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Council Minutes of 6/6/2000 ,~_ not do something with the sewer system--it's antiquated, it's no good. After the sewers are fixed, move on to something else. Mayor Musial asked if Mr. Sammon had a flooding problem during the last rain and, if so, had he reported it to the Service Department. Mr. Sammon said he did have a flood recently and reported it to the Service Department. His driveway looks like a fountain every time it rains. The Service Department only tells him to jet it out. He has a 15 inch main going into the basin and there's a 36 inch main coming across the street. When that starts rolling, forget it. He's not going anywhere, and it just starts backing up. Should he tie into the sanitary? President Saringer said she could sympathize with Mr. Sammon and asked the Mayor to look into it. Mayor Musial said he would ask the Service Department to look into it. Mr. Sammon said he doesn't think the city should spend money on property until other properties are fixed. Tina Hadsell, 30840 Bradley Road • She has distributed to Council a flyer regarding the Bradley Road property. She has told the Mayor she is not opposed to ball diamonds. She wants an answer, and she wants the Mayor's plan. The recreation people are all excited because they think the ball diamonds are going to be put in, so they all rally around him. But he doesn't have a plan. He has a map that won't quite fit. He needs four pieces of property in order to do that. Two of the four people that she knows, besides the Farver property, aren't ready to move right now. And he is upsetting them to the point where they may never. Mayor Musial commented that he is not asking people to move, Mrs. Hadsell responded that green space and municipal purposes means that the city could do anything they want to. Can another set of Council people do something else? President Saringer said that was true. Mrs. Hadsell said that meant that no guarantees can be given to her and her neighbors and the recreation people cannot get guarantees that the ball fields will happen. She and her neighbors want to see a plan and be told what is happening. She is not against children. She is not against the city buying the Farver property if the Mayor had an idea of what he was doing with it. If she walked into the City Council and said she wanted to buy a piece of land and put a building on it, she would be asked for the plan. She couldn't put up a building without a plan. That is what she is asking. If City Council passes the ordinance, she hopes they search their hearts and find out what the plan is. She hasn't worked on this real hard yet, but she is going to one way or the other because she would like to know what is going to be done. She is not fighting the issue, she is not fighting ball diamonds, she is not fighting green space. But the Mayor can't guarantee her that he is going to save the green space. From the soccer people, she has heard it's going to be a parking lot. Then the road would have to be widened and sidewalks would have to be put in. She never heard of a $150,000 traffic light until she went to the last meeting. There is no projection of what it is going to cost this city to finish the Mayor's plan/vision. Please give her the vision. Mayor Musial responded that the vision is that in 20 to 25 years we are going to be out of green space in the city. It's important to look ahead to capture as much green space as possible. The immediate plan is to purchase this piece of property because it is part of the overall complex north of Bradley Road. The issue that comes up is that we are going to use eminent domain. Mrs. Hadsell said she never mentioned it. The city brought it up first. Mayor Musial said that issue has 17