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Regular Council Meeting <br />2-17-03 <br />Page 13 of 20 <br />Council President Buckholtz said on March 3`a <br />Mr. Riter said have the public meeting and then the Caucus and a special meeting. <br />Council President Buckholtz said I understand. Then we will make that a--- <br />Mr. Metzung said if there are any changes that need to be made-all we will be voting on is a <br />resolution for the Mayor to sign the notice of intent. So if we need to make any changes in the <br />final draft, we can do that before it is submitted on the l Oth <br />Council President Buckholtz said thank you, Doug; thank you, Mrs. Cinco. <br />SPECIAL COMMITTEE REPORTS: <br />S.O.M. Center Road Widening Working Committee - Mrs. Mills said we have Ordinance No. <br />2003-03, An emergency ordinance authorizing the advertisement for the bids for the construction <br />of S.O.M. Center Road. Doug, do you have any information from URS? I see the old telephone <br />poles are all gone. The gas line-is it finished? <br />Mr. Metzung said the gas line is being installed. They stated, I believe they said 6 weeks to <br />complete that work. And I have not seen them dig much the last-you know, Friday and today, I <br />don't think they were out because of the cold. Good company, though. Bill Hawk is one of their <br />better contractors. <br />Mrs. Mills asked, is there anything else on the S.O.M. widening then? <br />Mr. Metzung said no just that we've-apparently we've found a new home for the north bike <br />path that is just a little farther south than the original location. I don't know if that was discussed <br />at the last meeting or not. We seem to have found a home that is in agreement with the <br />Cleveland Metroparks, still working on drainage issues with them, but at least the location of the <br />bike path is secure. <br />Mayor Rinker said and just in conjunction with that, this Thursday I'm going to be in front of the <br />Park Board they eviscerated the trustees. For .6 acres that we need for Metroparks this has <br />been the lynch pin in our application for review by O.D.O.T. so it's the final piece of the puzzle <br />to put in place so we can go out to bid spec-but we've had to make 2 different relocations of the <br />original plan for the bike path and then we've had to make adjustments and drainage to do that. <br />And yes, we do think we finally worked out a drainage technique that meets the satisfaction of <br />Park personnel. They were concerned about either inundating Buttermilk Falls or washing out <br />the warblers. So, I think we've gotten everything pretty well straightened out. No, I mean, it is <br />interesting because as we go through this and we try to communicate; the communication of <br />information from one entity to another is-you can get it to their door, but once it gets inside, it <br />goes through many twists and turns as the waterways themselves within the Metroparks but we <br />think we're finally there.