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Minutes of the Special Meeting of Council Monday, May 7, 2012, Page 2 5-minute limit imposed by Chair. Those who wish to speak must first state their name and address. (The public is requested to limit their discussion to agenda items only.) Laura Lynch 934 Beech Hill I have a concem about the field diagonally across from my house where the holding tank used to be. I don't know how long it has been a field. 15 years? Last year some utility came in and was doing some backhoe pracfiice in the field for about a week. They left the field in a big disrepair with big ruts. They did not cover it over or fill it back in. In the Fall, I did call the Service Department and I really don't laiow who I spoke to. She said, we will get right on it. Usually you do get right on it. Mayfield Village gets right on it. I have nothing but good things to say about the Service Department. But nothing happened. My neighbor, Kim Levac, called in March. I think she spoke to you. You said it was too wet. Now it's May. The field is still rutted over, but now we have grass on top of that. I have some pictures. It is rutted over and is filled with grass. It is becoming a safety hazard. We have a lot of children in the area now. There's an awful lot of people that walk their dogs through there. It's a very big safety hazard. Nothing happened with our ca11s, so that's why we are here today with tlus issue. We need it leveled and mowed. I have called in the past about mowing the field. Usually, you get it done in a week or a couple days later. That's another concern that we need to call sometimes to have that field mowed. In the beginning, you used to mow all over. Now it's just the front of the field. That's another concern. There's no scheduled maintenance with that field in mowing it. Another thought came up too about maybe doing something with that field. We have a lot of children like I said before. It would be great for a playground or just the maintenance. I know you are doing a lot of other things in the Village, but that has been empty for quite some time. It does need to be kept up and maybe now might be a good idea to think of doing something. We can get other members of our area there to come and talk about it. Mayor Rinker stated, first of all, I truly am sorry you had to come forward to let us know, but I appreciate the fact that you have given us that report. I will let Doug respond to that as far as the immediate restoration as you requested which certainly sounds reasonable in just a couple of pictures that I have seen. It makes sense. I would say, historically, when we acquired the property, and I think it was 17 years ago if inemory serves. We had tried to get from the neighborhood some kind of consensus on what to do, maybe a playground and at the end of the day, I think it was a draw, a Mexican standoff. We didn't do anything. That was quite a while ago. Ms. Lynch stated, right. But the neighborhood has changed.