Council Agenda 7-03-2012

 MIDDLETOWN CITY COUNCIL AGENDA

, July 3, 2012

I. BUSINESS MEETING – 5:30 p.m. – COUNCIL CHAMBERS – LOWER LEVEL

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

2. ROLL CALL

3. PUBLIC HEARING –

Street Lighting Improvements on South Main Street in the Historic District

4. CITIZEN COMMENTS

5. CITY MANAGER REPORTS

6. 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: June 19, 2012 and June 26, 2012

(b) Receive and File Board and Commission Minutes:

Board of Zoning Appeals- October 5, 2011

MidPointe Library System Board of Trustees-April 17, 2012 & May 15, 2012

Planning Commission- May 9, 2012

Historic Commission- May 10, 2012

Park Board-June 4, 2012

Middletown Public Housing Agency – June 19, 2012

(c) Receive and file Oaths of Offices:

Edmund Wayne Birch, Matthew Eisenbraun, Shirley Jones

(d) Approve Board and Commission Appointment:

Ronnie Choudhary-MidPointe Library System Board of Trustees

(e) Confirm Personnel Transaction: Appointment: Dispatcher – Casie Hall

(f) Proclamation: July 13-15 – MidUSA Ohio Challenge Hot Air Balloon Festival Days

7. MOTION AGENDA

(a) Authorize a contract with AST Environmental, Inc. for soil remediation at 1701 Reinartz Blvd. in an amount not to exceed $273,898.25.

(b) Authorize a contract with Central Insulation Systems, Inc. for asbestos abatement at 1701 Reinartz Blvd. in an amount not to exceed $152,329.

(c) Sale of a portion of vacant parcel on Broad Street.

8. COUNCIL COMMENTS

II. LEGISLATION

1. Resolution No. R2012-16, a resolution declaring it necessary to levy a tax in excess of the ten mill limitation for the purpose to supplement the General Fund for the purpose of making appropriations for providing or maintaining senior citizens services and/or facilities as set forth in the Ohio Revised Code Section 5705.19(Y) and determining to proceed to submit the question of levying such tax to the electors of the City of Middletown, Ohio, at the election on November 6, 2012, in accordance with Section 5705.19(Y) of the Ohio Revised Code. (Second Reading)

2. Ordinance No. O2012-23, an ordinance establishing a procedure for and authorizing an agreement between the City and Commerce Corner, LLC and COM-HLL Corp. of certain real property and declaring an emergency.

3. Resolution No. R2012-17, a resolution authorizing the City Manager to participate in the Moving Ohio Forward Grant Program. (Second Reading)

4. Ordinance No. O2012-24, an ordinance authorizing a Memorandum of Understanding with the Butler County Land Reutilization Corporation for the cooperative acquisition and banking of non productive real property in Middletown. (Second Reading)

5. Ordinance No. O2012-25, an ordinance establishing a procedure for and authorizing a contract with Skanska USA Building for the completion of the Greentree Health Science Academy and declaring an emergency.

6. Resolution No. R2012-18, 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, 2012 and declaring an emergency. (East End & Downtown Fund)

7. Resolution No. R2012-19, a resolution declaring the intent of the Middletown City Council to support uniform provisions in City tax ordinances. (First Reading)

Mike_Presta wrote: According to a report in this week’s City Council workbook, the City does not have the money to maintain their property on S. Main Street, the former Rose Furniture building, but we have $1.1 MILLION unallocated in the General Fund RIGHT NOW!!!

According to the minutes of the HISTORIC COMMISSION meeting included in the workbook, the Commission has decided NOT to cite the City into their Kangaroo Court even though the leaking roof in this historic structure is causing severe damage to the structure. (They say that the City “not have the resources to restore the building” right now.) 

GreyGoose
I don’t believe that you will be using a backhoe for the majority of this job. I believe the bid is high because contractors are scared to death to dig near or around the old sewer and gas lines in the older parts of Middletown. I believe that a lot of this job may need to be hand dug.  

727.38 Additional assessment to supply deficiency.

The only true, ethical, legal choices that City Council has regarding these DECORATIVE, historically INaccurate sidewalk lamps are as follows:

1.     Delete the phony lamp posts and proceed with the project street work.

2.     Delay the project to allow the proponents an opportunity to push through a new petition using the new cost figures.

3.     Proceed with the project and assess the total cost to the property owners “in the same proportion as the original assessment”.

It is bad enough that the rest of the taxpayers will have to be paying the electricity and maintenance costs for these decorative lights from now until the end of time.  There is no way that the rest of the taxpayers should be forced to participate in breaking the law (City Ordinance 1210) by paying a portion of the cost (beyond that of the “assessment” for City-owned property involved) for these decorative lamps.

Why this lunacy was even discussed for over an hour was beyond me.

The Chamber and Middletown Business Watch were forced to make their presentations within the 3-minute limit of Council Comments (notice that both speakers completed their messages within their allotted time). That endeavor has drawn the attention and high praise from the state Attorney General's office + multiple visits from various state law enforcement entities. Called a "role mode;" for all communities within the state.

Yet only one Council member even mentioned them during their comment session (thank you Joe Mulligan!), when they usually babble to the camera on their self-interests.

Spider
It seems that City Hall does not want to discuss the fact that we have a real crime problem in many parts of the city. The only time they seem willing to comment on the problem is when they take political officials on a bus tour to ask for more federal funding for safety issues as they did several years ago. However after they got the funding the money has not been used in the high crime high poverty areas of the city…...Shame on City Hall.
It is now up the citizens to look out for each other and call the police if they notice strangers in or around their neighbor’s property.

Spider
According to Mr. Adkins plan no funds will be spent in these hign crime high poverty areas for another 3 years. I just don’t know if all the small businesses in this area will be able to survive for another 3 years.