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Mr. Hopkins then brought up the sub ject of a swimrni.ng pool and <br />presented plans to Council for the constru.etion of two clifferent size pools, <br />Mr. Hopkins said t,hat°all'Committees of the Village who might be interested in <br />such a project had met and discussed the subject; that officers had>been <br />elected and the subject thoroughl:y discussed and it was believed that, Uri.th <br />all the promises of donated labor and materi.als., a sw.i.mrning pool couui..d be - <br />const_ria.c-ted for about $5,000000. Mr. Hoplans said that the entire vi.llage <br />area had been scrnzred for land and the only possibil.ity seemed to be in using <br />viLage property lying in back of Leslie's°barn, which' together with a pieee <br />40 bg 83 belonging to the school9 would answer the pur°pose. Nlr. Hopkins <br />also stated -that he had received'pexxPmmission from the school to use this piece <br />and wished notT to secure.pes•mmission from the vil.lage before going ahead with <br />the project. Thies brouglit ou-t some dissatisfaction from the audience-packed <br />Town Ha].1 and was discussed a-t great length by Counc3l0 Mayor Endress said <br />that he was most interested to see such a project being pixshed but felt that a <br />grbat marjy factors- should be answered before going aheada The question of <br />sanitation, drainage' dressing faci.lities' probable 1.3.fe of such a pool, and <br />a satisfactory plan of maintenance were among the marjy -that Mayox° Endress <br />li"sted that should be gone into thoroughlym Mayor Endress also felt that <br />plans and specificati.ons should be sacured for construction of a pool. <br />Mayor Endress -then appointed a7.1 of Cotxneil as a committee to go <br />into t.his matter. Council then elected Mrm George Zorn as chairman and <br />promised to get aft,er things at oncee As thzs taas a matter that could not <br />wait if a pool was to be in operation this year, Mayor Endress said that if <br />Council could come up with some workab].e plan, perhaps a special meeting <br />could.be called to h?sten t hings. <br />° iqrs. Broian then reported that she had a petition from 22 o:f the 34 <br />proper-ty owners on Seneca9 requesting that -an engineering survey be made -to <br />detei-mihe cost of paving Seneca Road, with a- cost breakdown on curb and storm <br />sewer. ° It was -then mbved by 1`Zr. Tay3or, seconded by fi'Ir. Wedler' that oux° <br />engineer be aut,horized to make a rough surve-y of Seneca Road Uritlz a breakdovnl as <br />per the petition. <br />° Ro11 Calls Ayes -kiessrs Taylor'Wedler.,Strater,Brown,Zorn & Hopkins, <br />Nays - None. <br />Motion carriedo <br />Mayor Endress then read a letter from the Clezreland Electric I1luminating <br />Company with regay°d to a raise in rates and said that the Nlayor's Association <br />had appointed a committee to go to Colwnbus on the matter. <br />Mayor Endress read another letter from the County Commissioners., <br />asking for support in renewal of the County Welfare Levy. <br />Mayor Fndress reported that the Clerlc had received a p etition from <br />the property owmrs on Thornapple vrive, asld.ng tkiat they be represented in arly <br />discussion aff'ecttl..ng that area. <br />5.