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  • Special Meeting of City Council to swear in new members and elect Mayor and Vice-Mayor

    Special Meeting of City Council to swear in new members and elect Mayor and Vice-Mayor

    Loveland, Ohio – Current Mayor Kathy Bailey and current Councilmember Kent Blair retained their seats on Council in the recent election. Andy Bateman was elected for the first time. All three will take an oath of office in a special council meeting on Monday, December 2. The meeting begins at 7 PM at City Hall.

    After the three are sworn in and join the other four councilmembers at the dais, all seven will vote to elect a Mayor and Vice-Mayor who will serve in those positions for the next two years until the next municipal election in 2021.

    The other council members are, current Vice-Mayor, Rob Weisgerber and members, Ted Phelps, Tim Butler, and Neal Oury who each have two years remaining of their current terms. Angie Settell was not re-elected.

    Here are results of the Loveland Magazine informal poll of area residents when we asked, “Hey Psychics, “Who is most likely to be Loveland’s next Mayor?”

    Kathy Bailey – 57%

    The Loveland Frog – 13%
    Tim Butler – 8%
    Neal Oury – 7%
    Andy Bateman – 5%
    Rob Weisgerber – 5%
    Ted Phelps – 3%
    Kent Blair – 2%

    Here is the agenda for the meeting…

    AGENDA

    City Council Meeting 7:00 PM Monday, December 2, 2019

    Loveland City Hall 120 West Loveland Avenue Loveland, OH 45140

    1. Call to Order
    2. Pledge of Allegiance
    3. Invocation

    A. Loveland Police and LSFD Chaplain Bill Hounshell

    1. Oath of Office for Newly Elected and Reelected City Council Members
      1. Kathy Bailey – Oath of Office administered by Judge Brad Greenberg
      2. Kent Blair – Oath of Office administered by Patricia Melson
      3. Andrew Bateman – Oath of Office administered by Marla Simiele
    2. Nomination and Election of Mayor

    A. Oath of Office

    6. Nomination and Election of Vice Mayor

    A. Oath of Office

    7. Benediction

    A. Loveland Police and LSFD Chaplain Bill Hounshell

    8. Adjournment

    (The next City Council Meeting will be on December 10, 2019, at 7:00 PM)

  • Gentry says only politics played into the absence of three council members

    Gentry says only politics played into the absence of three council members

    by Shanda Gentry,

    Once again the citizens of Loveland were denied, by three council members, the right to undertake the business of the city. This is the second meeting of 2017 where, from my perspective, the same three council members failed their oath to the citizens of Loveland.  Loveland Charter outlines that two council meetings are required to occur, on the second and fourth Tuesdays of the month.

    In researching the absences of councilmembers during the last four years, there has never been a time where three council members were missing for a monthly meeting.

    • There were only 3 times that 2 council members were out for a required charter council meeting

    I also looked at what percentage of meetings councilmembers missed during their time on council (this specific calculation is the only way to determine what affect their absences has had on council) because a straight numbers calculation over different periods is not meaningful.  

    • Two council members have missed almost 17% of the required charter meetings, only one is currently on council – Steve Zamagias
    • One council member has NEVER missed a required charter council meeting – Kathy Bailey
    • Another council member has only missed one meeting in the last four years, the one where that absence caused a lack of quorum- Vice Mayor Angie Settell
    • Rob Weisgerber has missed 10% of meetings, Ted Phelps has missed 7.78% while Pam Gross has only missed 5.56% of required charter council meeting during the previous four years.

    Based on this review I can am left to believe that only Politics played into the absence of three council members for one required by charter council meeting.  Loveland fails when the business of the city is disrupted by officials who sign a pledge to follow the Charter of our city and then fail to live up to that pledge.

    Shanda Gentry is a twenty-year resident of Loveland

    More Background:

    Golladay says three blind mice Settell, Gross, and Zamagias must fully explain their absence immediately

    No Council quorum – no meeting

    Off and on again Council meeting for Tuesday?

    City council no-shows: “Alignment of planets” or “Act of political cowardice?”

    Rob Weisgerber: “Their absence was intentional.”