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Council Minutes of 8/16/94 discussed Ordinance 94-102 which will authorize the Mayor to assign duties to the Director of Personnel and Admini~rative Services. The committee recommended passage of the legislation. Mr. Nashar, Chairperson of the Pubec Safety, Heahh and Welfare Comrr~ittee, reported: 1) The committee met on August 16 and in attendance were ee maanbers Saru~ger, Limpert and Nashar. The following liquor permit transfers were discussed: a. Bally Healy, Inc., DBA Bear's Den, 24775 Lorain Road, transfer of a D5, D6 license to EWG Enterprises, Inc., DBA ie's Pub, 24?75 Lorain Road. The committee had no objections. Mr. Nashar moved to approve the liquor license transfer at 24775 Lorain Road; second by Mr. McKay; motion gassed unanimously. b. Tri Family, Inc., DBA Convenient Food Mart, 4864 Dover Center Road, transfer of a C 1, C2, D6 liquor license to Rana, Inc., DBA Convenient Food Mart, 4864 Dover Center Road. The committee had no oixions. Mr. Nashar moved to approve the liquor license transfer at 4864 Dover Center Road; second by Mr. Limpert; motion passed unanimously. Mr. Musial, Chairperson of the Tratt~ortation Committee, reported: 1) At the request of the committee, a traffic signal warrant analysis was conduced on August 2, 1994 for the intersection of Dover Center Road, Driscoll Lane and Cottonwood Trail. None of the warrants were met. The numbers, as provinetl by Mr. Boh~ann, indicate there is very little change in the traffic vahimes in this area. It was recarnmended that no additional or new warrant analyses be done unless there is a significant change in the traffic patterns in the surrounding area. AUp~;FsNCE PAitTZCIPAT~N Frank Gellert, 4336 Drive, had a flooded basement because of the rain storm last weekend. Mr. Gellert, whose home is the last one on the street, has had flooding problems since 1972 wheg the sewers were mulled im his neighborhood. He feels the sewers were inadequately sized. Mr. Geftbrt warrts to be compensated for his troubles. He did agree that the cifiy has attenr~ted to alleviate the flooding by various methods, one of which was the installation of a check valve. The check valve did provide hells in that the solid waste was eliminated; however, the basement still. flooded ~md the farinly was not able to use the bathroom or run water in the sinks. Mr. Gellert said that water was coming out of the manhole in fret of his home. He feels the problem stems from storm water running into the sanitary sewers. He has checked with the EPA and a Congressmen, and it is his understanding that there are illegal storm sewers tied into the sanitary sewers. Mayor Boyle replied that there are some illegally conneced downspouts that are filxering into the sanitary sewers. However, he does not believe there is a direct norm sewer leading into a sanitary sewer. The city has been notifying residents to clisconnect downspouts and will put a greater effort into this program. The Mayor said that it was possible that this neighborhood could be helped by buitding a sanitary retention area. Mayor Boyle told Mr. Gellert that he would ask the Engineering Department to inspect the area. Mr. Gellert suggested that they check at the end of Lansiarg Drive where the 5