06/15/2009 Meeting Minutes - Laserfiche WebLink

Home Browse Search

Regular Council Meeting Minutes 6-15-09 Page 7 tour to not only the President of QED but also the Dean from Case Western Reserve University. We had a representative from BioEnterprise. We also had a representative, staff inember from Congressman LaTourette's office, to demonstrate how we feel we are well positioned for Beta Drive redevelopment. As Council is aware, the fiber line has now been installed. Ted Esborn has reported that he has already gotten some feedback from some of the property owners in Beta of tenants very very interested in the fact that they have this high speed broadband internet connection. It's economic and it's very very functional. It's a real solid piece of infrastructure. So all of these things we have been showcasing. Our goal, as you are aware, is by this Fall to have in place what we hope will be a successful, we have already put in the application for stimulus dollars with Case Western Reserve, but we think this collaboration will establish Mayfield Village if not a primary location, then an integral location for bioenterprise, for the medical imaging industry that has burgeoned. If you all looked at The Plain Dealer, it was either Saturday or Sunday, there was some pretty extensive coverage on how the shift in Ohio, in Northeast Ohio especially, the manufacturing bases, a lot of businesses that were supporting the auto industry are actually finding that they can retrofit, make the transition for medical imaging and other bioenterprise areas so it's really very very exciting and we are on a cutting edge and Mayor Rinker is looking very hopefully toward the next few months and getting good results in that effort. COMMENTS FROM COiJNCIL PRESIDENT BUCKHOLTZ: There were no comments. DEPARTMENT HEAD REPORTS: SERVICE - Douglas Metzung Mr. Metzung reported, as stated earlier, the Service Department will begin sidewalk repair in the Aintree area in the manhole area. This will lead to an obvious question for repair of other blocks in the neighborhood. We are going to confine our work to the repair of the manhole area. The rest of it will have to be or an ad hoc. We do have some programs to help Village residents should they so choose to go ahead and make repairs that we can help out in that regard. Mr. Metzung said some recognition should go to our Parks and Recreation Department for the last two events, the Mother's Day Pancake Breakfast and Cruise Night. This was the first time that we shifted the responsibilities to that department. Both events went off without a hitch. It was very good communication between Recreation and Service. Everything went real well. The pool is up and functioning. We made several fairly, Mr. Metzung does not want to say major repairs, but we made some good repairs to the boilers, took them all apart and cleaned them. A lot of work went into the pool this year. We painted half of it. Hopefully everything's good. Today we got another laundry list of repairs that need to be done.