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11-17-03 Regular Council Minutes Page 4 j~ ROUGHDRAFT -NOT REVIEWED OR APPROVED RY COUNCIL Mayor Rinker had no comment. CON~M~NTS FROM,COUNCIL PRESIDENT.BUCKHbLTZ Council President Buckholtz had no comment. DEPARTMENT HEAD REPORTS Service - Mr. Metzung said leaf season is progressing tremendously. We are making rounds throughout the Village in less than 3 days. Typically it is 5-7 or 8 days. I am proud of our guys. The good weather has allowed us to get much of our holiday lighting displays up so after Thanksgiving we will just have the Gazebo area to complete. Building - Mr. Samac reported the Progressive projects-both the parking garage and the office building are progressing smoothly. Fire -Chief Mohr said we were busy with the storm the other night with the wind. All the city buildings were on generator power for most of the night. We had power outages where the residents were without power until Thursday afternoon, Thursday night. Our generator at city ~ hall paid for itself because it ran continuously until about 10 a.m. The Community Room was open to residents as shelter but no one took advantage of that. The project where we have placed generators on the traffic signals has worked very well. I recommend we do that with the rest of the signals-that we buy a small generator to sit next to the pole and operate the traffic signal. Mayor Rinker said Hickory Hill was the street stranded for the longest time. Did we every get any final word on why. Chief Mohr said no. I put a phone call into a representative of C.E.I. We are playing phone tag. According to what was stated the next morning from the storm was that they need to change out the transformers due to the fact that the wires fell and cross-phased and blew out the ground transformers. They actually need to take those out and replace those with fresh ones. Council President Buckholtz asked how many homes were without power. Chief Mohr said probably a good half of the community, .Wednesday night. Mrs. Mills said it seemed it was the north end. Police -Chief Dearden said we received notification that our FEMA grant application was approved. We should be receiving the funds which will cover the cost that we incurred from the August blackout within the next 4-6 weeks. ~'