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Council Minutes of OS-18-2010 REPORTS Mayor Kennedy: • The spring brush round-up began May 10 and is nearing completion. All streets will have received one pass with the chipper at the conclusion. • The Service Dept. demolished a small out building on the south side of Springvale. The debris has been removed and Springvale employees will finish the work. • The seasonal hires for the Service Dept. will be starting their employment over the course of the next two weeks. • Fleet maintenance began preparing the three new police cruisers with light bars, radios and equipment so that they can be put into service. • A water line break caused Barton Road to be closed between Lorain and Bradley Roads for a portion of the day on May 11. • The North Olmsted Police Dept. participated in Operation Medicine Cabinet on May 8. Sixty-two people stopped by the Police Department to drop off expired or no longer needed medications for proper disposal. • The Fire Dept. responded to Homestead Suites early Saturday morning for a fire caused by someone falling asleep while food was on the stove. No one was injured. • The Building Dept. is continuing work related to Northwoods Condominiums. On Monday, May 10 the Building Department, Safety Director, contractor and architect were on site at Northwoods for inspections of the decks. On Thursday, May 13 Mr. Fisher delivered written correspondence and pictures of shim and nails to the Building Dept. The Building Dept. will be formally replying to the written correspondence and has forwarded the pictures to the project architect so that they can review this with their structural engineer. Additionally, a punch list containing correction items has been completed by the architect and sent to the contractor. The punch list items must be completed final inspection to close out the permits. • The City invites everyone to join design consultant, Studio Graphique, for a "Community Brainstorming Session" on Thursday, May 20 at 7:00 p.m. in the City Hall Council Chambers. • Anew Ohio Historical Marker will be dedicated at the Olmsted Unitarian Universalist Church on Sunday, May 30 at 1:30 p.m. All are welcome to attend and help the Church celebrate its 175' birthday. Also, on May 30 from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. is Frostville Museum's Military Timeline. There will be exhibits of period war pieces and re-enactments. This event is free to the public. • The city has received $2,300 in donations for the Food Cupboard so far this month. Macy's employees donated $1,175, North Olmsted High School's Key Club donated $1,000 and John Knox Presbyterian Church donated $125. • The Traffic Diversion Program, launched in January of this year by Chris Allegra, has had 32 cases to date this year. The program has received overwhelmingly 2 ~,., ,;,~.. _ w~..~.,,,