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Council Minutes of 8/19/2003 began doing business from their .current locations so that the time line for tax abatements can be determined Charles Dial, 27959 Gardenia, has noticed that the city recently put up a web-cam covering the progress on the new library. What was the cost? Mayor Musial said there is no cost to the city as the library is paying for it. Don Pangrac, 23470 Sharon Drive, ^ Asked if the city has an ordinance regarding go-karts and electric scooters? Youngsters are riding these vehicles in the middle of Sharon Drive at very busy traffic times during the day. Mrs. Kasler answered that she had occasion to talk to one of the police officers who recommended that we look into that. She has discussed with Mr. Dubelko the possibly of creating an ordinance similar to the ones regulating mopeds. With regard to safety issues, there are ordinances regulating that. President O'Grady suggested that Mr. Pangrac contact the police when he sees behavior that is unsafe. ^ The state recently passed a law regarding signage which will now have to be readable from 200 feet. In the past, he has talked about making the lettering larger on city signs. This will now have to be done. ^ He noted that he did not hear anything about Lorain County having problems with their water system during the recent electrical power outage. Had we pursued this years ago and tied into Lorain County, we would not have had a boil situation in this community. He hopes the city is moving forward on that issue. ^ Awhile ago, he asked the Law Director about placing a surcharge on work performed by the city for property owners who do not maintain their properties. Law Director Dubelko said he did not have a definitive answer and does not know that he can provide one. He has thought about it, and his gut feeling is that it can't be done. He has some due process concerns about it. If the city was in the grass cutting business and offered it as a service, certainly we could charge what anybody else could charge. But, if we do it as part of an enforcement of high grass violation of laws, then there are due process concerns in doing it at a profit. He believes that most probably whatever charge or whatever cost we charge has to have a correlation with our labor costs, etc. If he had to advise the city today, he would say don't do it and simply continue making sure that we cover our costs. When we act in a governmental capacity, he is fairly sure we can't act at a profit. It raises all kinds of concerns. When we act in a proprietary capacity, offering something that the private sector offers, then we could get into profit making. It was an interesting proposal, but he doesn't think it will go anywhere. Paul Barker, 23629 Carnage Lane, regarding cell tower revenue, asked if that isn't supposed to go toward parks and recreation. Mr. Limpert said he did not believe so. On an individual basis, that may have been done. For example, the tower at Claque Road went toward recreation. Mrs. Kasler agreed that each tower was done separately by ordinance. Mr. Miller noted the issue of the cul-de-sac on Root Road was discussed at the committee meeting. It's very possible that the company putting in the cell tower may be asked to put in the cul-de-sac. There are different thoughts out there as to what we 13