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Council Minutes of 2/18/97 Jo Ann DiCarlo representing Horizons. Thirteen projects were proposed to the city for the Community Development Block Grant. Each was scored according to a criteria provided to the City of North Olmsted and Mr. Copeland by the county Department of Development. Three of these thirteen proposals were subsequently withdrawn prior to the meeting. Of the remaining proposals, the project consisting of Mildred Avenue, W. 230 Street and W. 232 Street scored the highest. Based on the need to consult with the Finance and Law Departments and in order to gain some additional information from Horizons, which is one of the projects, it was agreed to adjourn this meeting until February 12. 5) On February 12, the committee met at 8 p.m. Present were Council Members O'Grady, Lind, Musial, McKay, Nashar; Human Resources Director Copeland; county representative Chaunci Wyche, who is overseeing this project for the county. The same representatives for Horizon and for Allendale/Carey were present. The committee conducted a review of the five top proposals: First, the Mildred Avenue project that scored the highest; second, Grace Avenue; third, Gladland Avenue; fourth, the Old Town Hall restoration and ADA, which is Americans with Disabilities compliance; fifth, the Horizons Activity Center. The first two projects, Grace Avenue and Mildred Avenue, were eliminated due to the prohibitive cost required on the part of the city to fund our portion of it. In one case, it was on the order of four hundred and fifty thousand dollars and the other one about five hundred and fifty thousand. The third project, Gladland Avenue, was also dismissed simply because it was determined that this was not competitive as a Community Development Block Grant project. It does not mean that any of these projects were not worthy, they certainly all are or they wouldn't be there--but simply not for this funding. Of the remaining two projects, the committee recommended that the Old Town Hall rehabilitation and ADA compliance be submitted to county. Pending additional information required by committee of the people representing Horizons, once that is submitted, it is the intent of the committee to recommend that Horizons be our second submission for the Community Development Block Grants. 6) During this evening's caucus, it was decided to recommend that Ordinance 97-17, the Old Town Hall restoration project/ADA compliance, be approved on suspension. Ordinance 97-18, which is the Horizons Activity Center, will be introduced and placed on first reading in order to give additional time to the representatives of Horizons. There will be a special meeting of Council, tentatively scheduled for February 26 at 8 p.m. If all the requirements that have been listed are addressed and there are no further concerns on the part of Council, the ordinance will be passed under suspension of the rule so that both ordinances can be submitted to county by the deadline of March 3. AUDIENCE PARTICIPATION Laura Weldon, 4591 Martin Drive, wished to address Council regarding Mr. Limpert's minority report on Resolution 96-187 concerning radioactive nuclear waste. In Mr. Limpert's written report, he had said that each day he drives by a radioactively contaminated site in Newburgh Hts., which Mrs. Weldon said is one of 800 such sites in Ohio that will not be cleaned up by the facility proposed in S.B. 19. The proposed facility will be used by big-income nuclear waste generators who will be paying to have their 8