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r _ Iiinutes of the Special Meetisxg October 24, 1956 The Council of the Village of Ma.yfield met in special meeting at the Village Ha11 at 8:00 P. M. pursuan-t to notice-given to all members of-Council according to lati-r, . TSa.yor Lndress presiding. Roll CaLla Present -llessrs Taylor,Ziedl.er,Strater,Brown,Fallc & Hopkins. Absent ? None. - Mayor Endress then advised Council that the main r-eason for this special meeting was to consider the resurfacing of tidorton Park Boulevard from TnTilson tiills ?o the cu].verto The Road was full of _pot holes and, with Uri.nter weatlzer threatening at any moment, our Service Director was :Eearful of wha.t salt could do to the road in this coridition. Mayor Endress then pointed out that he had a quotation from a paving company for $875000 for fillino in these holes and resurfacing and a price of 27 cents per square yard for any additional re- surfacing beyond the culvert' in Ijemingway Ftoad. . Mro DeMore then brougnt out an article sent to Coun.cil in 19539 an which he had laid out a program of repair, telling of the?existi.ng condition of all the streets and advising i.n the first year •the sh.ap'ing of a11 ditches, adjustment of driveways and application of slag and tar, etc. During the second year fresh drains were to be installed, all pot holes fiJ_7_ed and the roads re-surfaced. Mr. Strater inquired if this proceduxe was the sa.me for upper tiJorton Park. Mr. DeMore said that this portion of tiiorton was to have a useable suxface, so -that no money Vrould be spent until after improvements were in, and that BonnievieUr was the only street that could be permanently paved, as all improvemeryts were inm - Mr. DeMore brought out tha.t Wor-L-oiz Park was to be re-surfaced and ditcned in February of 1955-and tar slag and tar were applied, but the ditches werE not put in, as the people clid -no-E want them. - N?a.yor Lndress then said that Worton Park repavinj ti?ra.s supposed to °be a two -shot j ob and that is what the people col].ected for, but then it turned irrto a one shot job and that 'Uhis xresurfacing now necessary was supposed to be the _second part of a two shot proposition. 1'1r. IeMore said that he could not remember that such was the case. , The Clerk then checked the Village Ledge? and found that abutting property owners on Worton Park had contributed $2,132.80 and the vil.lage was to contribute 25 percent of the cost of resurfacingo Due to the fact that ditches were _not. installed, the total cost was brought dotan _from an estisnate of $2975.00 to $2052.98. As the Villa.ge was to pay 25 percent of the cos-t there still remained approximately $900,00 left for this resurfacinge l.