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Council Minutes of 6/5/2001 Dennis Lambert, 25057 Carey Lane. • He was very surprised to see an ordinance on the agenda regarding the Charter. He related the opportunity for change to his own life where he has recently made a job change after thirty-three years. He asked that everyone not be afraid of change. Because in many respects change is good. It's best. It's tough to get away from the emotion, but sometimes we have to use our head and our minds and look beyond ourselves to what's best for this community. Patricia Deis, 26893 Sweetbrier. • She would like to correct a wrong impression. The work that the residents of Sweetbrier have done, the intense scrutiny of their street by assorted Council members who have come to see for themselves the problems that exist there, the effort on their behalf to provide for their neighborhood children a safe zone for walking has never been one of convenience-it's always been a matter of safety. Convenience keeps coming up, but she must remind everyone that it's the convenience of the parents who drop their children off after they had been asked by the school not to do so, by the school board administration not to do so, by Mayor Musial not to do so, by a City Council not to do so. A policeman has to be on Sweetbrier to enforce the people from breaking the present ordinances. If the parents were not on the street dropping off and picking up children, the children would not be in danger. This is caused strictly by parents who do not want to be inconvenienced by the traffic congestion that is at Pine School. This safety issue is not made by the residents of Sweetbrier. The dangers to the children of Sweetbrier are caused solely by the parents who drop their children off on Sweetbrier rather than taking them to the school. To change the ordinance to read no parking during certain times is just a smoke screen that's being thrown up as a protest over a very sensible, reasonable solution. It adds an extra layer of protection for the children, and it also adds and restores some normalcy of the everyday life of the people who live on Sweetbrier. She would suggest most urgently that this ordinance be passed by Council tonight and that they do consider the reasonableness of this. She has not seen children leaving to go to lunch. Mr. Miller and Ms. Kesler have been there before and after schoo)-they have been there many times. They've walked the neighborhood, talked to the residents of Sweetbrier, and they're aware of the lack of people parking on this street. The only time there is a parking problem is when the parents who do not live there drop their children off and pick them up. If that were not happening, this ordinance would not be necessary. Sandy Weir, 26869 Sweetbrier • As for Mrs. Fox's comment about children going home at hwch time, she worked for fourteen years at hwch time at Pine School, and the only way a child could go home for lunch was if the parent came and picked up the child in the office. They do not allow any child to just walk out and say they are going home for hznch. That has never happened. Also, Mrs. Fox's comments about the Sweetbrier residents trying to extend the parking ban is not true. After the last meeting, she and Mrs. Deis spoke to Mrs. Fox and another resident about this issue and said that, if they and other parents did not behave and leave room for people to get in and out of their driveways, the 7 _. I