Mantua Township Trustees regular meeting
Thursday, February 6, 2025
6:00 PM
Mantua Township Town Hall
4122 State Route 82
Mantua, Ohio 44255
Attendance
Susan Lilley- Trustee
Matthew Benner- Vice-Chair, trustee
John Festa- Chair, trustee
Julia Pemberton- Fiscal Officer
Tim Bennett- Custodian
Rich Gano- Mantua Township Zoning Inspector
Joan Martin- Mantua Township Zoning Board of Appeals
Mark Hall- Mantua Restoration Society
Carole Pollard- Chamber of Commerce
Tia Rutledge- Portage County Water Resources Planning Manager
Audio recording of the meeting:
Documenter Summary
Portage County Water Resources explained ongoing plans to allow certain properties in the township in the Timber Pointe Trail area to choose between connecting new builds to the county sewer or setting up their own septic tank. Currently, these properties are required to connect to the sewer, which is significantly more expensive than septic.
The township custodian, Tim Bennett, discovered a pipe burst in the Civic Center on January 26. The damage to the building has been minimized because of how quickly Bennett acted. The trustees approved a motion to contract Servpro of South & East Stark County for restoration work. Depending on the cost, the township may be required to accept bids for reconstruction work. The groups who are currently signed up to rent the space are either able to be moved to another venue or can still meet at the Civic Center, but no new rentals will be accepted until the building is fully repaired.
The trustees passed a resolution to contract Barnes Roofing to replace the town hall roof for $10,600. The Mantua Restoration Society may be able to contribute $7,000 to the project, but further discussions need to be had about how the money will be dispersed for tracking purposes.
The School Lane property is nearly restored and will soon be the new home for several township departments. When work is complete, a public open house will be announced. Trustees anticipate this will be in March.
Trustees reassured the public that they have not approved the Portage Park District’s plans to expand the Hike and Bike Trail into Mantua right of ways. Many residents are concerned about their property and safety if this were to happen. A representative from the park district will be invited to a future meeting to provide an explanation.
Trustee John Festa is looking into what the Department of Government Efficiency’s (DOGE) order to pause American Rescue Plan Act dollars means for the township. He does not believe their funding is impacted because it has already been deposited into the bank.
Trustees are working on improving township communication with residents by looking into purchasing an outdoor sign, creating an email list and increasing the use of Facebook.
Documenter Notes
Fiscal Officer Report
The meeting began with the fiscal officer report by Julia Pemberton. The township has received updated paperwork to renew insurance, but they will be comparing other providers due to premium increases caused by the rise in property values. Pemberton also reported that the 2024 mileage for the township was 38.16.
Service Department
The service department reports that they received a new shipment of salt for the roads. Trustees say they hope it lasts until spring, given that several more ice storms are expected.
Zoning Board of Appeals
The trustees approved Joan Martin’s reappointment to chair the Zoning Board of Appeals for another 5 years. Martin reports that the board is currently working on several documents that outline their procedures to help property owners understand the appeal process. They are nearly finished with this project. She also mentions that the board will be electing officers at their next meeting.
Chamber of Commerce Report
Carole Pollard shared two upcoming events in Mantua. For “Galentine’s Day,” there will be horse drawn carriage rides available from 4-8pm. Customers board at Lulu Tru Boutique, Salon, and Spa. Tickets are $10 per person or $40 for a group.
The chamber will also be participating in a county-wide Chamber of Commerce meeting at the Kent State Innovation Hub on February 26.
Portage County Water Resources Report
Tia Rutledge explained the county is working on updating prescriptions for certain properties to allow developers to decide whether to connect their buildings to the county sewers or use septic tanks. Currently, much of the Timber Pointe Trail subdivision area is prescribed to connect to sewer only, but due to the high required costs of hiring a designer, EPA permits and tap-in fees, as well as the requirement to turn over ownership and operation of the lines to the county after construction, development in the area has been stifled. This only applies to new construction in the area. Current residents will not be assessed. The county commissioners and health department already signed off on this plan, and the trustees also signed a document agreeing. The form they signed says that they are aware of the planned changes.
Rutledge adds Water Resources would like to construct a water tower near the schools in the future. She says that the village does not have enough water supply and water pressure for fire protection. She adds that the water tower is also necessary because the reservoir is over 100 years old and would be very costly to fix if it failed. Matthew Benner also made plans to speak more with Rutledge in the future about getting more water supply to the township for business owners that need more water to expand their operations. He mentioned that one business did leave the area because of this limitation.
Trustee Reports- New Business
Civic Center Flooding Report
On January 26, township custodian Tim Bennett discovered the shut off valves of the pipes under the top floor sink had come apart and flooded the top floor, causing damage to the floor and ceiling. It was discovered that the heat was not reaching the pipes, which caused them to freeze. Trustees hired Servpro of South & East Stark County, as this was the first company available to provide restoration services and waiting would have caused further damage to the Civic Center. Benner disclosed that he is a subcontractor with Servpro’s parent company, Orion, but emphasized he did not benefit from the transaction. He recused himself from the discussion and voting on the matter to avoid any potential conflict of interest.
Servpro finished the current phase of restoration work on February 5 and the dumpster was removed from the Civic Center February 6. Bennett still has work to do cleaning up. In March, the Civic Center will be closed for repairs. If the quote comes out to at least $77,200, the township must let companies submit bids for the work for 30 days.
There are several groups that currently have the space rented for meetings. Bennett explained that all but one have been relocated to either the gym or township hall, and the remaining group will be fine to meet at the Civic Center in its current condition.
The trustees resolved to approve the contract with Servpro to perform demolition and restoration work on the building, though the work has already begun. The township submitted an insurance claim for the damage which was approved. No township funds will need to be used.
Town Hall Roof Replacement
The trustees passed a resolution to accept Barnes Roofing’s quote of $10,600 to repair the Mantua Township Town Hall roof. The Mantua Restoration Society proposed a donation of $7,000 toward the repair, if the township agreed to paint the exterior with latex-based paint, replace any siding with matching wood material and use traditional asphalt or fiberglass materials for the roof. The trustees agreed to these conditions. However, the Restoration Society also requested that their $7,000 check go directly to the contractor, which the trustees did not agree with because all funds the township receives must go into a fund before being dispersed for accounting purposes. The trustees said they understand if this changes the group’s ability to make the donation. Mark Hall of the Restoration Society said he would speak in more detail with the township at a later date to understand how money is tracked and find a possible solution.
Change of occupancy permit
John Festa has a meeting on Feb. 10 for a walk through of the property. The application has been extended due to a backlog in the Building Department.
School Lane Property
Festa explained the house purchased to be converted into offices will contain the Fiscal Officer, Zoning Inspector, Cemetery Sexton and possibly other offices. The building did have extensive water damage that impacted computer equipment, desks and papers. New desks were purchased, the computers do run but not very well, and the printer was moved to the School Lane Property.
The property will have office hours on Tuesdays and Thursdays from 10am-12pm for officials who need to use the printer. A public open house will be held some time in March when the work is completed. That date will be announced in the future.
Portage Park District Right of Way
Festa said the township will not approve the Hike and Bike Trail expansion on Mantua Township’s right of way. He says a representative from the park district will be invited to a future meeting to discuss why they are already advertising Mantua on the Hike and Bike Trail. A resident added that a neighborhood meeting was held where many people shared concerns like the trail requiring them to move fences on their property. This neighborhood group is working on a resolution regarding the trail that they will bring to the trustees soon.
Festa reiterated that the Board of Trustees is not against the Portage Park District as a whole; they are just not in favor of the trail expanding to Mantua’s right of ways for resident safety.
Winter Conference
Festa attended a conference from the Ohio Township Association to learn more about how townships operate. He said the conference went very well, and he learned a lot, including about right of ways, speed limits, protocols to reduce legal action on zoning departments and cemetery management.
Amazon Business
Festa explained that since all townships receive a free Amazon Business account, Mantua will soon be giving access to such an account to their employees. All purchases will go through Fiscal Officer Pemberton. This will save the township on both the cost of an Amazon subscription, which ranges from $100-$400, but also shipping costs.
Old Business
American Rescue Plan Act (ARPA) Funding
Festa mentioned that the American Rescue Plan funding has been paused by Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), however, he does not believe this will affect the township because the funds have already been dispersed and are in the township account. Trustees will continue to monitor decisions from Washington that may have an impact on township business.
The trustees will set up a special meeting on February 18 to perform employee reviews.
Festa said the township is still looking for an outdoor sign board to communicate information with residents.
Festa also discussed upcoming purchases of granite countertops and columbariums for the township. The columbariums have a potential for 220% profit due to an increased interest from the public in less traditional burials.
Roads
Festa began by saying that road maintenance is expensive and the costs are increasing, especially because of the increased number of trash-hauling vehicles from different companies on the road. At this time, the township does not want to increase the tax levies for roads, but more money or a solution to lower maintenance expenses is needed.
Festa talked to Waste Management about having a single carrier for municipalities. This is an option, but people were upset when it was tried previously. Festa said he also asked the developments if they can agree on a single carrier to reduce the number of heavy duty vehicles on the roads.
Festa emphasized again that the trustees do not want to raise taxes, but it is possible in the future. He says the township is not close to making a decision yet.
The 30% increase in property taxes may result in more money coming into the township’s general fund, which can be used for road work due to a new Ohio law. This will be looked into.
Zoning Inspector Report- Rich Gano
Zoning Inspector provided an update on a property owner that restored a barn and is interested in constructing a house on the lot. Another property owner is requesting the trustees to vacate a portion of a road because people are coming to do burnouts and donuts. Trustees and Zoning Inspector will look into this more by visiting the site and speaking to the property owner. Gano said he would deliver a list of other things happening to the trustees.
Township Dinner will be held February 15 at Waterloo School. The new prosecutor will be at the dinner.
Public Comment
Hall announced Mantua Restoration Society 2nd Friday dinner is on February 15 from 4-7pm. He also asked if public notices will be distributed through an email list. Festa said this is being worked on.
A resident pointed out an error on the website where one page falsely says Board of Trustees meetings are held on Thursdays at 7 p.m. This will be fixed.
Another resident asks if the township will be using Facebook to communicate with residents, because she believes more people can be reached that way. Festa said this is also a work in progress and that he is aware there is a need to improve communication with residents.
The following is an AI-generated transcript of the meeting, which will contain errors.
John Festa 0:00
Thank you for coming call your family township
student support today, February 6, 25 we are Here to discuss. Please. Silence
Speaker 1 0:19
it. Record.
Speaker 2 0:42
Service, one way, introduce
John Festa 1:00
ourselves. Thank you. Susan Lily, this is Ben. She’s
Speaker 3 1:11
here, yes, and then sorry I didn’t get the last fellows
Unknown Speaker 1:17
name, Ben. Matthew. Ben.
Unknown Speaker 1:19
NPR,
Unknown Speaker 1:23
okay, thank you appreciate it. Sorry for
John Festa 1:29
starting our business is to approve minutes. We have one set of minutes to approve our regular meeting from January, 9, 2025, January, I’m very
proud. Yes. While we’re signing Julie, if you have fiscal officer report,
Unknown Speaker 2:40
sag. We have a log book, and I’m going to
Speaker 3 2:46
put it on the back where the minutes and the road back there in the sign in sheet. If you could take a minute and write down your name page two, as far as the township buildings, that would
Unknown Speaker 2:58
be greatly
Speaker 2 3:02
appreciated. However, transportation
Unknown Speaker 3:07
needs a signature
John Festa 3:11
for the management community, okay, yes, mileage is has not changed for the last year. Do we will
get our certified road mileage township for 2024 is 38.160 miles, and we can we
Unknown Speaker 3:46
can get that over to engineers office. You also have county
Speaker 4 3:55
auditor. We have on our road, 9297 so that’s
Speaker 5 4:02
what the 97 so that’s what they’re showing for this year. Okay, so what was the question? My
Speaker 4 4:10
thing was, we had to have it done way before, man, so I would like to have this in which way we’re going to go to the next meeting
Unknown Speaker 4:16
in March. Yeah, let’s see
Matthew Benner 4:20
what the difference is. If we remember the question from the replacement. But I’d also like to find out here’s obviously that 30% tax evaluations that they did, okay? They’re going back to last year’s taxes. Okay? Are you going to get that? Yes, okay, so I haven’t asked you guys a lot. Yeah.
Speaker 3 4:42
County is.
Speaker 4 4:49
Also received the updated questionnaire from the insurance to get removed. Get that complete. In
Unknown Speaker 5:08
and we’re going to
John Festa 5:13
talk a little bit about upcoming
township insurance. Look at the valuations for our properties. They went sky high, and that’s more more money for premiums. So that’s something we might want to look at. But we’ll get to that
Unknown Speaker 5:38
a little bit, and we’ll have to go through the lesson. We don’t
John Festa 5:42
have it. Well, you know what, instead of having a back check on that, you know what, I’ll just, we’ll just take this everybody, everybody study this for for our next meeting. But if, if the if the property values went up, and our equipment, our equipment prices didn’t go up. We may, we may have a problem, because inflation has hit both and if something happens to a piece of equipment, they’re only going to give us what’s
Unknown Speaker 6:15
on that sheet. Yeah, Joey, have replacement cost.
John Festa 6:19
I think we do on the announcement, but if you see each one of those is $1,000
Matthew Benner 6:27
Yeah, well, John, I still say that. I think to do the township. I think we’ve done. These guys aren’t the only show in town. Love insurance does the same thing that these guys do. They’ve been known to be a little higher, but that was Ben. I was target three years as well, and they were, they were always still high, and they still are, but I think that we should give a chance to convince
Unknown Speaker 6:50
I don’t think there’d be a problem
Speaker 5 6:56
that. Okay, very good. Um, okay.
Unknown Speaker 7:03
Any questions for Julia?
Unknown Speaker 7:06
I make a motion to accept the fiscal officer.
Unknown Speaker 7:10
Second. John, yes. Matt, yes. I
Speaker 2 7:20
right? So we’re going to move through
John Festa 7:27
the officials report, and then we’re going to call on Portage County reach water resources for some information. So be patient. So
custodian report. Tim, you want to hang on? Okay, we’ve got a lot to talk about.
Yeah, service the fiber report. Brian’s not here. We did receive a shift of salt today. We’re really running we’re really running short. We got two more ice starts heading away, and hopefully
Speaker 2 8:19
we’ll make it through to spring. Spray
John Festa 8:27
zoning inspector is not available. I don’t know if he’s gonna come or not. Unfortunately for us, Rich is a township trustee for Windham, and his meetings are at the same day, same time he may show up, but we do have Joni here today. Joni did give us a letter stating that she was interested in staying with appeals for five years. I don’t think I have any problems. Three or 20 years ago, I would make a motion that we
Speaker 5 9:22
could point to. That
Speaker 2 9:25
we appoint Johnny to Arizona. Thank you,
John Festa 9:33
Johnny. Yes, yes, yes. Thank you. Thank you for service.
Speaker 3 9:38
Do you have something? I just want to let everyone know that the board, we have had a break since our you know, we haven’t had a hearing for a while. So we did roll our sleeves up, and we’ve been working on some housekeeping. So we’ve come up with a decision page when we make our zoning decision, it’s got the criteria. Area as to why and what. So there’s no question to the applicant what that was. The conditional use certificate also has a explanation of what they need to do. It’s a good resource if there’s a problem like the Dollar Store didn’t do something. Or you can pick this up. You can read it. It’s it. It saves you from going through the pages and pages of our of our report. We did work on our bylaws, all these things. Will we have our organization meeting on the 17th so when we finish this up, we’ll get you copies of it. We’ve put together a table of contents. So when you’re an applicant coming to the board, spells it out pretty well as to the steps and the procedures. So there, because a lot of times you get a deer in the headlight look as to what we’re doing. And this should help. Along with that, we’re working on a brief brochure. It’ll just be a fold down. That is, if you’re interested in a variance rich, can give them this they can have an idea of what they need to do or where they need to look for in the book. So we’re finishing wrapping these things up, and we’ll have our board. It will pick our officers at that next meeting. So
John Festa 11:27
are you still are you still Chairman?
Speaker 3 11:29
I’m Chairman now and then we’ll have a new election on the 17th or for next year. We go year by year, we’ll have that information. Yes, we’ll have Mary, hopefully we’ll finish all this paperwork that she’ll have that in package to give to you guys, and then you’ll know who our officers are also, yeah, that’s what we’ve been up
Unknown Speaker 12:02
to. So
John Festa 12:04
you took care of everybody, unless Mary on we did meet,
Speaker 3 12:13
because y’all Ben on the ninth so that was our meeting. Sorry. So
Unknown Speaker 12:25
we have to take Hi
John Festa 12:27
aids. That’s the worst thing that, right? Thanks, maybe, yep, we’ll try to make it up Chamber of Commerce.
Carole Pollard 12:39
Okay, well, Ramsey said a point of lengthy newsletter. I’m just going to touch on two things that the chamber is doing this weekend. It seems, if everybody is doing this weekend for Valentine’s Day, and we’re calling it gallon Valentine’s Day, and focusing on women, I guess you women, I guess the there will be a horse drawn carriage, $10 a person, or $40 for if you wanted to rent the carriage for your friends. That will be staged at Lulu shoes, which is former manaway grain and there, I think they have have, like, a ticket they’re doing, they’re doing something that you can get your sort of get your tickets In town and promote that to the United States dinner. Around town. Oh yeah, I would guess this is a guess. I have no idea. Start and go to the right on Prospect Street and pick up high street and come around, that would be, you know, that would be logical, and that would also be a minimum of time on Main Street if they do it that way. I mean, if I were trying to carry, yeah, that’s how, yeah, I wouldn’t, I wouldn’t. I I would avoid Main Street. And the other thing is that on, I think, the 26th county wide Chamber of Commerce meeting, you know, all the chambers and they are going to make a trip to the Kent State University Innovation Hub, which has a lot of services and that sort of thing available to everyone, really. And. I and another organization that I am in is going to visit that, and it’s Ken is doing some really interesting things. They have that heating plan, which just looked like a dinosaur. They turned that into, that they repurposed that. That is how they are building. And that was in that a number of years ago. It is impressive. And then the Innovation Hub is in what it used to be when I started content in 57 it was the article that was involved. Now they’re going to be innovation hub. So I think that’s that’s going to be interesting. But you know what? What Kent has done in repurposing and renovating buildings is pretty impressive. So that’s and the only other thing along those lines is that this isn’t Chamber of Commerce, but here is a mile the annual conference this year is in the give everybody as close you have a chance to see some of the things that have been done there, especially what Steve do With a building years
ago. So much larger scale, but people have noticed that’s going on in manaway village, and have commented on it and they like so you know, the effort is worth it. The effort is
worth it because it has
Unknown Speaker 16:42
definitely it has
Carole Pollard 16:48
so that’s, you know, those are the two
John Festa 16:54
big things. Well, thank you Carol. Any any questions for Carol and the chamber? Thank you
Speaker 2 17:02
very you. So
John Festa 17:11
we’re going to move on to our report
from water resources. We have to Rutledge here from she is the Planning Division Manager, and she is going to try to answer some of the questions that we have
Unknown Speaker 17:42
about I about subscriptions,
Carole Pollard 17:43
prescriptions.
John Festa 17:47
So like prescriptions like the doctor gives
Speaker 6 17:50
you, yeah, we prescribe basically every, every
Carole Pollard 17:55
parcel in the county.
Speaker 6 17:58
It’s what that’s within Portage County’s responsibilities of city of Kent. One second.
John Festa 18:08
Tim, can you turn that thermostat down so we can shut this? Yeah, it goes back to the
Speaker 6 18:20
70s with a clean water plan. Count. Plan came out. That’s where this all comes from, and that there was a lot of federal money to build wastewater treatment plants. And I know you’re familiar with a few, like streets were about their first one. I believe Fish Creek got built. And I think our Franklin Hill was built a developer, but that’s how a lot of the wastewater treatment plants were constructed in the area. So with that came facility planning areas. So each wastewater treatment
Unknown Speaker 18:55
plant
Speaker 6 18:56
has an area around it, and it’s at a boundary. So it’s a lot to explain, but I’m going to try to be brief. So within this, within every within the county, each parcel, is given a prescription of whether it’s allowed to do septic, or is it wastewater only to a wastewater treatment plant only. And then in some cases we we will place with no prescriptions, which means test available technology, because we don’t have a facility in the area to even if I prescribe, this has to go to public sewer, and there’s nothing there. It kind of just makes the lead, the land not buildable because there’s nothing in the area, or it’s not economically feasible because there’s no facilities in the area. So in this circumstance, in this is the man away facilities planning area. This actually goes to the manna, the. Lincoln manaway wastewater treatment plan. So on the outer map of the package I sent, kind of shows me the whole blow up of the facility planning area and what all the building wastewater treatment plant takes. So we take some from the area and the lower meadows that had the filling and we had the violation, so that all gets pumped down this way, and then it goes to Mayo wastewaters and heads south to the wastewater treatment plant. In this particular case, the timber timber Timber Creek or timber run, I forget the name the subdivision, timber, yeah, timber, timber, timber. Well, guess what? That was all subdivided in the 1990s before Hannah corner sewer was put in. So it was subdivided in these days, we would now allow that subdivision to split up like that without the infrastructure in place to connect to sewer. However, when they put the new sewer system and they didn’t sewer timber, point, timber, three, timber run, they didn’t sewer it, but some people are connected to the sewer. They installed their own force means and things to get to the sewer. So the prescriptions for the subdivision were all wrong, because if you look at the current map, this yellow. It says it’s sewer therapy, and it’s really not, and the orange is to be Seward. Now, Orange means, if somebody comes and wants to put a septic system, the health department is going to say, No, you have to build the sewer which lots of times, that’s not economically feasible. So as a county, we’re trying to get rid of the orange and make everything green, because green is a color that makes it septic or silver. So it gives options. We can look at the soils and really figure out what’s going on before we say you have to do this, or you have you can’t do this. So because these prescriptions are yellow, we’ve made these lots unbuildable, because nobody can afford to put the sewer to get to these lots. So when I started looking at the history of it all, and how we got to where we are and the prescriptions being wrong, I went forward with an amendment to the two Lake map, which makes these this area green. Now this one’s already connected, and the sewage right here. So these two lots clusters criteria with the health department, like, if it’s within 200 or 400 feet, they have to connect. So I don’t get a choice on that. I have to follow a lot and and Ohio EPA does the commercial septic systems. And these are commercial, so they won’t give that person a septic permit, so they’re building the sewer if they want to build that lot. So the reason why changing these prescriptions is so that we can start allowing developers to come in and and build on these lots, because we’ve held that they’ve had to build the sewer, and we’ve stifled the development of this particular subdivision. And so now I’m trying to correct that. Could you
Matthew Benner 23:43
discuss a bit about building the sewer? So what is it of the property owner, the business owner, what does he have to do to go tie into the sanitary system? Okay,
Speaker 6 23:52
so if somebody here wants to build the sewer to connect, they have to hire a designer. They have to design it to the way we want it. And then they have to hire someone. They have to pay for the Ohio EPA permits, and they have to pay the tap in fees, and then they turn it over to the county, and we own it, operate it and take care of it forever. Now, it used to be, prior to some Pinky stuff and another adjacent county that we could allow someone to build the sewer and collect tap, collect front footage for them. So if somebody wanted to build this entire sewer, I could, I could collect the money for all those people for that money, but it’s against the law. Some federal judge, or not, federal state judge said we can’t do it anymore. So it’s, it’s really stifled the extensions of sewer, because we are either expecting a good. To keep homeowners to get together and build the sewer together, or we have to wait to Ohio EPA issues in Nov and then we put it on everyone’s taxes. Or the sewer doesn’t get built so people walk away from it because they’ll find something that the sewer is closer to, right? So what I’m trying to do is improve the township. It just so happened and one guy came in, and I’m like, Oh my gosh, this is wrong, so I’m trying to fix it. The partial that he’s trying to develop is number five, which is roughly 800 feet away from the sewer. That’s expensive,
Speaker 6 25:49
yeah, and even just the design alone. I mean, COVID did not do us any favors at the public utility. So what? So what did you say last five? I believe it’s, um, he’s,
Speaker 6 26:09
I thought he was, he’s like number. I thought he was in five coming to this one. But maybe I got it wrong. He’s, he’s 800 feet. It’s the first
John Festa 26:21
two who the first two. Who’s the person that’s, oh, that’s a good question. We know, because we have our Yeah, I think there’s two of the guy five
Unknown Speaker 26:35
and whatever. Yeah, the one that’s right by the road. I think they’re,
Speaker 6 26:39
well, he’s gonna the guy in the corner, he’s gonna have to connect the sewer, because he’s beside the sewer, but the guy in the back that’s coming in, he, he, we will the guy in the corner. He won’t have to build as much. Let’s just put it that way. There’s nothing to do about that one, because he will not get a permit from to do the
Matthew Benner 27:05
septic system. I guess I’m a little confused on the process. So I buy a lot down here and I want to tie in my sewer instead, I got to put a septic in, okay, but maybe I want to do a source on another maintain that. What is my procedure to do that? What do I have to do?
Speaker 6 27:22
Your procedure would be, if the sewer is readily available. You come to our office and tap in. You get a permit to tap most of the time. You don’t get if the sewer is it’s got to be accessible and available. The force main is not considered accessible and available, because that’s a regional force main. So we protect our force mains. Those are not because you got high pressure flows going through, and not so much this one. It’s just your memos. But in some some of our force mains, we’re talking 300 gallons per minute sewage pushing through. So we don’t want someone on it, but we try to be fair with everyone and say you can’t connect because and it creates maintenance issues for us, because then we’re looking for the break before all the sewage is going and we’re not seeing it work before. Yeah,
Matthew Benner 28:22
I would say this one here I found relatively pretty awesome. I don’t think there’s much flow on that at all, because it’s
Speaker 6 28:27
just the Aurora Meadows. But, you know, in the future, if you know, I never had my crystal ball, what farmers lot is going to settle in, a subdivision is going to roll in, and then they’re gonna want, you know, public sewer. And then if they can get water, they’re gonna want water too. And so then it becomes the job. The game starts, or that’s where I’m my primary role is, like, how people can connect, like, big developments, one permit, percent tie in, that’s handled in the engineering permitting section. So you just go in and you ask to connect, and they look at you live, and then you connect now for horse name, and you pay tax fee to tap in. And then, you
Speaker 5 29:17
know, presidential, probably the super Ben commercial. You know, commercial,
Speaker 6 29:23
it’s it’s commercial can be the same price as residential. It’s not so much that your commercial or residential. It’s what you need, right? So if a commercial user only needs 400 gallons per day, like a house is considered it’s the same price,
Matthew Benner 29:46
so somebody couldn’t afford, like a cap and fee. Or is that
Speaker 6 29:50
we can finance, we finance tax for people all the time at a low interest rate, so we do it over 10 years for people. Well.
John Festa 30:01
So whatever decision we make, or whatever colors piece these lots here turn to the people that are already established, nothing will change.
Speaker 6 30:12
Nothing will change. This is the way it’s going to be. This will stay yellow, and all this will go green, which green means either way, either way. Now in this situation, these would be forced to connect, and these would be forced to connect, which means it’s not economically feasible for one person, so it’ll never develop. So what I’ve done is I’ve made it orange or you Yeah, no, we won’t make it orange. You know, I’ve made it green, so it gives the opportunity and and the person, maybe the person wants to build this room, maybe they have more money than I do, and they want to build that sewer. We say, go ahead. And then all the people along the way.
John Festa 31:03
So today, if I came into I want to put timber point in. I want to take all these lots like this, and I wanted so he couldn’t do that, right? She couldn’t do that. Oh
Speaker 6 31:21
no. We wouldn’t allow because the sewer so close, we would have made the developer build the sewer.
John Festa 31:27
Okay, before you leave it, yeah,
Speaker 6 31:29
that it would never get past regional planning in the subdivision rules and regulations we would have. That’s why I was like, Why do I want this white elephant that I’ve been dealing with, and I had to really look into the research, and look at when the parcels were actually done, and then researching the sewer. But if one
John Festa 31:47
person came in there and bought a piece of property just like that, for a single user, no, you would allow that they could tap right into the sewer,
Speaker 6 31:59
like the whole thing is one, yeah, they could tap right in, and we wouldn’t have them built. That would
John Festa 32:04
be like, the general gentleman that just got built. There’s no problem. They just tap it, yeah,
Unknown Speaker 32:10
it’s wherever they’re
John Festa 32:14
depends, because I don’t want to make a decision to say yes, and it’s going to harm somebody that’s already been established here. We don’t go backwards
Unknown Speaker 32:23
on people. Okay? I don’t cut people down for them to connect.
Unknown Speaker 32:36
Seriously.
John Festa 32:40
That’s public health room, and I don’t point it out for this? And so
Speaker 6 32:43
you don’t object, and you don’t even know what I’m even talking about. So usually this, commissioners have already signed off on I usually write them a 10 page memo so they understand it. Actually, Commissioner kenland went out to the site and looked at it before he signed off on it, so he was confident with it. The health department has already signed off. And so I just really need you all to sign off or this will not go to netco. And then this gentleman cannot do a septic system. Do system.
Matthew Benner 33:23
So water, you doing that with the water? We do water? Yes, yeah. Okay. What do we have to do to get water up to, like, timber point? Because we lost a business in timber point due to a fact, it couldn’t expand this business. Okay? So it’s right down the street to half a mile
Speaker 6 33:40
away, timber point down by manway corner. Yes. Okay, so here’s the thing, um, my water source is the village of manly right? I’ve had 1903 pipes that I have to replace the entire village. I also put, I have to put in a water storage system, which I’m glad to be talking to you, because I need to put a water tower in. And I’m not getting much love in the village. We’re in deception with the school, and as soon as they start saying we need to talk to a lawyer, like, really, okay, I just want to put a water tower in, and I want to do it so that the village has safe water and actually fire protection. There’s no fire protection in the village right now, yeah, there isn’t. Why would that be? Because the pipes are
Unknown Speaker 34:38
Yeah, but you still have water.
Unknown Speaker 34:40
We have water well, have
Unknown Speaker 34:45
you put up in some of
Speaker 5 34:49
those areas where you can pee? So do we have fire protection? Yeah, to a different water main, yeah. Do not
Speaker 6 34:57
constitute so I want more. I. Want to put more, more water up there. I would like to get that hill. So that is what happens if I can get the hill and put a tower, then a water main. It makes sense that a developer is going to come in and go, huh? And they’re going to go the water main to Nano, make corners. Well,
Matthew Benner 35:19
they should, because you have a 12 inch water line or 1612, I went to the school,
Speaker 6 35:23
yes, and always, but I need the tower because I don’t have the right pressures.
Matthew Benner 35:29
So who did that mistake? That’s not on me. When they built those schools, okay, that should have all taken into consideration.
Speaker 6 35:37
Well, they put a booster in. That doesn’t work. I mean, you put a booster pump with no storage on it, and the we have burning pump because they’re
Matthew Benner 35:48
just for most schools to open up, because it’s a sprinkler building those, they have to have a supply of water to
Speaker 6 35:55
do that. Well, if there isn’t that 100 and some year old reservoir, I’m a little concerned. It’s, it’s a nightmare in my world. Anything happens to that? And I’m sorry if I’m saying this, but that’s, that’s a ticking time bomb, and we’re talking millions of dollars to fix it, millions of tower obviously, my answer is a tower, and then have one tower feeding the entire village, and do pressure reduction as you get down from the river. And then we need to boost to get to Charlie spill. Once I hit the tower in manaway, I can run it. I’ve already checked the elevations, because that hill, there’s enough pressure to have nice, nice pressures
Speaker 5 36:46
at Manor corners. What
Speaker 6 36:50
about we are pushing as much as we can, but we can’t. Manaway is the best service for this area.
Matthew Benner 36:59
Okay, we’re trying to get I don’t think it’s fair to our community where we can’t supply water, we’re going to demand that they hook into a sewer system, but we can’t help them out when they have bad water and 1000s of dollars a year because they have to have equipment to take care of the iron and everything else, the manganese and everything that’s in no water. Okay, when water is the simplest utility to run and the cheapest to run. Well, usually have you put in
Unknown Speaker 37:27
the water? Okay, we’re talking
Unknown Speaker 37:32
millions to put in a water.
Speaker 6 37:34
No, it’s, I mean, if I can run water for everyone, I would, but we can. We have to make we’re not nonprofit, believe it or not, everything that we take, we put back into our infrastructure. I don’t make a big salary because, you know, so we’re nonprofit, we have to keep certain reservoirs for certain to cover things. But
Matthew Benner 38:02
well done. We’re saying, as a township, I’m speaking for myself with trustee, for us to be attractive to people, to commit to do business in this community, right, to put it where we want to put them. Alright? I think it’s unfair that they don’t get a bunch of black and it’s less than a mile away, and we’re talking, man, I’m working. Oh my gosh, I’m
Speaker 6 38:23
working it. Okay, trust me, it’s my goal to get water to narrow the corner so that that’s just
Unknown Speaker 38:29
developed. That’s
Unknown Speaker 38:30
my goal. It is, and that’s why I want my watermark. Okay,
Unknown Speaker 38:38
one more, one more time
John Festa 38:40
for us to approve this, and approve this, this is not going to change anything for most people on terror, no, they’re not going to be assessed. That’s, that’s a big concern of ours, and you don’t
Unknown Speaker 39:02
want to No this. The one is already
John Festa 39:06
connected. We’re clear now on what? Yeah,
Speaker 6 39:09
there’s no assessment that would require public hearing. Anyway, I can’t just come in and assess people. So you can put it as no, no objection, agree, however, or you can make general comments these. This form is still that you, I have reached out to you and you’re aware of the proposed changes. We
Unknown Speaker 39:34
would get water you can put with comment.
Speaker 6 39:41
We want water. I understand, and I’m thinking that because I want to bring water down, and my goal is to get water to this township, perfect.
John Festa 39:59
Because. That I’ll make a motion to no objection for the proposed amendment to the 208 plans manway FTA within our jurisdiction. Yeah, that sounds perfect. Do perfect. Yes, check it and find it.
Unknown Speaker 40:30
Really quick, perfect. Thank you so
Unknown Speaker 40:42
much. I we moved
Unknown Speaker 40:57
it. Oh, that’s right. Email it
John Festa 41:00
if you want me to do can we? Can we call you or question the water? Do
Unknown Speaker 41:11
we have your ear for? Yeah, anytime you want to talk
John Festa 41:16
about it, we can, because we have, we have, we have people that want to expand their businesses. Okay, they’ve been after us for a long, long time.
Unknown Speaker 41:25
It’s, it’s getting the money, and maybe
Unknown Speaker 41:28
it’s all about
Speaker 6 41:31
the money, and we don’t, we don’t do it. But my goal is to get developers to do it. So I’m pushing to bring people, you know, with man away. I want to get more
Unknown Speaker 41:46
users on it.
Unknown Speaker 41:59
Okay, we’re going to move
Speaker 2 42:02
up. So
John Festa 42:07
other reports are done, we’re going to move back to trustee Report Number one, the Sunday before last, we had a flood in the civic center and the the pipes underneath the sink upstairs, the shut off valves came apart from the from the pipes and flooded the flooded the top floor, which in turn went through the floor and went through the ceilings. And you now have a big mess. We we made a decision to call anybody who would come out, any restoration company, to come out and clean up the water, do mitigation, try to keep the try to keep the walls from turning into more so they came out, surf pro came out and and took care of that. They just, they just disbanded yesterday and came and took out the dumpster today. So thanks for thanks to Tim Ben for deciding to go clean the civic center that day, and probably saved us a whole bunch more what I wanted to do. So Tim called me, and he went down and found the shops and took care of business, and we swept up and wound up and so fortunately, fortunately, no one got hurt. And so now it’s up to us to put the construction out to bed if the costs are over the $77,250
range. We’re waiting, we’re waiting on that we, it seems to be that we, we cleaned up a lot of the or dried up a lot of the water issues, and we also found other crowds after they built the new when they built that kitchen, I was imagining it’s probably 15 or more years ago, somewhere. Actually the. Pipes that didn’t freeze. Mostly everybody thought we had to keep the sick door open. But that’s not what the problem is. The problem is down in the basement, where the pipes are above the insulation and the heat only got up to the insulation and did not reach the bikes. So we are going to try to alleviate that problem, and hopefully this will never happen again. One thing we need to do is we need to make a resolution. It happened to be that the serve pro southwest start is also why.
Unknown Speaker 45:51
Yeah, right, yeah.
John Festa 45:54
So we wanted so we contacted the our attorney, and the attorney said, really, really, there’s no ethics problem. But Matthew, Matthew happens to be a subcontract subcontractor for them. It wouldn’t matter in any way, but we want to make sure that we protect Matthew, so I want to make the resolution, and I’ll do that. It’s right after we talk to Tim about
Matthew Benner 46:25
I have, okay, one thing was southeast, not southwest. I can make that change the southeast
John Festa 46:35
circle. Oh, South. They have southwest. I have to start the southeast. Okay, so I’ll just say southeast. So Tim, what we did is we this queen, everything in the basement that was torn up, but people can’t go they cannot go in there. The bathrooms in the basement are all working. The sink upstairs is not now we put it. They got new shut off the Alzheimer so that’s we will need you to probably do a little overtime and clean that up for our and then after, after these rentals, we won’t do any more rentals there until we get it completed. Yeah, I the
Speaker 7 47:30
date, manfully, was Saint Patrick’s Day, I think. But I mean, it’s going to be sooner than that, that there was nobody in there. I got somebody in there. Yeah, I’m going to be in there tonight after this, because I got somebody going in there tomorrow night, so I got the dumpsters going, Yeah, Saturday the eighth, somebody’s in there. Saturday the 15th, somebody’s in there, and the 22nd Oh, is
Unknown Speaker 48:09
is Chris
Speaker 7 48:11
with ponytail signups? Yeah, I know I had that. Jen, I can I put him in here. You can put him in here if you want. Okay, because they are having a coach’s meeting tomorrow night, and I already got somebody there, got somebody there tomorrow night, so I told them they can come in here tomorrow. So I’ll just have them do their coaches meeting here tomorrow night, and then their sign ups on the 22nd will be here. And then their other day for sign ups is Thursday night, March 6. Wait, who’s here then?
John Festa 48:51
Is that for the cyst?
Speaker 7 48:54
That’s for Crestwood ponytail. Okay? And, and then there’s another one, right
John Festa 49:02
question, crest would use softball, and it’s that the same Jackie
Speaker 7 49:11
is the one that always contacts me. Chris, oh, so March 6 is the meeting here, so I’ll have to, I’ll have to tell her that. She’ll, I’ll have to go over to civic center, because that’s a meeting here. This meeting next month.
John Festa 49:34
Okay, so we’re, we’re on the same page now, yeah, and then
Speaker 7 49:41
so for the next three weeks, there’s somebody on Saturday, and then I got one on April 5, but I’ll call her and tell her there’s nobody at the gym, so I’m going to just move her from the civic center to the gym. So. It actually nobody’s going to be in there after the 22nd
Matthew Benner 50:07
Yeah, and you need to, if somebody contacts you and wants to rent that, we need to know the name and a number, because we’ll get the loss of revenue for that from the inability to be able to rent that out. Oh, we’re going
John Festa 50:20
to be, yeah, we have a, we have a clause, a loss of use. So if someone calls a large to
Speaker 7 50:27
specifically ask for the bill, we can’t provide. Does? Does that only apply if I can’t move them to the gym, because I can’t, if I can move them to the gym, I’m going to, yeah, that’s fine. But if there’s somebody already at the gym and then I can’t move them over there, then that’s a loss. That’s right, that’s right. Okay. So
Matthew Benner 50:50
well, yeah, so basically, just after your last thing, I think I’ll kind of take, if we have to bid it, it could take 30 days. First we want to do is wait for an insurance company to get their scope is the Bible of everything that’s going to be done in that facility. Okay? It could take them 45 days to do it. I don’t want it kind of a small job. Then if we have to go out and advertise for bid, that’s going to be another 30 days. Okay, because they want to send a prosecutor about let’s get their blessings and so. But hopefully, as we do, get some prices on it and comes under 77,000 then we went out today, so
Speaker 7 51:31
I’m taking it the floor is going to be our rate. No, no, no. Well, you’re not going to replace that for 77,000
Speaker 5 51:41
so let’s see what else, alright. Well,
Speaker 7 51:44
I stopped over there and the VISTA. Some of the biscuit fell down, but I’m going to be over there tonight.
John Festa 51:49
So no, we took it. We Oh yeah, the one where the door is, Yup, yeah, no, we took that down. So they have some contract that people take a look.
Unknown Speaker 51:58
Are they going to go put it back up? Okay, I’ll put it up
John Festa 52:02
there. I didn’t think he did,
Unknown Speaker 52:11
but
John Festa 52:18
Okay, alright, if you don’t, I think, Matthew, what?
Speaker 7 52:23
Oh, you’ll take care of I’ll, I’ll bring mine with me tomorrow night, so when I meet her to give her the key, if it’s not up, then at that time, then I’ll put it up. Okay, okay, but yeah, it’s, it’s kind of, it’s
John Festa 52:36
kind of going to be like an overtime deal. It’s not, it’s that nice. I know I saw it. Okay, everything’s set on the same page. Um,
Speaker 7 52:48
yeah. Except for that, the sign ups on March six, yeah, they all, I’ll put them in, huh?
Speaker 5 52:59
I can use the second time on March
Speaker 7 53:04
6, sure. Cuz, when is this construction service? Oh, not till when?
Unknown Speaker 53:08
Well, no, after that time. Okay,
Speaker 7 53:10
okay, well, I’ll put them there, and then that’ll be the last time anybody will be in there. Is Thursday, March 6. Okay,
John Festa 53:26
alright, thanks, Yep, thank you. Thanks for being there. Yeah, the going to have a
Unknown Speaker 53:33
totally different outcome, yeah?
John Festa 53:38
Okay, I will. I need to make this resolution so I’m going to read it. I need the mapping township resolution number for this, and you can put that down. So resolution authorizing a contract with serve pro southeast start to perform demolition and water mitigation work at the township Civic Center, whereas on january 26 2025 the township Civic Center, 11, 670, mannequin center road suffered water damage for which the township has filed a claim with or timer, it’s insured. Whereas retirement has indicated that the damage is covered under the Township’s insurance policy, and the insurance funds are forthcoming, whereas those funds will be used to mitigate the damage, and no township funds will be used, whereas the township desires to use those funds to hire Servpro South East star, an affiliate of Orion construction, to perform the necessary work, whereas trustee Matt Ben subcontracts as a fire department liaison for Orion construction, but will not benefit. From the township contract in the serve pro southeast stock see attached earned Attorney Letter, whereas, nevertheless, to avoid even the appearance of improper improprietary or conflict, Matt has recused himself from these proceedings. And now therefore it be it resolved that the remaining two trustees from every Township, Portage County on Ohio, that number one, with the insurance fund the township, will hire the township hires serve from southeast start to do the necessary demolition and water mitigation work at the Civic Center, as described in the contract, which, due to the emergency, such work has already begun. Number two, trustee, John festa, is authorized to sign the serve pro southeastern start contract on behalf of the board and take the necessary steps to cause such damage to be remedied. Number three, the township fiscal officer is directed to pay the contract from the insurance funds. Second,
Speaker 5 56:22
yes, yes, okay, very good, and Matt has a copy.
John Festa 56:36
What was the resolution? Number?
Unknown Speaker 56:39
Okay, oh, okay, yeah, okay. Just
Matthew Benner 56:47
so you guys all know I do work for Ryan construction. I have a self contact with them. Servo owns Orion construction owns three circle franchises, okay, those are the young people we could find immediately come up here to do that. I exclude myself from everything. I did nothing for what they have done here. I didn’t want any kind of ethics files Christmas every he said, the same thing. You’re fine. You just can’t make any money on it, just so on. And then we also reached out to Chad Murdock, and he said the same thing. So we’re good. I’m comfortable. So we’re good.
John Festa 57:29
I’m comfortable, very good. Thank you. Matthew, okay, replacement. It’s sent
Unknown Speaker 57:47
us an email
John Festa 57:53
stating
that manway restoration society will contribute $7,000 for the roof replacement, provided the following conditions are in that number one, when the exterior is painted traditional latex oil based paint is used and not rival paint or similar products. Number two, any siding that needs to be repaired or replaced is done with matching wood material. Number three, the roofing material is traditional asphalt or fiberglass. Architectural settings. Do we the roof, but they don’t. Oh, we’re not painting. So we have hired a preservation engineer slash architect, and those were exactly the same things that he he requested that we would do to paint the building. Okay, correct, yeah, what’s this?
I think we agreed that we would, we would follow America test required to paint the building. Is that right? I myself do not have a problem with that. We would, and we would agree that we would abide by that number two to facilitate our contribute, contribute to. Chief contribution payment, we will pay the contractor our share. We will need a copy of the bill submitted to the township and receipt from the contractor for our payment. We cannot agree upon that we have we have went out, we have solicited and got the proposal from the contractor, everything that we specified to him, which, which is everything that you folks would ask for, do we? Did I give you a copy of that contract? There’s
Unknown Speaker 1:00:50
some copies of everything.
John Festa 1:00:54
The contracts there. We are not going to go back to the contractor and say, because the contract is in the name of Mount galley township Board of Trustees, and we’re not going to ask them to split that down the mill to include you folks. We will pay, we will pay the contractor. And if you want to, if you want to continue with your pledge, with our with our agreement, that we will not, we will not cut off. Would you ask for that we do for the for the painting? We’re not, we’re not going to do that. You You want to make your contribution back to the township. That’s why.
Mark Hall 1:01:48
I don’t understand why we cannot write the because it’s checked out for $7,000 huh? I did not understand why we cannot write the contractor a check for $7,000 because
John Festa 1:02:00
you did not. You did not. You don’t have the contract. We have the contract. I
Unknown Speaker 1:02:05
understand that, but they really don’t care where the money comes from. We
John Festa 1:02:09
do. We
Speaker 4 1:02:13
have to put everything into the one fund, just like we do the roads, whatever grant, whatever money, and I’ll mail it on the fund, and then we just worth it out as our as our do it for this office, the contracts. So we have a fund that whatever the cost is, we would deposit whatever funds into that fund and then disperse it to the contract driver
John Festa 1:02:41
if you want to make your pledge and want to make your contribution after the after the roof is finished, that’s fine. That’s fine. I mean, you, you, you pledged to us at the time you were going to pledge $7,000 which we appreciate. That was a very generous off, absolutely without we did, but then it came, all of a sudden, came back with stick stipulations, and we’re like, Look, you guys were going to go with the you guys were going to go with the grass. And that fell apart, right? So here, but we’re going to the trustees have to fix this roof. Spring is coming, and we can’t afford any more water problems, so we’re going to, we’re going to contract with Barnes roofing. We’re going to pay barns roofing $10,600 and have them come out here and fix this roof. If you want to make a contribution after the roof is finished, we’d be more than happy to accept. We’re not going to do we’re not we’re not going to agree to any more stipulations than item one, two,
Mark Hall 1:04:06
that’s it okay, because our issue is, is we need to pay contract empirically to what for, What for? Traceability. From our end, traceability, well, you’re making a donation. Well, what are they going to trigger? Aim for the
John Festa 1:04:30
Well, Matt, we don’t see eye to eye on that. It is what it is you
Carole Pollard 1:04:47
Carol Ben, I think we probably should check on this with with some other procedures, because there may be some. Um, rule of law requirement about how an organization like ours deals with something like this. So, you know, I think it’s just a matter of doing some more checking to see what is most feasible. And, you know, we have, we have a Treasury, and we have books to keep, and we need to have them as clear as possible. And, you know, the paper trail has to be there. So that’s, I think, that has a lot of bearing
Unknown Speaker 1:05:38
on this. Oh, we certainly
Carole Pollard 1:05:41
understand that. Let me let me check.
John Festa 1:05:44
And again, we appreciate it. I mean, it’s a lot of money, and we appreciate the offer we’d be we’d be crazy not to take. But according to Julia, has some issues with those. And again, we we agree with the we agree with the three points of stipulations, but we just don’t agree. Yeah, when it
Speaker 4 1:06:09
comes to we were signing a contract with with the contractor, right? So that contract is in memory townships. Mean local government said everything goes in, everything goes out,
Carole Pollard 1:06:22
okay, so you are legally required because the
Speaker 4 1:06:26
contract is written, okay, yeah. Contract is our contract with Barnes is from,
Carole Pollard 1:06:33
I do remember that there some years ago, the restoration society and the Historical Society and the trustees all split the cost of something of work that was done on the township Hall. I don’t know whether that had been arranged. You know whether that split had been arranged in advance, or just what? But the payment by the restoration society and the Historical Society, if I remember correctly, was directly to the contractor. So but I don’t know. I don’t know what may have been done. As part of advanced planning for that, it may have been, you know, it may well be that if we had worked that this, you know, this out about who pays how much, that it would be okay for us to pay the contractor, and for you to pay, you know, for us to split the cost as a matter of record, I don’t know,
Unknown Speaker 1:07:51
our local government said, No,
Unknown Speaker 1:07:53
right? Well, under
Speaker 4 1:07:55
was, was the contract is with the county, yeah, with the timing
Carole Pollard 1:07:58
that was done. I’m just saying that. I do remember that. But you know, that was probably 20 some odd years ago.
John Festa 1:08:10
A lot of things
Speaker 8 1:08:12
let us finish and digging John and get back with you on that. What
John Festa 1:08:16
you do, what you need to do, Mark, we’re going to have to contract. We’re, we’re going to have to contract today. We’re going to have to take this roof up. We these guys are, these guys are holding a spot for us in the spring, you’ll never see these guys. They’re, they’re, they’re 24/7, especially all this freezing and everything, these roofs are bad. I mean, we can’t afford to not get our roof done in the spring. Has to be done, and we can’t afford, after the water damage, we just have we can’t afford more water damage. It just can’t.
Carole Pollard 1:08:56
Excuse me, John, if the restoration society hadn’t made this offer. You were going to do the roof regardless, right? What?
John Festa 1:09:03
We said that in a meeting, okay, fine. And, and we had, we had, we had certain people that said that, no, you can’t do them because we have a grant, and we worked hard. I was like, Well, I It’s like, I don’t know if you’re going to get the grant. You know, and think, you know, thankfully, we were, we were a little bit ahead of the game, and guys didn’t get the those guys didn’t get the grant, and we were able to secure the well roof. So, and
Carole Pollard 1:09:36
if I remember some discussions not here correctly. The when, when the grant proposal was made, there was a, there was a requirement from the grantor, that meant that the grant wasn’t going to be accepted, you know, and it was. The penalty. It wasn’t
Unknown Speaker 1:10:02
anything on, no, I know
John Festa 1:10:03
that was in your fault. Something happened with between regional planning and garrettsville and whatever, the paperwork got messed up. And then, you know, Todd Pete’s got he he came and he was at the he was at the winter conference, and he said, again, you know we, I don’t know what happened and what it is, yeah, okay, you can’t get it back. So anyway, that’s where we that’s where we stand. Whatever you whatever you folks come up with, you can’t swing the thing, that’s fine. You understand, we still gotta get this book well.
Carole Pollard 1:10:48
And you know, if it’s a matter of paper trail, etc, that’s what photocopy machines are for.
John Festa 1:10:58
Okay, so anyway, that’s we gotta move On. I’ll make a motion to ask you.
Mark Hall 1:11:20
Do. Okay, we’ll wait. John, are these, these separate copies at the same time? Yeah, okay, I just, I didn’t know who was coming for that. I was just being prepared. So I think what you did
Carole Pollard 1:11:41
about the revolution was i i think what you did about the resolution was item one and two were fine, and then you said, but we cannot accept number three. And then that’s where the discussion
John Festa 1:11:51
No, no. Number one, two and three, we accepted. Okay, there was another line item, but it wasn’t number
Unknown Speaker 1:11:57
Okay, okay, I don’t
Speaker 4 1:12:02
think we do okay. I think we got a lot of Louisville, right?
John Festa 1:12:07
Well, I make a motion to accept barns roofing, quote, to do the roof on this manor Township, town hall. Sorry about that, the very last one.
We took care of the township road Levy. We took care of the mileage. We took care of the township insurance. We’re all going to look at that change of occupancy permit. We have a meeting monday at 10 IW Monday, 10 o’clock, with Randy Roberts, and I don’t know his last name, Bill. These are the people that have taken over the building official job. Joe Biden is no longer the building official so Randy Roberts and Joe, whatever last name, will be doing a walk through
Unknown Speaker 1:13:38
with the school, with
John Festa 1:13:41
myself and possibly Ben better on monday at 10 o’clock, they have agreed to extend the application. The application it was to expire February 1, but since they had enough people there at the building department, they they agreed to extend our application, so that’s coming. Okay? School aid property, the school land property is now being transformed into the fiscal office, the zoning inspector office, the cemetery Sexton office, and maybe possibly other offices as they come down the pipe. Uh, down the pipe. The water damage was extensive, computer equipment, some desks, papers right here and I. Yeah. So we were able to purchase a couple of new desks. We got the computers limping along. They’re not very not working very well. We actually moved the printer over to the to the office there we will have starting the next couple of weeks, we will have office hours. And our office hours will be Tuesday and Thursday from TED Talk to noon, and if any of our officials need to use the printer, good morning all things could come over and do whatever office work they need to do, but come next month, after we get established there, we will definitely have an open house and invite the public to have them look around. It’s a very nice piece of property, a very well maintained 1940s house.
Unknown Speaker 1:16:05
I said, I’m sad she died. She
John Festa 1:16:08
was, she was part of BCA for a long time. Yeah, we are. We’re sad too. So when we bought the property, we we made the deal with her. She, we knew she was sick, and we, we made the deal. We we put the money in her estate, and we gave her the opportunity to live there as long as she needed. Unfortunately, she didn’t. So anyway, we’ll we will definitely have an open house soon as we’re done. We hope everybody comes by. Okay, Portage parks.
Portage parks, we we have, I think trustees have made themselves clear that we are not going to approve hiking white trail on a right away. We mean to keep that. When I was in, when I was at the winter conference, I took a class on township right away, and they did specify that the top the trustees own the right of ways, and so I don’t think anybody’s minds have changed. So we we’re going to assure the public that we are not going to allow or give permission for them to use our railways. Now, I would take what we should really do now next, our next step would be to have this great cloth come to this meeting, our meeting, and explain to us why they have put out advertising whatever it’s saying that they’re going to come through a writer.
If that’s agreeable, I wish email and invite her to the next week. Is it something?
Carole Pollard 1:18:22
We should put in Arizona we have?
Unknown Speaker 1:18:25
I don’t think so. No,
Unknown Speaker 1:18:28
if I can make a comment, I did sign up back there, but
Unknown Speaker 1:18:33
just to real quick
Speaker 3 1:18:34
to let you know from the follow up, we did have our first public meeting of all the residents on Malawi center Road, Pioneer Trail and diagonal. It was a great turnout. It was around 20 people, families in attendance. And actually, we do have a petition that’s not quite ready to present to you, but we do have a petition in it. On that petition, we are asking for a resolution, and it’s all written out. Jason is getting finalizing that, and it was great that all the neighbors came together. Almost all the neighbors are on the same page, except for a couple families and lot of concerns, a lot of questions, a lot of input and so forth. So just wanted to let you know for the record, we did have a neighborhood meeting.
John Festa 1:19:33
Well, they have a resolution that they would want us to consider. Maybe we can have it here when Captain,
Unknown Speaker 1:19:44
I’ll have Jason get that to you right away.
John Festa 1:19:46
Well, that’s why we won’t be meeting for another month. Okay,
Speaker 5 1:19:54
as a suggestion, you set that meeting up with them people and your group should have. Have a spokesperson. The reason I say that you don’t want everybody in that group asking the same questions. Get a spokesperson. Okay, seriously,
John Festa 1:20:12
Mister concert, right,
Speaker 3 1:20:13
right? The neighborhood, what we did to we now have a neighborhood email group. Big email to keep everyone in the loop of anything that’s going on. Had a couple families that didn’t want to sign up for the
Unknown Speaker 1:20:31
email, and I specifically,
Speaker 3 1:20:34
you know, keep in contact with them, because the that is one of the things if the park district were to come, you will have this place packed right, just of the neighbor, just
John Festa 1:20:47
of the war in the mirror. Again, we want to give we want to let everybody know again, we are not against
Unknown Speaker 1:20:56
right the park. It’s just we
John Festa 1:21:00
are. We are. We are against having a trail on it right away, because of the safety of
Speaker 3 1:21:09
our residents. I actually was talking with Mark Rudman. He’s still in Florida right now, and his big concern is his whole farm, his pasture, his fences, his buildings, a lot of that they would have to move. He’s probably the biggest property owner. And then my frontage, my the whole side of my yard, the whole front of my yard,
John Festa 1:21:34
everybody has, everybody, I’m sure everybody had beating right again, we’re here to listen, and we all want everybody know. Townships are not against the park. They are against keeping our right away. So the texture
comes Ohio township associates was great. I went through a lot of classes. Julia, I’m sure, and Michelle did as well. I do have a list of classes that I did take, which most of them were interested. Interesting, of course, I mentioned township roads, the right of way. Class, I also went to the vehicle speed limits on township roads. Class, which was very interesting, following protocol to reduce legal action zoning, which is very nice, and maybe, maybe some of the people in your group have considered Ohio township Association courses as well. So it’s a very
Unknown Speaker 1:22:50
interesting is there a certain time that
John Festa 1:22:52
they have every year, every year? And we’ll keep you apprised. Yes,
Speaker 3 1:22:58
I have some young, new people, and I really, I really need to get them up to speed. Yeah, three
John Festa 1:23:05
more that I did go to we, they did a review on Ohio hospital to 513 with for 315, and all those come to our legal on April 30, because it’s 90 days after do. It. And I did two cemetery ones, how to properly clean and reset head stuff and cost effective ways to level cemetery markers. I think we got a couple of ones that that needs in writing.
Unknown Speaker 1:23:42
So question
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on that right away. Question, Richard, yes, do you have the info on that? I do. I mean not maybe right now, but would love to see
John Festa 1:23:55
that I have the I have the outline I could send that, I can send that to your community email. That would be great if you, if you leave me in the address,
Unknown Speaker 1:24:11
okay, Wendy’s kind of heading up the email. Okay,
John Festa 1:24:14
well, I can I just sent it to her chief. Okay, thank you. That’d be very interesting. One other thing that we had that was very, very interesting. I don’t know if you guys going to the meeting. Well, I gotta have this is a great deal. So Amazon is giving Amazon business for all the townships now have a free subscription to Amazon business, and that’s probably about $400 a year, right? And what that does is gives us the opportunity to buy Supply. Yes, whatever Amazon and Amazon sells where we don’t have to send people out. Come here, yeah, good thing about it is, if we do get to that point, well, I certainly, I do want you to sign up. Of course, Julie is going to be in charge of the money. But if we wanted to say Rhodes has a part of it and building the grounds, anything that you would order, the invoice would go directly to and she would be able to keep track. But, I mean, there’s so many things that you could and then he provides stuff, and then don’t have to go chasing around. It comes right here, and you don’t have to pay shipping, and you got the food. So I would think it’s a great Julia, if you want to move forward on that.
So any anything you want to discuss on we just talked about we’re
Unknown Speaker 1:26:16
going to get into,
John Festa 1:26:21
alright? So the American rescue plan, there’s some kind of I get, I guess, I guess the doge people put the, put the kibosh on pause, the funding, and we received a letter from from the treasurer, state treasurer, saying, we’re going to we’re in a lawsuit, blah, blah, blah, but I don’t think that’s going to affect this year. We got to worry. Yeah, reporting
Speaker 5 1:26:51
idea, which is right.
Unknown Speaker 1:27:00
Yeah, right. But yeah, they said that that website where you report everything might not
John Festa 1:27:10
be anywhere. So they so there’s a lot happening in Washington as people are
Unknown Speaker 1:27:18
a lot more money being come at
John Festa 1:27:20
us too. Yeah, I even want to ask a few more questions on that. We need to set up employer review employee reviews. So
Unknown Speaker 1:27:36
special meaning that should be
John Festa 1:27:40
What’s good for you
Unknown Speaker 1:27:49
guys? Yeah, I
Unknown Speaker 1:28:07
said either Tuesday or Thursday doesn’t matter.
Unknown Speaker 1:28:11
During the day or evening. Oh, it’ll be, it’ll
Unknown Speaker 1:28:16
be, well, we could do it during the day two o’clock. Okay.
Unknown Speaker 1:28:22
I’m okay,
John Festa 1:28:24
the 18th is a Tuesday at one
o’clock. Okay, we will still need to implement, we still need to do that through publication, right? It doesn’t start till August. I mean, April 1. You gotta place those ads. So now you’re allowed, you don’t have to put it in publications anymore. So if you’ve got a legal note or anything that has to do with publications, you can actually just put it on your website and put it on your Facebook your Facebook page. That’s it. The fiscal officer takes a screenshot of that and puts it in the file, and it’s on, yeah, this looks like how we’re going. I don’t think that director courier reaches many people in Manhattan, not as much as Facebook does, and I am still looking for that outdoor signboard, which We will probably have something behind
me, also at the I think, I think I put that in also at the Ohio township Association league. I ran into many people. I ran into the, you. The family that owns Nelson grant out of
Unknown Speaker 1:30:04
Ontario, Canada.
John Festa 1:30:08
Did you get the show? No, yeah, so we were talking about Colin Burridge, and
he’s I thought that these would be more. They probably were. But these guys a show special. Anybody has, has anybody recently bought granted countertops? They were, like, seriously expensive. So these, this colibrium, the one that’s pictured here, one of the ones in the show is 48 unit Colin variant with two benches for $18,751 plus three Yeah, very good. And he also said that if we were to purchase tool, he’d give us another $2,000 off. And I said, I said, lawyer, I’ve priced these out here. And they were talking that one of these was 40 some $1,000 he was, well, I will tell you, we probably sell to all the funeral companies that sell Colin breweries. We sell them to Colin berries, and then they put their markup right so on. So just to look this over again, I’m sure he set up on you Bible anyway. So he put, they put together a revenue worksheet on the other side of that. They’re saying that a possible 220% profit, which I think was, is a good idea, because many, many people now are not going with traditional variables. It’s been until
Unknown Speaker 1:32:20
August since it’s valid until August. I wanted
Unknown Speaker 1:32:29
to give you because
John Festa 1:32:36
this is other, there’s there’s other. I kind of like this. I kind of like this design, but there’s, there’s different, there’s different colors of credit that these people mine up there.
Unknown Speaker 1:32:54
John, what’s your next biggest one? Do you
John Festa 1:32:56
they they got? They got a pretty good 48 is a big
Unknown Speaker 1:33:00
48 that’s the one.
John Festa 1:33:05
And you could put, you could put four herbs in each one. Okay, so a family went by that and there he was talking to 1500 bucks. And then they have, they have places where you can put, you can put your names on there. Real nice. And then some of them have like, like full, like full, like full burger, because we put the whole cast. So
Unknown Speaker 1:33:38
let’s consider,
John Festa 1:33:39
yeah. You know right where that parking area before you get the other section, yeah, right in that area, yeah.
Unknown Speaker 1:33:55
Keep in mind that would require a very heavy quarter, yes, you gotta be moral ground with the last two I put in was massive,
John Festa 1:34:07
yeah, he said. And he’s also said that a lot of people want to put it like in the middle, but you can’t get the crate in there or anything, yeah? And we have the perfect spot for it. Frank, well, yeah, I’ll try to bring a drawing in the next time sketch it up.
Unknown Speaker 1:34:25
The last one I did came from China.
Unknown Speaker 1:34:29
Very impressive, yeah.
John Festa 1:34:32
Now these guys mind this stuff. And I mean, they do everything to grant, but you could grant a countertop could cost you 2020, grand, 25 grand. Because so is there any so everybody got some catchy stuff?
Couple girls got some some of the girls got some jackets. We had some jack. I just want to make sure I didn’t get anything yet. But
Unknown Speaker 1:35:14
I just wanted to make
John Festa 1:35:20
sure no there shouldn’t be
Unknown Speaker 1:35:25
here. This is valid, stupid. We’re not getting
Unknown Speaker 1:35:28
this. This just can go away.
John Festa 1:35:31
I just asked him when I when I read,
Unknown Speaker 1:35:42
I had
John Festa 1:35:56
them. One more thing I did talk to since we were on a subject that I noticed, probably not a good subject for a lot of people, but amazing. So our roads are our roads to keep our roads maintained are very expensive. We we don’t. We do not want, we do not want to raise people’s taxes. I’ve been here. I’ve been here for we have never raised we’ve never raised our nobles. We’ve always kept them. We have always kept them the same. What hasn’t kept the same is the amount of different trash haulers that we have, they are on our roads constantly. It’s not waste management, it’s Rumpke named, there’s there’s probably six or seven of them. And then we have county recycle and our roads to just it’s not it’s it’s making our roads harder and harder to maintain. We do do a good job of maintaining the roads, but without more money. Don’t know how we’re going to go forward, but I did tap to waste management, and I asked them if they do single, single carrier or municipalities than they do. We tried this 1011, 12 years ago, people were upset and why we don’t tell us who we need to go. I said, we’re not trying to do that. I’ve, I’ve approached our developments and asked them to be a little bit more proactive and see if they can get all their people together and get one one carrier that’s not working very good. But if you do get a carrier, I don’t know if most people’s trash picker is, I keep mine, it’s about close to $90 a quarter somewhere in there, on some of these, some of these carriers, to cut that in half. So not only will it save our roads to save some money for the resident, it’s not something that we have, you know, we have made a decision on it’s I’m not even close to that. I just want to let the trustees know that I did. I did speak to the waste management.
Unknown Speaker 1:38:44
What did you say about the lemon County?
John Festa 1:38:47
I said that we really do not want to do increase the people’s tasks,
Matthew Benner 1:38:54
but we may have to, right? Yeah, I would say, you know, you can’t keep moving in a township and run it’s like running a business. You eventually are going to teeter the pod the other direction, alright, and then you’re going to be really behind the eight ball to try to catch up. But I wouldn’t make that decision until we find out what we’re going to get.
John Festa 1:39:20
And I’m not saying that that’s where my mind’s I just said I never know,
Matthew Benner 1:39:26
right? I certainly probably wouldn’t put a new levy out, but I would probably consider replacing the current Levy, which gives you all the new tax evaluations that come through. Well,
John Festa 1:39:36
let me tell you, I just got my I’m sure everybody else did too. I got my property taxes. They said our evaluations were going to be somewhere 30% and Mister Kennedy came to this meeting our treasurer, our ex Treasurer, and said, Oh, no, that’s not. Going to increase your taxes 30% right? It’s only going to increase the value of the profit. Well, when I open my when I open my tax bill, my taxes went up 30% How about anybody else? So we got for not a good, better word, we got screwed, right? So are we going to get that valuation in money back to that house? That’s what
Unknown Speaker 1:40:29
I that’s what I’m asking.
John Festa 1:40:31
I mean, is that what we’re that’s what
Unknown Speaker 1:40:33
I’m hoping we should we’re
Unknown Speaker 1:40:36
getting this year for 193,000 Okay, for the
Unknown Speaker 1:40:43
amount, right?
Speaker 5 1:40:48
Okay. So what? You probably won’t get any additional on the letter, no, unless you rerun that. But
Matthew Benner 1:40:55
your general budget, the money we receive, should have a 30% I would think, yeah, it
Unknown Speaker 1:41:01
should be based on the new and that’s what I’m waiting to give
Matthew Benner 1:41:07
back, but your money from the county. Okay, what was it last year? What it will be this year? Well, it all began with the economy. Sit back and break all there?
John Festa 1:41:24
Shouldn’t we get a boost in our general
Speaker 5 1:41:28
fund? You should. That’s what I mentioned. Well, and then you wouldn’t have to do anything. Well, I hate to say I know a
John Festa 1:41:36
Bible 315 the new building states that you can use general fund money now to pay for most So anyway, I’m not, no, I’m not trying to skirt. Okay? I just, people are just, I don’t, you know, you know what the biggest kick in in the pants was you’re paying for last year, right? Let me get you so I guess we’re all in the same boat.
I think that’s it. Now we have Mr. Gannon, the drill. I drill.
Speaker 9 1:42:22
Not a whole bunch to go over. You see the barns kind of cleaned up or getting it anyways? Try to send them pictures. But I couldn’t stick that he had sent me. And he’s interested in maybe building a house, their house. He doesn’t rebound. I said, we can cross that. Whatever he was real workable when they didn’t have that right away. Do some permits. I’ll send you that tomorrow, an email. My regular calls, John, what do you have for me? What do you have for me? I want
John Festa 1:43:06
when you said he won’t, he may want to build the house there. How many 70?
Matthew Benner 1:43:19
So I did see it, and you probably seen the house buying a traffic employee for the business. And that’s 1% yes, 800 some $1,000 $859,000
Unknown Speaker 1:43:38
for that, for what, for the garage,
Speaker 2 1:43:39
and then the house and pioneer tree. Yeah, 70. I
Speaker 10 1:43:46
heard
Unknown Speaker 1:43:50
you saw it because it couldn’t afford property
Unknown Speaker 1:43:58
taxes, commercial.
Speaker 5 1:44:01
Well, yes, yeah, on that one because, yeah, whatever they built first is what that property is residential.
Speaker 10 1:44:10
Now section would realize it
Unknown Speaker 1:44:13
was, it was part
Speaker 9 1:44:15
residential and part commercial and prosecutors, so whatever gets built first, that’s the whole property is they built the house
Speaker 5 1:44:21
first. In other words, the line was in the middle of it. It was all residential.
Speaker 9 1:44:25
Looks like they’re screwing it anyways, like everybody else. Yes, anybody going to the township dinner
John Festa 1:44:35
next? Oh, yeah. Okay. So yeah,
Unknown Speaker 1:44:43
new prosecutors going to be
John Festa 1:44:44
there. Oh, good.
Speaker 9 1:44:46
And well, the new prosecutor lady, and then the new Brett.
John Festa 1:44:49
The new Brett, yeah, so Tom
Speaker 9 1:44:52
and Chris are supposed to be taking on this again. I guess they’re going to come to all townships, yeah, and talk to. To you know he was a judge somewhere, someone coming. I don’t know
Unknown Speaker 1:45:03
anything of
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him, but we’ll meet him there. I will be there. I’ll be there. You
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are you requested
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numerous times in the
Unknown Speaker 1:45:33
last three years? It’s that
Unknown Speaker 1:45:36
time your
Speaker 9 1:45:41
calls are starting to come in. You know, where somebody sees 40 degrees and hey, you know, swallowed that down. That’s going to be another busy year for the calls that I’m getting from what I see. However, this is hard to do because I’m just eight and a half by 11. Sheet of paper. I wish we had something. So I’m going to need everybody to kind of huddle here. I forgot to bring this up last time. How’s that sledgehammer? It is so you know, we’re right back in Pioneer rivers here. This gentleman who lives here, road trips through their old road, and people are coming up and doing donuts. And he went, nobody came one off. And I talked to Brent times he didn’t answer a call. And he said, I wouldn’t be advisable. But he said, well, the trustees indicate that you see the black line, Peck road continues. That’s actually still Peck road. There’s
Unknown Speaker 1:46:43
nothing back. But there’s
Speaker 9 1:46:50
not just his. And you see the road in the black and, yeah, I lit that up because it was there anyway. It says, I’m doing the road comes up. You see kind of angles, and I’m going to, here’s his house.
Unknown Speaker 1:47:00
Do we ever?
Unknown Speaker 1:47:08
Do we ever do magnets
John Festa 1:47:14
on it or it looks like a gravel grass, as a matter of fact?
Unknown Speaker 1:47:20
Looks like a gravel grass as a matter of
Speaker 5 1:47:22
fact, there isn’t. There’s already a cable cross check for a long time. It wasn’t, yeah, he
Speaker 9 1:47:26
takes it down and he puts it up and kick it down. Yeah? You do that with it. Donuts and burnouts, yeah, that’s a little bit of process. Used
Matthew Benner 1:47:34
to look back at the guy who’s calling these, Dave Pett, yeah, five. New guy, okay, Ken, we used to be at janitors at freshman schools.
Unknown Speaker 1:47:40
Well, we
Unknown Speaker 1:47:48
could, we could
Speaker 9 1:47:51
we could resolution, after you think about it, then we’ve only done one before become trips, I guess the property would go back to him.
John Festa 1:48:07
Is that under? Is that under a road mileage, to me,
Unknown Speaker 1:48:12
probably is what happened.
Unknown Speaker 1:48:21
Easy there follow, how well,
John Festa 1:48:24
it’s not doing that
Speaker 9 1:48:30
now. I mean, I don’t think a school bus goes he didn’t say anything like that. He wants me to come over and still see him. I told him what the prosecutor set up trying to convince you to vacate it. He still wants me to come over sometime. His plan
John Festa 1:48:48
saw the whole zones, cars, cars and stuff. I
Unknown Speaker 1:48:57
didn’t know that. Pastor still went through there. You
Unknown Speaker 1:49:01
know, we probably have
Speaker 9 1:49:08
because my office, his property, yeah, it put that over here, okay, right here, right. But I wanted to show you black in that little I just drift over there to make that clear, there’s nothing to do with Yeah, nothing
Speaker 5 1:49:22
to do with that. It’s just not here. So you can see how the flag curves. And yep, that’s your road extension. Do you not the road goes back? Was that blowing back the river
Unknown Speaker 1:49:32
that don’t think so you probably
Unknown Speaker 1:49:35
have a point shot fire does go back. I’ve never even as long as I always come running
Speaker 9 1:49:45
that’s always a driveway. Yeah, that’s his driveway. Yes, I’m pretty sure.
Unknown Speaker 1:49:52
So what
John Festa 1:49:55
from 303 This
Unknown Speaker 1:50:07
you Sure.
John Festa 1:50:42
House bill of 315 so our enforcement, in our zoning book does not state that it is now, will now be on is, well, it’s not law yet, but is, is a civil we need to change that. We need to change that language Ben, because it doesn’t mention, it doesn’t mention civil. And if someone can, someone can be a silver dad. So
Unknown Speaker 1:51:19
send something to win.
John Festa 1:51:21
Yeah, so we take a look back. Yeah, take a look at that. That’s important. I think you’re ready.
Speaker 9 1:51:28
I think so. Yes, most of the stuff I did was opposite Fire Department stuff anymore. It was great,
John Festa 1:51:36
but there’s a lot of fire dudes in there. Oh, there was, alright, anything? Anything else for mister? No, I’ll get you that list of what’s going on so far and everything’s just starting. No, that’s that’s fine. Thank you. Oh yeah. When are you going to come and see your dream office? I know I better do that. You know, we have, oh, yeah, and, you know, you’ve got some papers that are like melted together.
And key. Oh, you want a key for them? Yeah, I’ll get you a key. Yeah, I thought you wanted to go look at okay, yeah, okay. Any other questions for rich,
Unknown Speaker 1:52:47
public comment.
Mark Hall 1:52:51
Our next second Friday dinner is going to be next Friday the 14th, from four to seven on that the other thing you mentioned about public notice, you’re going to explore setting that up as a subscription basis, so when something gets posted, yes, there’ll be an email List. Yes,
John Festa 1:53:14
I haven’t done it yet. Okay, I’m just
Unknown Speaker 1:53:20
are working
Speaker 8 1:53:23
okay. As far as the size of is your email system now working forward Mike’s working
Unknown Speaker 1:53:35
letters from the
Unknown Speaker 1:53:46
Okay, ours are working soon,
Mark Hall 1:53:49
correct? Okay, when you were talking about the leves and who was the gentleman that was here, John Kennedy, yes, I had asked him in that meeting about like the school Levy and the township Levy, if those values would be impacted with the reappraisal? And his response was no. So it’s
Unknown Speaker 1:54:13
always been a question to me is, where does the extra money go? Because if you recall, on a levy that’s based on $1 amount that the public is willing to give does increase a little bit, but it’s not directly tied. Ben, you’re saying that your values go up over time.
Unknown Speaker 1:54:31
So, so that’s
Matthew Benner 1:54:33
why, and I don’t even interrupt your mark, and I a lot of people don’t understand how those work. Okay, so if you put a levy on today, you’re going to get the same value for that levy 15 years down the road, they could have five tax evaluations increases. You’re not going to get an increase in that money until you rerun that Levy, or replacement money as a replacement and you pick up all that will all you’ll know, which is what they would call. Up so they think, because they do that, that automatically gets more money. Everybody gets more money. No one does. Would you like yep to general fund, yep. So you know,
Mark Hall 1:55:15
folks don’t forget that point. Yeah, no, okay. The last thing, as far as the roof goes, I want to see if we can make this work. Julia, one is a good time that I can call you so I can understand what you need to do, so that I can express that back to our group.
Speaker 4 1:55:35
So anytime over the weekend or Tuesday morning, could
Unknown Speaker 1:55:38
you available tomorrow at all. No,
Speaker 4 1:55:41
okay, but I can tell you right now what they told me a local government was in out, whatever we’re paying what I maybe have a fund, right?
Mark Hall 1:55:52
What I want to do is sit down with you on the phone and basically talk about the actual physical details of what’s going on. I understand the principles of in,
Unknown Speaker 1:56:03
out and whatnot, but how does it, how is it accomplished? And get into more of the details of that. So now is your phone number listed on the website?
Unknown Speaker 1:56:22
On the cardboard
Unknown Speaker 1:56:41
that’s more like
John Festa 1:56:56
and you told me that
Unknown Speaker 1:56:57
those two that
Unknown Speaker 1:57:02
was me?
Speaker 2 1:57:04
Yeah,
John Festa 1:57:15
okay, mark anything else, let me double check the message. Next,
Mark Hall 1:57:33
the one lesson was on the civic center repairs the value of 77,200 that’s a limit for if the estimates for repair go above that, then you have to bid it down. Yep, correct. And that goes up 3% each year. Okay?
Speaker 5 1:57:57
Because usually 75 so I don’t know what time did he issue 75 this
Unknown Speaker 1:58:01
is 75 back again.
Speaker 8 1:58:06
Okay, was that the new thing that they just recently passed?
John Festa 1:58:14
No, I remember there used to be a value, no, that’s been raised over the over the years. That’s seven to 315, I 15. And if I recall, isn’t there a sump pump over in the civic center in the southwest corner? Sump
Unknown Speaker 1:58:30
pump? No, there’s no out there.
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