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Minutes of the Regular Meeting of Council Monday, April 17, 2017 Page 7 renovations, the inost significant being the addition of a separate building to house the pool filters and prevent erosion to them, thus extending their useful life. Now any one of us might not use Parkview Pool, play tennis or attend concerts at the Grove, but our recreational opportunities here in 'Mayfield Village provide a diversity of opportunities for fitness, entertainment and social interaction that can improve the quality of our lives, as and when we choose. Quality of life is particularly important to us as we age. Donna Heath, our Senior Prograrruning Coordinator, conducts a number of programs aimed at taking care of the needs of our seniors. The programs, including foot clinics, exercise, art and cooking classes, card-playing, field trips, and senior snow plow, enrich the lives of our seniors through education, entertainment, household and inedical care and necessary social interaction. We also belong to the Coirununity Partnership on Aging, a consortiuin of several communities, which allows us to pool our resources to provide social services, counseling, and long-term care planning for our seniors. Our senior prograins are meant to be accessible to all of our seniors. They are not simply for the poor or for those who might suffer froin disabilities. We need to dispel those myths and engender inore senior participation. To that end we are going to plan another Senior Fair this year. Last year's fair was well attended and well received, so it is worth building upon. This year we hope to focus the event on meeting the new Director of the Community Partnership on Aging, Wendy Satin and learning how she and the Partnership can help our seniors. Infrastructure continues to be fundamental. The need for a strong foundation of safe roads, sewers that are in good. condition, adequate drainage, and clean water supplies are paramount. This year we will be replacing water lines in the Worton Park/Joyce area, to be followed by resurfacing of those roads next year. We will also replace septic tanks with sanitary sewers in the area of Thornapple, Robley and Wilson Mills. We are increasing drainage basins at SOM and Highland in order to decrease flooding or the potential of flooding in surrounding areas, particularly the northern end of Beta Drive. ODOT is churning through its bridge project at Wilson Mills and SOM as I speak, and will likely be testing our patience for a few more months. We do our best to keep you infonned of what is happening and when. Our new LED sign in front of the Gazebo is working well in that regard. The Regional Sewer District will also be redoing the Beecher's Brook area just south of SOM Court. They are beginning engineering work on that now and surveying work. The work will probably be done on that next year. The money for that is coming from the fees that you pay on your sewer bill. That will be paid by the Sewer District from the fees that you pay. The Village is paying for plans to be drawn to connect the existing Greenway to SOM in that area and once we get the plans if we like them we will pay for that connection to the trial. Finally, you have heard a great deal about the quality of water in Cleveland and some surrounding cominunities so we hired one of our own businesses, National Testing Labs, to