Troy fifth-grade students who make up the Mayor Youth Council were introduced by Mayor Robin Oda at the Troy City Council meeting on Monday, Sept. 16.
Carly Rose | Miami Valley Today
By Carly Rose
TROY — Troy City Council has determined the intersection of Adams Street/Riverside Drive/Staunton Road should be improved for safety by the construction of a roundabout, during its meeting on Monday, Sept. 16.
Troy council adopted a resolution to authorize Director of Public Service and Safety Patrick Titterington to enter into an agreement with American Structurepoint Inc., of Columbus, for the design of the Adams Street/Riverside Drive/Staunton Road roundabout project.
The agreement with American Structurepoint for the design of the roundabout project is to include the preparation of the plans, design specifications, and bidding documents, provide an estimate for bidding, and review of submitted bids, for a project scope to fully reconstruct the intersection. Also to create a single-lane roundabout, including the installation of some utilities, new sidewalks, improved lighting, incorporating the existing shared-use path, with enhanced pedestrian safety and ADA accessibility. In accordance with the agreement, the cost is not to exceed $175,000.
The Committee was advised that as part of the design process, there will be public involvement meetings to review the concept and provide information. It is anticipated that the design will be completed by the spring of 2025, with construction during the summer of 2025.
In other business, Troy Mayor Robin Oda introduced the incoming members chosen for the Mayor Youth Council. The fifth-grade students were recommended by their principal from every elementary school in Troy, as well as home-schooled representatives, with the aim to serve and better the community.
The fifth graders will meet with city staff over the next year to learn about their local government and share their perspectives. Mayor Youth Council will meet once a month from October through the first of May, where they go to different events to learn about city history. They also go to Hobart Arena and learn about the history of Hobart, as well as strategic planning sessions, where they go to City Hall and brainstorm what they like about Troy, what they don’t like, and how they can improve.
“Every year we reach out to all the principals of the schools of the city of Troy, and we ask each principal to send us a boy and girl fifth-grader,” said Oda. “This is the group that they have chosen for this year’s youth council.”
In other business, City Council also adopted the following legislation:
• A resolution authorizing tax levies for the city of Troy for the fiscal year beginning Jan. 1, 2025, as determined by the budget commission and certifying such levies to the county auditor and declaring an emergency measure necessary for the immediate preservation of the public welfare. And because a certified copy of this resolution must be presented to the auditor of Miami County by Oct. 1, 2024, this resolution shall be effective immediately upon its adoption and approval by the mayor.
• An ordinance accepting the final plat of the Halifax Estates section 7 subdivision in the city of Troy and dedicating right-of-way, and has been recommended by the Troy Planning Commission. The proper officials of the city of Troy are authorized to execute such plat, and authorized to file said plat for record in the office of the recorder of Miami County.
Also near the end of Monday’s meeting, Oda thanked everybody who participated in Porchfest over the weekend.
“It was a beautiful day and there were a lot of people and it was just a good weekend for Troy,” said Oda.
Titterington gave a brief explanation of the resolution authorizing tax levies for the city of Troy.
“I just want to assure people that this is not any new tax levy, this is not any tax levy that’s on the ballot, nor is it anything new that they’re going to see that they haven’t already seen before,” said Titterington. “It’s a longstanding decades-old process that the state of Ohio has through the Ohio Revised Code,”
“It’s a process that involves the city and the county whereby the county certifies that their distribution of our portion of the 10 mil inside milage which is the minimum property tax milage that the state allocates and controls is appropriately audited and distributed according to the townships/school district allocations that we get because they vary,” he said. “They’re not related to school property tax levies, nor are they related to township, it’s just the way that they calculate it,”
Titterington also mentioned three upcoming October dates of which the public should be aware:
• Oct. 14, is expected to be the annual leaf pickup.
• Oct. 16, from 6 to 8 p.m. is the public hearing related to the comprehensive plan update.
• Oct. 31, trick-or-treat from 6 to 8 p.m.
Council member Susan Westfall noted, “The huge Twilight Sectional Cross Country meet was amazing to watch, it seemed very well-organized and widely participated in, so it was a really great event.”
Council member Samuel Pierce also said, “The Twilight run was beautiful, with some athletes in my family that participated. It went very well,”
City Council President William Rozell said, “Please be patient still with West Main Street, they changed the Dorset intersection again today, it looks like it’s going smoothly, just be careful and slow down.”
