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Minutes of the Regular Meeting of Council <br />Monday, June 15, 2015 <br />Page 6 <br />Mr. Jeroine stated, I was going to include this in my Hillcrest Council of Councils report, but <br />since we are talking about it, Patsy and I both attended it on Saturday. Armond Budish, County <br />Executive, was the speaker. There were three or four people, myself included, that asked point <br />blank and had a long discussion about dispatch and CECOMs. What they are telling us too is <br />that they feel even though it's not a new building, they can still point blank do what they were <br />going to do there in this consolidated facility. I think we are all not real happy with that because <br />we went in knowing we were going to get this new building and we were going to be on the <br />ground floor. It wasn't the 11 "' hour, but it was the l Otl' hour that they decided to change this. <br />Mayor Rinker stated, I think the 11t' hour is right. <br />Mr. Jeroine stated, Mayfield Heights and Pepper Pike's Fire Chiefs were there. They were <br />among the people who discussed this. It's unfortunate but I think we kind of just need to let <br />things iron out first because we jump into anything. <br />Mayor Rinker stated, to dispel any misunderstanding, this is something where our Chiefs spent a <br />lot of effort, a great amount of time going through due diligence, extensive research, discussion <br />with other options, Council looked at this, we considered budgetary aspects of it. But the <br />consistent threat in all of this was we were not going to compromise safety for our community. <br />We were previously satisfied. Our Chiefs asked a lot of hard questions and had a good faith <br />understanding with the County that this would be a very effective transition and a safe one. <br />Given the change in circumstances, and I think frankly the ambivalence in the message going <br />forward, there's too much transition in the County for us to be able to rely upon this arrangement <br />any further. We will regoup and reconsider. We will stick with what works which is whaf we <br />have been doing. Council and the Administration going forward, we are going to have to figure <br />out what the budgetary aspects are. Again, our bottom line is going to be safety. It is unfortunate <br />but we move forward. We are not going to compromise. <br />PARKS & RECREATION - Bill T'homas <br />Mr. Thomas reported, summer 2015 is off and running. Parkview Pool opened for the Middle <br />School splash party this past Tuesday. That was their last day. We had over 300 students and <br />teachers attending. On Wednesday, June 10"', we opened up for all of our residents and school <br />district at the pool. We had a beautiful day followed by the second dry day which is a record in <br />Cleveland. Our Learn to Swim started today along with our Aquatics Deepwater Exercise and <br />Aquasize classes. Our Sports N More and Teen Adventure Camps are off and running. I did <br />want to add to Mayor Rinker's comments, we had a low attendance of spectators for our Cruise <br />Night this year. Part of it was because of the weather being so poor in the morning. People have <br />to make decisions about whether or not to bring their car. Last year's attendance there was about <br />8,000-10,000 people. I think maybe we had 4,000 or so this year. It seemed like it went from <br />6:00 and by 9:30 everyone was cleared out. Did anyone attend Cruise Night? Did you enjoy the <br />activities and everything? <br />Mayor Rinker stated, you know the answer to that question.