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Council Minutes of 02-21-2012 Cinnamon Woods at all. The bottom line is the city should have never picked up trash on private streets. There -are 15 private street developments in North Olmsted, all of which - except for Cinnamon Woods -pays for their own trash pick-up because the city does not pick up private streets. He explained that the developers that build developments with private streets make private streets because the developer wants smaller driveways, etc. so more units can be installed to make more money. It's good for the city as well because since they are private streets, there is no trash pick-up, snow removal, etc. Buyer/customer beware because you're going to have to provide the services yourself. That is the reality. Regarding taxes - 62% of real estate go to the schools. 22% goes to the County and 15% goes to the city. Much of the 15% goes to fire and police. How the garbage is paid for - by a vote of the people - is you have your municipal income tax, or everyone that pays tax in the city so you need to work in the city. Three years ago he worked in Cleveland, paid 2% to Cleveland and zero in North Olmsted because he got 100% credit. Therefore, he did not pay anything for trash. Someone that lives and works in North Olmsted pays 2% to North Olmsted and is helping to contribute to the trash fund. The issue and only issue with this Ordinance is the fact that you live on private streets. Councilman Barker said that it also needs to be pointed out that property taxes are established by the County, not the City of North Olmsted. Councilman Mahoney said that this Ordinance does not change anything as to who gets their trash picked up. He believes the Sun Newspapers incorrectly, not once but twice, indicated that there is this big change in the North Olmsted trash pick-up service for the residents of Cinnamon Woods which is not true. Gareau pointed out regarding the Ordinance, there is some change in service but only on the non-residential side. ` Dennis Lambert, 25057 Carey Lane commented on Ordinance 2012-17 which may include iPads. What security will be put in place so that Council members will not abuse this technology? Isn't this extravagant as opposed to sending out paper in envelopes? The city will never pay off the iPads with all of the paper that will be used. Mayor Kennedy said he believes they will pay it off with all of the paper saved. Also, iPads will be city property, not personal property for Council members. Lambert said they need to be upgraded; their systems are good for only 3 to 4 years. Mayor Kennedy asked Lambert if he owns one and Lambert said no. Mayor Kennedy said he seems to know an awful lot about them and the systems to not need to be changed every 3 years. If new hardware comes out, it doesn't mean you cannot use the older software. Councilman Barker said this is just a study phase, but they are in the budget in case the city decides to do this. The Safety/Service Director and Council Clerk are researching this. It doesn't mean the city is going to spend the money on iPads for sure. He suggested Lambert attend committee meetings to get more detail before he comes to Council meetings based on a comment he hears during a committee report. Councilman Mahoney asked Copfer if there may be a cost savings going from paper to iPads and she said yes. Councilman Mahoney said we should always be looking to further advance the ability to save money, paper and become more environmentally sound. He said to Lambert that he is offended that he would impugn the reputations of Council members that they would abuse city property even though they haven't received them yet. It's not appropriate. .mot,. :fi: , 6 ..: