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Council Minutes, of 4-6-76 _2_ and arresting a fugitive. Reason which prompts this action ie twat tb+e 3 Court of the United States recently held thct a prosecutor has ~;ty frsm laic sad this case involves the prosecutor giving advice to four of the Police Department. Law Director expect: this will be filed within the next month and hopefully will be dismissed. Safety Director Carnahan raportsd: 1) Collier Construction is winging up the installation of the new traffic controls and signals on Brookpas~lc Rd. this week. They can only start up o~ iatersectictn at a tiste and traffic stay be congested for a few days until the intersections are connected and syndronised into the system. Would also lake to adv.at that on the left turn slots on Brookpark Rd. there will be a red si~aal an tap wad a green signal on the bottom, and on this one can turn with caution to the left. If one waits for a couple of seconds you will get a green arrows which is a protected left turn lane. Mr. Goggin and President Lia~ert discussed latter with Safety Director Carnahan. Some type of notice will be posted. Mrs. Beringer, Chairman Streets & Drainage Committee, reported Committee Meeting was held on March 25th. In attendance besides Committee Maa~ers were Engineer Childs, Asst. Engineer McDermott, Mr. Caster wad Mr. Weldon. Mr. Thompson from Maple Ridge Rd. was also in attendance and his flooding situation was discussed. The Engineer agresd that a survey crew will go out when the ditches are high to shoot an elevation before melting nay determination; 2) Report was given by Mr. Caster in regard to the smoke testing that is underway. Certified mail notices were sent to 25 residents in the Deerfield area reQ~sting that they make corrections. 13 have made corrections and 12 have not. The Law Director will be notified by the Service Director to cite these people. The balance of the smoke testing will resuste. It is imperative that this program proceed as rapidly as possible so that we can evaluate the results during periods of heavy rainfall; 3) discussed sidewalk repair prograst for 1976. These are replacement sidewalks; ones that mere missed last year. The Engineering Department has Bleven Hundred Fifty addresses to serve notice. Probably one-third of these will be on contract. The Cc,s~mittee rs~oatmsnds the City proceed with sidewalk repair program and would like sut~rization of Finance Cos~mittee for $2,000. far City's portion. There is a tight schedule we would have to follow in order far repairs to be made this year. Would like Finance Committee approval as soon as possible. However, it is hopeful that the sidewalk program from last year will be completed before we get started into this one; 4) Committee also recommends installation of Mill Rd. aidewaik and storm sewers if funds are available. The City's portion would be $13,000. Would like Finance Committee approval for this also; 5) Re - Mr. Marcia' ditch on Maple Ridge Rd. Going back to the records - on 8/25/75 the Engineering Dept. did go out and Mr. Ed Novak did confer with Mr. Marcia at that time. The ditch was graded. On March 2nd Mr. McDermott viewed the ditch. He reported entire front ditch was working well. President Limpert and Mrs. Beringer made inspection several weeks ago along with Mr. Caster, Mr. Weldon and l~r. McDersott sad at this time also found it satisfactory. Upon advice of r and Service Director report nothing acre to be dame at site; 6) Discussed repair program for berms and ditches. on roadsides and it was decided by the ms~ority of the Committee to start a program to repair the ditches along with resurfacing the roads and would take the worst roads first - repair ditches and resurface the street. It was also suggested that to finance this that the homeowners would be assessed for the work and also for the driveways