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Council Minutes of 5/15/2001 Currently at the Rec Center, we have two sets of double doors on either side entering the building. The doors are not in ADA compliance and with the passage of this legislation and the completion of this project the entrance doors of the Rec Center will be ADA compliant. The committee unanimously recommended approval. • Resolution 2001-65, a resolution authorizing the I?irector of Public Service to advertise for bids to repair the roof over the tennis courts at the North Olmsted Rec Center of the City of North Olmsted as detailed in the specs on file and authorizing the Mayor to contract for the same and declaring an emergency. This project will involve placing a new skin over the roof. It will not be a full tear-off as done with the pool and the ice skating center. The committee unanimously recommended approval and passage under suspension of the rule. • Ordinance 2001-67, an ordinance authorizing the City of North Olmsted to enter into an agreement with WTW Architects to provide design services for club house, kitchen and roof improvements at Springvale Golf Course and declaring an emergency. This project will be funded from the 2001 loans that have been authorized previously. The committee unanimously recommended approval and passage under suspension of the rule. Councilman O'Grady, chairperson of the Public Safety, Health & Welfare Committee: 1) The Safety Committee meeting was held on May 7. Present were Chairman O'Grady, and members Kesler and Limpert; Council Members Dailey, McKay, Saringer, Miller and Nashar; Safety I}irector Jenkins, Traffic Engineer Crriffith and residents. The committee discussed Ordinance 2001-55, an ordinance amending the traffic control file of the City of North Olmsted by relocating and modifying the language upon the two "No Parking, Stopping or Standing" signs on the south side of Sweetbrier Drive at 26821 and 26893 Sweetbrier Drive and declaring an emergency. To begin the discussion at the meeting, Mr. O'Grady offered the opinion that this perhaps is an issue of placing the convenience of a few ahead of the safety of a great many. This ordinance in effect does widen the zone where there is no parking, standing or stopping, but then completely eliminates the time where that applies other than when students are going to school and coming home from school. It means that automobiles can park immediately adjacent to a crosswalk used by children any time of the day during the weekday other than the beginning of school and end school hours and any time on the weekends and all summer long. Mrs. Kesler, who is the sponsor of the ordinance, commented that the ordinance is not for convenience it is for safety. It widens the zone and moves the signs. Mr. Griffith, the Traffic Engineer, commented that it's up to Council to make a determination of what is reasonable. Is the size of the zone that's being proposed by this ordinance needed to protect children? What hours are appropriate, does this ordinance in fact make the zone more dangerous? Those were questions that Council had to address. In the State of Ohio, cars must be back 20 feet if a crosswalk is near an intersection or on an intersection. If a crosswalk is midway down the street, as this one is, a car may park immediately adjacent to the crosswalk as long as the front bumper or rear bumper does not cross over the line of the crosswalk itself. Resident Mrs. Weir commented that this ordinance should be as it is written for the hours when the students are coming and going from school only. Mrs. Kesler asked if the police chief had given a decision or his opinion on what is prudent with regard to hours. Mr. Jenkins responded that he has no 3