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Council Minutes of 08-07-12 motion was seconded by Councilman Kearney and passed unanimously. CMS2012-13 Sunnyside Toyota located at 26890 Lorain Road approved. • Discussed next was CMS2012-14 Sunnyside Toyota located at 4877 Dover Center Road. This proposal consists of demolishing an existing vacant building and various site improvements (pavement, landscaping, mailbox and chain link fence on the south side of the property). The Planning and Design Commission approved this with the following conditions: consolidation of the two parcels would be submitted an approved, vehicle delivery trucks are prohibited from accessing the lot, any new signage would be submitted for approval by the Planning and Design Commission and all engineering requirements would be met and thought would be given to a bio-retention system. Councilman Mahoney made a motion to approve CMS2012-14 Sunnyside Toyota site improvements with conditions set forth by the Planning and Design Commission. The motion was seconded by Councilman Barker and passed unanimously. CMS2012-14 Sunnyside Toyota located at 4877 Dover Center Road approved. Councilman Brossard took a moment of personal privilege. On July 14, 2012 he had the privilege of being a player/Manager for the CERT baseball team during the Friends of the Community Foundation Public Safety Softball Tournament held during Fairview Park's Summer Fest. They had 2 wins and g losses. AUDIENCE PARTICIPATION Jennifer Rudolph, 3329 Walter Road suggested funding the Mayor's Court for two years and then assess how well it does after the first two years to see if the city should continue to have a court. Mayor Kennedy said you can stop funding it at any time. Judy Nash, 33000 Shadow Creek, Westlake said she is a probation officer for Rocky River Court. She said she is thinking about this from a human side and not the money side. She thinks what North Olmsted will lose by having a Mayor's Court will not gain in money. She deals with extreme cases every day -the human side of what they deal with in Rocky River Court. Fifty percent of first time DUI offenders have an alcohol problem. If you send a person to a three-day driver intervention program, they have no ability to have analcohol/drug assessment. Nash said Rocky River Court is also focused on protecting the public and trying to keep crime rates down. She stated re-offense rates were 4% across the board out of 200 cases they reviewed. She said Mayor's Court will not assess the problems of substance abuse, mental health, poverty, etc. Out of those 200 cases, 102 OVI offenders were reviewed and only 2.5% had re-offended in a four-year period. Nash said another issue is when you're running a court to make money, you're going to reduce cases because it's not about justice. It's about money. She does not want to be at Great Northern Mall and be around people that are stealing on a regular basis causing prices to go up; the repeat offenses they see when there is not good intervention. Councilman Mahoney made a motion to allow Nash an additional 5 minutes speaking time. There were no objections. Nash continued. One thing that was mentioned this 3