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Council Minutes of 2/4/2003 down the scale and begin sound insulation work on those homes which now reach down to a level of 60 decibels. The bad news for the City of North Olmsted is that even dropping down to the 60 decibel level barely gets into our community. Only a small portion of the community would be within that range, and those would be homes along Mastick Road in the southeastern portion of Ward IV. He will provide Councilman McKay with the map of the affected areas. Also, there is an updated manual that has been forwarded to North Olmsted by the Dept. of Port Control that goes into great depth and detail on the determination of these ranges, and that is available and will be available in the Clerk of Council's office. Councilman McKay said he had attended numerous meetings regarding airport noise. He was very concerned about the noise levels in North Olmsted. Early on, applications for sound insulation work were sent out to homes on Mastick and Columbia roads. He filled out an application and, after more than a year and a half, was turned down. He later received another letter telling him that only five house in North Olmsted located near the valley were affected and within the 60 decibel range. He did take applications to those residents, but he is not aware if they did apply for the funds. He attended a protest meeting in Olmsted Falls held with the FAA, and he explained that they could not solve their problem in Olmsted Falls by sending the traffic over another city. Councilman McKay, chairperson of the Finance Committee: 1) The Finance Committee met on Tuesday, January 28. Present were committee members Limpert and McKay; Councilpersons Gareau, Nashar and Miller; Council President O'Grady; Mayor Musial, Law Director Dubelko, Finance Director Copfer, Service Director Creadon. The following items were discussed: Resolution 2003-8, which is a resolution authorizing the Director of Public Service to make emergency purchase of road salt to supplement the existing contract for the purchase of road salt for use on city streets without public bidding and declaring an emergency. The city has a contract with Cargill De-icing Technologies to supply our road salt. However, when salt is in great demand, Cargill has a time lapse in getting us salt. In order to get our salt on time, we have contacted Morton International and they have proposed to supply the city with salt on an as-needed basis and the price of the salt remains the same as we were purchasing from Cargill. The committee recommended approval. Bids from H. R. Gray & Associates for the library, which includes bid packages, supplemental bidder information and bidders' references. The recommended amount, $5,775,773, is what Council had previously approved. However, the new request for approval is a $500,000 contingency fund and this would bring the total up to $6.3 million. Akeady spent is demolition for $147,000, construction fence of $20,000 and a sign for $800. Council must approve the increase to this project or some of the proposals will have to be cut out. Due to the committee's lack of time to make a complete review of the bids, no action was taken. Each Councilperson was advised that, if this legislation was proposed for passage under suspension of the rules, to vote their own conscience because they would need time to go through the proposal. The 7