Mayor Bryan Shock called the March 9, 2017 Village of Attica Council meeting to order at 7:34PM.

Roll Call:  Jeff Painter, Nate Frisch, George Yakoubian, Jeff Love, Kirk Stanfield,  Absent:  Gary Jordan.  Others present:  Village Administrator Martin, Police Chief Turner, residents M/M Lance Drummond, Attorney Steven Palmer, and Seneca East Ball Club representatives.

Motion by Councilman Yakoubian, seconded by Councilman Love to approve the warrants for payment.  Vote: 5-0.  Motion carried.

Written & Oral Communication:  Steven Palmer, Esq. Milan Ohio introduced himself to Council.  Mr. Palmer will be the Arbitrator for photo camera-speed contested cases.  Solicitor Palau will be drafting the Ordinance appointing Mr. Palmer for the Village.

Motion by Councilman Painter, seconded by Councilman Yakoubian to approve the minutes as presented.  Vote: 5-0.   Motion carried.

Pat Walker, representative of the S.E. Baseball Club spoke on behalf of the Club, asking for much needed improvements to the Myers Park ball-field, driveway stone, hydrant replacement (for water), outfield fence, interior door (of equipment room – kicked in, reported to Police), possibly a new equipment building to replace the old, new bleachers.    Perhaps grants can be obtained for most of these improvements.  Dennis Hammonds will be contacted for assistance with the possible grants.  The contract for the Club is up and a new one drawn up.  The trash addendum remains in place with the contract.  Councilman Frisch will obtain a contract to have signed when he meets with the Ball Club.  The Lyons Club will be contacted about the fence for assistance.  V.A. Martin will replace the water hydrant.

3-17-17 NCOR COG Annual Meeting 8:30AM (rsvp by 3-10).   The CDBG Seneca Co.  grant application received is not for the Eagles Building.  It is for other Village projects.  The Eagles Building will go under the neighborhood revitalization grant, for which the County is contacting the State of Ohio and perhaps the Village can buy the property for $1.  It was explained to Charlene Watkins that the Village cannot afford the property even at $1 as we do not have monies ($100K+) to get it tore down/cleaned up, and there is no guarantee that the grant $ will be for that building.  The Village will not be making an application for the Eagles building as we are not the owners of the building, and our liability will not cover it.  The Village will do a LMI Income survey for the County’s application.  (F.O. Krebs attended the Income Survey Training meeting 3-9-17) and will use those guidelines for the income survey, with Council’s assistance.  3-13-17, the First Community Development Implementation Strategy (CDIS) Meeting at Sentinel from 9-3, can anyone attend?  V.A. Martin will check with Paula Karr.

Public Safety:  Chief Turner reported the issuances of three warnings from the LIDAR camera, and the unit will be live on 3-16-2017 for citations.  The photo camera sign at S.R. 4 South is missing, and another one will be put in place, as per guidelines.    It must be 300’ from the Corp. Sign.

Streets & Properties:  Paving estimates:  $38,175 (Heyman Dr $29,425 WW Capital expense; Liberty & other water breaks $4,650 – PMVL fund; Locust St $4,100 (semi-driver’s insurance co to pay).  Other PMVL $ and S/Property $ for a total of $39,277 other streets to pave in this year (will be determined by the S/P committee).  The S.R. 4/224 Traffic signal project is complete and operational.  Cost was $23,943.20 (State Highway Fund).

Parks:  No lifeguard applications to date.  Council committee was given an information sheet on 2017 rates/admission fees for submission.  Discussion about the pool opening with two past years non-operational with the current filter.  What does Council wish to do, some say other alternatives need to be looked at instead of a community pool, students find employment elsewhere and have no interest in the pool for employment, big cities are closing pools.  Seneca East School has gone beyond measures to get the word out for the Village pool employment, and for that we thank them.

Trees:  Not too much damage from the extreme winds this past week.  The small snapped-off tree down by R. Shook’s is not on Village property.

Fire:  -

EMS:  No Meeting.

Cemetery:  No Meeting.

Personnel:  -

Zoning Commission:  -

Finance & Rule:  Total all funds: $866,149.52.  The February 28 bank reconciliation was reviewed and signed by Council.

Water/Sewer:  Greg, Gary, Lyn M and Pat met earlier in the day to review the lagoons project.  Attica’s share of the project was 21%, State (grants/loan) is 79%.  Makeever  asked if the Village wanted more $ back (reimbursement) from the State ($65K) as we have paid more than 21% of the project.  This would result in an increase in loan re-payments, and we are not interested in further burdening residents.  M.H. Construction still has $ owed them (retainer $91K, Pay draw #10 $17K and if a tile ran along the Miller property as we indicated in land deal we would $10K).  Our loan re-payment (aprox $75,000 per year) will begin upon completion of the project.  (either July 2017 or January 2018, per the OPWC loan agreement).  Under budget of the project savings areas were in supervision of construction administration by V.A. Martin (not by Makeever), stone drive vs asphalt drive, were major savings.  Increased costs:  legal fees and land purchase price.  The Village still needs to have the sludge removed from the old ww plant (cost?); and Heyman Drive re-surfaced.  Has the old Reservoir project been completed.  No, still waiting,  the Village has a plan, but no known cost yet.   V.A. Martin explained the copper/lead mapping results that were turned in to the EPA 3-1 (due 3-9).  Councilman Stanfield asked what we have to do now about that.  We wait for the EPA’s instructions/mandates.  We were to identify those lines that we know about and report them.  Discussion about terminology of service lines was debated as Councilman Stanfield said the terminology was confusing.  The State is still looking for our re-classification, can’t seem to locate it, but they did cash our check.  Councilman Stanfield asked F.O Krebs if the WW Capital $ (200K State Restricted estimated revenue $) is in the $866,149.52 I just reported on?  No, that is projected/anticipated revenue, it is not real money until it is received.  And,  F.O. Krebs further explained the budget/appropriations process to Councilman Stanfield.  The $200K may or may not be received from the State for the finalization of the lagoons project.  When forming 2017 annual appropriations, I best estimated what potentially the Village may yet need to complete the project.  Mr. Makeever has made that final estimate more of a known factor at todays’  meeting.  PEP representative Greg Songer was by today to view Village properties for any violations/improvements needed.

Village Web Site & IT:  -

Unfinished, Old Business, New Business:

3rd Read of Ordinance #2017-4 LPA/STATE-Micro surface SR 224 within V.A. limits was read.  Motion by Councilman Yakoubian, seconded by Councilman Love to adopt Ordinance 2017-4 micro-surface SR 224 in Attica.  Vote:  5-0.  Motion carried.

2nd Read of Ordinance 2017-5, Ohio Basic Code year 2017 was given.

Next meeting:  Thursday March 23, 2017, 7:30PM.

Motion by Councilman Frisch, seconded by Councilman Love to adjourn the meeting.  Time: 9:10PM.  Vote:  5-0.  Motion carried.

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