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Council Minutes of 11/16/1999 Fund in a city contract, which should address the funding obligations of the city as opposed to funding a special project. We have all agreed that this special project is not to be funded through General Fund money. Even more simply, she would like for the question to be posed to Coca-Cola that the entire amount of the contract, and all benefits and revenues derived, be placed in General Fund areas for use in fulfilling our tremendous financial obligations to this city, city sponsored programs and to the residents of this city. Many of the funds are being directed toward recreation and, as everyone heard earlier in her report, there are lists of items that need to be addressed in recreation, and she only read about ten items, there are two pages. So we have a tremendous obligation in that regard. Finally, she believes that this ordinance should receive further review by this Council and a meeting properly held for that purpose. At the Finance Committee meeting to which she is dissenting, chairman O'Grady requested that a member of the administration refrain from responding to a fellow Councilman's request for information about this contract thereby, it is her belief, compromising the representative and open process for such a meeting. She requests that it be reconsidered. Mr. O'Grady said he wished to point out that he had suggested a compromise whereby the ordinances could be held in committee to discuss the possibility of removing the $25,000 donation from the contract. The compromise was not accepted. Also, he disagrees with Councilwoman's characterization of his handling of the meeting. Mr. Gareau, chairperson of the Building, Zoning and Development Committee: 1) The committee met on Monday, November 15. Present were committee members Miller and Gareau; Council members O'Grady and Kasler; Assistant City Engineer Griffith; Assistant Building Commissioner Rymarczyk; the owner of Aetna Door and representatives from Planning Commission referrals. Agenda items were as follows: • Q-Panel Company proposal consisting of the Cypress Avenue extension on the west end of town. Representing Q-Panel were Gary Simecek and engineer Bob Pappoto. This matter was discussed at a recent Council meeting when an authorization was given to the Mayor to enter into an agreement with the City of North Ridgeville concerning this Cypress Avenue extension. The proposal itself calls for the creation of Cypress Avenue on Lorain Road immediately adjacent to the county line and the city border with North Ridgeville. Once completed, the project will open a retail center and a commercial corridor from Lorain Road to Lear Nagle Road in North Ridgeville and will come out immediately adjacent to the county border. It should be noted that the committee and Council members individually were concerned with the proximity of the road in relation to the existing driveway of Aetna Door. There was some discussion had at the last Council meeting concerning those exact issues. There would be approximately 30 feet of distance which would potentially hinder ingress and egress to the lot by 18-wheel trucks. Normal construction in North Olmsted would require a driveway to be located no closer than 100 feet to an existing roadway. But here, there will be only 30 feet and not 100 feet. That was a concern of the committee. The committee agreed that a possible solution to this issues lies in the creation of a driveway for Aetna Door on Cypress Avenue to allow access from Cypress to the Aetna Door lot. However, there were several practical difficulties that 6