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Regular Council Minutes September 20, 2010 Page 8 Mr. Saponaro asked what the deadline is for the applications. Mrs. Kalina replied, the deadline is September 30`h and we are going to adhere to that. Mrs. Kalina stated we had a program last week from Balanced Solutions. Kelly Bodine gave an hour and a half dissertation on the importance of balance. It was an excellent program. She noticed we are starting the Tai Chi class this Wednesday. She couldn't plug it enough and she had nothing to do with it. It's just very important and we keep hearing more and more about people falling and sustaining all sorts of injury as a result of the fall. So anybody's who interested, we would be happy to have you join us. T'he first session is this Wednesday at 1:00 in the Community Room. It is a free demonstration. There's no charge. Subsequent classes will have a charge. We are very excited about it and I think we will be of great service to the community, those who take advantage of it. Regarding the Senior Snow Plow program, Dr. Parker asked, has anyone received a flier from a former snowplowing company? It's all well and good. They can pretty much do what they want but I kind of felt as though this was sent out after our bids were announced. They kind of had knowledge of what the people.who took the time to go through the bidding process. I received this not long after a decision was made regarding what we would be paying for these things and I just feel as though in some ways it's not fair to the snowplowing companies that aze actually working for us because it almost sounded like they were undermining what these other people's efforts were to try to work within the system and provide the service through Mayfield Village. It left a bad taste in my mouth. I don't know if anybody read it, but I think their price may have been lower than what our people were charging and so the implication is that they can turn around and maybe get the same benefit of the people that went through the right process and get the business because they're cheaper. It's going to cost t.he person less. I don't know if anyone saw it or if this was brought up, but I felt like it wasn't right or fair. Mayor Rinker did not disagree. I think one of the problems is for those who recall when this program started, one of the issues was predatory practices by a lot of different snowplow companies. This was the Village's effort to try at least to corral people, make it more organized, a little more methodical, and I think we have accomplished that, but like any system, there's only so much we can do. If the implication is that we might prosecute, I don't think we can. I think unfortunately this is one of those marketplace issues that's just going to have to work its way through. PLANNING DEVELOPMENT - Ted Esborn Mr. Esborn reported that he spoke to NOACA last week. They have received our application for the Transportation Enhancement Program which is the grant that would fully implement our Greenway Trail. They are processing the application now. They received the legislation and we will know by the end of the year how the application fared. The second item I want to remind everybody about September 30th's workshop with Professor Weinstein from Cleveland State. Professor Weinstein has expertise in different boards and