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Regular Council Meeting 10-20-08 Page 6 Mayor Rinker stated that we are looking at our budget for 2009. Any kind of road and sidewalk work will be put into that budget. In terms of anything we are going to be doing prospectively, we have to see where that-stacks up with all of our budget issues. In terms of notifying residents, Mayor Rinker would expect we would not do something like that until the Spring. Mr. Nichols asked whose liability it is if someone gets hurt. Mayor Rinker replied typically it is the property owners. Mr. Nichols asked when the last time was that there was a sidewalk program. Mayor Rinker replied it was several years ago to the extent there was any program. Mayor Rinker asked Mr. Nichols when he moved here. Mr. Nichols replied 15 years ago. Mayor Rinker said Mr. Nichols is aware of the program we have had previously. Mr. Nichols replied he is. Mayor Rinker added, and the extent to which we have tried to work with residents. Typically, it is the residents' responsibility to handle sidewalk repairs. What we have tried to do is provide incentives. We found out that administering that was not always as successful as we would like it to be. Frankly with other projects that we have had, it is one that has fallen by the wayside. Mayor Rinker said to Mr. Nichols that he has made it very clear to us that it is something that he is concerned about. The Service Director in discussing that with Mr. Nichols is trying to gather as much information from him as he can. Realistically, if we are going to go out through the whole neighborhood, it is going to take more time for us to do that and Mayor Rinker does not expect we do that until next year. Mr. Nichols asked if it will be addressed eventually. Mayor Rinker said it will. Mr. Nichols asked Mr. Cappello who owns the Beecher's Brook Road property. Mr. Cappello replied that he still has to finish the research. Mayor Rinker asked which property we are talking about. Mr. Cappello replied the section of the roadway. Mayor Rinker said this gentleman may be the only one where the Village agreed to take the portion that would have been in the right of way. Everyone else goes to the centerline of the road that the Village has maintained over the years that individual properiy owners have not had to maintain. Mr. Nichols said that is a private drive. Mr. Cappello said as of right now, yes. Mayor Rinker said in effect we have always maintained it as a public right of way. It is privately owned except for your little section. Mr. Nichols said they are entitled to all amenities even though they are on private property. Mayor Rinker said they are entitled to maintain all their amenities and they don't have to. We do that. We have treated it as if it were public right of way because for all intents and purposes it is functioned that way. That was one of the quirks between developments. That predates virtually everyone here. Mrs. Mills asked Mayor Rinker if he saw in the paper that Sid Kaplan passed away. Mayor Rinker did see that. Mrs. Mills stated that Sid Kaplan was the developer of that property. Where you live in that Aintree area, that was always a private drive. Those people were very, very proud of the fact that that was their little drive. They wanted no part of it. They were offered sewers and everything else. They did not want it. They did not want any disturbances. That is what happened. Mr. Nichols said he is not talking about that side, he is talking about where the asphalt is.