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Minutes of the Regular Meeting of Council <br />Monday, September 17, 2012 <br />Page 3 <br />people have expressed interest in looking at future potential for that. That's going to be played <br />out over time. The grass seed has really taken, despite a very droughty summer in the last week <br />especially. I was away for a week and to come back and see how green it is it is really striking. <br />Looking a little farther South, right across from Hickory Hill, you can see that the Library is <br />going in. They seem to be well ahead of schedule based upon what we understood originally. I <br />guess they are going to still stick to their program, but they had a dry summer so they are able to <br />get a head start on a lot of that site development. <br />Across the street, you notice that we finally razed the buildings there. As predicted, the <br />Community Room now is quite prominent. That will be a source of future discussion for a lot of <br />people I am sure, but if you notice today the piles of dirt look like giant gophers have been <br />through there. That is prepping for the re-blacktopping in front of the Community Room. As the <br />plan had called for, part of the project will be to improve the parking field there. What we are <br />also trying to do is make sure that there is appropriate landscaping and screening to help soften <br />the overall impact of that. Long term, again, that's going to be a question of how the community <br />really wants to go as far as any future development or non-development on that site. <br />In the meantime, we have had discussions initiated with Center School. The bus driveway, which <br />is a one-way out, we are finding that people are, despite history and signage that says there's no <br />entry, are starting to use that. We have gotten some feedback from the school and we are <br />actually exploring the potential for some kind of limited two-way use and improvement to the <br />driveway there because it's pretty well alligatored, but again that's very preliminary. Stay tuned. <br />The goal is by the time the snow flies that these projects will be looking substantially complete <br />as far as landscaping. <br />A final note along that line, we are belatedly going to make some improvements across from <br />Heinen's, the entry into Aintree Park. The medians that are in there are going to get filled in a <br />little bit we hope before the snow flies. <br />COMNIENTS FROM COUNCIL PRESIDENT SUCKHOLTZ <br />There were no comments. <br />DEPARTMENT HEAD REPORTS: <br />SERVICE - Douglas MetzunLy <br />There was nothing to report.