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Council Minutes of 12/21/1999 • NOMBL has procured a 6.7 acre site titled to the city in the industrial park area for the garage. The land will be leased to RTA, and RTA will lease the building back to the city. (The current garage holds approximately 8 buses, and the new garage will house approximately 60 buses.) • The city and RTA will work jointly to find an area in central North Olmsted for a new park-and-ride to replace the currently leased lot at Great Northern Shopping Center which is at over-capacity and has a limited lease time remaining. The committee unanimously recommended approval of the ordinance. 2) At the last Council meeting, Mayor Musial indicated concerns about the airport and possibly relocating it. After discussions with various people, he would like to point out that we need to consider the positive impacts of the airport in addition to the negative impacts. The positives include North Olmsted residents who work at the airport as ticket agents, baggage handlers, mechanics, drivers, flight attendants or crew. There are also businesses in our community (restaurants, hotels, entertainment facilities including the golf course) that benefit from the airport being in this vicinity. Moving the airport approximately 50 miles away would likely result in these people either being unemployed or needing to relocate. We need to keep those considerations in mind before we start talking about moving the airport. Mrs. Kasler, chairperson of the Recreation, Public Parks & Buildings Committee: 1) The committee met jointly with the Finance Committee on December 14. Present were all members of Council, the Mayor, Safety Director, Service Director, Finance Director and City Engineer. The committee discussed Ordinance 99-163 which authorizes the Service Director to advertise for bids for the construction and installation of ADA facilities at Springvale. Council was informed that this project must be completed at the end of 2000 in order for the city receive the CDBG grant portion of the funding which is $96,000. Plans were shown regarding the outside attachment facility to the present ballroom, which plans include a wheelchair lift. The entire project preliminary estimate is approximately $271,000. However, it may need to be modified in order to stay within the budget that has been provided. Questions and concerns were raised by Council regarding the proposed location of these facilities. It is the opinion of the Service Director that the planned location is one which would be preserved and remain intact should there be any other renovations to the existing facility. The ordinance was unanimously recommended by Council. Mr. Limpert, member of the Recreation Committee attended the Recreation Commission meeting on behalf of Mrs. Kasler and made the following report: 1) The commission met on December 13 and, although a quorum was not present, several issues were discussed: • The Coke agreement and the rationale behind it. • Representatives from Community Council were in attendance to discuss the donation of a shelter at North Olmsted Park. The shelter will be approximately 4,400 square feet and will have a fireplace. Three locations were discussed: at the northeast corner of the park near the wooded area; the west side of the park at the "'~' north portion along by the football field area; south of the road that divides the park ~.~ 4 ..~