03/19/2018 Meeting Minutes - Laserfiche WebLink

Home Browse Search

Minutes of the Regular Meeting of Council Monday, March 19, 2018 Page 3 Mayor Bodnar replied, no. Council President Saponaro stated, okay. We were kind of confused as to whether someone was coming or not. I know you folks want to speak to us about some issues with the trees and things of that nature. We are always happy to hear from you. If there is something we can help facilitate through the Sewer District, we certainly will. I also encourage a11 of you to read the Minutes from the Planning and Zoning meeting when we talked about riparian'water rights and the schematic of the trees that would have to come down, although they were going to try to save those trees. - Brief Presentation bv Councilman Meyers on Newly-Elected Council Traiiun Prog? Council President Saponaro stated, Councilman Meyers recently went to a Newly-Elected Council Training Program and I just wanted you to share with us a few things from that meeting that were beneficial or things we need to hear about. Mr. Meyers stated, I went to Columbus to the Ohio MunicipaT League's Newly-Elected Council Training Program. The actual seminar they put on covered a lot of home rule, open meetings arid records and city and village financial procedures. The course took the majority of the day. At the end of the day, they covered bidding processes, economic development and Council powers and procedures. Towards the end of the day they brought up a couple questions about Councilpeople. He asked the room how many people have ever approached the local businesses in the Village as Councilpeople to ask them what they could do to help the villages and employees of the villages. It was kind of an interesting angle: I don't think of any Council people that have ever done that. Most of the people were surprised at the question: I thought that was kind of a good way to, people getting to know people in the village going around to.the businesses and introducing yourselves. That was pretty much the whole seminar. Council President Saponaro asked, are there materials you can share with us? Mr. Meyers stated, I tallced to Mary Betsa. She is going to get a hold of the OML representative to get more materials. Council President Saponaro stated, following up on what you were talking about the businesses, I had an opportunity to meet with David Levine from Mr. Beams. Mr. Beams is on Beta Drive. It was purchased by Ring. If anyone is familiar with Ring, it's where you have a camera on your doorbell. Mr. Beams has the motion detector lights. It was a pretty big purchase. Ring is now in the process of being purchased by Amazon. Mr. Beams started pretty small wlien it moved into the Village and it is now moving into the big leagues, first of all with Ring which is a huge undertaking and now possibly with Amazon. One of the things I wanted to talk about with Mr. Beams is how the relationship is between the Village and businesses and he said, we would love to be engaged more. He said there is going to be a possible opportunity that there may be expansion needed here and we want to be a part of this community. We talked about different things which I have discussed with Mrs. Betsa. I am going to put together a memo because from that meeting and a few other discussions tlungs have einerged like, we can have a business spotlight, we can make sure we put links on our website that people can link through to