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Special Council Meeting 3/27/95 Page Four Fred Freer, 6736 Eastgate, said thank you (Mayor and Council) for the efforts you have put forth to date to share information with us. This is a complex issue and it is hard to reduce that complexity to a few pages. We realize the more we talk about it, the less we understand about the complexity. Perhaps the showing of support here this everiing indicates we would like to work with you, now that we realize there are options, in working out some of those options. So, that is our request. Irene Meden, 6688 Metro Park Drive - said she is upset when the Mayor keeps saying not until 1998. We will not have any more money two or three years down the line than we do now. Mayor Rinker said he has just been stating the facts. Mr. Christian, 510 S.O.M. Center Road - said he has tried to call the EPA several times and he could not get any answer from the EPA whether they were mandating this be done or not. Nobody seemed to know. My understanding is that this whole thing got started by a guy by the name of Larry Goldberg who wanted to develop some property down the street and offered to put the line in for free. He asked if anyone had any comment on that. Mayor Rinker said he has never heard that at all. He heard that the EPA definitely has mandated a number of things. First of all, the Hilltop Sanitary Sewer Line which runs right outside this door--that is an EPA mandate-- Projects H-1 and H-2. H-3 is a"T" which runs to the north; that has been mandated. Hickory Hill Treatment Facility, since 1987 or 1988 has been under court order to make sure that gets dismantled and the County Sanitary Engineer has been in violation of that order with threatened penalties which can be as much as $25,000 per day which can be passed back to residents within the entire Cuyahoga County Sanitary Engineer Districts proper. Mayor Rinker referenced the Beech Hill project. Mayor Rinker said he had heard in talking with people who had been to other meetings where representatives of the EPA were talking, when they were asked "is the North County Trunk Sewer mandated?" they would say, well, it is not exactly mandated; we are telling you that you have to do it, we are just not telling you that this is the way that you have to do it. This does nothing but distress people even more because it leads them into thinking that there are other options. On the contrary, everything we are told is