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Council Meeting - 7/18/05 Page 7 Mrs. Mills stated at the Jadd Hall, those residents there, the people that are renting it and cleaning it; they take very good care of it. They have pride being a renter and trying to do business. Mr. Saponaro stated a few of the Citizen's Advisory folks have gone into one of the establishments there and said, this is filthy, what can we do to get this cleaned up; there were cigarette butts and trash cans overflowing. One of the suggestions that the tenant came up is why don't we have the concrete big trash cans throughout the Plaza. That is a great question, but that is obviously not something that we can do on our own, only something we can inquire with the meeting you are having with Mr. Musca. Dr. Parker asked if he was ultimately responsible for keeping the property clean. Mr. Marrelli stated from the lease agreement, the leases put the burden of cleaning the abutting areas on to the tenants. Dr. Parker said it is still his property aid he needs to enforce what is in the lease agreement about cleaning up, otherwise, he is ultimately responsible. Mr. Saponaro stated, from his perspective, enforcement can go against the property owner, who can then take it down to the tenant who is not living up to his end of the bargain. The bottom line is, there is trash all over, it's cnzmmy and that place looks terrible and we need to correct it. He added, he was glad to see the striping. The striping. is great. Even though you have the two corners that are "~' d" out, if you get two cars in there, Y saw another fender bender from one trying to come around there. Mr, Buckholtz stated that there was someone picking up a pizza and there were two cars in front of the place and he actually had the nerve to pull next to that. It is not a striping issue. Mr. Saponaro stated the striping issue is a huge help, and it's greatly appreciated, but we still have to talk to them about the fact that the width that is around the bank is certainly problematic; number two, the bank building, which we are discussing, the handicap access is basically in the intersection where the cars come around. From my perspective, that is a problem; it's in the corner, you know, where that striping is so they have to take their wheelchair to go around there to go up to the front ofthe building. There is no ramp in the front of the building because that was the front of the building. Maybe that's. going to be done and will correct the problem. That is something we really need to follow up on. Mr. Saponaro stated another thing brought up at Citizen's Advisory was we have a lot of ordinances in terms of garbage cans, in terms of what you can store and all of that, but it appears to a lot of the folks on the committee that our enforceability of that is not as great as it can be and they just need to have a better understanding of how we actually enforce the ordinances. Does it get enforced through the Council? Does it get enforced through Building? What is going on and what is the process? If someone has tall grass, who is going around inspecting it? What's being done? So on and so forth.