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Council Minutes of 11/3/2004 Cedar Point Road bridge, he believes a walking path should be included in the plans. He Rx took pictures of this area which he studied and determined the cheapest way to put a walking path in is to put it on the south side of the street just off the street. Probably an asphalt overlaid on gravel would be fine. If the bridge is to be replaced, he hopes the concept of building a sidewalk on one side that's more than just an edge off the road is kept in mind. Perhaps this could be connected to a walkway that will take the people up the hill safely. He goes up and down the hill everyday and knows it is a safety issue. Charles Dial, 27959 Gardenia, said some of the savings are a little more illusory than what would appear with regard to health savings accounts. People who have health savings accounts obviously want to get the money out of them at the end of the period. That gives them considerable incentive not to seek medical care they might possibly need. Regarding the NOMBL situation and NOMBL losing money on all of its lines, now that we are in a period of permanently higher fuel prices, that probably is going to encourage more NOMBL ridership before long and that will probably help with the problem. He recently attended a public records seminar put on by the Auditor of State jointly sponsored by the Plain Dealer. North Olmsted got some pretty good marks from the lawyer who presented the program in terms of the way we are keeping the audio transcripts for various meetings. The best possible way to maintain those public records is an audio transcript along with probably a video tape recording. He had occasion to ask for a copy of a Finance Committee tape and found it difficult to understand. He had to do some pretty high tech filtering on the tape in order to have some of the voices on it even intelligible. Mayor Musial commented that he hoped he had not given the impression that NOMBL was the only bus line that is losing money. Every line being operated by RTA is losing money. Only 20% of their monies comes from their fare box. The rest is subsidized by the federal and state govenunents. Service Director Driscoll came forward to speak about the leaf pick-up. The cost to the city is approximately a hundred and eighty thousand dollars for the year. That price includes both the leaf pick-up and the cost for maintaining the leaf dump site. It also includes the mulching and the turning of the leaves. The city uses about 20% of those leaves, and the price includes removing the other 80% of the leaves from that dump site for use elsewhere. All that has a value. He has been out this week observing the crews who are working in every zone and has been very satisfied with what he has seen. We do verify that they do make three passes through the city. Some of the passes may go faster because of timing with the way the leaves fall. Right now the leaves are falling quite well, and the crews are picking up heavy amounts of leaves. Paul Kohler, 4420 Clague Road, commented that, since the opening of Clague and Lorain, a lot more trucks (over 5 tons) are coming down the road. In the morning and evening, there is traffic backed up from north to south all the way up from light to light. Residents cannot get out of their driveways. Also, there has been an increase in accidents. Another problem, last week, the area had brown water. It seems that nothing is being done on Clague Road. ,, 9