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Minutes of the Regular Meeting of Council Monday, October 16, 2023 Page 8 Council President Schutt stated, thank you, Mr. Russell. Paul Matias (Police Department) — Thank you Council President. I just wanted to go over something, kind of tailing off our NOPEC presentation. A couple of weeks ago, we had the Senior Resource Fair. While we were there, we handed out a lot of the No Soliciting stickers for people to put on their doors. We have plenty of them. If anyone needs them, let me know. We handed out a lot of sheets with information about avoiding scams, including our scam hotline that we use to try to be proactive with dealing with scams in the community. I networked a little bit with the Cuyahoga County Consumer Affairs representative who was at the fair. After talking with him, a few days later I was contacted by the Consumer Affairs Scam Squad which is a task force put together of government and non -profits and social services to try and address the problem of scams. They invited us to join the task force. I am really happy about that. I had a virtual meeting with them a few days ago. There are a lot of great resources. We will be partnering up with them. Going back to the NOPEC issue, some of these companies out there are legitimate companies but their sales people can be a little bit deceptive. When we do issue permits for these companies, Maura and I monitor it to see if there are any complaints or issues because if they are being aggressive or deceptive, we can pull their permits. We haven't had many since COVID. A lot of the permits have dropped off. We do keep an eye on it to make sure there are no problems. If we do, we can address those companies. Like I said, I am very happy to be part of the task force and hopefully we will get a lot of good information from them. That's all I have. Council President Schutt asked, any questions? There were none. Council President Schutt stated, thank you, Chief. Shane McAvinew (Parks and Recreation) — Thank you Council President. I do have a handful of things to report on. First, with regard to the Trick or Treat Trail, it was a challenge that day, but it went very very well. It takes so many bodies to do that event. I would like to thank my staff, Sam, Danielle, Mayor Bodnar and her daughter, the Jersey family, Mary Murphy, Pat Andrzejczyk, the Parks Board. I always forget to thank my wife and son who are always there for me, so I would like thank Christina and Ryan tonight. The Interact Club did a phenomenal job. There were a lot of new young people there. They make it work for the kids. They get themselves involved. They listened to me about dressing up and enjoying the day. Gino from our Service Department led the pumpkins outside. He did a really good job. We had some other volunteers who helped out. It would not have been possible without the volunteers and the hard work. Also, this year we have the Halloween Window Painting Contest. I don't know how many windows have gotten painted so far, so we might be pushing it because of the cold weather and the rain. I never dealt with this much bad weather for them to get the windows done in time. Hopefully in the next couple of days they will be able to get out. There will be 20 windows. I am posting pictures of them every day on Facebook. They are really good this year.