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Council Minutes of 6/16/98 wasting our $1,500 because the only thing we would accomplish was to get the same answer the city would, but in a shorter time period. This appears to be quite an understatement. • After being told by Mayor Boyle that a City Council meeting was not the place to have a report given by Dr. DeGroot, the engineer we hired, we had a special meeting on December 12, 1995 inviting all of City Council and city officials. Dr. DeGroot presented his findings and Mr. Bohlmann promised a completion date in the spring of 1996. • The 1995 flood report from North Olmsted's Engineering Department came out in December of 1995 stating that West Park-Forest Ridge's project was recommended for funding 1996 due to the severity of the problem. • Representatives of our group came up to the podium at several City Council meetings asking that a bid be given to the engineering firm Water Resources and Coastal Engineering, highly recommended for specializing in our type of problem. Western Reserve Engineering was chosen because their bid of $10,000 was less than the $20,000 bid from Water Resources. However, the $10,000 report from Western Reserve took over six and a half months instead of the promised three months to complete, and was basically unusable. • On August 20, 1996, we stood before City Council asking for any kind of follow-up or accountability. • Dennis Long, an environmental engineer hired by the City Council, brought new hope. We met with him, Ralph Bohlmann and some members of Council on February 5, 1997 at our homeowner's board meeting. For the first time, Mr. Long gave us a list of target dates in writing. He was going to complete some flow meter monitoring himself, instead of hiring it out and this would save time and money. • Council passed Ordinance 97-33 on May 7, 1997 to enter into an agreement with Adache-Ciuni-Lynn Associates, Inc. to provide engineering services for the Forest Ridge project. • During this period, Dennis Long relayed to us that they had discovered a major problem with our junction chambers, one of which even took a 90 degree turn, and that this would need to be corrected before a retention system would be built. This was not news to us. Almost two years and $1,500 ago, Dr. DeGroot's report stated the exact problem. The city had taken two years longer and spent $76,000 with no action yet. • The West Park-Forest Ridge Homeowner's Association met with Dennis Long, Ralph Bohlmann, newly elected Mayor Musial and some members of City Council on November 11, 1997. The purpose was to explain the possible phases (I and II) of the project and the timeframe. We were promised a completion date for at least Phase I in the summer of 1998. • Now it is June, the summer of 1998. Phase I still has not even gone out to bid to construction contractors. The bid process was approved by City Council March 3, 1998. The cost of the project is over $1 million. We ask Mr. Bohlmann after each City Council meeting about the progress. May 6 meeting--Mr. Bohlmann revealed that there was an engineering problem they discovered. It was corrected, it added another $10,000 to the project, and the bid would be out in the next week or two. 8 ~,.., ,. -r,~