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Council Minutes of 3-1-77 -2- to the County. Discussion enausd. President Limpert scheduled a meeting of Council as a Whole on March 7, 1977, 8:00 P.M., Citp Hall. Service Director Caster reported: l) on February 25, 1977, the Mayor received final payments of grants for the purchase of new equipmnatt for the bus Line. Mr. Tan Rrall, District Depute Director of the State of ~iio, Division 12, of the flighW!:y D~spartment, presaatad tine Mayor a check for half of t~ local share in the sun of $108,375. from the Ohfo Dept. of Transportation. Mr. 8311 I.ehnen, Secret:ry Treasurer for the greater Clevelaand Regional Transit Authority, presented the Mayor a check for the other half of the local share in the ease ampuaatt from RTA. This together with the UMPTA check of $880,OtX1. pretty well covers the obligation we have for the purchase of the nrsr buses; 2) would like to report that the Lansing ditch has bees dredged from Forth Olmsted into Westlake. There is one obstruction at the Porter &1. crossover and dir. Weldon is working with the people in We~rtlake to remove that obstruction; 3) presented two pieces of legislation to Ca-uncil tonight -Ord. Via. ?7-47 and 77- 48 relating to economics for the eaag+lt~y~ees of the bus line. mould like to recommend they be placed on first reading and put back into Committee. Mr. West requested the Clerk to write to the homeowners' association of Forest Ridge advising them of Mr. Caster's state~nC regarding the ditch. Law Director Gareau reported: 1) approximyttely a year ago we had problems with the removal of a tree from the Big 0 property - it involved prosecution a~ a great deal of controversy bare on Council. The other day received a lawsuit regarding this matter and the Big 0 Oldsmobile has requested an injunction against the City from stopping them from taking the tree down. They have also asked for a declaratory judgment action declaring our ordinances unconstitutional with respect to this particular matter. So in essence what they are seeking is to reaove the tree. Will keep Council abreast as this goes on. Mrs. Saringer, Chairman Streets & Drainage Committee, reported: l) a joint meeting was held February 28th with the Finance Committee and agreed to enter into an agreement with the Ohio Dept. of Transportation for the resurfacing of Columbia Road, our portion being $12,320.; 2) Mrs. Saringer also submitted a list to the Finance Committee Chairman of Committee recommendations of streets to be resurfaced to be included is the budget. These streets have been on the list and have been requested before to be ressrfaea8~i. Mrs. Saringer also requested the Service Director and Finance Chairsem concurs, to provide Committees with a list of updated streets and costs so that they can be included in the budget; 3) Mrs. Saringer also submitted a list of atxeetlights that she has previously requested to the Finance C~sirman to be included in the budget; 4) scheduled a Streets & Drainage Committee Meeting on March 9, 1977, 8:00 P.M., City Hall and requested Asst. City Engineer McDermott to be in attendance. Mr. Beaty, Chairman Transportation Committee, reported: 1) The Transportation Committee met February 28th: Mr. Lynch, Mr. Lehman from the RTA Board and Mr, Brown from the RTA Operations met with the Committee, Mrs. Saringer sand other City Officials to discuss soma of the problems and things that had the Feople upset about the new changes in RTA in our bus line since RTA took over. Mrs. Basinger brought up the Westwood difficulty catching buses, the overcrowdi~ag both on naming and afternoon bu,ees. Mayor Christman was concerned as many people in the City have been concerned about the great number of stops which the so-called expresses have been making downtown. Mr. West was concerned about some of the county taus which have historically been overloaded; some of the morning flyers are constantly crowded. ..,. .~-,. _~, i