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Council Minutes of 9/3/2002 ,,~. elderly driver. He has used this process, and it works well. Also, he is concerned ' about asking elderly people to routinely get their licenses renewed and making them pay for it. Taxing an elderly person who is on a fixed income concerns him. Don Pangrac, 23470 Sharon Drive. He wondered if Canterbury Road was a county road. If so, the speed limit should be 35 mph rather than 25 mph and asked that this be looked into. City Engineer Deichmann said Canterbury Road north of Lorain is a county road. (President O'Grady requested that the Mayor ask the Traffic Engineer to confirm the status of north Canterbury Road and whether the speed limit should be changed. The matter can then be referred to the Public Safety Committee.) Questioned whether the Mayor had spoken to the mayor of Avon Lake regazding water. Mayor Musial said he had not met with him yet, but he did get a communication from Mayor Hill of North Ridgeville. Mr. Pangrac said he got a $331 water bill; his sister-in-law had a $403 bill. He is really disturbed about paying this much money for a quarter's worth of water. (The Mayor noted that the bills do include costs for water and sewers.) Mr. Pangrac feels the city needs to do something about the high cost of water. Our property taxes are going to be going sky high as the state has adjusted the Homestead Exemption and is considering taking away rollbacks. Also, in 2003 there will be a re-evaluation, and in 2006 appraisals are done. It doesn't look very promising for people in this community who aze on fixed incomes. Jim Dolance, 5968 Forest Ridge Drive, answered Mr. Lambert's comments regarding costs of renewing licenses. He is not asking for anybody to pay additional costs because they are of a certain age, but that the driver's test be given every two years instead of every four years. The fee should be cut in half. As far as any voluntary form, the key is voluntary and there is no state law that says it must be done. The problem is people do not want to take the privilege of driving away from elderly relatives. In his case, it took the death of his son to get him involved. He was unaware, as many people aze, of this problem. He is asking the state look at the issue, and he doesn't care where they start with the age. But elderly people do have impairments that younger people do not have. There are a lot of drunk drivers on the road it is their choice to drive. People who have Alzheimer's or dementia do not have that choice. Start the program at any age. But there is a good percentage of older people that can be prevented from killing themselves and other people. That's what he wants the state to look at. Susan Takacs, 27b60 Laurell Lane, lives where the street lamp was just installed. She does not appreciate the mounds of dirt that were left. Since the light was installed, the cracks in her driveway apron are worse and she would like to know what can be done about that. Mayor Musial said she should contact Mr. Deichmann who will have that reviewed by an inspector. Typically, photographs and movies aze taken of the sidewalks, curbs and aprons before work is done to be sure the cracks were not there beforehand. Mrs. Takacs said hopefully they will fix the tree lawn before spring because her property has a 230 foot frontage and there are three lamps on the property. She noted that Laurell Lane has a lot of chuckholes which cause damage to residents' vehicles. 12