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Regular Council Meeting 1-29-07 Page 8 Projects that we have got going this year, Highland, Metro and Zorn. We started the work there. Again another sewer conversion project. In years past, we were able to leverage some dollars and put them to good use from the Issue II fund from the State of Ohio. What we have seen over the last several years is those dollars have gone more toward road projects. We are not able to get the same kind of benefits. from the state funding that we used to get for sewers. Council looked at a way to save up money over the yeaxs and we ended up pretty much funding entirely what will turn out to be a$3 million project for Highland Road, Zorn and Metropark between sanitary and storm sewer work. Additionally, when we got into the ground at Metro, we found out there was more extensive storm work that we have had to do there. We have included that in. But at the end of the day, what residents will be looking at as far as the cost that they pay for the improvement and any assessment that they pay that they contribute to is going to be the same as it is in Worton Park, and as it is for people who have done it along S.O.M. Center Road. Our goal has always been to try to make sure that everybody in the Village gets equal treatment. But for us to make that adjustment, we are talking about a pretty big expenditure. There is another project that I am very excited about. We have a picture on the table. It is a computerized rendering. A lot of people that are on Highland have seen this previously. We plan to put in another underpass. That is part of that $3 million figure, almost a million dollars when all is said and done to put in an underpass that is going to be fully lined, fully lighted and fully drained. The whole idea is we will have a very safe passage under Highland Road. Our goal is to this year connect physically Wiley Park with Parkview. We think we can do it. A lot depends on the pace and the way in which Campus III for Progressive is going forward. We had thought really a year ago this would already have been a project that is in the ground. I think what we are finding is that this is a new Progressive, it is a much bigger company, there are a lot more people involved in the decisionmaking, they are building all around the country. A number of the meetings that we had set with their representatives just in the last several months were interrupted a lot of times because they were heading out to Colorado building the clone of Campus II. I think there are either three or four Campus II campuses that Progressive has throughout the country. It is a very big project. We are pretty excited. We have already seen some plans. We think that within the next couple of weeks, they will be coming forward in front of our Planning and Zoning Commission to look at how the properties will be split up, the relationship between our parkland in the front and the development they have in the back. The adjacency, the green spaces as we run from north to south. I think when we put this all together, the greenway that we have talked about for so many years will really take on a very tangible shape. Think about it, you should be able to park at Wiley and you can walk all the way down to the Chagrin River and never really have to worry about car traffic. It will be that extensive an interrelationship between the Metroparks system and our own community. It is very exciting. Another little touch regards Wiley Pavilion. There is a picture at the table. We have been working with the Mayfield Township Historical Society. That was a building that Gus and his crew built years ago. It is rock solid on the base but up above it is not doing so well. We have always been afraid that like the big bad wolf, a good wind comes along and it is going to knock it over. So we have been looking to construct that.