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Minutes of the Regular Meeting of Council Monday, February 22, 2016 Page 3 going green. Copies are also available in Administration and on the website. If anyone in the audience would like a copy, let me know and I will send one to you. Council President Saponaro stated, Mary Beth's e-mail and direct dial number is at the bottom of your agenda if you need to get a hold of her. Tom Cappello (Engineer) - Mr. Cappello reported, on Friday the 19'', we opened bids for the 2016 Road Program. We had 5 bidders. The low bid was $873,249.20. That was Chagrin Valley Paving, LLC. My estimate was $900,000. It is recommended for approval. Ronald Wynne (Finance) - Mr. Wynne reported, our annual audit started today. The CPA firm came in and will probably be on-site for the next couple of weeks working on our year-end financial statements. Chief Eugene Carcioppolo (Fire) - There was no report. Mark Guidetti (Legal) - There was no report. William Thomas (Parks and Recreation) - Mr. Thomas reported, we just finalized the 5pring/Summer brochure. It will go to the printer tomorrow. I wanted to mention we have as part of our persons with disabilities program a Special Olympics Program. We offer track and field and bowling. This past November, we were approached by Gilmour Academy to sponsor a basketball team. Gilmour has wonderful facilities. We used their facilities. The Varsity Basketball Coach with his other assistants as well as the Varsity Basketball team worked with our individuals 15-40 years and older. It's wonderful. We also wanted to thank Hillcrest Rotary and Kiwanis Club. They firiancially support the Special Olympics Program. I also left on the table an overview of our membership to Wildcat Sport and Fitness. What's interesting is the bottom totals. We went from 50,294 to 64,208. This is just membership. We have other programs we offer at Wildcat. We probably are well over 125,000 people that come through Wildcat Sportand Fitness each year. It also breaks down our membership as far as the community. Mayfield Village has 369, which is 10%. It obviously gets higher for the communities like Mayfield Heights and Highland Heights because of their population. We also break it down by age and total membership and family membership as well. It is a great overview of what we do at Wildcat Sport and Fitness. : With regard to the Senior report, the next Community Partnership on Aging Lunch and Movie is - Wednesday, March 9h. The Martian is going to be shown. The March Foot Clinics will be on Friday the -11 t' and the 25'. Volunteers from AARP will be preparing tax returns. They held it today and will also hold them on March 21', April 11t'. Today's and March 21St's are completely booked. A Valentine's Party for the Card Group was held on February 9?`. This was their annual party. Ted Esborn (Planning) - Mr. Esborn reported, some of you may have seen in the news eazlier this month that the Freedonia Group on Beta Drive was acquired by a company called Marketresearch.com. The Freedonia Group is a company that we entered into a retention incentive agreement with last year. Freedonia negotiated into our agreement with them that if they were acquired, tlie company acquiring them could be assigned the rights under the