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' -~ r ' ~ Council Minutes of 7/5/89 -2- 2) Attended a meeting held by County Engineer Neff dealing with the new direction the county is taking as far as capital improvements and maintenance projects are concerned. Council has been given a copy of their proposal. The county will turn the plowing and maintenance of thirteen streets in North Olmsted back to the city; the county will concentrate primarily on bridges and county roads in county townships. 3) The Senior Center has received a $10,000 bequest from a recently deceased resident in appreciation for the service provided by Betsy Jack and the Senior Center. 4) Ordinance No. 89-6, dealing with impact fees, has become effective without the Mayor's signature since she did not receive a response to her request for clarif ication of the ordinance. If she does not hear from council, she will proceed as the ordinance indicates. 5) Directors Boyle, Cunningham and Mayor had a meeting with Arthur Young re- garding additional charges for the 1987 audit received in June of 1989. Mayor advised Arthur Young, and will do so for the record of council, that the time frame for this audit was quite unacceptable. Would suggest that next year's contract include a penalty clause. 6) McKenzie Road culvert is under construction and should be completed within the next few weeks. 7) Tom Fattlar, Stan Cesen and Mayor received-and reviewed four proposals from an architectural, engineering service for the Rec Complex renovation; recommends the contract be awarded to van Kijk Johnson; project construction budget is between $500,000 and $900,000. 8) Squad 53 is back in service. 9) A resident, who is an engineer at NASA, has called the administration; will be meeting to sit and talk about some of the badly flooded areas in the city. Will advise council when the meeting is scheduled. 10) A brochure will be going out to all residents asking what they will or will not do with respect to recycling and if they have any recommendations. The city's recycling program has been tacked on to the grant received by the school system. 11) Expressed appreciation to Tom Fattlar, Bud Becker and the Police and Fire Departments for their efforts during Sunday's fireworks display and soccer tournament. Mr. Bohlmann responded to the Mayor's remarks about the impact fee legislation stating that the ordinance was clear. While it does say "comprehensive engineering" that does not restrict the Mayor to just an engineering firm nor restrict her from going to a consultant or an attorney. The intent is to establish impact fees. Mayor Petrigac responded that to do a comprehensive, the city does need land use studies; they are very importent to a good impact fee when getting into the infra- structure program. Has already sent council a whole review of impact fees for Safety Forces, which would need land use study more than engineering. Mr. Bohlmann stated that the pupose of the ordinance was to have a consultant, an engineer, whatever. type of professional person is needed to establish some type of impact fee - whatever is the beast for the city. Does not think anyone on council would have any objection to the Mayor's consulting with an engineer, a consultant, a planner, an attorney - with. any one or all of these professionals. Mayor Petrigac stated that if this is council's wish, and it appears in the minutes, then a motion would be needed to broaden the ordinance by an amendment since the way the legislation reads now it does specify an engineering firm and she would not be able to broaden it with this stipulation intact. ~,.~.~. ~~~.~=gym