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Council Minutes of 9/16/97 be forwarded to the Cleveland Water Department for review and determination if other homes have been dropped from the list. ,:r; 3) As a public information service, drivers should be advised to pull up to the street stopbars in order to activate the sensors in the city's new signalization network. Mr. McKay, Chairperson of the Streets & Drainage Committee: 1) The committee met on Tuesday, September 9. In attendance were committee members Nashar, Lind and McKay; Mayor Boyle; Councilmen Musial and Limpert; Service Director Bohlmann; Finance Director Burns. The committee discussed Ordinance 97-44 which will control treelawn and apron maintenance in commercial and multi-family districts. Treelawns and aprons must be kept clean of litter, debris and be free of safety hazards. Both require repair if the level is below or above two inches in height to the surrounding aprons, curbing or treelawns. Also, damage to curbing done during installation of a new apron must be repaired. The committee recommended approval. Mr. Lind, Chairperson of the Finance Committee: 1) The Finance Committee met September 9 at 7:20 p.m. Present were committee members Musial, McKay and Lind; Council Members Limpert and Nashar; Mayor Boyle; Finance Director Burns; Service Director Bohlmann. The following items were discussed: a. Ordinance 97-67, which is the Cablevision lease. The final version has not been completed so the ordinance will be held in committee. b. Ordinances 97-74 and 97-75, which were basically funding sources for the Economic Development Fund. Both ordinances have been amended. Ordinance 97-74 provides for 25% of the down payment to go into the Economic Development Fund and 75% to Recreation. The reference to all future antennas was eliminated and each antenna will be considered on its own merits. Ordinance 97-75 increases the amount of the income tax that will go to Economic Development from 2 1/2 to 5% of the abated amount of the receipt of taxes based on the abatement for the life of the abatement. Section 4, the emergency clause, was deleted. The committee recommended approval of both ordinances as amended. c. Ordinances 97-78 and 97-79, both of which will be tabled this evening. Ordinance 97-78 addresses the receipt of rents from Cablevision over the life of our current lease with them. Instead of going into the Recreation Fund, the receipts have been going to the General Fund. The committee, after some discussion, determined that this procedure should continue. All future receipts from Cablevision will be going into the General Fund. Mr. Nashar, Chairperson of the Public Safety, Health and Welfare Committee: 1) The Safety Committee met this evening. Present were Safety Director Kasler, committee members O'Grady, Limpert and Nashar; Council members Lind, Saringer and Musial. The committee discussed Ordinance 97-71, which pertains to the section of the Business Regulation Code entitled "Secondhand Dealers" in order to further regulate unattended donations made to secondhand dealers. The legislation also creates a new Section 521.15 of the General Offenses Code to provide a misdemeanor penalty against individuals who leave donated materials on the sidewalk, in the parking areas or otherwise outside of the 4 u ?+n!V1f'4xe~.f~+~iM+. 1(C.t,Yyt~, . - ..~ -.,. ~....:.r..... r..~ .. .. ,._;yq_.rvFevFR,Y W-4n#Ri'~ y.~.Cnq.~14!_.. -~ ... ~..