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the Administration on how to implement some of these specific items. I hope to have things wrapped up as efficiently as we can while also providing time for some good discussion. Motion by President Litten, seconded by Vice President Kepple to receive and file communication. All in favor. Motion passed. 2. Report from Public Works & Sustainability Committee meetings held February 27, 2023 and March 6, 2023. (to be provided) Councilmember Rader delivered the following oral report: As indicated, the Committee met both on February 27" and tonight, March 6th for a short meeting. This is the Public Works & Sustainability Committee and all members were present. The major topic of consideration was a Resolution that would increase our pool fees. That is attached and will follow this communication. It was a robust discussion. There are several iterations of the pool fees presented by the Recreation Department and the Lakewood City Schools. Due to the renovations of the pool and rising costs of both chemicals and labor, it is pretty essential that we raise rates in order to meet those rising demands. The school district did a phenomenal job, as did the Administration of actually going through all the adjoining districts that have pools such as Rocky River, West Lake, Bay Village, Avon Lake, and all the West Side communities. They established what was actually a very sound methodology for what the pool fees should be, and the following Resolution will indicate what those pool fees will be, and once we get to the updated copy, we'll make sure that those are ill in alignment. If they are, I would highly recommend it, and we as a Committee did recommend adoption and those are all in alignment with what we had decided. You can see those on the screen, they do again indicate they are a substantial increase especially for the season passes but we will have undoubtedly one of the best, I think,pool systems on the West Side, if not the county and if not the state, and again these fees are actually on the low end of the West Side of Cuyahoga County. We are proud to offer these services and we're making up for some lost ground. Last time we considered this was 2019; we decided back then not to raise pool fees because there hadn't been any real construction done on our pools to upgrade and to make those essential improvements. Now that we have, we feel these are in alignment and how we feel they should be represented. Again, thank you to the School District particularly for taking the time meeting us this week to help take feedback from the Committee. One of the things we did change was the non-residential rates. We thought those could be more representative of the increase that we were being told was happening on the residential side. Those increases were essentially in parity, and again, these are the rates that we recommended. Motion by Councilmember Rader, seconded by President Litten to receive and file communication. Discussion: President Litten expressed the importance of the increased pool fees in relation to the City's new pool.