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Regular Council Meeting 1-27-03 Page 12 ? Mr. Brett said tomorrow at 9:00 I will be at the Cuyahoga County Planning Commission to answer questions. After last year's presentation by us they said no more presentations so they ?- just want people there to ask questions-so I'll be there tomorrow to answer questions. The problem we have two that are eligible for small governments; one has to do with Upper 40; the other one is the Eastgate/Meadowood sanitary sewer project. If we are, in fact, successful in getting out of this round of the small governments, and we basically reapplied (and we ran into this last year) and then it actually becomes more difficult from that point forward. Last yeaz they only awarded one project out of Cuyahoga County-any funds. But, again, if we make it out, then we resubmit the application. We will scale back the scope of the project, obviously, to fit it within the budget because we have much lower award amounts to deal with. And then we need to look at strategies for Issue Two next year because of what we are finding out. Mayor Rinker said really this is for everyone's benefit why I bring it up-the first time we applied, we had Eastgate and Meadowood both looking at both a storm sewer along with a sanitary and road improvements and over the years we have had very good success with Issue Two applications by combining grant requests, what we contribute and then what we seek in terms of low interest and zero interest loan combinations apart from the conventional assessments. Our goal has always been that for all of the neighborhoods where we are converting from septic to sanitaty that we have homeowners, that regardless of the neighborhood, looking at identical assessment amounts. The variable of this is always the size of the project and other factors that go along. The first year when we did not succeed, we trinuned ? back; this Yast time around we trimmed back fiirther-limiting it to only one street and as Phil has pointed out, we still did not make that first cut. The other point I wanted to bring out though - is that being a small government, being a Village, with a population under 5,000 is what affords us at least an entree at the state level for Small Government status, but, again, it is competitive at every level. But these are projects that year in and year out we keep revisiting and trying to refine, really, the strategy in how we approach it. SPECIAL COIVI1ViITTEE REPORTS S.O.M. Widening Committee - Mrs. Mills said our last meeting was on January 7, 2003. And at the time we discussed the presentation to O.D.O.T. and the federal government the final bids and whatever else they needed to see. We expect to see the formal bids by the contractors by March 31St, 2003. We talked about the elevation of the road between Thornapple north to Beta which was a little bit of a surprise to the committee because we had not heard about it. We knew it was going to be done but not this quickly. We prioritized that utilities are number one; appropriations, safety forces and how all this will be handled. Notification to residents and businesses and the paperwork to and from O.D.O.T. and the federal government and finally, the bid processes. So, Mr. Metzung has given some information about the Metroparks today and I'd like to know what kind of birds those were. _ t Wage Negotiations Committee - Dr. Parker said the Wage Ordinance Committee continues to wotk diligently. On January 15, the committee met with the Fraternal Order of Police and d. ? discussed various aspects of their contract. On January 22, the committee members met with ?._?