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Council Minutes of 9!3/2002 nobody has put BTI on those. This ought to be somebody's responsibility. Spraying is being done for the adult mosquitoes, but what should be done is preventing the larvae from hatching. Also, he believes the catch basins are a problem as water accumulates in the bottom low spaces. A handful of BTI in the catch basins would prevent the mosquitoes from hatching. Somebody should take the responsibility of treating the ditches and the catch basins. He is concerned about the wetlands being created as part of the Crocker/Steams project as he believes it will be a public nuisance. His plea to Council is to not pay the EPA to create a public nuisance between here and Westlake in the form of a mosquito hatchery. Mrs. Kasler said it was her understanding that, when Council voted to put the money aside, it was to pay an invoice that was given to the city. That was done with the caveat that the city was checking into whether or not this was a wise thing to do. There is investigation going on right now about that very issue-it's not a given at this point-everyone is concerned about the same thing. Mr. Crabs said the city shouldn't fund the wetlands. If the "mosquito hatchery" goes with the highway, put the highway somewhere else-we don't want it. Mel Leeb, 27681 Lauren Lane, said he, his wife and Sue and Mike Takacs discussed their neighborhood situation with Mr. Miller during Homecoming. The next day Councilman Miller came out and reviewed the area. This evening, he found that the light which had been sitting unhooked up for almost six months had been hooked up today. Thank you to Mr. Miller for his efforts. In the past three weeks, he and Sue Takacs have gone door to door in the Lauren Woods area and talked to about 60 residerns. They sent a petition to the Mayor with photographs. The basic feeling was many of them had called City Hall many times regarding the tree lawns. They understand that the contractor did go bust, but can they get some type of ballpark time frame when they can expect the tree lawns and possibly Lauren Lane to be repaired? Law Director Dubellco said the matter had been turned over to the Law Department. He initially hoped that the contractor would have made the repairs by the end of August, but it didn't work out that way. They followed every procedure in the bond, and then they got into "quibbling" between lawyers as to who was ultimately going to do it--a contractor hired by the surety or contractor hired by the city. His goal is to get the issue out of the Law Department and have a contractor doing the work in September. Dennis Lambert, 25057 Carey Lane. • He believes people have a right to a smooth, good operating government and feels that official meetings need to be recorded and reported on. As to the legal opinion on the duties of the President of Council, those duties are in the Charter. He has come up to Council many times about the need to codify the Rules of Council and believes the codification of the Rules of Council will make for good government through good structure. Regarding the resolution on elderly drivers, to predict what a driver can or cannot do and to place an age on it is going to be a very difficult task. He is neither for or against the resolution. He is just asking Council to take caution in what they recommend people to do based upon their perceptions. There is a process in place at the state level that allows concerned family members to request an evaluation of an 11