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Council Minutes of 11/19/2002 applicant prior to sitting in on the interviews or was it after some of the interviews that she decided to get involved? Mayor Musial said he believed she submitted the letter for consideration after some of the interviews. Eddie Lewis, 33976 Floraline Avenue, North Ridgeville, member of AFSCME Local 2681. He is one of the people who is going to be laid off. He left a great job at another community to come here to better himself. It is sad what happened. The people who are being laid off have good skills. The employees have promoted in-house work. They have worked on the Tennyson ditch and at Springvale. He was optimistic about doing in- house work as he felt the city was using attrition and not buying new equipment a.s cut- back measures. He prays for the firemen, good family people, who are not able to settle their contract. Also, the police who serve this community are excellent people. He does not want to see the layoffs go any further. The union gave a list for cost-saving to the administration. The administration blew it apart like Swiss cheese. He is asking them to reconsider the list. Hopes he can go home to his wife one day soon and say the nightmare is over. Don Pangrac, 23470 Sharon Drive: • Asked where Rockwynd development would be located, and Mr. Nashar answered that it is to be located at Columbia Road and Country Club Blvd., parallel to I-480. ^ Mr. Pangrac asked Mrs. Kasler, with regard to Rocky River Court, if we have apro- forma financial statement as to what this is going to mean to the city. Mrs. Kasler said we have information from the meeting held last week-people in attendance were those who have mayor's courts and people from the Rocky River Court. We don't have a figure of what this city would receive, but we could project out from the information that was gathered-how many tickets are issued, what kind of fines are established. If we had a mayor's court, we could establish our own fines and our court costs. Those things are yet to be decided. She is not sure a financial statement can be done at this point because we are still gathering information based on other cities. It would be an estimate and projected-it wouldn't be detailed. Mr. Pangrac said hopefully we will do that before the decision is made. • Regarding the geothermal unit at the library, what will happen if there is a problem 300 feet down. Mr. Nashar said the library would be responsible for the system once it is installed. Mr. McKay said that there is one piece of pipe that goes down and comes back up. If something goes wrong, the pipe is not pulled out. Anew hole will be drilled and the old pipe will be disconnected. ^ The left turn signal at Claque and Lorain roads has been changed. (Left turn on Claque heading north.) Only 3 or 4 cars can get through there. This is a problem. He doesn't know how this happened, but normally 5 or 6 cars could get through. ^ Asked the Mayor where we stand with our discussions with Avon regarding purchasing water. The Mayor said it is still pending. Mr. Pangrac said he is paying $28 for 1,000 cubic feet of water to the city and $38.58 for sewer tax, so his bill came to $262 for water and $69.46 for sewer, total $331.96. He finds that appalling that he should have to pay $331.96 for water when his cousin lives in Arizona and pays $60.50 for 1,000 cubit feet of water. Mayor Musial said the water bill are charges from Cleveland, and the sewer bill, based upon water usage, is utilized to 20