE TRUE TO OUR WORD, AND IF WE ARE GOING TO PROTECT THAT WATERSHED AS A NATURALIZED AREA AND APPRECIATE WHAT IT IS, THEN WE HAVE TO LEAD BY EXAMPLE.
AND SO I THINK IT'S IMPORTANT TO DO THAT.
UM, SO I, I WOULD JUST LIKE TO SEE HOW WE CAN STRETCH THE USES UP AND DOWN THE RIVER BECAUSE RIGHT NOW IT'S GONNA BE CHAOS.
IF YOU PUT ALL OF THIS STUFF IN THERE RIGHT NOW, IT WILL, IT WILL BE AN ACTUAL ZOO THERE.
IT JUST PEOPLE, DOGS, THEY'RE GONNA BE GOING EVERYWHERE.
SO, UM, I WOULD REALLY ENCOURAGE US TO, TO THINK, THINK ABOUT THE CORRIDOR, YOU KNOW, AND RAPID FIVE, YOU KNOW, WE HAVE, WE HAVE A LOT OF VISIONING THROUGH THAT AND REALLY STRETCHING IT THROUGH THE CORRIDOR RATHER THAN JUST INTENSIFYING IT ONTO 400 YARDS.
SO, UM, I THANK YOU FOR THAT, CHRIS.
YOU ACTUALLY BROUGHT UP A REALLY GREAT THOUGHT.
AND I, SO I ALSO ENCOURAGE WORKING WITH THE, UM, DUBLIN ARTS COUNCIL BECAUSE IF YOU THINK ABOUT S OTA PARK AND WHERE THEY DO THE MUSIC SERIES OVER THE SUMMER, THAT IS A GREAT SPACE WHEN IT IS ACTIVATED.
UM, AND IT OFTEN IS NOT ACTIVATED.
SO I WOULD LOVE TO SEE SOME PARTNERSHIP AND SOME THINGS HAPPEN THERE TOO.
SO I I REALLY APPRECIATE THAT APPROACH.
WE HAVE A LOT OF REAL ESTATE UP IN DO DOWN RIVER.
WE DO, I MEAN, THERE'S ONLY A COUPLE OF MISSING TEETH THERE FOR US.
AND SO I WOULD ENCOURAGE US TO THINK ABOUT THE LONG-TERM VISION OF THIS RIVER CORRIDOR RATHER THAN JUST THE INTENSIFICATION OF THIS PARK.
I, I'M JUST GONNA ADD, I TOTALLY AGREE WITH THAT.
I THINK I SHOULD KIND OF EXPAND FROM RIVERSIDE CROSSING PARK TO RIVERSIDE, LIKE RIVERSIDE CROSSING PARK IN THE CCIO RIVER, LIKE RIVER SIDE RIVER FRONTAGE KIND OF THING.
UM, BUT I KNOW, I KNOW THE NEXT STEP KIND IS WE'RE GONNA BE TAKING THIS OUT TO THE PUBLIC AND WE'RE GONNA BE ASKING WOULD THEY THINK OF IT.
UM, AND IN MY OPINION, LIKE AGAIN, I AGREE THAT I DON'T THINK WE SHOULD DO A WHOLE LOT ALONG THE INDIAN RUN.
SO IN MY OPINION, WE SHOULD REMOVE THAT FROM WHAT WE'RE TAKING TO THE PUBLIC.
UM, THAT'S JUST MY VOTE BECAUSE I DON'T WANT A BUNCH OF PEOPLE TO SAY, OH, I LOVE THIS IDEA.
AND THEN NOW WE'VE SAID, WE'VE THROWN IT OUT THERE AS AN IDEA.
SO JUST MY PERSONAL OPINION, I WOULD LIKE TO SEE THE BOARDWALK PART ALONG THE INDIAN RUN AND THE ROPES COURSE OVER THE INDIAN RUN REMOVED.
WE CAN MOVE THE ROPES COURSE SOMEWHERE ELSE, JUST NOT OVER THE INDIAN RUN.
THAT'S, AND I THINK THERE'S SIGNIFICANT SAFETY CONCERNS.
PEOPLE DON'T REALIZE HOW FAST THE WATER RISES THROUGH THERE.
AND IF YOU GET CAUGHT DOWN IN THAT, I'LL CALL IT THE GORGE, THAT'S AN OVERSTATEMENT OF WHAT IT REALLY IS.
BUT IF YOU GET CAUGHT DOWN THERE AND IT STARTS TO RAIN FAIRLY HARD, IT, THAT WATER'S GONNA PICK UP IN A HURRY.
AND I DON'T KNOW THAT PEOPLE UNDERSTAND HOW FAST THAT CAN HAPPEN GIVEN THE WATERSHED THAT, THAT, UM, THAT THAT RUN CARRIES.
SO, SO YEAH, I WOULD SUGGEST TAKING AREA D OUT OF THIS ENTIRELY FOR ANOTHER DAY ANYWAY.
YEAH, IT'S SUCH A SPECIAL AREA.
AND I THINK THE LAST TIME THAT WE HAD AN OLD MAP THAT GOT PUT OUT THERE BY ACCIDENT OR JUST SOMEBODY HAPPENED TO FIND IT, IT WAS LIKE THE WORLD WAS COMING TO AN END WHEN THEY THOUGHT THAT WE WERE GONNA EVEN TOUCH THE PLACE.
UM, I JUST THINK IT NEEDS SPECIAL CONSIDERATION.
THE ONLY THING I WOULD ADD IS YOU MADE A POINT, EVEN IF WE DON'T DO IT, WE WOULD GET SOME WALKABILITY DOWN.
WHAT WAS THE COMMENT ABOUT? THERE WAS A COMMENT ABOUT GETTING ACCESS POINTS.
IF WE DON'T DO A BOARDWALK, WHAT WAS THE STATEMENT? UH, WELL FOUR, GET THIS ON, UH, FOR, FOR THE WEST PARK, UH, YOU KNOW, WE WILL HAVE TO USE, YOU KNOW, PART OF THE CANOPY WALK JUST TO GET DOWN TO THE GRADE, RIGHT.
TO, YOU KNOW, TO TRAVERSE THAT, YOU KNOW, IN AN ACCESSIBLE MANNER.
UH, CERTAINLY INDIAN RUN, WE COULD STAY OUT PRETTY EASY TO DO.
I THOUGHT YOU SAID SAID THERE WAS SOMETHING ABOUT ACCESSIBILITY AT INDIAN RUN.
I THOUGHT YOU HAD MADE A COMMENT ABOUT THAT.
AND I WAS GONNA SAY, IF WE ARE GOING TO DO SOMETHING LIKE THAT, INCLUDE IT AND SHOW PEOPLE WE'RE GONNA DO IT.
MAYBE I MISUNDERSTOOD YOUR COMMENT.
YOU CAN, IT'S DIFFICULT, YOU KNOW, TO YOU TO DO THAT FOR INDIAN RUN 'CAUSE IT'S SO STEEP.
WELL, UM, DO YOU HAVE ANY QUESTIONS OF US, MATT? DID YOU GET CLARITY? I THINK I'VE HEARD EVERYTHING I NEED TO HEAR AND WE WILL DO OUR BEST TO TAKE WHAT WE TAKE TO THE PUBLIC WITH THIS IN MIND.
AND WE WILL REMOVE INDIAN RUN FROM THE PRESENTATION AND LEAVE THAT ALONE, UM, FOR ANOTHER DAY AS I HEARD.
AND I'D LIKE TO JUST COMMENT ON A COUPLE OF COMMENTS THAT I'VE HEARD.
WE HAD INTERNALLY A RAGING DEBATE ABOUT THE ROPES COURSE AND HOW CLOSE RIGHT TO THE, YOU KNOW, UH, TO THE DUBLIN LINK BRIDGE IT SHOULD BE.
AND SO THE DEBATE WAS IT SHOULD BE FURTHER NORTH ON LAND THAT WE DON'T OWN YET.
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SO THAT'LL PUSH THAT PROGRAM OUT.IT'S JUST ON THE SAME SIDE OF THE RIVER AND A LITTLE FURTHER NORTH.
SO, YOU KNOW, SO I, I APPLAUD, YOU KNOW, UH, COUNCIL FOR RECOGNIZING THAT FROM THAT, THAT WAS, THAT WAS CLEARLY A A, YOU KNOW, A A, A DEBATE WE HAD IN-HOUSE AS WELL.
APPRECIATE ALL YOUR TIME AND EFFORT, BOTH OF YOU AND, AND YOUR TEAM.
UH, THE NEXT ITEM ON OUR AGENDA IS THE SPEED MANAGEMENT PROGRAM, TACTICAL URBANISM PILOT PROGRAM.
AND OUR STAFF REPORT WILL BE FROM TINA.
MEMBERS OF COUNCIL AT THE JULY 31ST, 2023 CITY COUNCIL MEETING.
THE DUBLIN SPEED MANAGEMENT PROGRAM WAS, UH, APPROVED BY CITY COUNCIL AND THE COMMUNITY HAS BEEN VERY RESPONSIVE TO THAT PROGRAM.
I WANTED TO SHOW A FEW SLIDES HERE.
SO WE'VE RECEIVED ABOUT 70 REQUESTS FOR YARD SIGN STICKERS AND MAGNETS, ALONG WITH A SPECIAL APPEARANCE OF THE SLOT.
THAT STATE OF THE CITY PART OF THAT APPROVAL ALSO INCLUDED A RECOMMENDATION FOR STAFF TO DISCUSS UP TO THREE TACTICAL URBAN URBANISM PROJECTS WITH THE COMMUNITY SERVICES ADVISORY COMMISSION OR CSAC AND ADVANCE ITS RECOMMENDATIONS TO CITY COUNCIL.
SO CSAC PROVIDED SUPPORT OF POSITIVE RECOMMENDATION TO INCORPORATE THEIR FEEDBACK AND ADVANCE THE PROPOSED TACTICAL URBANISM PILOT, UM, THROUGH CITY COUNCIL AT THEIR DECEMBER 12TH MEETING.
AND SO WE'RE HERE TONIGHT AS THE WEATHER CONDITIONS START TO PERMIT, UH, THINKING ABOUT THIS INSTALLATION.
AND THESE ARE THE SUGGESTED LOCATIONS THAT ARE SUPPORTED BY CSAC.
UM, THESE ARE FOCUSING OF COURSE ON P PEDESTRIAN FOCUSED AREAS.
SO WE HAVE, UH, AVERY ROAD AT JA ANA DRIVE, WHICH IS USED FREQUENTLY, UM, FOR THE NEIGHBORHOODS TO GET BACK AND FORTH TO AVERY PARK.
AND SIMILARLY, THE SECOND LOCATION IS FLANKING AVERY PARK ON THE OTHER SIDE FOR TULLY MOORE AT HANNIGAN STREET.
AND THEN A THIRD LOCATION IS SELL MILL AT TON, UM, WHICH REALLY INTERCONNECTS THAT PATH SYSTEM THROUGH THIS INTERSECTION, UM, PROVIDING A LOT OF CONNECTIVITY, UM, AND IS MIDWAY BETWEEN, UH, BRAND AND KAUFMAN.
AND NOW I'LL HAND IT OVER TO BRUCE TO TALK A LITTLE BIT ABOUT THE DESIGN AND THE THEMES.
AND THANK YOU MEMBERS OF COUNCIL.
UM, WHEN WE CREATED SLOWDOWN DUBLIN, WE BUILT THE INITIAL DESIGN ELEMENTS FOR A CAMPAIGN AND THEN WE EXPANDED UPON IT FOR CSEC, UH, FOR THE LAYOUTS FOR CONSIDERATION.
SO THE TREES TIE INTO THE SURROUNDING NEIGHBORHOODS, OBVIOUSLY.
AND THEN THE SLOTH REPRESENTS MOVING SLOWER.
THE STEERING WHEEL REPRESENTS THE DRIVER'S RESPONSIBILITY BEHIND THE WHEEL, WHICH ALSO TURNS INTO A SLOTH FACE WHEN YOU TURN IT UPSIDE DOWN.
UH, AND THESE DESIGNS WILL BE APPLIED TO THE PAVEMENT AS DECALS.
SIMILAR TO THE DORA DECALS, UH, THE CIRCLES IN DOWNTOWN DUBLIN.
SO THE INITIAL DESIGNS WERE PRESENTED TO CSAC AND THE FEEDBACK WE RECEIVE WAS SUPPORTIVE OF THE PILOT.
TACTICAL URBANISM INSTALLATIONS, UH, INCLUDE ALL THREE PROPOSED LOCATIONS, RECOMMENDS THEY RECOMMENDED SIMPLIFYING THE GRAPHICS, ADDING EDGE LINES, USING A CONSISTENT DESIGN FOR ALL THREE INTERSECTIONS, THE INTERSECTIONS.
AND IF THE PILOT PROJECT IS SUCCESSFUL, CSAC RECOMMENDED EXPANDING TACTICAL URBANISMS TO ALL SCHOOL ZONES.
UM, SO THIS IS AN EXAMPLE OF WHAT IT WOULD BE LIKE ADDING THOSE EDGE LINES TO SHOW A DEFINED AREA.
SO WHAT WE CAME UP WITH, UM, BASED ON THE MODIFICATIONS, WE HAVE TWO OPTIONS NOW.
BOTH HAVE THE SLOWDOWN MARKINGS THAT PROVIDE INITIAL VISUAL CUES TO DRIVERS AS THEY APPROACH THE INTERSECTION.
UM, YOU HAVE OUR SLOWDOWN DUBLIN SLOTH IN THE CROSSWALK, AND BOTH OPTIONS SHORTEN THOSE CROSSING DISTANCE FOR, UH, PEDESTRIANS AND REDUCE EXPOSURE TO TIME AND TRAFFIC BY, UH, TO TRAFFIC TIME BY 20 TO 30%.
SO AS WE WERE REFINING OPTION ONE, WE THOUGHT THAT THE TREES WERE KIND OF TURNING INTO CAMOUFLAGE AND BLEEDING INTO THE LANDSCAPE TOO MUCH.
SO OPTION TWO WAS CREATING, USING A POP OF COLORS, UM, FROM OUR SLOWDOWN SIGNS TO CREATE A MORE VISUALLY STIMULATING EFFECT.
SO IT'S STAFF RECOMMENDATION TO GO WITH OPTION TWO.
NOW THIS PILOT IS, UM, HIGHLY DEPENDENT ON RESIDENT FEEDBACK AND ONCE INSTALLED, WE'LL REACH OUT TO RESIDENTS IN THE AREA TO SEEK FEEDBACK ON THE PROJECT THROUGH TELL DUBLIN.
WE WILL ALSO BE CONDUCTING BEFORE AND AFTER SPEED STUDIES, TRAFFIC STUDIES TO DETERMINE MEASURABLE IMPACTS AND COMMUNICATIONS AND MARKETING.
WE USE ALL OF OUR CHANNELS TO SUPPORT AWARENESS AND EDUCATION AROUND THE PURPOSE AND BENEFIT OF TACTICAL URBANISM AND HOW THIS EFFORT IS PART OF THE CITY'S SLOWDOWN INITIATIVE.
AND WITH THAT, I'LL TURN IT BACK OVER TO TINA.
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THANKS.UM, JUST TO WALK THROUGH THE NEXT STEPS HERE.
THE FUNDING IS IDENTIFIED THROUGH THE CIP UNDER THE SPEED MANAGEMENT PROJECT, CITYWIDE LINE ITEM, UM, ST 24 CO FIVE.
AND, UM, WITH YOUR SUPPORT, THE, UM, MATERIALS COULD BE PURCHASED HERE SHORTLY AND THEN ENTER THAT COMMUNICATIONS PHASE IN THE INSTALLATION OVER THE SUMMER, FOLLOWED BY EVALUATION PERIOD.
UM, AND IF THE, UH, PILOT PROJECT SUCCESSFUL STAFF WOULD THEN LOOK TO DEVELOP GUIDELINES, UM, INCLUDING MATERIALS AND COLOR PALETTES, DESIGN CRITERIA, AND PERMISSIBLE LOCATIONS TO BE INCORPORATED THROUGHOUT THE CITY, UM, TO REALLY LET RESIDENTS, UM, TAKE A GRASSROOTS EFFORT AT BRINGING THEIR OWN IDENTITY AND COMFORT TO THEIR NEIGHBORHOOD STREETS.
AND THERE ARE SEVERAL EXAMPLES OF THIS THROUGHOUT THE COUNTRY.
UM, ONE OF THESE IS THE ONE SHOWN HERE FOR ATLANTA, GEORGIA.
SO OUR QUESTIONS FOR YOU TONIGHT ARE, UM, IS CITY COUNCIL SUPPORTIVE OF THE ELEMENTS AND DESIGNS INCLUDED IN OPTION TWO AND THE THREE SELECTED LOCATIONS, UH, WHICH WERE INCORPORATED BASED ON THE DISCUSSION WITH CSAC? AND ARE THERE ANY OTHER ELEMENTS CITY COUNCIL WOULD LIKE TO SEE IN THE TACTICAL URBANISM PILOT PROJECT STAFF'S RECOMMENDING? UM, OPTION TWO.
AND I'M HAPPY TO ANSWER ANY QUESTIONS OR GO BACK TO THE DISCUSSION SLIDE.
IS THERE ANYONE LEFT THAT WOULD LIKE TO SPEAK RELATIVE TO THE SPEED MANAGEMENT PROGRAM? HEARING NONE, WE WILL MOVE ON TO COUNCIL QUESTIONS AND DISCUSSION.
UM, I GUESS THERE'S SCIENCE BEHIND THIS.
IT WOULD SEEM TO ME THAT THE LONG NARROW ONES THAT ARE ALONG STRAIGHTAWAYS WOULD SLOW PEOPLE DOWN, BUT ON A CURVE, PEOPLE ARE SLOWING DOWN ANYWAY.
ARE THEY SLOWING DOWN MORE BECAUSE THEY HAVE TO KIND OF NAVIGATE THAT REALLY NARROW TURN YEAH.
HELPS TIGHTEN UP THAT RADIUS THAT ALSO, UM, SHORTENS THE CROSSING DISTANCE FOR THE PEDESTRIAN.
UM, IT'S, I LIKE THE VISUAL INTEREST, THE COLOR, UM, SOME OF THESE OTHERS THAT YOU SHOW, LIKE IN BALTIMORE, I HAVE A LITTLE BIT MORE OF A PATTERN TO 'EM.
IF I HAD TO PICK, I GUESS I WOULD GO THAT ROUTE.
BUT FOR A PILOT PROJECT, I THINK YOU'VE NAILED IT WITH OPTION TWO.
OTHER THOUGHTS, COMMENTS? OH, SURE.
UM, SO WOULD IT, WOULD IT MAKE SOME SENSE TO HAVE MULTIPLE DIFFERENT OPTIONS TO SEE WHICH ONE WORKS BETTER RATHER THAN THIS WOULD BE ALL THREE WOULD BE THE SAME? IS THAT THE THINKING IS, I DON'T KNOW, IS IT A COST THING? BUT IT, IT SEEMS TO ME IF WE'RE TESTING, WE OUGHT TO TRY A COUPLE DIFFERENT ONES AND SEE WHAT WE GET FROM IT, UM,
UM, I WOULD MAKE THE COMMENT ON TULLEY MOORE, THAT PARTICULAR INTERSECTION, IT'S KIDS ARE GOING TO THE PARK FOR GAMES.
I, I THINK ONE OF MY CONCERNS OR ISSUES ABOUT THAT SPOT IS THAT THE PARKING ALL UP DOWN THERE CREATES REAL BLIND SPOTS.
I KNOW, 'CAUSE I, I BIKE UP THERE A A LOT.
SO IF WE'RE GONNA DO THIS, I THINK WE HAVE TO PROTECT SOME OF THAT.
SO THAT I, I THINK WE, WE JUST NEED TO LOOK AT THE PARKING NEAR THERE BECAUSE I THINK THAT'S ONE OF THE BIGGER CHALLENGES IS YOU CANNOT SEE PEOPLE COMING WHEN THERE'S PARKED CARS THERE.
YOU CAN'T SEE PEOPLE COMING THROUGH THERE.
SO I THINK WE NEED TO LOOK AT THE DESIGN AROUND THAT AND MAYBE CREATE SOME VISUAL SPACE, UM, AGAIN AND THEN TEST THAT.
SO, UM, I, I WOULD, I WOULD LEAVE IT UP TO YOU TO PICK THE OPTION.
I MIGHT SAY TRY A COUPLE DIFFERENT THINGS TO SEE WHAT YOU GET.
AND I, I VERY MUCH APPRECIATE YOUR WORK ON THIS.
NOW AMY, I JUST HAD A COUPLE QUESTIONS.
UM, 'CAUSE I DON'T GO THROUGH THESE INTERSECTIONS A LOT.
UM, THE FIRST ONE ACTUALLY TIES INTO WHAT SHE SAID.
ARE THERE NO PARKING SIGNS WITHIN PROXIMITY TO THESE CROSSINGS RIGHT NOW? LIKE, SO THAT IT'S A CLEAR VIEW ONLY OF THE THREE, THERE'S ONLY ONE THAT YOU WOULD PARK NEXT TO, RIGHT? THE ONES ALONG ON BURLINGTON.
THE ONES ALONG AVERY, THERE'S NO PARKING 'CAUSE IT'S, BUT I, I THINK, SO THAT WAS ONE QUESTION.
THE, THE SECOND QUESTION IS ARE THAT, DO ALL THREE OF THESE LOCATIONS HAVE, UM, CAUTION CROSSWALK SIGNS? UM, AND IF NOT, WOULD THAT BE A COMPONENT WE WOULD WANNA TEST OR ADD? UM, WITHIN THEM? YEAH, WE CAN LOOK AT THAT.
I KNOW THERE'S TWO, TWO OF THE THREE FOR SURE DO, AND I CAN'T REMEMBER THE THIRD, BUT WE CAN, WE CAN DEFINITELY MAKE SURE THAT, I WAS JUST CURIOUS THAT, UM, OF THE EXISTING SIGNAGE AROUND THESE THREE AND TO TAKE NOTE OF IT, AND MAYBE TO KATHY'S POINT, DOES IT MAKE A DIFFERENCE
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IF THE ONE HAS THE CAUTION PEOPLE CROSSING AHEAD OR PARK AHEAD SIGN AND THE OTHER DOESN'T? OR, UM, JUST CONSIDER THE GENERAL SIGN, UH, SIGNAGE IN THE VICINITY OF THEM? SO WHAT ARE, WHAT ARE YOUR MEASURES OF SUCCESS? WHAT WOULD YOU CONSIDER TO BE SUCCESSFUL? UM, IN TERMS OF FURTHERING THE PROGRAM? I, I THINK PROBABLY TWO THINGS IS THE METRICS FROM THE SPEED, THE BEFORE AND AFTER.AND THEN THE, THE RESPONSE, UM, FROM THE COMMUNITY WOULD BE THE MAIN THING.
SO DO YOU PLAN ON DOING, UM, AN AN AN AFTER SURVEY AFTER THEY'VE BENEFIT FOR A PERIOD OF TIME? OR WOULD YOU DO OKAY.
I, I THINK, I THINK WE SHOULD DO SOME DIFFERENT THINGS BECAUSE EVENTUALLY WE'RE PROBABLY GONNA USE THESE IN VARIOUS PLACES THROUGHOUT THE CITY.
SO IT WOULD BE KIND OF NICE TO SEE ONE AESTHETICALLY.
I, I WASN'T CRAZY ABOUT THE THREE COLORS.
IT SEEMS A LITTLE OUT OF PLACE IN OUR NATURAL ENVIRONMENT.
I'M NOT SURE IF THE TREES ARE IT OR NOT, BUT I, BUT I WOULD LIKE TO SEE YOU TRY SOME DIFFERENT THINGS TO SEE IN THE END WHAT WE MIGHT END UP WITH AND IF IT DOESN'T MAKE ANY DIFFERENCE SPEED WISE.
I THINK THE SLOTH IS A CUTE IDEA.
UH, YOU KNOW, I THINK WE CAN DO A LOT OF FUN THINGS WITH THAT.
BUT I, I WOULD DEFINITELY, UM, LIKE TO SEE YOU TRY SOME DIFFERENT THINGS.
ARE WE ONTO THE SECOND QUESTION OR WE'VE, IS THIS IT? GO AHEAD.
THE SECOND ONE ON, YEAH, IT'S TIME TO GO HOME.
I KNOW I NEED TO LET THE DOG OUT.
UM, UM, I, I THINK IT WOULD BE WONDERFUL IN THIS ONE PICTURE WHERE YOU HAVE A LARGE PLANTER, THIS SORT OF EXTENDED OUT A LITTLE BIT PAST THE SIDEWALK.
I CAN'T RECALL NOW ON RIVERSIDE DRIVE, IF THERE'S SOME AREAS WHERE IT JUTS OUT ACROSS FROM BRIDGE PARK WHERE THE CURB CUTS OUT A LITTLE BIT.
YOU KNOW, YOU MAY NOT SEE THAT IN AT NIGHTTIME, BUT IF YOU HAD A LARGE PLANTER WITH A, A TREE IN IT, THAT WOULD, THAT WOULD DEFINITELY BE SOMETHING THAT WOULD TEND TO SLOW YOU DOWN.
SO I LIKE THE IDEA OF MAYBE DOING, LOOKING AT SOME OF THOSE OTHER OPTIONS, ESPECIALLY WHERE WE HAVE SOME HIGH SPEEDS.
UM, NOW I'M, I'M ALL FOR TWO AND I JUST WAS WONDERING, OKAY, UH, HAVE YOU GUYS THOUGHT ABOUT THE, THE COLORS FOR THIS FEDERAL HIGHWAY ADMINISTRATION IMPROVED COLOR PALETTE? SO THAT SORT OF LOOKS NOT TOO GARISH.
HAVE YOU GUYS THOUGHT YOUR WAY THROUGH ANY OF THIS YET? OR NO? I MEAN WE, THAT THOSE COLORS WERE SELECTED BASED ON THE INITIAL CAMPAIGN, THE SLOWDOWN CAMPAIGN.
AND THEN WHEN TINA TALKED ABOUT HAVING A REFERENCE GUIDE AT THE END, YOU KNOW, THIS IS A PILOT PROJECT.
IF THIS WORKS, THEN WE NEED TO REFINE THOSE COLORS AND MAKE 'EM MORE DUBLIN, IF YOU WILL.
SO I, WE SEE WHERE YOU'RE COMING FROM ON THAT.
YEAH, I MEAN, I SEE SOME COLORS ON THIS PALETTE THAT WOULD WORK TOGETHER.
THAT WOULDN'T BE JUST CRAZY LEE GARISH.
ANY OTHER COMMENTS? UM, SO IS GENERAL SUPPORT FOR OPTION TWO WITH MAYBE A FEW AMENDMENTS ADJUSTMENTS THAT, LIKE, ARE, ARE WE GONNA TRY ANYTHING ADDITIONAL OR? I, I THINK THAT'S THE, THE ADJUSTMENT.
UM, SO I WILL GO AHEAD AND MAKE A MOTION TO PROCEED WITH IMPLEMENTING OPTION TWO WITH AMENDMENTS AS CAPTURED THIS EVENING AT THE THREE SELECTED LOCATIONS FOR THE PILOT PROJECT.
I'M SORRY, WE'RE JUST OVERZEALOUS ON THE BUTTONS.
SO THERE'S BEEN A MOTION AND A SECOND.
JENNY, WOULD YOU PLEASE CALL THE ROLE VICE MAYOR LUDO? YES.
THIS BRINGS US TO THE STAFF COMMENTS PORTION
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OF OUR AGENDA.I DO HAVE JUST A FEW, UM, QUICK UPDATES DUE TO THE TIMELINESS OF THEM.
UM, FIRST OF ALL, TABLE RESERVATIONS FOR THE INDEPENDENCE DAY EVENING CELEBRATION OPEN NEXT WEEK RESIDENTS CAN REGISTER FOR THE SALE ON MAY 13TH AND 14TH.
AND THIS YEAR RESIDENTS CAN RESERVE UP TO TWO EIGHT PERSON TABLES.
UM, WE INVITE THE COMMUNITY TO JOIN US ON MAY 18TH FROM 9:00 AM TO NOON FOR EXPERIENCE PUBLIC WORKS DAY.
THAT IS THE KICKOFF TO OUR ANNUAL PUBLIC WORKS WEEK AND WILL FEATURE VEHICLES AND EQUIPMENT'S USED BY OUR PUBLIC SERVICE TEAM AND LOTS OF OTHER, UM, ITEMS OF INTEREST.
AND WE HOPE TO SEE EVERYBODY THERE, THE COMMUNITY INVITED TO BRING THEIR BIKES AND ATTEND THE RIBBON CUTTING FOR, UM, THE RIBBON CUTTING DEDICATION CEREMONY FOR THE NEW BIKE TRACK, UM, AT EMERALD FIELDS PARK ON MAY 20TH, WHICH IS JUST PRIOR TO THE COUNCIL MEETING THAT EVENING FROM FIVE TO 6:00 PM FOLLOWING A BRIEF OPENING INTRODUCTION, THERE'LL BE DEMONSTRATIONS ON HOW TO USE THE NEW PUMP
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TRACK BY MEMBERS OF THE BMX PURPLE HEART RACING TEAM, ALONG WITH FREE ICE CREAM TO THOSE WHO ATTEND THAT EVENT.AND THEN FINALLY, ON MAY 8TH AT 7:00 PM AT THE DUBLIN COMMUNITY RECREATION CENTER STAFF WILL BE HOLDING A PUBLIC MEETING WITH PROPERTY OWNERS, UM, NEAR THE WATERLINE REPLACEMENT PHASE SEVEN PROJECT.
THAT PROCESS PROJECT WILL REPLACE AGING TWO INCH AND THREE INCH WATER LINES THAT HAVE BEEN IDENTIFIED FOR REPLACEMENT AND WATER LINES WILL BE REPLACED ON SEVERAL COURTS IN MUIRFIELD IN THE AREA NORTH OF GLICK AND EAST OF CONCRETE CONCORD ROAD.
AND THAT IS ALL I HAVE THIS EVENING.
[COUNCIL REPORTS]
US TO COUNCIL REPORTS ADMINISTRATIVE COMMITTEE REPORT.KATHY, I DO THANK YOU VERY MUCH.
UM, THE ADMINISTRATIVE COMMITTEE MET ON MAY 1ST TO DISCUSS TWO ITEMS. ONE IS THE ADVISORY COMMITTEE DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES, AND THEN TO BEGIN OUR ANNUAL REVIEW OF COUNCIL'S.
AS YOU KNOW, OVER THE COURSE OF THE LAST FEW YEARS, THERE'S BEEN A SUBSTANTIAL AMOUNT OF WORK DONE TO PROVIDE STRUCTURE AND ORGAN ORGANIZATION AROUND OUR, UM, BOARDS AND COMMISSIONS AND PARTICULARLY, UM, RECENT WORK ON THE CITY'S ADVISORY COMMITTEES TO CREATE EFFICIENCY AND EFFECTIVENESS, INCLUDE THESE RULES AND REGULATIONS, ONBOARDING AND TRAINING, AS THESE REMAIN RELATIVELY NEW, UM, GROUPS.
IN RESPONSE TO REQUESTS FOR CLARITY, STAFF PRESENTED A MEMO OUTLINING THE ROLES AND RESPONSIBILITY OF OUR ADVISORY COMMITTEES.
THE COMMITTEE HAD AN OPPORTUNITY TO OFFER FEEDBACK AND ASKED QUESTIONS, WHICH WE DID, AND STAFF WILL BRING BACK A REVISED MEMO TO THE COMMITTEE AT THE NEXT MEETING.
UM, LIKEWISE ANOTHER DOCUMENT TO HELP OFFER CLARITY AND CONSISTENCY.
AND THAT IS OUR CODE OF CONDUCT FORM THAT IS DISTRIBUTED TO AND SIGNED BY ALL OUR APPOINTEES WAS ALSO REVIEWED.
AND STAFF WILL BRING BACK SUGGESTED REVISIONS OF THAT TO THE COMMITTEE IN JUNE.
UM, THEN AFTER THE COMMITTEE SEES IT'LL FIND ITS WAY TO COUNCIL, THE COMMITTEE ALSO BEGAN THE ROUTINE REVIEW OF COUNCIL'S RULE OF, OF ORDER TO ENSURE RELEVANCY AND EFFECTIVENESS.
UM, THERE WAS CONSENSUS TO AMEND THE VARIOUS SECTIONS TO ALLOW MORE FLEXIBILITY AND MEANING MANAGEMENT, ALONG WITH SOME OTHER CLARIFYING LANGUAGE AROUND WORK SESSIONS AS WELL AS SOME ADMINISTRATIVE UPDATES.
ONCE AGAIN, STAFF WILL BRING BACK SOME RED LINE VERSIONS TO THE COMMITTEE AT OUR NEXT MEETING IN JUNE.
AND THEN SUBSEQUENT TO THAT, YOU WILL SEE THAT, I GUESS QUITE LIKELY AFTER BREAK FOR YOUR REVIEW.
ANYBODY ELSE WANNA ADD ANYTHING? OKAY, THANKS.
WELL, THANK YOU TO THE ADMIN COMMITTEE.
YOU'VE BEEN WORKING VERY HARD ON TRYING TO GET STANDARDIZATION ACROSS BOARDS AND COMMISSIONS AND, UH, REALLY ORGANIZATIONAL.
I KNOW THAT IT ISN'T ALWAYS FUN WORK, BUT IT IS EXTREMELY IMPORTANT.
OKAY, THIS BRINGS US TO COUNCIL
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ROUND TABLE.I WILL START DOWN HERE ON MY FAR RIGHT, AMY.
UM, I DON'T HAVE ANYTHING THIS EVENING.
JOHN, SEE YOU AT THE TURK MEETING AT 11 O'CLOCK TOMORROW.
UH, SO I WANTED TO THANK ALL THE FOLKS THAT TURNED OUT ON SATURDAY FOR COMMUNITY SERVICE DAY.
AS TYPICAL IN DUBLIN, THE WEATHER ALWAYS LOOKS LIKE IT'S GONNA BE REALLY, REALLY CRUMMY AND THE CLOUDS SOMEHOW PART FOR US.
UM, BOB TAYLOR SENT PAIRS OF ROTARIANS OUT TO DROP PINS ON THE 150 MILES OF WALKING PATHS ANYWHERE THERE WAS A ROOT POP.
SO ANYWHERE THERE WAS A CRACK CREATED BY A TREE OR ROOT, YOU HAD TO DROP A PIN.
SO MY SON AND I, WE BIKED LIKE 10 MILES THROUGH NOOKS AND CRANNIES THAT YOU WOULD NEVER KNOW EXISTED IN THIS 150 MILE NETWORK OF, OF WALKING PATHS.
YOU SEE THE ONES ON MEREFIELD DRIVE, YOU SEE THE ONES ON DUBLIN ROAD, EMERALD.
UM, BUT THESE HIDDEN LITTLE GEMS THROUGH THE WOODS, YOU WOULD NEVER KNOW YOU WERE EVEN IN THE CITY.
SO I ALMOST THINK THAT, UH, THE ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT TEAM, ANYTIME THEY BRING A C-SUITE EXECUTIVE INTO TOWN TO WHINE 'EM AND DINE 'EM, THEY SHOULD TAKE 'EM OUT ON ONE OF THESE WALKING PATHS, IT SOME SECLUDED AREA SO THAT THEY CAN SEE THE SPECIAL GEM THAT WE HAVE.
I WOULD JUST ADD THAT, UM, UH, JANIE, CHRIS AND I HAD AN OPPORTUNITY TO ATTEND THE JASKO ANNIVERSARY GALA, UM, LAST TWO WEEKS AGO NOW.
AND AGAIN, WANTED TO CONGRATULATE, UM, THE HIKA CORPORATION AND MR. HIKA FOR WINNING THE OUTSTANDING, UH, COMPANY AWARD.
MUCH DESERVED, AND IT'S ALWAYS IMPRESSIVE TO HEAR THE BACKGROUND AND THE DEDICATION, BUT IT WAS A LOVELY EVENT AND AN OPPORTUNITY TO CELEBRATE THE COMMUNITY.
AND AGAIN, OUR OUR WONDERFUL CORPORATE CITIZEN,
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UH, THE HAKA.UH, I JUST HAVE A, A NUMBER OF THINGS.
THE AKAH UH, DINNER WAS CERTAINLY LOVELY.
UH, ON THE 23RD I HAD THE OPPORTUNITY TO, UH, VISIT WITH THE SAR NOVA PEOPLE AS THEY DID KIND OF THE UNVEILING FOR THEIR, THEIR NEW PROJECT, WHICH IS VERY EXCITED.
UM, THEY'VE BEEN HERE FOR 20 YEARS AND WE'RE HOPING FOR AT LEAST 20 MORE, UH, ON THE 24TH OF, OF MAY, THE CENTRAL OHIO REGIONAL WATER STUDY KICKOFF HAPPENED.
AND, UM, THERE IS A LOT OF INFORMATION THAT WILL BE FORTHCOMING, AND THIS STUDY WILL BE VERY, UM, INFORMATIVE.
UM, I THINK ANDY AND KATHY AND AMY AND I ATTENDED THE GROUNDBREAKING OF ELEMENTARY 15, UH, AND LOOK FOR THE SCHOOLS TO CONTINUE THEIR GREAT PATH OF EDUCATING OUR YOUTH.
UM, I DID ATTEND THE, ON THE 30TH OF DELAWARE COUNTY, STATE OF THE COUNTY WAS HELD AT THE ZOO.
UM, AND THEN AFTER THAT WE ALSO HAD OUR FINAL ENVISION DUBLIN, UH, MEETING FOR THE, FOR THE GROUP.
SO THOSE, UH, THINGS WILL CONTINUE TO COME FORWARD TO THIS BODY.
UM, WE DID HAVE A, A LEGISLATOR'S LUNCH ON, ON MAY THE FIRST, UH, I HAD DID HAVE THE OPPORTUNITY TO ATTEND THE DUBLIN INTERFAITH, UH, PRAYER BREAKFAST ON, UM, ON THE SECOND.
AND IT, THEY, THEY HAD A PANEL THERE AND ONE WAS, UM, A TIBETAN BUDDHIST, UH, THERE WAS A JEWISH MAN, THERE WAS A CHRISTIAN WOMAN AND THERE WAS A MUSLIM MAN FROM TURKEY.
AND TO HEAR THEIR STORIES AND TO HEAR THEIR PASSION AND THEIR RESPECT FOR ONE ANOTHER AND THEIR CARE FOR ONE ANOTHER.
AND, UM, IT WAS REALLY A MOVING TIME.
AND, UH, I REALLY APPRECIATED THE INVITATION AND CERTAINLY, UM, ENJOYED OUR HEARING, OUR RESIDENTS AND ALL OF THEIR DIFFERENT FAITHS AND PERSPECTIVES.
UH, THE COMMA MEETING WAS HELD ON FRIDAY IN REYNOLDSBURG AT THEIR NEW LIBRARY.
AND SO WE GOT A BRIEF UPDATE ON THE THINGS THAT ARE HAPPENING IN THE LIBRARY.
BUT THE BULK OF THE MEETING WAS, UH, DEDICATED TOWARDS, UM, STATE OUR, UM, ELECTED OFFICIALS, UH, HOUSE REPRESENTATIVES AND SENATE REPRESENTATIVES, UH, THAT WAS REALLY AROUND HOME RULE AND SOME OF THOSE ITEMS. AND THEN, UM, COMMUNITY SERVICE DAY ON SATURDAY WAS REALLY A GREAT DAY.
I GOT TO BE ON MEGAN'S TEAM, UH, WITH HER KIDS.
UM, SO MY, MY HUSBAND AND MY, UH, MY OLDEST WERE WORKING THE T-SHIRT DISTRIBUTION TABLE.
AND THEN, UH, MEGAN AND I GOT TO GO SLING MULCH AT SOME RESIDENCE HOMES AND WASH SOME WINDOWS AND DO THINGS LIKE THAT.
AND, YOU KNOW, WE WERE TWO OF 300 PEOPLE IN THE CITY THAT WERE SERVING OUR NEIGHBORS LIKE THAT.
SO THANK YOU TO ALL OF OUR RESIDENTS THAT ARE DEDICATED TO SERVING THEIR NEIGHBORS AND CARING FOR THEM, UM, IN THE MOST TRYING OF TIMES.
SO WITH THAT, IF THERE'S NOTHING FURTHER FOR THE GOOD OF THE ORDER, WE WILL STAND ADJOURNED.