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Council Minutes of 4/20/93 Audience Partic tion 4co~ntinued) Mayor Boyle also exp a€~nec~t~iat during the two years since Mr. Fleger first complained about the street, sewer repair work has been done. It would not have made sense to fix the street before the sewer waork was complete. Mr. Fleger repeated that he is only concerned about his street, and he wants a carmitment of sane kind from the Council from the Mayor on when the the repair of the street will begin. He would like his street to be included in the current legislation calling for engineering on streets in Bretton Ridge. Mayor Boyle explained that South Oxford Oval will be totally reconstructed; however, the. proper process must be followed. An engineering firm will be hired using the proper bidding procedures. Mayor Boyle explained that the city carrot give all business to one engineering firm because this would be a "get rich quick" plan for the engineering firm and a loss of taxpayers' money. Councilman McKay explained to Mr. Fleger that the Safety Cex~mittee, along with Councilman Nashar and Service Director Bohluiaxzn, had. inspected approximately 15 city streets. South Oxford Oval was one of these streets. Mr. Bohlmann is going to get a preliminary engineering report on these streets which will be submitted to Council. Council will take that list and decide what will be done. Mr. McKay explained that the city had no street repair progarran until Mr. Hoyle came into office. As a Councilman, he had been asking for. ten years for such a program. The whole problem is that the streets have been neglected for 30 years, arxi all the streets caimot be done in a fours-year time frame. This originally was meant to be a 15 year project, but the city is well ahead of that pace. This Adminis- tration has been very successful in bringing in outside mcn7ey to repair our city streets. Country Club B~levard and Elm Road are t~ streets that were repaired with outside money. The city is making progress on the street repair program, and South Oxford Oval is on the list of streets to be reconstructed. However, it should be understood that this cannot be done averni.ght--the proper process must be followed. Service Director Bohlmann explained that, when the city seeks engineering proposals, generally three to four firms are contacted. Currently, he is soliciting bids from three different firms for the engineering of the Oxford Oval streets. This will then be submitted to Council, and the best engineering firm will be chosen. Mr. Bohlmaim commented that the intent was to do a slab repair program on the Oxford Oval streets this year. However, after sperxing a goad deal of time inspecting the streets, it was determined that South Oxford Oval would need approximately 75X replaced. Instead of slab repair, the street will be completely replaced; and this will probably occur in 1994. Jay Power, President of the North Olmsted Firefighters Local 1267 of the I.A.F.F., expressed his opinion that Ordinance No. 93-22, which prohibits smoking in municipal buildings, was a violation of the firefighters collective bargaining contract. He said that the City of Fiiuilay recently passed such a law but did not apply it to union employees. H@ was not addressing the health issue, but he did feel that the ordinance addressed the terms and conditions of employment. 5