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~, Regular Council Meeting } 9-23-02 Page 9 1, i Mr. Metzung said no, just to say that Committee as comprised, fits very well to what is requested by the Phase II group. It's a good fit. As I said in the letter, it is already up and running. This project is going to go pretty quickly. Mayor Rinker asked Mr. Metzung if he can give everyone a general idea of what we mean by Phase II. Mr. Metzung said the U.S.E.P.A. has mandated that all communities with separate storm and sanitary sewers put in regulations regarding their stormwater outfalls so that the guidelines will be such that erosion control and public information and things of that nature have to be included in Ordinance form and Mayfield Village will have to actually receive a permit to discharge storm water into the creeks and rivers and lakes in Ohio. What we will be looking for is getting that permit. Getting that permit requires us to go through many, many steps. Mayor Rinker said if I could add one thing, just to sort of pull everything together, we've talked in the past about different Issue II projects, and there have been a number of conversions already that have taken place from septic to sanitary systems and we typically go in and upgrade storm systems as well. We had applied and have since reapplied this year for the Eastgate/Meadowoodnefghborhood, that has been next on our chart. Eventually it will spread into Thornapple, Highland, Metro, any of the streets that have septic tanks that are adjacent to S.O.M. which now has a gravity trunk line in it, are really the next order of business. Part of our being able to meet the compliance requirements for the Phase II is to demonstrate that we have been actively working to make those kinds of changes. What no one can predict in the long run, is that when we enter into PhaseII, how different communities are going to be handled as far as either speeding up the time tables for some of these projects, whether there is going to be a whole new round of unfounded mandate issues, we suspect not. We've generally had good success with Issue II. This last year for this particular project, we did not make it in Cuyahoga County Level because we are a Village. We succeeded in qualifying the first round of small government's lending, which we did not get but we've reapplied, we've changed the form a little bit. Just another example of how we are trying on a larger scale to make these kinds of changes. The Storm Water Infrastructure Task Force, that group has been doing this sort of on a smaller really kind of customized if you will for groupings of 2, 3, 4, several houses. We are trying to blend larger projects and smaller projects together. We think overall we should be able to demonstrate to the satisfaction the powers that be, we are doing what we can. Council President Buckholtz said Doug, on your recommendation to invite Kyle Drefuss Wells to give a presentation, do you want to go ahead and find out whether that will be better for October or November or right after the first of the year.