CITY OF OAKWOOD
JUNE 1, 2020
The Council of the city of Oakwood, State of Ohio, met in a work session at 6:30 p.m., followed by a regular session at 7:30 p.m., in the council chambers of the city of Oakwood.
The Mayor, Mr. William Duncan, presided, and acting Clerk of Council, Mr. Robert F. Jacques, recorded. Mayor Duncan reported that City Council is present at City Hall while respecting social distancing guidelines. The meeting is open to the public, but is limited for staff and Council to essential attendees only including the five members of City Council, the City Manager, and the City Law Director who is also acting as the Clerk of Council.
Mayor Duncan opened the meeting by asking all present to participate in the Pledge of Allegiance.
Upon call of the roll, the following members of Council responded to their names:
Officers of the City present were the following:
The following visitors registered:
Mrs. Hilton advised Council she had read the meeting minutes of the May 4 regular session and May 18 work session and executive session. Mrs. Hilton reported that she found the minutes correct and complete. Therefore, it was moved by Mrs. Hilton and seconded by Mr. Epley that the minutes of the session of Council aforementioned be approved as written and the reading thereof at this session be dispensed with. Upon a viva voce vote on the question of the motion, same passed unanimously and it was so ordered.
Mayor Duncan read the following:
“Saturday was an extremely active day in Downtown Dayton and we had several officers spend the better part of the day assisting with the chaos that broke out.
The protests started around noon in Dayton. At approximately 12:30 p.m., Dayton Police initiated a signal 99 (officer needs assistance) broadcast. At that time, two Oakwood Public Safety Officers responded to the downtown area. By the time they arrived, the emergency request had been cancelled and they returned to the city. Shortly thereafter, a second request was made and this time the request asked for responding officers to bring riot gear with them. Two Oakwood Public Safety Officers responded. They remained downtown until approximately 10:45 p.m. before being released. They were really on the front line and in the mix of it. They held various assignments such as crowd control, arrest team personnel, and traffic control while downtown. Both of them were exhausted when the returned to the city. It was a long day with lots of activity.
Additionally at around 2:30 p.m., the Kettering Regional SWAT was requested to respond. The team activated and three of Oakwood’s four members responded. Kettering's team was assigned to protect the Dayton Safety Building. Intel was received that a group of vandals were going to attempt to vandalize the building. Again, these team members were on the front line of all the activity occurring in and around the Safety Building. They were released shortly before 11 p.m., and Kettering's team has already been requested for Sunday as they anticipated a second day of protests.
Furthermore during the late afternoon hours, a group of protestors began to march south on Main St. towards Oakwood’s north city limits. A group of four Oakwood Public Safety Officers, along with a couple UD police officers, engaged them just prior to entering our city and forced them to turn on to Sawmill heading east. A few minutes later, the same group of Public Safety Officer’s confronted the group of protestors again at Oakwood Ave. and Irving forcing them to turn north on Brown heading towards UD. UD ended up with a large peaceful group of protestors in the area of Brown and Caldwell.
Given the close proximity to the city and limited on-duty personnel to manage a crowd this size it was at this time a code red personnel recall was placed. Six Oakwood Public Safety Officers responded. Chief Hill and Captain Jones also responded. We doubled up