Windham Township Trustees
March 6, 2025 at 6 p.m.
9011 N. Main St., Windham, Ohio
Attendance:
Danny Burns – Chairman
Brian Miller – Trustee
Rich Gano – Vice Chairman
Casey Timmons – Treasurer
Audio:
The Windham Township Trustees meeting was called to order at 6 p.m. and opened with those in attendance reciting the Pledge of Allegiance. The meeting consisted of discussion on departmental topics, and there were no ordinances voted on by the committee members.
First, Brian Miller reported that the roads are in good condition. Winter weather has been harsh this year, and winter storms have been handled well by the storm team. Salt supply is adequate for the end of the season. A contract to chip and seal roads is prepared for spring or summer.
Next, Rich Gano reported on the cemetery, notifying the trustees of a request to add a headstone in one of its oldest sections. Danny Burns asked if there was an active list of available cemetery lots to present to the public to purchase, and Gano will research if that is a possibility for the future. The trustees recalled that 517.073 Ohio Revised Code was presented in 2023 for consideration, and the information should be reconsidered so that lots that are still available can be sold. Gano also shared that the township is having difficulty getting a response from the FirstEnergy representative on the LED light upgrade and would continue to pursue connecting with them to move the project forward.
Additionally, Burns presented that the fire district has had 109 runs from January 1 – March 6. The trustees are looking into the potential for the purchase of new vehicles, but are keeping inquiries open for used vehicles, as well. To close the reports, the trustees reviewed old business that was in action or had been discussed in previous meetings. Miller updated trustees that Reuben Byler of Nelson Township has won the bid for the gazebo update and chimney repair at the township building. These bids are being paid for by American Rescue Plan grant money. He also reminded the trustees of the upcoming clean-up days on April 25 and 26.
At the end of the meeting, trustees reviewed new business and a few reminders. They reviewed updates to liability coverage with OTARMA that will increase to $50,000. Miller reminded the trustees of the one-year anniversary of the tornado that hit Windham on April 17, 2024, and suggested ways they could appreciate the people in the surrounding community who helped out and supported the needs of the residents affected by the tornado.
Burns reminded trustees of a proposal for employees who are working overtime to be able to take comp time versus taking a payout for their overtime. Comp time is currently maxed at 40 hours, and the motion was proposed to raise it to 80 hours, so that employees can have some time off during slow times with overtime hours that are banked during busy seasons. The current employees have expressed favorable interest in this plan. Gano closed the reminders with an update that the bid is out to demo the property at 9092 state Route 303. The meeting was adjourned at 6:46 p.m.
Transcript:
The following is an AI-generated transcript of the meeting, which will contain inaccuracies.
Unknown Speaker 00:07
February,
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minutes
Speaker 1 00:28
all fair. We’re gonna have to skip the expenses.
Speaker 2 00:38
What’s she doing? What could she possibly what could she possibly be doing? Sorry, woman, nobody
Speaker 1 00:46
really here to probably consider it a guest. You guys don’t come all the time. If you want. You want to say your name so everybody knows, Marissa, who you are, and tell everybody these people normally show up. Yes, nobody else come.
Speaker 3 00:56
Of course. I’m Marissa divant here. I’m documenting for the portraiture. So I’m just here to type and take notes as you all talk. Yeah, you
Speaker 1 01:04
know anything about how to decrease your land pack when we don’t have somebody,
Unknown Speaker 01:08
don’t start with me kitchen.
Unknown Speaker 01:13
All right, we’ll go on the road. Well,
Speaker 4 01:18
we made it through another ups and down. We have a little bit of concerns out on Gotham this time with the rolling hill that we cleaned it and it would freeze over, so we had to go back over and again a couple of times. We did get
Speaker 1 01:34
a few calls. We’ll call people that called me. I was like, it’s 19 degrees. I go, they put more salt down. It’s gonna Ben,
Speaker 4 01:44
especially on that rolling hill there, as Rich Well, knows that one spot is where we clipped the truck years ago, because it really freezes on that one one spot, and that seems to be the neighborhood that had most concern.
Unknown Speaker 01:58
What’s a rolling hill?
Speaker 4 02:01
Well, in the topography that we have here in poured in this part of Portage County, and most of Portage County, it’s like when it goes in here, then you go like this, and the nice rolling hills and and then the water sometimes lays in the bottom of these hills. We’re not
Unknown Speaker 02:17
poor little flat area, and we’ve got
Speaker 4 02:19
a lot of poverty changing topography in our townships. So that’s also why we have water laid in a lot of different properties in our drainage
Speaker 1 02:32
property. I did a lot of driving around the road. I thought, I can’t see No. I mean, they did a good job.
Speaker 4 02:38
Well, they were out at 10 o’clock, and then the holiday. There was one day. Rusty was on vacation for the holiday, and Kevin was a little bit behind, because Kevin had to go pick up the route and do the other because he was off on, actually two different holiday. Wasn’t there back to back holidays on those Mondays that we had the President’s Day, and then we also had one other holiday, Martin Kayla, anyway, it all seemed like we had the storm right on those Mondays. So the guys had to work on their holidays, even to keep up on stuff. So it was taken care of. We are planning one for a culvert, plan for Hickman, and they have a fight, and it was waiting more appropriate. Waiting our salt. We still got
Speaker 1 03:31
enough, so I think we’re done. I think I’m gonna get on the schedule to pipe my
Unknown Speaker 03:36
front door. Okay? And what pipe
Unknown Speaker 03:39
your front guard? Put pipe. Can cover up the dirt.
Speaker 4 03:43
And trying to think I did get a hold of building. Notified him about it. We approved him from the chip and seals to come this year on the projects. And once we get the sold out I want it’s hard to ship the way the salt spreader is to go to your patching. There’s not a lot of patching that we have to do. Our rooms are in pretty good shape. But once that salt spreader is done, which I think is gonna be very soon, we get a nice day. I’ll get them to touch up some of our roads that we have. But it’s a pain to take it off and then flip it back on again. So but we’re close in that timing. So if anybody asks, that’s why we haven’t done it any sooner. Not that bad. But
Speaker 5 04:26
that’s yeah, has the chip and seal dates been secured?
Speaker 4 04:30
Well, put a call early, so early on the list. So we’ll see. But they usually have to do it within what the state requirements require. I think you can’t put it in past mid September anymore. Temperature always like 45 degrees or hot.
Unknown Speaker 04:50
So you’re already well ahead because your
Speaker 4 04:51
deadline has been September. Yeah, well, it will be this coming September. We’re on the list, so we’ve already arranged that and agreed to the roads we’re going to have. Done.
Speaker 1 05:03
Try to be proactive there. So the other thing, Brandon signs, I know we’re going to be, re putting them all back up with, I don’t know if you noticed the south sign. That was like, nobody hit it. It just looks like it’s leading to the north. I don’t know why. So is the one at werger and 82 we’re in 82 we had a guys check them out.
Speaker 4 05:26
Yeah, we did. We received a grant last year to update all of our signs, and they had 18 months, but they finally did everything in the post. Finally did come in, great. So they give us a little extra time with the state if we need it, because there was
Unknown Speaker 05:40
a delay. Great, but
Speaker 4 05:42
our gentlemen are both a little up in age, and so we’re taking in the middle of a blizzard, go out there and fix
Speaker 1 05:51
our point. Guy was, since we got the new ones instead of messing with the old one, yeah, just put that new one up and be done with it at both places. Good point, Richie cemetery.
Speaker 6 06:05
The only thing it’s a REM Jamie sent me. It’s going to be difficult. Somebody wants a head section of the cemetery. And if you can see the books you sent a picture of. It’s you’ve all seen it, maybe not all, but 10 foot from the old rose bush, you know, by the old tree type of thing. But wherever this gigging is, there could be a baby somewhere,
Speaker 7 06:27
gonna take a little bit of and she wants to in the old cemetery. In the new
Speaker 6 06:32
cemetery, the old cemetery, it’s in the it’s in the oldest section of the old cemetery. And she wants it moved to the A section. No, no, no, no. It’s this the deceased. They had a lot there, and they want to add a stone
Unknown Speaker 06:44
headstone, just adding a headstone just out
Speaker 7 06:46
of the heads the old section, I thought I said a Section A, it is a, it is a section,
Unknown Speaker 06:52
but it is the oldest section, just
Unknown Speaker 06:56
the new cemetery. Nobody will be put in. So you don’t have to worry about that. Well, one other thing on some research I was thinking about today.
Speaker 1 07:06
I don’t know if it was who’s this. I’m assuming the beginning, can we talk about getting all the old lots and getting them out there so people know what’s left to buy? I don’t think we did we do that or not?
Unknown Speaker 07:19
Did that? No,
Speaker 1 07:25
the guy said there was, like, a lot of open spaces, you
Speaker 6 07:28
know, I see what you’re saying, that that that change of state law with the loudest, yeah, so many years gotta be up to her to find that out. You’re right. I don’t know where it’s at, but I’ll reach out.
Speaker 1 07:42
Okay, yeah, maybe we could do that, and maybe we can tell so much. I know some people who would like to be like, up
Speaker 6 07:47
in the front Park. Do we make a resolution for that Casey?
Speaker 8 07:52
I think we did, but it’s been, yeah, it’s been a minute. Oh, definitely. I was three,
Speaker 1 08:08
well, if you can remember, but you maybe give her a call or something, and
Speaker 6 08:11
yeah, and that was legislation. It was legislation. Remember what problems my responsibility? Another
Speaker 4 08:20
thing for the cemetery, racco was moved down there. It got a little hung up, so we had to township cabin. We went down and helped them pull them out. They they tried to go in on the frozen day, and it shifted on them,
Speaker 6 08:36
you know, kind of rusty. Called me and says they they want to drive across and pick up the stone. I said, No problem. He goes, No problem. I said, No. Tommy used those mats that I got. He goes, who’s putting them down? Mr. Ross. I said, them
Speaker 4 08:50
want to do it. It wasn’t too bad of running, but we got them out. I had Kevin stay at the road, and we double change it, and I stopped traffic so we were able to they were very appreciative, and we promised we might call their bosses.
Speaker 1 09:07
And I did talk to the boss, he still just kind of wait till the weather. You know, I told him, it really isn’t that big deal till the summertime. Anyways, when, you know, we need something to keep, like cold drinks and stuff out there, you know, when we’re out there, post
Unknown Speaker 09:29
that you don’t you’re expecting to like, till summer time really well,
Speaker 1 09:31
no, no, I won’t say summertime till, you know, it’s 50 degrees for a couple days, you know, or whatever. Well, it’s not too cold, because not real important to have it right now. So it makes sense to send somebody out there having one. There that will be freezing trying to put it together.
Speaker 4 09:46
I did run into the gentleman. He was out there, finally came back because we were having trouble. I just happened to be driving through, and he says his experience for what it’s worth. He says, When you get an issue, he says, You gotta push it when they. Do it. He says, If you don’t do it, push it. He said, it’ll get pushed off the back burner and it’ll get it won’t get done. And so he recommended that we did it, stay on it. That was going
Speaker 6 10:11
to be no, he didn’t. And I called one of his other numbers, his Selma thing. I got another voice, man, and it wasn’t him. And I left them. Maybe he’s gone. Now I left them a very how upset we are, and I got nothing. I don’t know Brian was gonna send you to somebody over.
Speaker 4 10:29
The guy ended up showing up out there. And then he gave me a number the guy here. Because whenever I get people there, I get numbers quick. And of course, now I gotta remember where I put
Speaker 6 10:43
it Troy Rhodes, right, the guy from first, I’m sure you stole their emails, but somebody else answered his phone, but they won’t call
Speaker 7 10:49
back either. So what does this mean that the LED project is in jeopardy if you can’t get into this? Oh, that’s
Speaker 2 10:54
that guy that came here, yeah. Oh, he’s in my Jeopardy. Yeah. Todd scared him. The
Speaker 4 10:59
young lady questions, there’s a coordinator. Stuck in my mind. It’s not Marissa or something of that nature. That’s the number you’re right. There it is, green Madison. There it is Johnson. She’s the coordinator, and the guy that came out was Tom saner. He was the line supervisor. Just got started. He came out of the Salem area. I figured thought out his life story, and he’s now running the Warren facility. And this is that phone number for when we’re ready to schedule? I said, when you get people there. I just kept asking a lot of questions. I kept asking a lot of questions. They called her right up and I said, Hey,
Speaker 6 11:54
go direct to the coordinator. She has any pool with our LED, right?
Speaker 1 11:58
She’s the she’s the scheduler. We Richard, we want a map
Unknown Speaker 12:01
to the guy. Yeah, I told him that along
Speaker 4 12:03
the way. And he also said maybe there was some confusion, because they were doing some line work out on three or three. But I think it might have been with the village that might have caused some of the confusion. And they did some of the lights out there. It did do some, he says. So there was something out there, village
Speaker 1 12:19
signed, I think, was they are only doing them as they replaced. They weren’t going to store them all on time. Yeah, they’re doing different. Okay, so in
Unknown Speaker 12:27
September 2390
Speaker 8 12:31
minutes, say Jamie Knight hurt the sexton sent the trustees email about the lots that have remained unused for an extended period of time. She sent the Ohio Revised Code section, one, five, or I’m sorry, 517, dot 073, for authority, for re entry for unused lots, for right information, and suggest that we talk to the prosecutor for guidance, you guys able this? We were getting guidance from the prosecutor. That was in
Speaker 6 13:13
September. I imagine we probably did, if it’s anything else, we didn’t get a response
Unknown Speaker 13:20
on not much better. Now,
Speaker 4 13:26
okay Tom McCarty, the new gentleman, Matt cardi, or McCarty
Unknown Speaker 13:34
MC c y MC servicen,
Speaker 5 13:40
yeah, I see that the service engines dropped.
Speaker 1 13:48
Cemetery shouldn’t be. If it is that’s good for us, it shouldn’t be. I would
Speaker 5 13:53
just do I mean, I was driving, and when I went it
Speaker 1 13:58
was back up again. I’ll check out this, but it should. I was kind of confused about because I’m like, I could have swore it looked like
Speaker 5 14:04
it was November of 2023, when you say that Jamie is working on putting it together, putting
Unknown Speaker 14:13
it together, and that these
Speaker 8 14:22
blocks are are purchasing back from the 1940s and Jamie was working on notifying all the owners, so that was a no point. So
Unknown Speaker 14:32
if you get time rich, you just give her a call or something to see where it’s
Unknown Speaker 14:35
not a problem.
Speaker 1 14:42
All right. Well, I talked to Jake tonight. Jake said he really had nothing new to talk about, and so he wasn’t coming. So unless he sent you guys an email, he told me he sent me an email, if he had anything he did not the fire district. Uh, calls we’ve been so far. Okay, 109 runs to date. Is that, like a normal thing? Richie things are much lower, hotter. It’s
Speaker 6 15:16
about right. Ben, six, 700 calls a year. So if you provided on average now,
Speaker 1 15:22
and I gotta get a hold of him about the aimless that she was talking about. I had given a number he was supposed to get over. She said he did. So I’m gonna call him tonight about that to find out why. How did it deal with the
Unknown Speaker 15:35
one that I found perhaps
Speaker 1 15:38
we move on that? No, we can’t move on it, because Ben, I mean,
Unknown Speaker 15:42
eventually we may probably help lower the levy.
Unknown Speaker 15:45
Yeah, that part, right? And then they were angered
Speaker 6 15:47
that I gave them that you believe that? I don’t know who was angry
Speaker 1 15:51
about that you weren’t here, but, yeah, what’s his name? Still, he has some information on some dodges that for like $150 so I don’t know whichever one you know we can get. What is his name? I don’t remember his name. A guy that
Unknown Speaker 16:11
I met you
Unknown Speaker 16:19
got me from
Speaker 2 16:24
it was a contentious
Unknown Speaker 16:29
meeting. I
Speaker 1 16:31
don’t know the whole story. There is a story over
Speaker 9 16:35
about how from the commissioners, that ambulance that our company had. Is that still viable? I don’t know. At the end of our meeting last week, we were at 56 calls.
Unknown Speaker 16:59
We’re 50 more. Probably more stuff.
Unknown Speaker 17:03
They’re just the guys Carter, Columbus. That’s the one
Speaker 1 17:07
I ran across it today when I was going through filing. This was just a person we talked to down there. His name was Matt young. But, I mean, we’re not saying we’re mine at
Speaker 3 17:18
all. You’re looking into used versus new vehicle for the fire, is that the goal?
Speaker 1 17:23
No, we would like to get a new one, but we might have to get, we don’t know Sure. We don’t know yet. The
Speaker 4 17:32
way it works here in Windham, the fire districts a separate political entities, okay, on a new Yeah, I need to know Danny’s is our representative to the fire got it for they are part of the village, but it’s part of the village, the township, and then some community at large, people that create the fire.
Speaker 1 17:52
It isn’t good that way. Yeah, independent, but
Speaker 4 17:56
that’s what we have here. Okay, fair.
Unknown Speaker 17:59
Thank you. I appreciate that.
Speaker 1 18:02
I The other than that. Any other news? Meetup me next week. He was at the meeting. Last was there anything else at that meeting? So I wasn’t there
Unknown Speaker 18:11
North Carolina. No,
Unknown Speaker 18:12
I wasn’t alright.
Speaker 1 18:17
Well, that would be it for fire participant, Ben, and then for old business, anything Brian for
Speaker 4 18:28
old always remember, oh yeah, I do have something. Thank you for triggering my thinking I was able to get a hold of Ruben Byler, the gentleman, one of the contractors that we reached out to with the extra whatever COVID money, or whatever you want to call it, and let him know that he got the bid for the pavilion for the update, and to check this the fireplace and let his nephew know and put that in the scheduler. But I didn’t think he’d be up that straight cold there. Ruben, what civilian the pavilion, right? Well, the gazebo, I’m sorry, the gazebo that was part of the project that we approved last December on for the final use that we could use for construction purposes. Which, which, which granter is it without holder? I know, they changed the name midway, okay, art the money, yeah, sorry.
Unknown Speaker 19:28
And we have a lot of different balls in the ad. It turns out
Unknown Speaker 19:31
I’m fine. American rescue, yeah.
Speaker 4 19:33
And we had the, we had air market before the end of December, so that was one, but I let the contractor he got approved for that project and the fix our chimney here. Ruben Byler, r, e, u Ben r, e, u Ben, y, l, e r, d, y, L, E R, yeah. Thank you so much. He lives in Nelson. So can
Unknown Speaker 20:01
we make, I need to make a minutes, I said, on page two at the
Unknown Speaker 20:08
very bottom, I
Unknown Speaker 20:14
said, the next meeting. Shame on you. You’re not fired
Unknown Speaker 20:22
for the Yeah, you’re not fired. Talk
Speaker 9 20:27
to me in April, right people the correct one of the words.
Speaker 1 20:53
We knew what you meant. So one more Thank you. South is the cleanup the 25th and 26th guys called about the charge of that in Mount Creech, so she’s supposed to get back by the beginning of next week. Talk to about the
Unknown Speaker 21:16
tires too. Yeah. Okay, tires already. Thank you. I thought so. I
Unknown Speaker 21:39
thank you, not every year, but yes, at times, yes,
Unknown Speaker 21:47
what’s the other company for public services?
Speaker 1 21:53
And the scratch officer will come from whatever the name of the I don’t know what’s the name of the scratch place? Your knowledge
Unknown Speaker 21:59
to be C and
Unknown Speaker 22:00
B, the word fall.
Speaker 6 22:02
Ben, he has the other one. Yeah, that’s
Unknown Speaker 22:05
where
Speaker 4 22:08
his name’s Jared, right? I don’t know the former Cleveland guy, Indians pitcher, yeah, I could be, I think my name is Jared. Is it Ed? Is it Jared? It’s Jared.
Unknown Speaker 22:24
So the other thing that was on
Speaker 4 22:27
my memory’s good tonight. So some
Speaker 1 22:32
other stuff that was on the new business we did take care of was like, make sure the money.
Speaker 6 22:42
I I did we move up that we did, okay, right? Sorry, what
Speaker 1 22:55
I think, whatever our value was, before was 40,000 now we moved it to 60, or whether we were 50, no. 2024,
Speaker 8 23:06
right? We increase the value of the gazebo. Yeah, that’s all about. This
Speaker 6 23:10
recommendation was to do it again, though, wasn’t it through the email?
Unknown Speaker 23:15
212, 50,000 from
Unknown Speaker 23:20
12,000 that it is now, and you agreed me, is at some point need to vote on here to do that,
Speaker 4 23:27
you said it was a nominal cost. If I did, you’re correct, nominal cost to
Unknown Speaker 23:31
go from what 12,000 to 50,000
Speaker 4 23:33
I just had a shed Advent. I cost my insurance and cost $40 on the insurance to add a $15,000 shed.
Unknown Speaker 23:44
So would you make a motion to do it?
Speaker 7 23:47
Or they’ll make make a motion. So you’re increasing the value of the gazebo from
Speaker 1 23:51
12,000 No, all were like lawn mowers and
Unknown Speaker 23:57
eventually, miscellaneous,
Speaker 1 24:00
one umbrella worth 50,000 Well, that’s what insurance companies tell you. But just like we found through a tornado, I think what it means at the end, absolutely yes. So currently listed number 13 miscellaneous on sample
Speaker 8 24:10
items recovered at 12,540 he would he being Mark Russell from Oliver’s insurance would like us is suggesting that we raise the minimum of 50,000 that will cover
Speaker 1 24:39
really, it wasn’t like big stuff. We had stuff, but we had another generator, which we never thought about putting on then, because evil, we never had computers. At the beginning,
Speaker 8 24:47
I was the only one with the computer, but now our Sexton has a computer, because
Speaker 7 24:51
Sexton is this is all just about ensuring this stuff. So our Sexton
Speaker 8 24:54
has a computer and our zoning inspector has a computer. So this stuff
Unknown Speaker 24:58
all combined together, and. Now worth 50,000 Well,
Unknown Speaker 25:01
that’s yeah, minimum coverage, more coverage,
Speaker 1 25:07
probably worth more than 50,000 we will probably put down anyway. Stuff cost nothing.
Speaker 3 25:14
Do you know what the deductible is? I don’t know. Okay, that’s okay. $500 deductible. 35 What’s that? Did you say most of them are 3500 that’s what I was thinking. Yeah, 500
Speaker 4 25:32
it’s with otarma insurance, which is almost all the townships in Florida, Chicago, yeah.
Unknown Speaker 25:42
So really good insurance. You know when years ago, remember when the fire station got hit? It was 500 or $1,000 deduct $181,000
Speaker 4 25:54
and they wrote the check and didn’t even Blake and I, and some years they’ll even give you a deduction on some of your rates, it’s always nice when you get a check from your insurance company for no we typically
Speaker 8 26:07
get the check this policy goes in place in May, and then we usually get a check shortly.
Unknown Speaker 26:20
There. I got one thing when we’re all done, to go over before we’re
Speaker 4 26:22
done, one more new business, new year.
Unknown Speaker 26:25
I don’t know if it’s a good time
Speaker 4 26:27
or not, but I was we’re getting close to a one year anniversary of the tornado, and I didn’t know if we had any ideas of how we were. I wouldn’t say celebrate. But how to commemorate the day, is there any special ideas or something to do for families for that day? Maybe pancake breakfast or something over maybe COVID wines club, and they were so awesome at helping us, or just recognizing some of the people that went out of their way to help us, and the people I don’t know Brian. Had he talked about that? I just
Unknown Speaker 27:07
Brian, if he had something, he didn’t tell me
Speaker 4 27:10
that. Okay. Could you check? Because I think you know we got, we got enough time to do something, but if we wanted to pancake breakfast would be something, or just something to recognize them, anybody that would like to come down, even for a community event.
Unknown Speaker 27:25
You’re talking about, Ryan McLean, right? No, Ryan,
Speaker 1 27:28
okay, for the county, would you potentially extend that invitation to all the rest of the townships?
Speaker 4 27:38
But yeah, I’m all inclusive. I’m a big umbrella thing. Anybody that wouldn’t want to come, but I didn’t know. I was just trying to think outside the box with your other at the set of venues need something larger. We could always check with the RFC center. They were very supportive and helpful at the time too. If there’s pictures, they can set up a PowerPoint here, presentation that the people even come to see some of the history there. If there’s, I don’t know, just something that you can’t I don’t think it’d be prudent to ignore it.
Speaker 2 28:15
Well, I think a lot of people are still going through a lot of loss.
Speaker 4 28:20
That’s it, lot of loss, yeah? Well, I just saw, you know, some people, they said, these tornadoes up down. You watch that happen in North Carolina. Other parts are talking, you know, you’re lucky to get your life back in 10 years. Yeah. We’re very fortunate here. In other words, no loss of life, yeah,
Unknown Speaker 28:36
sure. And
Speaker 5 28:42
the historical, society. And if you have had them, if you’re talking about a PowerPoint or something, well
Speaker 4 28:49
that might be, yeah, the pictures, I was thinking, Ryan’s got pretty good setup with um stuff he he Ryan
Speaker 1 28:55
has everything. He has a lot. He talked about doing something like that. That’s what. Yeah,
Speaker 4 29:00
he had mentioned it here when we were here that other time. And so not just be the dead horse or
Speaker 2 29:07
No, I think it would be a nice gesture some level. I think it’d be a nice gesture, really, really
Unknown Speaker 29:13
hard at that. Not just, I mean, everybody,
Speaker 4 29:14
yeah, the whole community. It was, yeah. We all worked together on that, yeah. But I just thought it’d be something the Lions Club, they did a lot. I mean, you start picking out names. There’s so many people that you need to even start on that, but they were surprisingly, very helpful. I don’t think they would be willing to
Speaker 1 29:33
want to do something like that. There was a lot of
Speaker 4 29:37
them. Yeah. Kyle, yeah, no, but we still need to recognize
Speaker 1 29:42
No. We still need to recognize he. Don’t want to name the
Speaker 4 29:47
paper. No, but yeah, he was very helpful. Yeah, most people, you don’t let your right hand know what your left one is doing. That’s how you’re supposed to do stuff. But
Speaker 1 29:56
alright, well, I’ll call Ryan. She just texted Ryan. I. Okay and I can call tomorrow. I’m sure he’ll be at work. I’ll call him tomorrow. Don you might be at baseball. I know he’s coaching baseball, so it’s probably in the gym somewhere. I
Speaker 4 30:09
mean, Don Collins was awesome. Her support, definitely. And all the different townships, if you want to wear all the townships, came together to assist us here, moving the brush, even though all the wind and folks, we all moved it first sight that they moved it again. But it was Ryan said he was amazed that we came in at zero cost. Wow, that’s, I mean, it cost us, but nothing. Yeah, he was dumbfounded. He says that just doesn’t happen.
Unknown Speaker 30:37
No, that doesn’t
Speaker 4 30:39
but because of dawn and his up in the other townships,
Speaker 3 30:44
that was just community members stopping by and helping out.
Speaker 2 30:47
Well, even even that’s great cows was delivering more pizzas than we could even eat for free, just all for all the workers, pizzas. And every time I see
Unknown Speaker 31:01
one log, one pizza. What was the date of the tornado? I
Unknown Speaker 31:06
think it was the
Speaker 1 31:10
17, and it was on our wind, 3.99 miles long, 65 yards wide,
Unknown Speaker 31:20
just in time
Unknown Speaker 31:23
out here, right? I
Speaker 3 31:25
live in freedom, but I’ve only been here Stanley road. Okay, if you look
Speaker 1 31:29
right, if you’re coming from freedom, before you get to stand, if you look off to the right, where the left the gas tank is there, yeah, okay, that’s where the first the satellite picture shows that started. Oh, come across drill three to the them couple houses where all them trees are down? Yep, come across and hit Dave afterwards, house on the south side of the or barn on the south side of the turnpike. Then it came up the hill and it hit on the turnpike. That’s where that truck or whatever happened, yeah, toward the house, but right across turnpike and ripped it, it’s gone. Oh my. Then went through the woods, back behind my house, over to this road, over here, and then tore up, what, four or five houses, Karen’s house, then went down by 82 woods, and then it went across 82 and then it ended in a field by the satellite picture is where it
Speaker 2 32:18
happened. F2 tornado. Oh no. It was one mile short of a f4, when it it was like one, it was, it was, oh, it was, it was, it was bad. It was like one mile less than, I think, an F,
Speaker 3 32:34
if y’all do something, I’d like to give you my email address, because I’d like to come in and just maybe talk to some of the people that came by. I think that’d be really cool story, because of the goodness of the community that came together. Oh, it was amazing. I think that’d be cool, yeah, can
Speaker 1 32:47
you just leave it with us? I absolutely will. Township
Speaker 5 32:50
strong. I know on April 19, on Saturday.
Speaker 4 32:55
Is there a Saturday? April 19? That would probably be the day to try to do a Saturday or Sunday,
Unknown Speaker 33:03
Oh, Danny, could be here?
Speaker 4 33:10
I don’t know I thought or do it on the actual day, but I think more people would be off work on a Saturday, don’t you think? Yeah, I mean to ask the line, somebody just didn’t
Speaker 2 33:21
want to just, well, I think you know, I think they know that they would have health though. I don’t think that they would be left high and dry doing it themselves. If people heard about it, they’d help the Lions Club with it. Yeah,
Speaker 4 33:33
I just, whenever you have any event, you have food. And so that way people, I’m just
Unknown Speaker 33:37
saying you gotta have food. It’s you you
Unknown Speaker 33:42
have, it’s part of the social network.
Speaker 2 33:48
Why don’t we just have it as a drinking bridge? That way we can finally know where the drinking bridge we’re really going back to
Speaker 1 33:54
that night when it happened, when we started cleaning up the next day. We can’t do it over there because we all have a beer in our hand as we
Speaker 4 34:00
just was a pretty stressful evening. I think it would drive people to drink it. I could see it justified. It was, it was,
Unknown Speaker 34:12
I will call him for sure tomorrow if he doesn’t get back with rich, if you see him or whatever, too. So the thing I wanted to bring up was compulsory time for our guys,
Speaker 1 34:25
for our guys. So we’re right now are I pulled out, and I’m assuming that I have the same one that you guys have, and the last time it was updated was 2011 the policy manual. You guys think that’s correct? No, he
Speaker 8 34:37
updated Trump’s time. Since I’ve been a fiscal officer, I
Unknown Speaker 34:45
I’m a fiscal officer. I agree, because we copied the county
Speaker 1 34:48
for that section and the six times, right, but everything else in this book would be the same. So we got these done in Columbus when we were down in these really. To do Miami University. I guess every I don’t know how many years they come out, and they make sample policies for time. Doesn’t really say a lot of hear about comp time. But my suggestion was, you know, we only have the two employees, and they don’t really use all the time. You know, they hear a lot, so they get up that 40 hours quick. So what my suggestion was, I talked to Casey about this, was we allow them to go up to 80, but the first pay before Christmas every year that has to be kicked back down to 40. So if they haven’t used their, you know, their time, you know, throughout the winter time, then we’re going to pay in four hours. So they can’t just have, you know, not them guys, but eventually we’re going to have new, younger employees who, you know, are going to be here working. These guys are 65 so they’re not going to be here forever. We have to cover ourselves somehow too, so that we don’t if you only have two employees, you don’t want everybody off on something wrong. 80 hours come, yes, up till whatever that first paid for Christmas is and then they have to be paid out 40 hours of that back. So that way they then they’ll start off with 40 more. And
Unknown Speaker 36:09
so by Compton, you need overtime, right? Well,
Speaker 1 36:11
it’s overtime at the bank. Instead of getting paid, they have the option. They don’t have to do it. They have the option of taking the money or taking the time off. Is
Unknown Speaker 36:23
this for the whole year, for each pay I’m concerned so
Unknown Speaker 36:26
be for every day they work.
Speaker 4 36:29
So when you get the comp time, it’s time and a half, correct?
Speaker 1 36:34
Well, yeah, if it’s over time, it’s over time, you have the option of taking the money or taking the comp time. Okay? That’s my suggestion that we did.
Unknown Speaker 36:48
You want to think about it or whatever? No, make it efficient. So, yeah, these guys constantly,
Speaker 8 37:02
especially this year with the snow, they gave her a lot of overtime, and they kept asking me to put their overtime into tough time, and they they didn’t homicide, keep paying
Speaker 1 37:10
them out. Basically, they’re saving us money by doing it, yeah, because we don’t, it ain’t like we’re at a factory where me and her take off, you have to replace us another employee. They’re only doing it when we give them permission to do it. So they’re not doing it in the middle of summer, when we need them low, and they’re doing it in the winter time, when it’s really not a lot going on. Anyways, they’re using their time that way.
Speaker 6 37:28
So it’s hour for hour, right? Even though that would have been time and a half, they don’t get they get time and
Unknown Speaker 37:33
a half comp time. Okay,
Unknown Speaker 37:34
that’s nice. Is
Speaker 4 37:36
a question of Casey, do we hit when they do their time sheet forms a slot for the comp time on that?
Speaker 8 37:42
Yes, so they’ll tell me, and I’m sorry that I didn’t bring them, because they use mail the time they there’s a spreadsheet. So they put their hours, if they have, if they use comp time, if they want it, they go over, do they want to put it max out and have them maxed
Unknown Speaker 38:02
out for you? 40 hours and have not used
Unknown Speaker 38:03
Compton. I kind of call them up
Speaker 8 38:07
quite a bit, yeah, so this winter, yeah. So they were paid off constantly paying overtime.
Unknown Speaker 38:10
And they’re very conscientious
Speaker 4 38:11
workers about costs and stuff. They are very fair
Speaker 1 38:15
to detach, and they would rather have comp and I’d rather not paying time math. So it works out for both. If they want to, we will never tell them they can’t get paid cash. I’ll second all family, okay, so we’re going to do okay so they can bank
Speaker 8 38:27
up to eight hours of the last day before Christmas. They have to, we have to cash them.
Speaker 1 38:37
We have to pay we have to extra. We have to pay it down to at least. The most they can have on their books is 40 hours like that’s the same as they have now we
Unknown Speaker 38:47
can go to Christmas. So that’s 40 hours this fiscal year that they
Speaker 1 38:52
Yes. Basically, it’s a good thing for them too. They get
Speaker 2 38:55
Christmas bonus, right? It’s nice to see back and you said
Speaker 8 39:02
you back
Speaker 4 39:06
and you said, there is not but we can plan
Unknown Speaker 39:11
something before he goes on vacation,
Unknown Speaker 39:14
and Brian wants food, he knows why.
Speaker 4 39:20
It seems like Maggie donuts. Boy, they were very
Speaker 2 39:25
helpful. Yeah, that too. That’s, you’re right. We’re
Speaker 1 39:30
very I think that we have to, I don’t know if we have to do this. I would assume we don’t have to do this because we’re not talking about individual employee. I think we should have a like a meeting one time, special meeting or whatever. We come and we sit down and go through this 2011
Speaker 4 39:47
in this workshop. Is that what you’re saying? Danny, have a workshop for that,
Speaker 1 39:51
and then try to put something back. You know, I used to make something this thick, but update this a little bit.
Speaker 8 39:59
And. I did that risk that risk assessment gave us some pointers that they want us to do. So we actually, they gave us some guidelines too, so we
Unknown Speaker 40:07
can put that stuff
Unknown Speaker 40:10
in. I think we should try these. I agree.
Speaker 7 40:11
Sounds good. So an executive meeting,
Speaker 1 40:15
well, I don’t think we have to executive I think we can have public here, because I’m not talking about
Speaker 9 40:22
so we get a workshop date. That’s how we did it. Yeah,
Speaker 6 40:32
I got two quick things before we adjourn the time now, yeah, by the end of next week, they’re going to put a plan together to get out the property
Speaker 2 40:45
on 9092, State Route 303. It doesn’t have a name.
Speaker 6 40:51
Okay? So it’s going to be a bid to demo it in the timeline. Hopefully, by the end of next week, we’ll have something put in plan put
Speaker 2 40:58
in place. Ben, did they ever say anything more about are they just demoing the house. They’ll demo the house, and
Speaker 6 41:04
whatever money’s left will go towards clean up. They feel it succeeded. Then you
Speaker 4 41:11
kind of confused me a little bit. You sort of first said you that was going to be a sale, then you said a bid. So it’s an actual bid to
Unknown Speaker 41:18
tear it down. This will make sure
Unknown Speaker 41:22
we don’t want to sell. Yeah,
Unknown Speaker 41:23
yeah. Well, we,
Speaker 4 41:25
I just want to make sure it’s clear that it’s just a bid to tear down
Speaker 6 41:31
discussing this last meeting, but the two west the trailer I just saw one up for sale. Individuals interested. I got to get him a three and a half. So I’m looking for him to see if it’s a trailer non conforming, and he could put a house on it or not. I said, I’m assuming we have stipulations for a non conforming record if we
Unknown Speaker 41:59
can get a house built absolutely
Speaker 6 42:01
so I’m going to give him side yards and setbacks and anything with non conformity, and I’ll do that homework for him, and hopefully that’s all we just discussed tonight. So another
Speaker 4 42:14
win, win. Maybe that language in the paper, you really
Speaker 1 42:17
can’t even see that some action. I mean, you don’t know it’s there. If you’re not from here, you just drive by like she would never know, never notice.
Speaker 4 42:27
But the neighbor was mowing up for 10 years. That’s why you didn’t notice. 21 years via phone, I know, and you have to send a letter to the people and everything, yeah, and but yeah, they took care of it. So
Speaker 2 42:39
as long as it doesn’t go up for sale, it’s not an issue like, I know there’s an abandoned trailer next, there’s Larry and Sharon and then somebody, and then that trailer.
Speaker 6 42:52
Yeah, we spoke with the first time I was I know which one you’re talking about. Now
Speaker 2 42:55
the taxes are paid on it. I mean, whoever owns it? I mean, well, I know
Speaker 6 42:59
zoning code. If it’s out of use, nobody’s Oh god, it has been. It’s non conforming. So we can look into that and have it taken, okay request,
Unknown Speaker 43:09
even if they’re paying their taxes and everything
Speaker 2 43:12
that that trailer has said there, that trailer has said there a good 10 years
Unknown Speaker 43:18
goes away. Grandfather goes away. It’s a single way.
Unknown Speaker 43:21
They would have to just shake the trailer out,
Unknown Speaker 43:23
yank it out, or, yeah, they would have to live this
Speaker 4 43:27
right before. Remember, Larry had his moms at the one spot, but he took it out.
Speaker 2 43:32
There’s Larry and Sharon, then somebody, and then there’s a tree line, and then that trailer. It’s what’s
Speaker 3 43:40
the non 9126 statues.
Speaker 6 43:43
It was legal back in the day, yeah. And then over time, we widen things up, make it bigger, yep. So it’s grandfathered lot saying, you know, yeah, you were inherited this, yep. Let’s say, and we’ve changed. It’s not fair to say, Well, you can’t use it now. We’ve changed the world. Change
Unknown Speaker 43:57
the zoom type so it’s no longer wider
Speaker 6 44:00
stuff. Gotcha double what you’re trying requirements
Speaker 4 44:04
I see? There was discussion just to grandfather all non conforming. Was a recommended from regional planning that we do, that we have not done that yet. I thought that was a great idea. If we could do that at some
Unknown Speaker 44:16
point, where did they get grandfathered to
Speaker 4 44:17
the grandfather? We have so many of our lots of 60 foot, yeah, nobody can do anything. Hardly if they want to do a
Unknown Speaker 44:24
draw, you can’t build anything. Yeah,
Speaker 2 44:32
we live on a non conforming lot, okay, we have three of them, though, but we have seven and a half acres, and we’re non conforming. Oh, my God, because we only have 100 feet of frontage, so we’re non conforming to, okay,
Speaker 3 44:49
what establishes it? It has to be, how many feet to be conforming for building and zoning, 200
Speaker 1 44:55
now, 200 foot frontage. That was 200 we’re hoping to change the time to one. 50 to help out. Yeah,
Unknown Speaker 45:01
geez.
Unknown Speaker 45:06
Anyway, not to give you something else to do. I was just, oh, that’s important, you know, get my taxes reduced. Shut up, man. Anyway, I was just curious. 1846 in the
Unknown Speaker 45:31
meeting Second, it
Speaker 3 45:40
was great to meet you guys, thanks for welcoming me to the meeting I do.
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