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Minutes of the Regular Meeting of Council Monday, February 19, 2018 Page 9 Council President Saponaro asked Mr. Budzik, is this only dealing with the trail? Mr. Budzik replied, yes. Council President Saponaro stated, so from our Law Department, it is only dealing with the trail. If it needs to be cleaned up, I am sure they can clean this up. Mr. Budzik replied, absolutely. Council President Saponaro stated, it will be substantially that form, but to your point, this is only dealing with the trail project portion of the stabilization. Any other questions or comments on this? I know we have a number of people here from SOM Court. They have expressed over a number of ineetings their concerns and questions and comments and position which I think is very clear. If anyone needs to go over that, we certainly can. Dr. Parker stated, I have been there and have seen what they are facing. I definitely think we need to be sensitive. Obviously we have all been over to the area there and we have seen their concerns. I do feel we need to be sensitive to their needs. We consider it a somewhat scenic area. We don't want to be in their backyards, without a doubt. I don't know if there's something that could be done to create something on the other side. Maybe it wouldn't go through. Maybe it wouldn't be on that side. I don't think it should. I thinlc we should try to stay away from their homes quite frankly. Maybe that's not possible, but it would be nice if there were some area where people could stop and appreciate the nature without getting close to their homes. If something could be done on the other side, they could stop and look and see the water falling, whatever. I definitely am concerned about how the trail infringes on their properties and on their homes. Council President Saponaro stated, thank you. To answer the question regarding the south side of the bank, that's where it was originally intended to be. However, Rachel, I know you can speak to this better than I can, so you can jump in if I am giving misinformation. We were not able to have the project itself on the south side because of the extent and nature of the stabilization that was required there and because of the slope and how we had to move Beecher's Brook, there was not going to be an opportunity to have it on that side, so the only place to have it was abutting up against the SOM Court residents' property. Rachel, is that accurate? Rachel Webb Northeast Ohio Regional Sewer District I will clarify one point. We did look at that as the direction of the Village. There was extensive clearing needed to do a trail on that side and a bridge and it would have been rather costly, so we did not pursue that very far. Council President Saponaro stated, I know that Rosemarie Fabrizio has been to many of the meetings. You have been the ad hoc representative of the group here. You enumerated some points here with concerns you had. If you don't mind coming up and seeing if any member of