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Council Minutes of 8/5/03 „~,,, Mr. Miller asked the Mayor what his plan was to fill the numerous vacancies on the ,~„„ various boards and commissions. Mayor Musial said he had an interview scheduled on Friday for a vacant seat on the Landmarks Commission. He does have some applicants for the Cultural Arts Commission position. With regards to Planning Commission, there are two openings to be filled. PC chairperson Bob Koeth has recommended two people for those positions, and he and the Mayor will meet to discuss those individuals. With regards to the Fair Housing Committee, Mike Ubaldi and Don Copeland have agreed to join that committee; and he also hopes to appoint an American Indian and an Arab- America.n to provide for diversity. He will present those applicants as a package. On the Civil Service Commission, he is hoping to appoint another attorney because, when John Thomay's term ends, he cannot be re-appointed. He is continuing to look for a person to fill the ARB vacancy. Mr. Miller suggested that in the future perhaps the current person could be asked to remain until a replacement is found as there are just too many openings. Also, there are people who have submitted applications and are waiting. We owe them the respect to move along on this process. Councilman Nashar questioned the Mayor as to whether there was funding available for the culverting on south Canterbury Road, when the work would begin on the Bradley Road sidewalk project and when would the Metroparks be notified of the sidewalk project. Mayor Musial said the funds for the culverting are available in the current budget. The work will be done in-house. As to the sidewalk construction, the Metroparks has been notified and City Engineer Durbin said the project is supposed to be completed before school starts but he cannot give an exact date. Councilman Gareau said he was not aware the city was going to do culverting of ditches on south Canterbury. The city had a policy in place for a period of time to not culvert ditches unless the property owner contributed the cost of materials and the city provided the labor. He is aware of various areas of the city, W. 231 for example, where culverting was done and the residents did not have to contribute to the cost. However, residents in other areas, such as Gessner, were told they had to pay for materials. He believes the city should be consistent with its policy as residents are waiting to have this work done. We should have a fair policy that is applied to everyone. Mayor Musial said, with regard to Canterbury Road, that 90% of the length of that is property owned by the city. We will approach the 10%, one house, that is there. Councilman Limpert noted that the work on W. 231 made a dramatic difference of appearance on that street. He thinks the Mayor is soon going to release the Vision 2000 five-year plan, where the topic of culverting is mentioned. The thought is to every year take a street and just do it. We can still maintain the current policy for spot work when a resident definitely wants to get their ditch eliminated. If we would just take a street every year or two, eventually we would get the improvement done. City Engineer Durbin said in regard to south Canterbury Road, the plan is to come up along the golf course and put a storm sewer in there to drain that into a shallow ditch so as to have protection for our pavement. We will tie in a catch basin down at the golf course. There is an existing pipe that comes up there, then it becomes an open ditch, then ~"' it becomes landscaping. The ditch was cut originally to get water away from existing ~,