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.t Council Minutes of 8/21/90 ~- 6) On August 16, the Board of Control met and spent $367,378 on service equipment: a wheel loader from Cantwell Machinery at $61,000; a back-hoe from West Shore at $3b,000; street sweeper from J. J. Turner at $110,000. We also purchased 6 trucks. The bids were separated into three sections so we could take advantage of the best prices anti get the best quality of each truck segaent. We accepted 6 chassis from GMC TYuck at $121,000; 6 dungy bodies and hydraulics at $38,400; and 6 ten-foot plows from Gibson, Stuart at $36,000. 7) On 7/23/90, we received $765,800 from the EPA, which is 100% of the cost of correcting the carbon regeneration problen at the sewer plant. 8) Three pieces of legislation perts%i~ing to the initial furniing of the city-wide sanitary sewer line rehabilitation program are before council tonight. This is a major step in (1) removing the pumps from the eastern neighborhoods; (2) reducing the chance of flooding anywhere in North Olmsted; (3) increasing the capacity of char treatment plant; (4) putting the brakes on some fast-rising costs of sewage treatment. We are taking the pasture that the source of flooding in the City is actually crumbled anti cracked pipes, which allow ground and storm waters into the sanitary system. Instead of transmittiaag sanitary sewage to the plant, they are actually acting, as collectors; thus, becoming a public nuisance. We will test all the lines anl. determine what pipes inside and outside of the right of way are cnanbled and cracked. We will then reline, route them, and do whatever rehabilitation is necessary. A great deal of work will be done on the eastern side of the City; the general area will be a corridor an either side of Walter Road exterxiing from north to south borders. Work should be completed by April, 1991. We believe it is the pipes out of the right of way that are causing our major problems. They are a public nuisance and. acting as the wrong type of collector. The legislation will fund repair of this; homeowners will not incur any expenses unless they have made illegal connections. 9) Work at the Laverne lift station is 989 comialete; the Dover station is 50~ complete. This work gill not only help the flow out of the residential area to the plant but also enable us to do future maintenance on pumps a~ valves. 10) The Recreation Center will be closed for approxi.tnately three weeks for construction work. By early September, it should be open for limited use; by mid-December wee hope to have an open house and be fully operational. 11) Next Friday, four new police officers will be sworn in. They will be through schooling ar~d doing on-tln-job training by Dece~er. A total of ten officers have been hired this year; six are all ready on the job. I'd like to get into the schedule of replacing one-third of all units per year to keep us up to our full complement of people. 12) Two employees have recently left the City's employ. Lt. Barrett of the Fire Department has retired after 22 years on the force. Jim Tobman, our new electrical inspector, has resigned fran the Building Departta~ent. 13) The 1958 audit has been released. The Finance Department was "judged to have met the highest national accounting a~r~d reporting standards and was therefore s~arded this Certificate of Achievement in financial reporting by the Government Finance Officer's 2