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Council member Phipps stated the committee’s introduction and asked to set the required public hearing on the ordinance; the council set the public hearing for March 17 at 6:00 p.m. The transcript records the first reading and the scheduling of the public hearing but does not include further staff presentations, applicant testimony or public comment on this parcel at the meeting.

Because this item is at first reading and a public hearing has been scheduled, any final action will be taken after public notice and hearing.","mediaType","Video","parentTitle","City Council Meeting - 2/3/2025","oneSentenceSummary","The Planning, Zoning and Economic Development Committee introduced an ordinance to rezone about 0.307 acres at 416 West Wooster Street from PR (pedestrian residential) to R2 (medium‑density residential); Council set the required public hearing for March 17 at 6:00 p.m.","taxTitle","Bowling Green, Wood County, Ohio","taxId",56284,"location","headline","","shortSummary",{"_33":76,"_35":36,"_37":38,"_39":77,"_41":78,"_43":79,"_45":80,"_47":81,"_49":82,"_51":83,"_53":84,"_55":56,"_57":58,"_59":85,"_61":62,"_63":64,"_65":86,"_67":68,"_69":70,"_71":68,"_72":73,"_74":73},6352564,"Council confirms Barb Markin to Bowling Green Transit Advisory Committee through May 31, 2028",32,71000,103000,"/Search/View?dp=1&key=2224435-b606ee81b1377d372ab6c9135774d62b&start=71&end=103","https://assets.pipeline.soar.com/2224435-b606ee81b1377d372ab6c9135774d62b/thumbnail_71000.jpg","/articles/6352564/Bowling-Green/Wood-County/Ohio/Council-confirms-Barb-Markin-to-Bowling-Green-Transit-Advisory-Committee-through-May-31-2028","https://secure.pipeline.soar.com/6352564-b825f6895cfb9014d4f230776c927c1a/orig.mp4?Expires=1776062980&Signature=ZgB1Km-0eL3CiRFmPxkccc3V96E6V9qXSnqQ9mCpiG0OvbPIHL5S1nGJqATosQYm1OuM6EPqiABW7JCGKdQu5gp-ufq2dpoTcuEiJSyHFc1dhztiU0YX5FrOz2XndGdblipKCIKRgG-mpchvUqmXbwhFZXFZfGK13dgyiUnL9X1aJxahTRWqb4KhoOa9gWIHJ~oR5CSDFkIe9iG0u5RBfA3C95d4bAfTBnoCDqty~MRjM1MkY7nwM0vb0jnKeYj1JosyqlBJD~FsVzRbuuMWwDj~ew~yj8LiGqMTkm-vS3Sw1g5ziaIKWc6rB-GvTxxEG1Om2sP1wG2KfTgwXJ7oJw__&Key-Pair-Id=KUT5TJCACFTXG","The Bowling Green City Council approved a mayoral appointment to the Transit Advisory Committee, confirming Barb Markin to a term through May 31, 2028, with the appointment effective immediately.

The mayor reported the appointment and asked the council for confirmation; a council member moved to approve the appointment, a second was recorded, and the council approved by voice vote. The council then welcomed Markin \"aboard.\" The meeting packet included a financial budget summary for December 2024 that was noted for the record, but no additional materials about the appointee were entered into the transcript.

The transcript records the mayor requesting confirmation and the council's voice vote but does not record roll‑call tallies or biographical details for Markin beyond the term end date in the mayor's announcement.","The City Council approved the mayor's appointment of Barb Markin to the Transit Advisory Committee effective immediately, with the term through May 31, 2028; approval was by voice vote.",{"_33":88,"_35":36,"_37":38,"_39":89,"_41":90,"_43":91,"_45":92,"_47":93,"_49":94,"_51":95,"_53":96,"_55":56,"_57":58,"_59":97,"_61":62,"_63":64,"_65":98,"_67":68,"_69":70,"_71":68,"_72":73,"_74":73},6352569,"Bowling Green council adopts changes to rental registration ordinance, keeps delinquency clause",487,1273000,1760000,"/Search/View?dp=1&key=2224435-b606ee81b1377d372ab6c9135774d62b&start=1273&end=1760","https://assets.pipeline.soar.com/2224435-b606ee81b1377d372ab6c9135774d62b/thumbnail_1273000.jpg","/articles/6352569/Bowling-Green/Wood-County/Ohio/Bowling-Green-council-adopts-changes-to-rental-registration-ordinance-keeps-delinquency-clause","https://secure.pipeline.soar.com/6352569-96242081f74804018cf431fb463ca98b/orig.mp4?Expires=1776062980&Signature=HCbIHbL7WuuOdkgMIePrcNqJEIyfqyomgvNmIff8r39kmrBUR5Vt9rJuaLMVJB~nwn-AwjimpJUtdDGiiPJoH1lmuOWFRWmqt0Ho6zhjQoraKQwhI7Z1QF8IX~I3UcQCZNYjVFzpgRYW9f4iufv-wRviU042rDw~qOqsXzuAXHFHvz95FxJSsHL~i5ovjCy5xJ6~38JypLlw59UOTz7yGH7Uf6lhVoG-aSHGz61HEKTvsF1ZjKHBVHCgC9l5JjqB2dkj2qsEHq9djwcDsWIz75WtX9bq5l~BWbUXRf5JtOnueP5jPiDxU5FWuYsDc82S9uq5X3dH6Kf4cV~m8cDWhg__&Key-Pair-Id=KUT5TJCACFTXG","The Bowling Green City Council voted to adopt Ordinance 9,255, which amends chapter 121 of the codified ordinances governing rental dwelling registration, and decided to retain subsection 121.05(3) that conditions continuation in the self‑certification inspection program on a property owner not being delinquent on taxes, fees or other monies related to the property.

Council member Phipps moved to adopt Ordinance 9,255; the motion was seconded and the ordinance was adopted following a roll‑call vote in which all named members voted yes. The roll call recorded \"Yes\" from Hollenbaugh, Musgrave, O'Dorisio, Phipps, Robinette, Dennis and Harold.

Council discussion focused on a staff‑proposed cleanup to chapter 121 that would have removed subsection 121.05(3). Hunter, a city staff member who worked with enforcement of the chapter, summarized staff input: \"It's kind of ambiguous as to what fees you're talking about,\" Hunter said, adding that identifying and verifying debts such as traffic fines or older tax records would be practically difficult to enforce and often temporally out of sync with property status. Hunter said Heather Sailor, who manages enactment of the chapter, had proposed the edits earlier and that those edits were intended to improve enforceability.

Several council members said they regarded the delinquency clause as a useful enforcement tool and moved to keep it. A motion \"to leave 121.05(three) as it currently reads\" passed on a roll call in which the same council members voted yes. After that, Council member Phipps moved to adopt Ordinance 9,255; the ordinance was adopted as amended.

The adopted ordinance makes multiple small edits throughout chapter 121 to clarify language and address enactment issues, according to staff. The record does not supply the full text of the amendments beyond the discussion of 121.05(3). The transcript records an appellate‑court case was mentioned in discussion of statutory interpretation but provides no citation; staff and council did not tie that case to the city’s ordinance text.

The ordinance was adopted as amended; the transcript provides no implementation date or effective date for the changes beyond the adoption vote.","City Council adopted Ordinance 9,255 amending Chapter 121 on rental dwelling registration. Council debated and ultimately retained subsection 121.05(3) requiring property owners to be current on taxes, fees or other monies related to the property; adoption was unanimous.",{"_33":100,"_35":36,"_37":38,"_39":101,"_41":102,"_43":103,"_45":104,"_47":105,"_49":106,"_51":107,"_53":108,"_55":56,"_57":58,"_59":109,"_61":62,"_63":64,"_65":110,"_67":68,"_69":70,"_71":68,"_72":73,"_74":73},6352574,"Residents urge Bowling Green to design new fire stations and police building as resiliency centers",683,137000,820000,"/Search/View?dp=1&key=2224435-b606ee81b1377d372ab6c9135774d62b&start=137&end=820","https://assets.pipeline.soar.com/2224435-b606ee81b1377d372ab6c9135774d62b/thumbnail_137000.jpg","/articles/6352574/Bowling-Green/Wood-County/Ohio/Residents-urge-Bowling-Green-to-design-new-fire-stations-and-police-building-as-resiliency-centers","https://secure.pipeline.soar.com/6352574-94d8049959479ae846cddef1c866ceee/orig.mp4?Expires=1776062980&Signature=WojpnMQbvp34SImUvIynP8LWhowEcVOnJPeVSc9F1hvQ598TuSwBNsfv-Ghqjg8Q5VYTOnGcP-SVurnwBJ4R33J38Mhks02hD~9o4K0K4O0B7pFaqQ877kL066fE3sLGe6ZJzkwukLS9Ri3Z5SU7kc7oH3i68OWsGZzxt53uOOQufmMCk1tjTM7R9G6BZzStsWO~6YTv4-960HwsIYPcAEvKbXMgf1nbZIINIHBrLgwsIRAFL5pxaty3hjk3ASV4lZaqwJX-wdvPKPFc2ocyRuaLjWxSIAevz7dkttyw80EibKKz02MHrXHDJzeCP4cswsV~u32~zqD11sYuDzh9VQ__&Key-Pair-Id=KUT5TJCACFTXG","Two residents told the Bowling Green City Council during public comment that new public safety facilities should be designed to operate as resiliency centers capable of sheltering residents and supporting emergency response.

Jim Evans, one of the authors of the Bowling Green Climate Action and Resiliency Improvement Plan, told the council the city’s planned new fire stations and the police building renovation should include energy-efficiency upgrades and features to serve as tornado shelters and resiliency centers. \"These buildings should have safe rooms that are structurally competent to act as tornado shelters protecting critical first responders,\" Evans said. He listed measures such as reflective roofs, high-efficiency HVAC, improved insulation, electric-vehicle rechargers, native landscaping, water recycling, backup power and redundant communications.

The plan Evans described would also require buildings to be able to store and distribute food and water, provide basic medical care, and have floodproofing measures including raising utilities above projected flood elevations, installing flood shields and bulkhead doors, and adding sump pumps. Evans warned Bowling Green’s vulnerability to tornadoes and recommended locating at least one new fire station off the historical west‑to‑east tornado axis on Wooster Street and not adjacent to railroad tracks or I‑75 because of hazardous‑materials spill risks.

Caitlin Elliott, speaking on behalf of the BG Climate Action Network, urged the council’s Transportation and Safety Committee or the council’s Sustainability Committee to study including resiliency‑center features \"before planning progresses.\" \"The time for action is now,\" Elliott said, adding it is more cost‑effective to design facilities now than retrofit later.

Mayor (name not specified) replied that the city is in the early stages of designing the facilities and is not currently \"programming either one of those new facilities to function\" as formal resiliency centers. He said several sustainable design components and tornado shelters have been discussed and \"are currently being programmed into those buildings,\" but expressed concern that the buildings may not have enough square footage to accommodate large numbers of people. The mayor noted existing agreements with the county emergency management agency to use the community center for mass sheltering and said the city has used that facility in prior evacuations.

No council motion or formal direction to staff to add resiliency‑center requirements was recorded during the meeting. Both speakers asked that the issue be studied by council committee; the transcript records the request but not a committee referral or formal vote.","Speakers at a Bowling Green City Council meeting urged the council to require tornado shelters, backup power, floodproofing and other resiliency features in planned new fire stations and a police building renovation; the mayor said designs are in early stages and the city currently relies on county emergency agreements for mass sheltering.","actionData","errors"]

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