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Council Minutes of 9/17/20(12 Councilman Miller, chairperson of the Intra-Governmental Relations and Legislation; Long-Range Planning Committee: 1) The committee met at 7:15 p.m. this evening to discuss Ordinance 2002-126, a recently passed ordinance requesting that the city recognize September 11 as Safety Forces Appreciation Day. The meeting was held at the request of Mr. Limpert who made a presentation. His concerns were that he is not sure that 9/11 will be our greatest day in our war on terror and questioned whether we should use this date. He believes we should honor our safety forces more in the way we do as Pearl Harbor Day, through various proclamations and resolutions. He feels that we will do safety forces more honor if we honor them individually each year as opposed to making along-range, permanern resolution honoring the forces on September 11. It was pointed out that this purpose was meant to honor safety forces, not to be a major holiday in the form of Fourth of July, Labor Day, Memorial Day, etc. Mr. Limpert wanted to make sure that we continue to recognize our safety forces on a yearly basis. Section 1 in the ordinance that was passed does that. In an attempt to make swe that Mr. Limpert's concerns were addressed, the committee, and alt others present, agreed that probably the best way to do this would be to ask the Clerk to prepare the appropriate resolution recognizing appreciation for our safety forces each year and submit it for review by the Law Department. The committee agreed that would be the best way to handle the issue. Mr. Limpert requested, in lieu of reading his letter and information to Council, that it be included in the record. (Please see attachment.) AUDIENCE PARTICIPATION William Kelley, 4161 Carnerbury Road, said he is a member of the Parks and Recreation Commission. He was appointed by Council, and he takes that appoirnment seriously and thinks everyone else should. He warned it to be noted that Council's appointee was eligible and able to make it to those meetings. John Davis, 5862 Barton Road, spoke about the need for sidewalks on Bradley Road. He has spoken on this topic at other times and is very concerned about the safety of people who walk or ride their bikes on this road, especially children. On May 8, he was assured that this project was going to be done and that the Metroparks was bringing their bike path all the way to the gun club. The city would then bring the sidewalks up from Barton and Bradley to the end of the gun club. Mayor Musial said he has looked into this situation and found that it is a little bit more complicated than what was presented to him-it is more than just laying the sidewalk. There are items to be moved, ditches to be covered up, pipes to be laid, boundary lines to be secured and some potential easements that may be required. Mr. Davis requested that the Mayor speak to the Metroparks to see if they could begin their portion of the project as that area is a real problem, especially in the wet weather it becomes a swampy area that is not passable. Mr. Miller noted that where the Metroparks path ends there is a large circle of asphalt used as aturn-around for bicyclists. It would seem reasonable to extend the path all the way up as far as the Metroparks can go and put in aturn-around at the end of their property line. Mr. Davis agreed that would be a good idea. g^A"~^ • hf ~ 9