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~x Council Minutes of 02-02-10 drawing phase of this project. Plans could be ready by the third quarter of this year. • Bids for fuel are due to the City on February 12 at noon. • Dates for the 2010 brush round-up have been established. The first round-up will occur the week of May 10. The Service Department requests that brush be placed on the curb no earlier than one week prior to the start date. • AARP has begun free tax assistance every Wednesday at the North Olmsted Senior Center. Free tax filing is available every Wednesday until April 15. Please call the Senior Center to make an appointment and take advantage of this free service. • The annual Valentine's Day party will be held at the Senior Center on Thursday, February 11 following the hot lunch. This event will be combined with a "Meet and Greet your Mayor", giving him the opportunity to hear any concerns or suggestions from the senior population. On Tuesday, March 16, the Senior Center will hold a Mardi Gras party after the hot lunch with entertainment provided by the Fairview Park Dixie Land Band. • The Senior Center Garage Sale will be held on Saturday, March 6 from gam - 3:30pm. Councilman Barker asked for the date of the brush pick-up. Kennedy said the brush pick- up will begin the week of May 10. Law Director Gareau: • He wanted to address an issue with Council and those in attendance regarding an article about foreclosures throughout Cuyahoga County, and a reference to the City of North Olmsted and a specified number of cases that have been filed. Last year when that topic came up, Carole Heyward in the Law Department at his request and the Law Director had analyzed the number of cases filed in North Olmsted in relation to the total number of housing units to get an understanding as to whether or not what they were seeing here was a higher trend than in other communities. They found that it's just about the -same percentage in relation to the total number of housing units. North Olmsted has a significantly larger number of housing units than, say, Fairview Park does. When you look at the number of actual foreclosures in relation to the housing units, North Olmsted is about even with a percentage. One unfortunate bit of information he thinks was left out of that article was the size of the community and number of housing units. The article was good in that it pointed out that the foreclosure problem that we saw more in Cleveland is moving to the suburbs. And, of course, North Olmsted is no exception to that situation. There may be a slight increase in the foreclosures in North Olmsted compared to last year. A lot of homes that were foreclosed upon one and two years ago are now reaching the end of the process. At the end of the process, the property's placed for Sheriff's sale and there is the possibility of new owners coming in to buy the property. Frequently, the owners buying the property are none other than the bank who holds the first mortgage on 3 _~~.,.. ~, ,~:... _~,, . r_: