Happy (almost) New Year! Two quick reminders:
1. On Monday, January 2, 2012, Mayor-elect Ricard Bain, Council Member Gail Mayland and Councilmen-elect Jim Lemay and Tony Gentile will take oaths of office at 11:00 a.m. in City Council Chambers. All are welcome to attend.
2. On Tuesday, January 3, 2012, there will be a Special Council Meeting at 7:30 PM in the Pepper Pike City Hall Chambers. This meeting is open to the public. The agenda as it currently stands and is posted on the City website is here, HOWEVER, I understand that it will be updated to reflect a shorter list of legislative items due to additional review of the agenda by the incoming mayor. That revised agenda will no doubt be posted at its earliest convenience.
Showing posts with label Agendas. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Agendas. Show all posts
CANCELLED: November Planning & Zoning
I received and posted the Agenda today. You can see it here or below. It indicates that the Monday, November 1, 2010 P&Z meeting is cancelled and the next P&Z meeting will be Monday, December 6, 2010. I do not know the reason for the cancellation but you should feel free to contact City Hall if you would like to know. My assumption is either scheduling issues with those who need to attend, nothing submitted for consideration or the fact that it is the night before an election day. However, as I say, I've not inquired.
November 2010 Planning & Zoning Meeting (cancellation notice)
November 2010 Planning & Zoning Meeting (cancellation notice)
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Upcoming Meetings: P&Z (8/30); Special Council Session (8/31)
Two meetings coming up this week:
1. A Special Council Meeting has been scheduled for this coming Tuesday, August 31, 2010 at 7:30 PM at the Pepper Pike City Hall Chambers. The meeting is public and the sole agenda item will be a discussion on the reinstatement of one police officer.
2. Also, the agenda for Monday night's Planning & Zoning Commission meeting is now posted to the website and you can find it here (pdf).
Please feel free to contact me (or any members of Council or the mayor or City government from here) if you have any questions, comments or concerns.
Have a very nice weekend - it looks like it's going to be beautiful.
1. A Special Council Meeting has been scheduled for this coming Tuesday, August 31, 2010 at 7:30 PM at the Pepper Pike City Hall Chambers. The meeting is public and the sole agenda item will be a discussion on the reinstatement of one police officer.
2. Also, the agenda for Monday night's Planning & Zoning Commission meeting is now posted to the website and you can find it here (pdf).
Please feel free to contact me (or any members of Council or the mayor or City government from here) if you have any questions, comments or concerns.
Have a very nice weekend - it looks like it's going to be beautiful.
Meeting Reminder & Agenda; City Website Updates
Here is the text of an email I sent out this evening. If you desire to repeat or use any of the information, please be so kind as to provide attribution and a link back to the original source:
Good evening or good morning, depending on when you find this email in your inbox!
The disclaimer per usual re: being on this list: if you would like to be removed from my distribution list, please let me know. I understand and respect people's desire to receive less email. Please know that I do not share your emails with anyone, this is my personal list and those are two reasons why I keep your email addresses in the "blind copy" recipient section.
1. City Council Meeting this Wednesday, 8/18/10 You will find the agenda for the meeting here on the City website but I've also attached it to this email (in pdf format). It is a scan of the copy I received but I will replace it on the website with a pdf of the original once I've received that version.
2. City Website Updates
a. The Mayor's "Collaborative Plan for Pepper Pike's Future"
Good evening or good morning, depending on when you find this email in your inbox!
The disclaimer per usual re: being on this list: if you would like to be removed from my distribution list, please let me know. I understand and respect people's desire to receive less email. Please know that I do not share your emails with anyone, this is my personal list and those are two reasons why I keep your email addresses in the "blind copy" recipient section.
1. City Council Meeting this Wednesday, 8/18/10 You will find the agenda for the meeting here on the City website but I've also attached it to this email (in pdf format). It is a scan of the copy I received but I will replace it on the website with a pdf of the original once I've received that version.
2. City Website Updates
a. The Mayor's "Collaborative Plan for Pepper Pike's Future"
Special Council Meeting: Thursday, June 24, 2010 (tomorrow night)
The Mayor has scheduled a Special Council Meeting for this Thursday, June 24 at 8:00pm at City Hall. It is, as always, open to the public and I hope those of you who can will consider attending. The subjects to be discussed can be viewed at the City website here or on the official agenda which can be viewed at that City web page via the link. They subjects are:
-Discussion on sequestering the estate tax
-Update on Dispatch Center
-Discussion on Funding the levy campaign
I also wanted to let you know that minutes for all previous Special Council Meetings are now posted on the City website. The most comprehensive page from which to open these documents is here.
Absentee ballot applications for the August 3 election have started to arrive at city households. If you have not received one and would like to, please go here for information on how to obtain one. Remember, you do not need any specific reason to vote by mail in (or absentee) ballot. Pepper Pike will have two issues on the ballot and you can read more about them (a tax rate increase and a budget process-related charter amendment) here.
Feel free to contact me or any of your elected officials with questions, comments and concerns, as always, from here.
-Discussion on sequestering the estate tax
-Update on Dispatch Center
-Discussion on Funding the levy campaign
I also wanted to let you know that minutes for all previous Special Council Meetings are now posted on the City website. The most comprehensive page from which to open these documents is here.
Absentee ballot applications for the August 3 election have started to arrive at city households. If you have not received one and would like to, please go here for information on how to obtain one. Remember, you do not need any specific reason to vote by mail in (or absentee) ballot. Pepper Pike will have two issues on the ballot and you can read more about them (a tax rate increase and a budget process-related charter amendment) here.
Feel free to contact me or any of your elected officials with questions, comments and concerns, as always, from here.
AGENDA: City Council Meeting, 5/19/10
My apologies for just posting the agenda now. The original one was on the website as of yesterday but minor changes (adding an executive session for example) have occurred. The one below is the most current version and as soon as I post this, I will be updating the website too. Thank you!
Agenda: Pepper Pike City Council Meeting, 5/19/10
Agenda: Pepper Pike City Council Meeting, 5/19/10
AGENDA: Saturday Special Council Meeting, 5/15/10 at 9 am
A -yup. I'm trying to wrap my head around our meetings last night but I guess the short version goes like this:
-had Road & Safety meeting; changes to the plans for The Pointe at Sterling Lakes are moving forward - their residents are cool with it; Chagrin Falls Police Chief and network admin (?) Lisa Mariola came to Council and presented to us then answered many questions from Council, the mayor and the audience about "what if" re: Pepper Pike using their dispatch center. It was very interesting. We did bills, I found out we do have a helmet law (will be correcting some misinformation an organization keeps about cities and states re: such laws) and honestly, I can't recall just after that - not too much else. Oh, I asked for and the fire chief gave an update on what happened with the oil spill that eminated from the Racquet Club. As usual, he's on top of it but sadly, the City has little it can do to control or affect these things. Keeping an eye out for if this can ever change.
-had Special Council meeting about the financial situation and a tax increase. We entertained the idea of a .5 income tax increase instead of a .75 income tax increase, but the .5 would be paired with a 2.5 mill levy of some type (which would be a special purpose property tax - perhaps police or safety - for further discussion). The implementation of a sunset on the .5 increase was also discussed (whether it should be five years or three years, and the fact that the City's income tax rate would revert to the current 1.0 percent rate, not to zero, unless residents were asked to keep it at some level above 1.0 and they approved it).
To say that robust debate ensued (it's fun figuring out which words are which council members favorite - I've been into "specious" lately - one of my colleagues definitely loves "robust" and another one seems to like to call things "elegant" - could all be worse, yes?) would not do justice to the comments, questions and concerns that were voiced from about 9:30 or 10pm until pretty much midnight, maybe later? The audience comments were all very, very helpful and also very varied.
As I told someone earlier today, I believe one reason we have yet to reach unanimity is because this is a complex problem that does not have a simple solution that we can trust will win adequate voter support and so we wind up with options that emphasize some things and not others (or maybe I should say, not all). That places the burden, perhaps appropriately and inevitably, on Council and the mayor, to figure out the calculus which basically requires us to get the city solvent via revenue-raising tool(s) that voters can understand, accept and approve.
Our special council session on Saturday will be to continue to debate and work toward a conclusion.
Pepper Pike City Council Special Council Meeting, Saturday, 5/15/10, 9:00 AM
-had Road & Safety meeting; changes to the plans for The Pointe at Sterling Lakes are moving forward - their residents are cool with it; Chagrin Falls Police Chief and network admin (?) Lisa Mariola came to Council and presented to us then answered many questions from Council, the mayor and the audience about "what if" re: Pepper Pike using their dispatch center. It was very interesting. We did bills, I found out we do have a helmet law (will be correcting some misinformation an organization keeps about cities and states re: such laws) and honestly, I can't recall just after that - not too much else. Oh, I asked for and the fire chief gave an update on what happened with the oil spill that eminated from the Racquet Club. As usual, he's on top of it but sadly, the City has little it can do to control or affect these things. Keeping an eye out for if this can ever change.
-had Special Council meeting about the financial situation and a tax increase. We entertained the idea of a .5 income tax increase instead of a .75 income tax increase, but the .5 would be paired with a 2.5 mill levy of some type (which would be a special purpose property tax - perhaps police or safety - for further discussion). The implementation of a sunset on the .5 increase was also discussed (whether it should be five years or three years, and the fact that the City's income tax rate would revert to the current 1.0 percent rate, not to zero, unless residents were asked to keep it at some level above 1.0 and they approved it).
To say that robust debate ensued (it's fun figuring out which words are which council members favorite - I've been into "specious" lately - one of my colleagues definitely loves "robust" and another one seems to like to call things "elegant" - could all be worse, yes?) would not do justice to the comments, questions and concerns that were voiced from about 9:30 or 10pm until pretty much midnight, maybe later? The audience comments were all very, very helpful and also very varied.
As I told someone earlier today, I believe one reason we have yet to reach unanimity is because this is a complex problem that does not have a simple solution that we can trust will win adequate voter support and so we wind up with options that emphasize some things and not others (or maybe I should say, not all). That places the burden, perhaps appropriately and inevitably, on Council and the mayor, to figure out the calculus which basically requires us to get the city solvent via revenue-raising tool(s) that voters can understand, accept and approve.
Our special council session on Saturday will be to continue to debate and work toward a conclusion.
Pepper Pike City Council Special Council Meeting, Saturday, 5/15/10, 9:00 AM
AGENDA: Tomorrow Night's Meetings (Road & Safety/Finance & Planning, as well as a Special Council Meeting)
If the City of Pepper Pike is to place a ballot issue before the voters in relation to a tax increase on the August 3rd ballot, then the issue must be certified by next Thursday, May 19. Given that Council continues to work on a solution that it believes reflects what the City needs and the residents will support, there will be discussion first at the Road & Safety meeting, according to the agenda, and then at the Special Council Meeting, called for starting just after Road and Safety.
As I wrote last week, I remain unconvinced that a straight up .75 tax increase, with no change in the credit for residents who work outside the city but live in the city, no change in the credit limit for the same residents, and no sunset provision (which would send such a tax increase back to the voters in five years and therefore require Council and the mayor and his administration to be transparent and be held accountable) is the best option we can offer our taxpayers.
Please consider attending the meetings and/or writing or calling council members or the mayor to share your comments, questions and concerns.
Thank you as always.
Agenda: 5/12/10 Pepper Pike Road & Safety/Finance & Planning Committee; Special Council Meeting
As I wrote last week, I remain unconvinced that a straight up .75 tax increase, with no change in the credit for residents who work outside the city but live in the city, no change in the credit limit for the same residents, and no sunset provision (which would send such a tax increase back to the voters in five years and therefore require Council and the mayor and his administration to be transparent and be held accountable) is the best option we can offer our taxpayers.
Please consider attending the meetings and/or writing or calling council members or the mayor to share your comments, questions and concerns.
Thank you as always.
Agenda: 5/12/10 Pepper Pike Road & Safety/Finance & Planning Committee; Special Council Meeting
AGENDA: City Council Meeting, 4/21/10
For tomorrow night's meeting:
Agenda: Pepper Pike City Council Meeting, 4/21/10
Agenda: Pepper Pike City Council Meeting, 4/21/10
THURSDAY NIGHT: Special Council Meeting, 7:30 PM
This meeting will focus on the City's financial situation.
Agenda: Pepper Pike City Council Special Meeting 4/8/10
Agenda: Pepper Pike City Council Special Meeting 4/8/10
TOMORROW NIGHT: SPECIAL COUNCIL MEETING (3/24, 7:30 PM)
This meeting will focus on the City's 2010 budget. You can see the agenda below or on the City website here.
Agenda: Pepper Pike City Council Special Meeting 3/24/10
Agenda: Pepper Pike City Council Special Meeting 3/24/10
AGENDA: City Council Meeting, 3/17/10
My apologies for just posting tonight's agenda. No good excuse except being busy - and I know everyone is.
Agenda: Pepper Pike City Council Meeting 3/17/10
Agenda: Pepper Pike City Council Meeting 3/17/10
AGENDA: Road & Safety/Finance & Planning Committee Meeting, 3/10/10
The quality isn't as good as usual when I scan a document so I will replace it once I receive the pdf from the original.
Road & Safety/Finance & Planning Committee Meeting Agenda 3/10/10
Road & Safety/Finance & Planning Committee Meeting Agenda 3/10/10
AGENDA: Road & Safety/Finance & Planning Committee Meeting, 2/10/10
As you may know from reading the local papers, Pepper Pike is facing a serious financial deficit for the 2010 year. At tonight's Council meeting, co-chairs Gail Mayland and Rick Taft, who've been assigned to the Mayor's newly formed Long Range Strategic Planning Committee, will be giving an update on the committee's work so far (it first met last Weds. and have met again this week).
This meeting is public so please consider coming, listening and participating as you feel appropriate. As some of you know from knowing me, I greatly value hearing your input and knowing your opinion on city matters. And as a representative of the City's residents, I believe it is mandatory that I, as well as all of Council, hear from as many residents as possible. The agenda for the meeting is after the jump.
This meeting is public so please consider coming, listening and participating as you feel appropriate. As some of you know from knowing me, I greatly value hearing your input and knowing your opinion on city matters. And as a representative of the City's residents, I believe it is mandatory that I, as well as all of Council, hear from as many residents as possible. The agenda for the meeting is after the jump.
(updated) AGENDA: Planning & Zoning Commission Meeting, 2/1/10
Update: This meeting apparently was cancelled not long before it was to begin. When more information is made available, I will update further.
Pepper Pike Planning & Zoning Commission Agenda, 2/1/10
Pepper Pike Planning & Zoning Commission Agenda, 2/1/10
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Agenda Posted: City Council Meeting This Evening
Here is the agenda for tonight's City Council meeting. I believe that the portion listed as "Other," is the time when we go around the table and individual council members make comments, ask questions or raise other topics. I never noticed that it was listed as "Other" and that the Council Members don't actually have a specific category regarding their comments - it may just be understood or habit. I suspect that I will learn.
City Council Agenda, 1/20/10 Meeting
City Council Agenda, 1/20/10 Meeting
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Preview: Road & Safety/Finance & Planning Committee Meeting
Here's the agenda for tomorrow night's Road & Safety/Finance & Planning Committee Meeting. I've used a tool called Scribd.com that allows me to upload a pdf and turn it into a link that can be embedded in this post for everyone to see simply by viewing the post. Let me know how you like it. After the document, I write a bit about what city council meetings are and are not, depending on your POV, and what I think will be the highlights of the meeting.
