AGENDA 3-15-2016

MIDDLETOWN CITY COUNCIL AGENDA

TUESDAY, March 15, 2016

BUSINESS MEETING – 5:30 pm – COUNCIL CHAMBERS – LOWER LEVEL

1. MOMENT OF MEDITATION/PLEDGE OF ALLEGIANCE TO THE FLAG

2. ROLL CALL

3. CITIZEN COMMENTS, GUESTS, ORGANIZATIONS’ REPORTS Tim Abbott, Duke Energy

4. CITY MANAGER REPORTS

5. CONSENT AGENDA. . . Matters listed under the Consent Agenda are considered to be routine and will be enacted by one motion and one vote of consent. There will be no separate discussion of these items. If discussion is desired, that item will be removed and considered separately.

(a) Approve City Council Minutes: March 1, 2016

(b) Confirm Personnel Appointments: Gerry Burris- Part-time Wastewater Treatment Plant Manager Omer Hurlburt, Shawn McIntosh, Christopher Butler, Michael Mieczykowski- Firefighter

(c) Receive and File Oaths of Office: Barbara Bradley, Deborah Lindsey

(d) To request approval of a contract for the maintenance of the Gateway project, located at the intersection of I-75 and SR 122, from Grounds Elite, LLC, of Hamilton, OH, in the total amount of $56,133.

COUNCIL COMMENTS

 LEGISLATION

1. Resolution No. R2016-06, a resolution authorizing an agreement granting tax abatement to Liberty Spirits, LLC for redevelopment of 1357 Central Avenue in the Downtown Middletown Community Reinvestment Area. (2nd Reading)

2. Ordinance No. O2016-06, an ordinance establishing a procedure for and authorizing an amendment to the contract with Burch Hydro, Inc. for the disposal of biosolids from the Waste Water Treatment Plant and declaring an emergency.

3. Ordinance No. O2016-07, an ordinance authorizing contracts for grounds maintenance for the three year period from 2016 through 2018 and declaring an emergency.

4. Ordinance No. O2016-08, an ordinance authorizing a Development Agreement with BSM Middletown, LLC and waiving water and sewer tap-in fees, and declaring an emergency.

5. Ordinance No. O2016-09, an ordinance amending the pay and benefits ordinance, Ordinance No. O2015-62, and declaring an emergency.

6. Ordinance No. O2016-10, an ordinance authorizing a contract with Milcon Concrete, Inc. for the BUT-Oxford State Road project and declaring an emergency. (No action requested until April 5, 2016)

7. Resolution No. R2016-07, a resolution to make adjustments to appropriations for current expenses and other expenditures of the City of Middletown, Counties of Butler and Warren, State of Ohio, for the period ending December 31, 2016. (General Fund) (1st Reading)

How can City Hall legally use money from the WATER FUND and the STORMWATER FUND to mow grass?

Middielover: They do it just to give you something else to gripe about Vivian.
Everything thing they do is illegal. Right?

Middielover
Maybe you can explain to me how we became “Slumville USA”?
Oh, I forgot..”they were asleep at the wheel”.
Maybe you can explain to me where all the money from various funds has disappeared over the past 30 years and yet we have still not seen any improvements in these areas of the budget?
Oh, I forgot again..”we don’t talk about the past”.

However I’m sure that you and them boys down at City Hall can tell me the definition of “Slush Fund”. Right?

 

Processor:

Michelle Novak, a Middletown school board member, was one of the organizers of the protest. She said the goal of the protest was to speak their opinions and promote peace and love, and “that’s not his message at all,” she said of Trump.

“I feel like he’s trying to use scapegoats, the weakest people in our community,” she said. “Putting the spotlight on them and telling people they’re the problem.”

Novak, an American Muslim and first-year board member, said Trump never addresses issues or presents fresh ideas.

She said social issues have been “brought to the surface” throughout Trump’s campaign. Now, she said, it’s the country’s responsibility to fix the problems or leave them for the next generation.

“We knew it and now the whole world knows it,” she said.

Novak. something you should learn.

Ina public roll by running and winning an elected office, you are always in the spotlight as to the choices you make, be they school board decisions or decisions made in your personal life. You don't have to be an office holder or have run for office to know that.

You put on some Muslim clothes, adopt the Muslim faith and that's fine, UNTIL, you intertwine your faith with the role of a public servant who is suppose to be representing ALL of your constituents, be they Muslim or of another faith. You need to learn to remain neutral while on the school board. When you are voted off, hopefully in the next election, you can wear your religion on your sleeve as a private citizen. It is a shame you haven't shown us that you have as much enthusiasm for improving the lousy Middletown schools as you seem to have at protesting what you believe to be wrong and being the leader of the protest as well. Perhaps you could take your performance up a notch or two on school board before hammering on people like Trump.

Now that I know your true self, I am sorry I gave you my vote last election. I did that for all new people on the board as I wanted people like Katie McNeil and the Tyus's of the world off in lieu of new blood. My vote won't be coming your way again. I hope others will join me as well in keeping you off the board in the future.

Factguy wrote: On the contrary, Ms. Novak will be great for MCSD. She'll round up 10,000 Syrian refuges to come to Middletown to fill the school and increase federal and state funding.

Watta ya want me to tell you Factguy......The European nations and others don't want the Syrian refugees and Middletown can ill afford the take care of them either. Too late anyway. All the Section 8 overload beat them to this town. It would be the poor low income people of Middletown coupled with this cash starved city trying to fund the care of people who have even less. What a situation to behold. The last thing this school system needs is more dumbing down.

No, the woman's got to go. We can see now what is important to her.   

I don't believe that water fund or storm water fund can legally be used for mowing. Since these are the only funds council can raise rates without a vote of the citizens, they use them illegally as slush funds. Remember last year when they used water and sewer funds to pave streets. I don't believe that the Auto and Gas Fund, that can only mow medians and shoulders of roads, would be 47% of the mowing in Middletown. Remember that the last council voted not to use the Auto and Gas Fund for street repair (the only legal use for the fund). Since the Auto and Gas Fund has been misused for the last eight years, council should be forced to repay the $4m a year out of their pockets. At $4m per year times 8 years would be $32m and with council's 2.5 times reimbursement would be $80 million. That would be enough to start on our streets, especially if they used the future Auto and Gas Fund ($4m per year) for our streets (as legally required). Can we expect the last council to pay the $80m within the next 30 days? Also council billing for street lights that the citizens have been paying for the last 100 years, is out of the question. Saying that the city government pays now is untrue, since the money they are using IS OUR TAX DOLLARS. If this is incorrect please show us your personal cancelled check. Of course council wants us to pay twice or three times for everything. Look at our streets, (half of the income tax was earmarked for streets, the Auto and Gas Fund can only be used for streets and one mill of our property tax can only be used for street repair) yet if you want your street repaired, you'll have to get together with your neighbors and pay out of your pockets.
Remember that none of the income tax is being used for its original purpose.
We are overpaying for water, sewer and trash and these enterprise funds are being misappropriated.
Where was all the money spent and for what? It certainly didn't improve the city.
Remember the safety levy that guaranteed no layoffs. Once it was made permanent the layoffs began. Thanks council for making Middletown the highest crime area in the state and some of the lowest performing schools. Just what people and businesses are looking for in a new place to locate.

ok ok jmo

prediction:

after arm twisting, threats and intimidation, the fix is in
admin and enablers get their way again--they play we pay for it
more taxes not to be paid in an area draining the community

probably 4-1----maybe 3-2 or 5-0

the song remains the same

DO NOT miss the free show this coming Monday 6-8pm at verity lodge
This duo is as good as it gets--they made one cd which was up fir a Grammy this year.
The 22yo is going to be huge
I called it with Chris Stapleton when he could have been booked for $5000(now $75000)

Also a super lineup this Friday at Finkleman
As cool as middietown will ever get
Support the arts!

"Tommy Castro at the 20th Century"

Hey, I like electric blues music. Listen to Tommy Castro on You Tube all the time. Wish I could go but other things take priority.