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Council Minutes of 8/4/98 _~ Mr. O'Grady scheduled a Finance Committee meeting for August 10 at 6:30 p.m. to ~~~ review Ordinances 98-72, 98-80 and 98-87. The Finance Director, Service Director, Building Commissioner and Mayor Musial are asked to attend. Mr. O'Grady reported on a meeting that he attended with the Bretton Ridge homeowners and which Sandi Prioletti spoke about. Residents attending included Sandi Prioletti, Charles and Eula Moore, Charles and Marti Graham, Al and Julie Tomaric and Royce Myhre. Ward 3 Councilman Nashar and Mayor Norm Musial also attended. At issue was the continuing flooding problem that is being encountered by residents in certain areas of the development. Fortunately, the flooding issue has moved from being a basement problem to being a backyard problem. The area discussed was the southeast section of the Bretton Ridge park and the backyards of the neighboring homes on Stewart and Somerset Drive. Mr. O'Grady distributed numerous pictures given to him by the residents that highlighted some of the problems of the area. There are significant amounts of standing waters in the backyards of these homes and in the park area. A second area of concern that was raised was residents who are not in that specific area of the development but who have flooding in the extreme back of their yards through primarily one of two causes. When the initial construction of the development took place, the drainage that was put in place along the back of the yards did not go from a relatively high point to a lower point so that the water could drain out or it was constructed relatively level. Another cause that was encountered by residents in the development was that some residents fill up the drainage culverts that are back in the very rear most portions of their yards. They do it for one of two reasons: one, it is a convenient place to dump grass clippings or branches; second, it levels out their yard and they get more usable yard. The culverts were put back there for a reason: to allow drainage. When someone blocks it either intentionally or unintentionally, they cause a problem for themselves and their neighbors. Mr. O'Grady thanked Mrs. Prioletti for her work in coordinating the meeting of the residents and for being the contact person for gathering the information from the residents of the development. Also, he has talked to Service Director Bohlmann with regard to the flooding in the park and the backyards on the curve of Somerset. By the end of the year, the city intends to install drainage that will take that water in one of two directions--either north away from the park and crossing under Lorain Road or to put drainage in that brings it south, parallel with Stearns Road. This will bring it down to a culvert that crosses underneath Stearns Road just north of Hastings Drive. With regard to the standing water in the backyards, it is possible that neighbors have filled in the culverts and the city will look into this. With the agenda being completed and there being no further business to come before Council, President Saringer adjourned the meeting at 8:55 p.m. L. Seman, Clerk o~Council Ja A. Saringer, President of C ncil 10 ,. _ ....,_... -..-~ry, ,, .,-..