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Council Minutes of 3/7/95 ,~, 3) The Mayor recently met with Larry Drake, the new regional vice-president of Cablevision, to discuss problems and concerns. Among the subjects reviewed were the following: eight-hour timeframe for the arrival of service persons; lack of courtesy by Cablevision employees who answer the phones; the need for customers to rent a converter box even though they have acable-ready TV; lack of public programming; lack of public access for more than a year because Cablevision refused to upgrade their equipment; a generally poor attitude toward customers. Mr. Drake took extensive notes during the meeting and promised a drastic improvement. The first corrective action began on March 1. As of that date, customers will begiven afour-hour timeframe for the arrival of service persons. If the service person is late, Cablevision will compensate the customer by providing various free services. With respect to public programming, Mr. Drake requested a listing of 1995 North Olmsted events. The Mayor has contacted the school system and NOSO for their input on the events list. Mayor Boyle was impressed with Mr. Drake's sincerity to improve Cablevision's service, and hopefully we are entering a new era of cooperation. 4) At the Council-as-a-Whole meeting tomorrow evening, representatives from Malcolm Pirnie, National City Bank and Squire, Sanders & Dempsey will address the sewer rates, the city's overall financial picture and a schedule of financial events. 5) The first Town Hall meeting of the year will be held in Ward III on Wednesday, March 15, 7:30 p.m. at Spruce Elementary School. The tentative schedule for the remaining meetings is as follows: Ward IV, June 14; Ward II, September 20; Ward I, December 13. 6) The "DOOR" committee from Olmsted Township has invited Mayor Boyle, Berea Mayor Trupo, Brook Park Mayor Coyne and Olmsted Falls Mayor Jones to attend a meeting about annexation which will be held on March 23. According to a letter sent to Mayor Boyle from "DOOR", a member of another annexation group called "FOOT" is calling various individuals who have been invited to the March 23 meeting and telling them that the forum has been canceled. This, of course, is not true. In addition, the Mayor has received other correspondence telling him that members of the `SOOT" committee, which favors annexation to Brook Park, are actually following people around who are distributing literature in favor of annexation by North Olmsted, Berea or Olmsted Falls. The members of "FOOT" then collect the literature so that the only information available to Township residents--except for mailings--is literature favorable to the possible Brook Park merger. Law Director Gareau: 1) Resolution No. 95-32 will bring to a conclusion the settlement of the case with the U. S. EPA which dates back to 1988. In 1988, the federal government adopted regulations dealing with more stringent provisions with respect to clean water. These regulations impacted sewer treatment plants by providing for fines for dumping of certain metals and for overflows and by-passes. In May of 1989, a heavy rainstorm caused many basements to be flooded and the city was forced to put pumps on some streets in Ward II in an effort to keep the water out of basements. These occurrences had to be reported to the Ohio EPA, and a building ban was put into effect. In addition, on a monthly basis the city was, and still is, required to report the outflow from the treatment plant and to indicate whether the permit limits had been met. During 2