7/7/2025 Council Meeting Minutes
CALL TO ORDER: Mayor Markgraf called to order the special meeting of Lakeside Park City Council at 7:02 P.M. on Monday, July 7, 2025, in the Lakeside Park City Building located at 9 Buttermilk Pike. Those in attendance were Mayor Markgraf, and City Clerk Teresa Bruck. The council members present included Tom Bernheimer, Dennis Landwehr, Cassi Schabell, Mary Ann Thaman, Brian Waite and Dave Wolfer. Attorney Greg Voss arrived late at the meeting.
AGENDA: Mayor advised this is a special meeting and only items on the agenda can be discussed. Anyone that addresses the council can be heard, but the council cannot discuss their concerns at this meeting. Mr. Bernheimer made the motion to adopt the July 7, 2025, agenda, and Mr. Waite seconded the motion. Ms. Schabell asked if new business could be discussed, and the mayor advised it could not be addressed at this meeting. Voice vote was taken. 5 Ayes, 1 Nays; motion carried.
MEETING MINUTES: With no corrections or changes, Ms. Thaman made a motion to adopt the minutes of June 9, 2025, meeting minutes, and Mr. Wolfer seconded the motion. Voice vote was taken. 6 Ayes, 0 Nays and 0 abstain.
CITIZENS ADDRESSING COUNCIL: Rob Grimes of 334 Farmington Drive thanked the council for their generosity and suggested they attend the corn roast fundraiser on August 8th.
MAYORS REPORT: The mayor reported there was no mayor’s group meeting last month, but he did have a sit down with Judge Executive Kris Knochelmann. He talked about misleading information concerns, as someone is stating each of our 3 employees were awarded raises of $11,000 each, but that amount was accumulative between the 3. Also, there was a characterization of a letter for high weeds that we are trying to prohibit pollinator gardening, but since he has been mayor there has never been a letter like that to go out. We have sent letters out for tall weeds and grass in excess of 8” including around sign poles. He reminded the council members that under the ethics ordinance, if a council member was a part of that misinformation or you were aware of such distortions there is an obligation to correct them. Lastly, the new signboards are installed but are not working yet. It requires an upgrade on the electric voltage and should be fixed this week.
CITY ATTORNEY REPORT: In Mr. Voss’s absence the mayor conducted a reading of Municipal Order #4-2025 Surplus of 2 Sign Boards. Mr. Landwehr made a motion to adopt Municipal Order #4-2025, and Mr. Bernheimer seconded the motion. The mayor advised that the old sign boards were worthless, and they would be e-strapped as part of the contract for the new boards. Voice vote was taken. 6 Ayes, 0 Nays and 0 abstain.
Attorney Greg Voss was then present to conduct the reading of Municipal Order #5-2025 for the resignation of KCPC representative Keith Logsdon and the appointment of a new city representative Kenneth Heidrich from now until December 31, 2025. The mayor advised this change was needed as Mr. Logsdon has move to Dayton, Ohio. Mr. Wolfer made a motion to adopt Municipal Order #4-2025, and Ms. Thaman seconded the motion. Voice vote was taken. 6 Ayes, 0 Nays and 0 abstain
CITY CLERK/TREASURER: Ms. Bruck talked about two CDs rolling over with Republic Bank CDARS program and two other maturing CDs with Central Bank that we now have a chance to put those in CDARS program with Central Bank; the new online QuickBooks conversion was in process; and payments for sidewalk projects for TMS and Precision were sent out. The mayor requested to keep our Deputy Clerk Jeanette Kemper in our prayers as she is recovering and hopefully will be back at work shortly.
FIRE/EMS: Assistant Fire Chief Hampton provided details from the Fort Mitchell Fire Department report submitted to the council. He reported that 18 of the 161 runs were for Lakeside Park; they had significant events that included assistance to Taylor Mill with a missing person, vehicle fires in both Crestview Hills and Fort Mitchell, and a suspicious package at Kroger’s in Fort Mitchell. They hired 3 new part-time employees; they had 3 public education events and installed 2 child seats. Lastly, he heard the babysitting class held here at Lakeside Park was a success.
PUBLIC WORKS: Ms. Thaman provided status updates on the public works projects that included sidewalk grinding and replacements, Williams trench drain, Crestview Hills sidewalk, Bellemonte project, benches, crosswalks, Marlo Way and Shaker, and a new InfraLAB assessment program. She said Mr. Greer identified a few line-of-sight issues that are being addressed. She also noted the speed sign has been moved to West Lakeside Avenue, but there was a request to return it to Carran Drive. The next public works meeting will be on Thursday, August 7th.
POLICE AUTHORITY: The mayor read the report provided to the council by the Police Authority. In summary the report included a new employee, Ptl. Curtis Busch; Ptl. Joel Tignor attended the 2025 Kentucky Safety Summitt; one new cruiser; budget amendments; pay classification updated; personnel policy relating to insurance waivers update; there was an Executive session for performance reviews and merit raises; the board voted to promote Ptl. Brett Mullins to Sgt. and lastly, Sgt. Sam Goodman is retiring at the end of this month.
PDS: Mr. Waite advised that PDS did not meet this month and had no report.
FINANCE: Mr. Wolfer reported June was slow as far as financial activities. He talked about the income and the normal operating expenses this month that left us with a net income of approximately $14K. He came in last week to review the accounting, and everything was properly recorded as well as balances. The balance sheet shows our checking and savings to have just shy of $5M. He said funds were moved around to get better return on our investments. He also reviewed all the credit card receipts that all looked to be properly related to city expenses. Mr. Wolfer also offered his condolences to the family of our long-term auditor Jim Sparrow who recently passed away.
MUNICIPAL GOVERNMENT LEAGUE OF NORTHERN KENTUCKY (MGLNK): Mr. Landwehr said he had no report.
RECREATION: Ms. Thaman reported that we hosted a successful babysitting class with consideration if others are interested; our last collaborated Senior Bingo with Fort Mitchell this past month, but we are trying one of our own in August; the euchre tournament cancelled due to lack of interest; line dancing for kids is offered July 29th, but no sign-ups yet and may be cancelled by the end of the week; only a few tickets left for the FCC game on Aug 3rd; and last the office will be closed Monday Sept. 1st in observance of Labor Day. Ms. Schabell inquired about the contribution to the corn roast event, and the mayor advised the check would be issued this month.
COMMENTS FROM COUNCIL: No comments from the council.
The mayor hoped everyone had a good 4th of July.
ADJOURNMENT:
At 7:36 PM Mr. Wolfer made the motion to adjourn the meeting, and Mr. Bernheimer seconded the motion. Voice vote taken 6 Ayes, 0 Nays; motion carried.