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Minutes of the Regular Meeting of Council Monday, May 21, 2018 Page 4 Rick Christian 510 SOM Ceriter. Road I have two things on iny agenda today, the first thing being the Library. They were out to cut the grass the other day. They only cut half the frontage. They left the other half long, weeds. Another thing is, they don't cut between our properties. So I have a nice high stack of weeds between me and the Library that I have to look at all of the time. They cut around the trees but not all of the trees. They weedwhack. The hill in the front is starting to look like crap. It's nothing but weeds. When they put that Library in, they said they were going to landscape in front. They built mounds. They put in a water retention pond. It's all just weeds. They hire Mexicans or l don't know whether they are illegal aliens or what; but rione of them speak in English and you can't even go out and talk to them. I think something needs to be done about the Library with their property. They need to landscape it. They need to plant grass. They need to get rid of the weeds. Because in tHe middle,of summer, it's all thistle and it's blowing all over creating a nuisance in my property, nuisance in the property across the street. It's all over the place. They need to do something about the property. That was the first thing. The second thing I wanted to talk to you about was the Mayor's comments at the last meeting about sidewalks on the west side of SOM Center Road. We already have the bike path behind my property on the west side of SOM.Center Road that ties the Village all the way, to the north " reservation. We have a bike path on the east side of SOM Center Road which ties the Village with the North Quadrant. Why iri the world would this Council even, consider spending our taxpayer's money to put sidewalks in alongside SOM Center Road when they are not needed? They are going to reduce property values. They are going.to make us look like Clevelancl. If we wanted to live in Cleveland;. we would have bought property in Cleveland. Madam Mayor, if you want sidewalks up there; then you should live up tliere. I think the job of this Council is to do what's right for the citizens,'not for the Village. Tf you are going to put sidewalks there, it should be for the people who live there. We don't need the sidewalks tliere. We've got, bike paths both on the west and east side of the street, so sidewalks are not needed. Thank you. . Council President Pro Tem Williams stated, thank you.. If I recall correctly, this is the seeond time I have heard about the Library landscaping. I believe at the last public meeting. I would like to ask Director 1Vletzung if he can discuss it. Dr. Parker stated, I thinlc I brought up last time. While I uiiderstand they have a desire to ci:eate a natural environment, there's natural and there's something that's natural and looks really nice. I just bave found it to not look attractive. whatsoever. If that doesn't work and that was their original plan, well then maybe they need to change it. It sounded great wlien it first came out, but it ]ooks terrible now tliat it's been out. I don't kjzow what the answer is and I am sure Doug can figure it. out, but that was kin.d of my sense for what I tried to bring up before. Hopefully they can figure out something that's attractive and they will want to do it. . Ms. Wo]gamuth stated, T IZOpe everyone saw the memo ihat I did after your commen.ts. I did speak to the Library and tlzey are very happy with their landscaping. ? ?