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Office of the Mayor

Ben Kessler, Mayor of the City of Bexley

The Mayor serves as the chief executive officer, safety director, and director of development for the City of Bexley. As well as overseeing day-to-day operations at the city and supervising city personnel, the Mayor is also tasked by the City's charter with creating and implementing the City's strategic plan.

Contact Information

Ben Kessler, Mayor
mayor@bexley.org

Natalie Vawter, Executive Assistant
nvawter@bexley.org

Phone: (614) 559-4210
Fax: (614) 559-4201

2242 E. Main Street
Bexley, Ohio 43209

Quarterly Water Bill Newsletters

Each water bill you receive will include an important newsletter from the Mayor's Office. Each edition highlights upcoming community events, updates, and anything else you may want to know about the upcoming quarter. If you accidentally recycled your newsletter, you can download electronic versions below.

2022-06 Newsletter
June 2022
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2021-09 Q4 Newsletter October Final
October 2021
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July 2021
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2021 Q2 Newsletter
April 2021
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From the Mayor's Journal

Mayor Ben’s Four Things Friday

For this special Spring Break edition, I'm sharing four great ways to welcome Spring in ...

Mayor Ben’s “Four Things Friday” 2/24/2023

Mayor Ben's "Four Things Friday"Here are four things that might not otherwise be covered in the ...

A Statement from Mayor Kessler and Council President Troy Markham

This past week our Bexley community has been rocked by a series of racist incidents ...

Statements from the Mayor and Chief of Police on the Killing of Tyre Nichols

From the Office of the Mayor There are no words to capture the sadness and ...

2023 Budget Highlights from Mayor Kessler

Over the past several months we’ve been hard at work planning for 2023 projects and ...

Top 10 of 2022 Countdown

As we look back over a year full of activity and progress, we can't help ...
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Meet Mayor Ben Kessler

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Ben Kessler was re-elected to the office of Mayor in November of 2019, and has served as Mayor since 2012. With a prior professional background in commercial real estate and finance, Mayor Kessler has emphasized sound planning and holistic redevelopment with a focus on neighborhood-scale planning and environmental sustainability.

In addition to his role as Mayor and chief executive of the City of Bexley, Mayor Ben is a past chair of and serves on the executive board of the Central Ohio Mayor's and City Managers Association; is a board member with the Mid-Ohio Regional Planning Commission, where he chairs the Sustainability Advisory Committee; is the Chair of the Central Ohio Energy Efficient Special Improvement District; and serves on the board as Strategic Committee co-chair of the Ohio Environmental Council.

Mayor Kessler's community initiatives have included creating and chairing the Bexley Land Use Strategy Commission; forming the Bexley Community Improvement Corporation; redeveloping the former City Hall and Service Garage site on Main Street; installing traffic-calming medians and enhanced streetscape on Main Street and Broad Street; crafting comprehensive distracted driving and pedestrian crosswalk laws for Bexley; launching Ohio's first comprehensive curbside food waste recycling service; authoring Ohio's first comprehensive single-use plastics ordinance; spurring the creation of the Bexley Main Event and Jazz in the Park series and the Jeffrey Woods Festival; and overseeing Bexley's first park and greenspace expansion effort in decades with the expansion of Schneider Park and the creation of the Schneider Park athletic fields, playground, community gardens, and creekside trail.

Inbetween his full time job of organizing litter pickup events and helping plan future infrastructure projects, Mayor Ben loves to tackle overly ambitious home improvement projects; go hiking with his family; cook anything and everything, and rock out on the keys with the Bexley-based Big Rockin' Blues Band.

If you have a question or concern and you'd like to discuss it with the Mayor, give him a call at (614) 559-4210! He'd be glad to chat in at City Hall or onsite with any issues or ideas you might have.

The City of Bexley
2242 E. Main Street
Bexley, Ohio 43209
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