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Council Minutes of 8/20/2002 LETTERS AND COMMUNICATIONS The following letter was received from Victor and Linda Comgan: "Deaz Council Members, it has come to our attention that there aze efforts underway to repeal ordinance 311.03 (toys & vehicles in street) and 311.04 (games in street). My wife and I feel that this would be a grievous error in judgement and would compromise the safety of all residents on Jacqueline Lane. There are several families on Jacqueline Lane who do not supervise their adolescent children. At times the pazents are not even home leaving the children unattended and running rampant through the streets. The result has been several neaz accidents. Some examples are: ^ A child riding a tricycle into the side of my wife's moving vehicle. ^ Children laying in the street and not moving when a vehicle approaches. ^ Children on skateboards and bikes playing `chicken' with oncoming vehicles. ^ Twice I have had to stop my vehicle and verbally request the gang to move so I could enter my own driveway. We have tried, in vain, to reason with the pazents. Our only recourse has been to call the police. This has resulted in children screaming obscenities, obscene nonverbal gestures and vandalism of my mailbox. However, there have not been any accidents! I know this action is promulgated by two city employees (prosecutor O'Malley and police officer Scullin) who are residents of Jacqueline Lane. It is interesting that two employees who aze paid to enforce the law would rather revoke one! I sincerely hope that City Council will not compromise the safety of our children by eliminating an established law and our only recourse. If this ordinance is repealed the street will become an unsupervised playground saturated with belligerent children. In closing, we request that City Council does not change the existing ordinances. We would prefer the city be more diligent enforcing the existing ordinance which will inhibit accidents and unsupervised chaos." Law Director Dubelko noted he had eazlier in the meeting reported to Council that it is not the recommendation of the Law Department to repeal these ordinances which prohibit kids from playing in the streets, but instead to strengthen them by removing the exceptions for play streets. AUDIENCE PARTICIPATION Don Pangrac, 234'70 Shazon Drive spoke about several issues: 1. He is concerned about the transfers taking place to the Wastewater Treatment Plant. Water has been a pet project of his, and he hopes that this does not impact on the city water and sewer rates. He would like the city to explore the issue about adding the water rates to the property tax bill so that people who itemize would get a deduction on their federal taxes. 2. Asked if there has been any progress on North Olmsted buying water from Avon Lake. Mayor Musial said a meeting which had been scheduled with the mayor of Avon Lake had to be canceled, and he is trying to reschedule for the first week in September. 9