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Minutes of the Regular Meeting of Council Monday, August 15, 2022 Page 17 Mr. Sipos stated, for those of you who don't know me, my name is Scott Sipos. I am the Service Director for Mayfield Village. I have been with the Service Department for 27 years. I have been on the field. I have done it all, seen it all and then some. It's never our intention to create any issues. This has been going back to day 1 with my time at the Service Department. It's not just the cul-de-sac that creates problems for the Service Department but for me it's the entire hill. Our duties are going curb to curb when we plow snow in the wintertime. We have to plow from curb to curb. When there's cars in the street, we have to plow around them and pull our plows in the other direction, pushing snow on the opposite side of the street. We then have to come back and clean it up later. With freezing and thawing, it becomes difficult to scrape that ice off the road with cars parked. As for the cul-de-sac, when we come around that cul-de-sac with that hidden snow, the salt spreaders are behind the truck so we rely on the weight of the truck to keep the truck in place. Coming around that curb we have two options. It's either keep our plows angled to the right which would put three feet of snow on the side of your cars or to angle them forward and push the snow forward. The problem with that is when you have that kind of weight in front of the truck it pushes the truck sideways and does it quickly so we could actually put that big truck into the side of your car. We push the snow past the cars and we wind up putting three feet of snow in the apron which you guys don't see at times, we actually take our trucks and try to clean the aprons so cars can get in and out. As for leaf season, we suck leaves off the curb and we do it in front of your apartments as well but the residents across the street from you, the cars parked in front of their leaf piles, we can't get to them. We can't move them by hand so we have to come back. There's been times where it's been three weeks before we are able to get one pile. At that point the leaves become wet and mucky and I have to bring a loader to scrape them off the front lawn which does damage to their property and it's a hardship for us. I don't think that's fair to the residents because one side of the street is getting the service and the homes across the street are not. It is my intention to give everybody their fair share of service. We are on a tight schedule when it comes to leaf season. To constantly have to come back to try to get a leaf pile sometimes we come back out to see if the car has moved. It creates havoc for us and a longer season. It doesn't affect me until leaf season and snow removal. I prefer that there are no cars on the street at all through the entire Village, but we can't have that. Like I said, it's not our intention to create difficulties for anybody. I just want to get my job done and keep the streets safe. Thank you. Council President Schutt stated, thank you Mr. Sipos. Are there any other comments? A member of the audience asked, couldn't we just ban at certain times with snow like they do in other cities. You can't park at all during snow time? Also, it's not the whole cul-de-sac that we would park on. You give us a designated area. Mr. Sipos replied, the problem with a designated area for leaf season is there's leaves on every curb. The audience member stated, no, I'm saying that that time would be a ban just like snow. We wouldn't park during the time that you are picking up leaves.