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Minutes of the Regular Meeting of Council Monday, April 25, 2011 Page 4 May. We have entertained a number of associations that come through, church organizations, we have had Richmond Heights come. They are having a Historical Society now. They have come to see how our organization operates. Fortunately I guess we are doing okay. But anyhow, my purpose here tonight is to say on behalf of our membership, thank you very much for keeping us in mind. We appreciate the contribution that you have given us. Again, thanks. On my behalf, I thank the people and I know you are in the audience here somewhere, who gave me the honor last year of being one of the volunteer Citizens of the Year. That's a great honor. I really appreciated it very much. Thank you very much. DEPARTMEN'I' HEAD REPORTS: SEIaVgCE - Douglas MetzunLy Before A1 leaves, I do want to say a note to Mr. Muhle regarding his work at the Historical House. We see a lot of Al and I know A1 is one of the hardest workers over there. It's a pretty dedicated group. Al, you have a lot to be proud of with that building. The other thing I would like to mention tonight is the packet you received regarding the Beautification project that we are going to do cooperatively with Progressive Insurance. As I sta.ted, this has been going on since Fall when they first brought to our attention that they would like to do something. We felt at the end of the day that this was a project that would benefit both Mayfield Village and Progressive by beginning to replace the trees along Campus 2 was a great place to start. Brian Smith of the Progressive landscape crew has been wonderful to work with. Mr. Stupczy has been working together with the gentleman from Progressive and they've come up with a plan. Progressive is going to foot the bill for the trees, $4,278.00 worth. I was just'told today they are looking at May 12th, weather permitting, that's the day that they are looking to planting the trees in the Parkview area. Hopefully this becomes a yearly event. We look forward to working with them. I talk a lot with Brian on many occasions. He'll call me regarding salt and he will call me about trees and things of that nature. It's a nice little working relationship. I look forward to it. Mr. Saponaro asked Doug to clarify that although it's a Beautification project with Progressive, really they took the lead on that, they did the planning. Mr. Metzung replied, correct. We came together to narrow our focus as to what we were going to plan. At first we looked at plans over the whole axea. We did not really narrow it down to make a real impact until we came to the Parkview area. Particularly what would be the south side of Parkview, the pond area, to help really make an impact. If you notice in the planning list of trees a lot of native trees to the area, not trees that we necessarily plant much of. So in that regard, again, that's how we narrowed it down to the focus of that area and then they took it from there and really designed and laid it out, which trees to use in which areas. It. has been a nice little project. I look forward to it taking off.