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Council Minutes of 3/16/99 3) The Finance Committee met on March 11. Present were committee members O'Grady, Kasler and Limpert; Council members McKay, Gareau and Miller; directors of Finance, Service, Safety, Human Resources, Personnel & Administration. On this date, the committee reviewed the appropriations for the Human Resources and Personnel departments. 4) The Finance Committee met on Saturday, March 13. Present were committee members O'Grady, Limpert and Kasler; Council member Gareau; Mayor Musial; directors of Service, Safety and Finance; Len Strnad from Springvale. Reviewed that day were the Springvale accounts and the Recreation Center accounts. Due to a few questions regarding the Recreation Center, that portion of the discussion was put on hold until a later date when the Recreation Commissioner could be present. 5) The committee met again today, March 16. Present were committee members O'Grady, Kasler and Limpert; Council members Nashar, McKay, Miller and Gareau; directors of Finance, Service, Safety; Recreation Commissioner Todd Morgan; Dennis Long, Bob Nichols and Barry Boehnlein from the Wastewater Treatment Plant. The committee discussed the Wastewater Treatment Plant and final questions with regard to the Recreation facility. A complete and final report will be given at the next Council meeting by which time appropriations should be completed. Mr. Gareau, Chairperson of the Building, Zoning and Development Committee: 1) The committee met on Tuesday, March 9. Present were committee members McKay, Miller and Gareau; Councilpersons Nashar, Kasler, Limpert and O'Grady; Assistant City Engineer McDermott; Assistant Building Commissioner Rymarczyk; several residents from Dewey Road; representatives from Bennett-Dover Remodelers. There were four items on the agenda: • Suburban Auto Body, 26618 Brookpark Road extension, a proposal consisting of renovating the front and side of the building with a new entrance and drive-through estimation bay, along with redesigning the parking lot and landscaping. Representing Suburban Auto Body were Rebecca Weisenthal of Bennett-Dover Home Remodelers and Angelo Padotto, the owner/operator of Suburban Auto Body. The proposal consists of exterior renovations consisting of building materials of split face block, with bronze and aluminum frame windows, standing seam roof and repainting of the building. There are also some landscape modifications to the plans as were demonstrated on the elevations presented. The reason for the renovations as detailed by representatives from Suburban was to allow customers to drive through the building to have estimators look at their vehicles as opposed to simply doing the estimations out in the parking lot where sometimes the elements could become an issue. It was also explained that the proposal addressed some serious overcrowding issues that they have on site as well as limit the interaction of pedestrians and employees with traffic in the parking lot. An issue arose causing some discussion by members of the committee concerning the use of a neon sign-a bright blue neon sign located on the southernmost portion of the building, the front which faces Lorain Road. The sign itself would be interior behind glass and consist of a blue neon tube lighting. There was some discussion and concern by the committee as to whether or ~` not the city in the past has allowed the use of neon lighting for purposes of signage. 4 __. ,.,_ .,_......., ~r r ...F....a.,, ~x~,-~