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Minutes of the Special Meeting of Council Monday, November 7, 2016 Page 7 1 OPEN PORTION 5-minute limit unposed by Chair. Those who wish to speak must first state their name and address (The public is requested to limit their discussion to agenda item only.) Council President Saponaro stated, at this time, this is the Open Portion. You are more than welcome to come up here. If anyone can't get up and has difficulty; .raise your hand. We will bring the inic to you. You just need to give your name and address so we can hear your question and get it answered. Dr. Frank Karfes Hickory Hill Drive I built my home in 1968. I only have one suggestion. Since I have lived on Hickory Hill, I have had a dry basement until two years ago when they built the Library..Sx houses on my street had floods in the basement which included me. I know this is going to be an increased drain on the infrastructure and I am only cautioning everybody that we pay attention to the surrounding neighborhood even though we want to take care of our elderly people. But after 40 years I had 3 inches of water in my basement. I can only attribute it to -and then they tried to pacify us at the meeting that we had that we had too much drainage off of the flat area of driveways and roofs so I don't know where we are going from there. I appreciate your time. Council President Saponaro stated, thank you Dr., we appreciate it as well. Who else would like to make a comment? If anyone wants, just come on down. You don't have to raise your hand. Raise your hand if you can't make it down and we will bring the mic to you. You can just come down otherwise. Celeste Sabol 6784 Meadowood I just had a couple questions. Are you saying that residents would have priority admission to this facility? Dr. Moyal stated, we see those patients. The resident would have the likelihood of going first because we know them. Ms. Sabol continued, the only other question I have is many times, it depends on the time of day that you are trying to exit off of Thornapple on to SOM, it is extremely difficult. People going in and out of Fisher's Tavern, people going into University. If you are trying to leave to go to work in the morning, it's very difficult. I think that would be a major concern with additional traffic. Council President Saponaro asked, you are concerned about the impact on the traffic? Ms. Sabol replied, on the traffic, absolutely. And the water too in my.basement. Thank you.