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Council Minutes of 5/8/2002 ~ Jackie Chavez-Anderson, 5324 Berkshire Drive, the Activities Coordinator at the Senior Center, invited Council to attend a Progressive Senior Center Day on May 29. The senior centers of Rocky River, Westlake, Bay Village and North Olmsted are cooperating on a special day when they will open their doors to allow people to visit their centers and see what is available in neighboring communities. The North Olmsted Senior Center will participate from 11 a.m. until 12:30 p.m. There will be snacks, prizes and an organ grinder with his monkey for entertainment. She extended an invitation to Council to visit our senior center and, if possible, all the senior centers to see what facilities and programs are available at ow neighboring cities. John Davis, 58b2 Barton Road, attended the February 19s' Council meeting and had asked about getting sidewalks on Bradley Road, at least on one side of the road. He has heard from some Council members about this issue and wondered about the status and would like to see something in writing. Mayor Musial answered that the request has been very seriously considered and it's presemly going to occur within the normal course of the business of the city of North Olmsted. Service Director Thomas came forward and noted that Mr. Davis had asked for something in writing, but he felt that his comments might suffice. Part of the problem is the all-purpose trail from the Metroparks stops at about our city boundaries. He has contacted the Metroparks, and they have agreed to cooperate with us and extend their all-purpose trail as we bring down our sidewalks to that point. They have the monies to do the trail, and the city is coordinating it. We have actually started working on designing where the sidewalks will be laid out. Also, we have already discussed doing the sidewalk work in-house (no assessmems to property owners) as the amount of sidewalks will be reduced since the Metroparks has agreed to extend their all-purpose trail. The sidewalks will run to Barton to just past the gun club where the Metroparks property begins. He hopes to have this project completed before school starts. Doug Sebring, Assistant Superintendent of the North Olmsted Schools, came to speak about a school issue but is happy to hear about the sidewalks on Bradley Road as he runs in that area and it will be nice to have an all-weather path there. Dr. Sebring said he wished to thank Council and the city administration for allowing school resource officers to serve the children of North Olmsted. Last week, the high school received a bomb threat and the resource officers, Gordon Goodman and Jim Carbone, were very helpful. They helped the administrators to immediately take proper action and have good immediate communication with the Police Department. Once the bomb squad arrived, the officers were able to explain the layout of the building, the distances between walls and the kinds of irrterior structures that the bomb squad needed to know in case they were unfortunate enough to find that a real device had been left. The school resource program, which was started in 199b, has served the students well and has helped tremendously in building better rapport with the kidsr-as was poignantly noted last Friday. After the incident was over, the officers were able to speak with the students who had ridden bicycles to school-that was the area where the suspect suitcase was left-and the rapport with the children was immediately apparent. Children do not have the apprehension about talking to police officers because they have seen these gentlemen in the schools since fifth grade with Officer Adamson and the DARE program. On behalf 6