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Council Minutes of 12/7/1999 support for it. He does not believe that the leadership is opposed to it. It is just how it is ,~ going to get done that has to be ironed out. Mr. Miller responded to Mr. Lambert's observation that the city is more affected by fan- out than direct fly-overs by saying we do get direct fly-overs from the east/west runway which parallels Brookpark Road. Mr. McKay said the airport had recently decided to do an even Larger fan-out. The planes take off at about half of the runway and they make a right turn coming directly over North Olmsted. He can sit in his back yard and watch as planes take off one right after another. They are affecting North Olmsted. Lundrum & Brown did a noise study, which was on the other corridors that went over Olmsted Falls. When he approached them on North Olmsted, they said we don't get enough planes over North Olmsted, we don't get them 8 hours a day or every 15 minutes and the noise does not reach 65 decibels. However, when a resident calls him from Burns Road and he can hear the airplane through the telephone, he believes that does qualify. Mr. Lambert said he had not meant to indicate that we didn't get any of that. He is just saying we are fortunate because that east/west runway is a short runway and it's usually a runway that is used occasionally. The north/south runway is the one where they come and go routinely from. He has stood on Claque Road and the gas stations up between Claque and Columbia north of Lorain and heard more noise than at the end of some of these runways because that fan-out is when they accelerate. And they decelerate coming right down over Wagar Road. His wife made an interesting observation when she tied the accidents happening along Lewis Road (people sliding off the road) to the dumping of fuel in that area. Mr. McKay noted that he can see the fuel on the leaves of the trees in his front yard. Rae Ann Thomas, 24001 Frank Street, noted that two letters were written to the attention of Council Clerk Barbara Seman, December 2 and December 7, regarding the skateboard park. She wanted to know the process to have them read. Mrs. Saringer said that Council had received copies of the letters and had read them. (The Clerk asked Council President Saringer for permission to respond, and it was granted.) The Clerk said the letter dated December 7 had been delivered to her by Mrs. Creadon's daughter. Because this seemed odd as it was addressed to her, she called the author of the letter and was told she had sent it to Mrs. Creadon to ask if she thought it was proper to send to City Council. She was awaiting Mrs. Creadon's response. The author told the Clerk it would be all right to copy the letter to Council. Mrs. Thomas said there was another letter written by Barbara Meder and asked why that letter had not been read. The Clerk said that the author had not requested it be read, and so she had made copies for all of Council. She had read two letters at the previous Council meeting because the writers had requested the letters be read. That is the policy: If a writer requests that a letter be read, it is; if there is no request for reading at the Council meeting, the letter is copied to Council. Mrs. Thomas asked permission to read the December 2 letter, and President Saringer agreed: "Dear Council Members, at the November 16, 1999, City Council meeting, a resident commented that he was not opposed to a skatepark for the city, but that tennis and basketball courts were also needed. I am an avid tennis player and am certainly in favor of tennis courts for our city, but why should they or basketball courts be considered 10