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Regular c:ouncil Meeting Minutes 7-20-09 Page 7 On August 19`h, we are having Kelly Sullivan from CVS. She is a pharmacist. She is going to talk about drug safety. STANDING COMMITTEE REPORTS: Activities Committee - Mrs. Mills reported that Activities met on June 24th. They recapped Cruise Night which Mrs. Mills thought went very well because of the Service Department, Police and Fire. The Fourth of July Celebration on July 5th was a beautiful night. The fireworks were just beautiful this year. You had a lot of comments on that. Summer concerts are going very well. We do need some volunteers for July 30'', August 20'' and 27t' to pop popcorn. It's a lot of fun. Teen Event will be on August 8h at 7:30 at Parkview Pool for 6-8"' graders. They are still talking about getting a new popcorn machine, but everyone we look at is the same thing we have right now, so why buy a new one? If you aze careful when you are popping popcorn, you don't have a problem. Anyone who would like to help pop popcorn, Mrs. Mills has the paper right here. Put your name on it. It's easy to sign. Architectural Review Board - Mr. Marrelli reported that Architectural Review Board met in July. We reviewed a landscaping plan to screen an RV at the end of Seneca Drive. T'hat was tabled for more information. Beautification Committee- Mr. Saponaro reported that we had a meeting on June 29th . The minutes aze being finalized by Susan Jerome and will be sent out in everyone's packets. Our next meeting will be on September 28t'. Board of Appeals - There was no meeting. There is no report. Cemeterv - Mrs. Mills reported that she met with the representatives, Ed Hargate from Highland Heights and Diane Snyder of Mayfield Heights at the Cemetery last Friday. Mrs. Mills gave them the.bids that she had for tree removal, etc. They chose Highpointe to do the work because it was the lowest bid. Highpointe has done work there before, so hopefully everything will go fine. We also discussed some further work in the Cemetery which Mrs. Mills is going to meet with Mr. Metzung tomonow to go over with him. Citizen's Advisorv Board - Mr. Marrie reported that the Board met on the 10' of this month. Chief Dearden was our guest speaker and did an outstanding job of explaining the new police station and answering many of the questions, which there were many from the group, about the design, why the location, and also the design-build format and the process that the committee has gone through to get it down to the final three. They were invited to come to the July 23`d meeting to see the presentation un the three. He also covered the traff'ic situation that we have already kicked azound and what we aze faced with and some of the things they have done with the traffic lights to eliminate some of the problems. A lot of people were very pleased that some of the lines were moving a lot faster than they were. No one loves the traff'ic the way it is, but we have to live with it and the department has done something to eliminate some of it. Chief Dearden also did a run through and identified 15 commercial vehicles in driveways. Letters were sent to these