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Council Minutes of 4/20/2004 doing a little bit of everything with their trash. One resident is housebound, and her ' trash is in her apartment at all times. It has been 69 days since he officially notified the city that there was no trash service. He is glad action is being taken and hopes the landlord is fined aggressively as it has been 69 days since he notified the Service Department of this problem. Mr. Fannin acknowledged that Councilman Gareau had sent him documents regarding rent escrow and a meeting to be presented by the Fair Housing Board. He and his wife have already started the proceedings for a rent escrow. He does not believe this issue involves a fair housing case. Mr. Gareau explained that the presentation will include a discussion of the landlord/tenant law which may be of help to the residents. Mr. Fannin said he believed the best forum for this situation would have been if initially the city had begun to take action. Nicole Dailey Jones, 30827 Windy Hollow Lane, chairperson of the Fair Housing Review Board. The Fair Housing Review Board will be holding a presentation which will be given by the Cleveland tenant's organization and by housing advocates. The issues that will be covered at that presentation are Ohio's landlord-tenant act. Also, North Olmsted's Fair Housing Code will be discussed and the public will be informed on how to protect themselves from housing discrimination and predatory lending. All citizens of North Olmsted are encouraged to attend the presentations on April 27 from 2 until 3 p.m. in Council Chambers and on Apri128 7 to 8 p.m. at the North Olmsted Senior Center. Michael Jablonski, 25149 Lessner. He read in the paper that there is a new person in charge of maintenance and code enforcement. He wanted to suggest, prior to this person going out and making inspections, that possibly cone-page flyer with the pertinent codes that are most prominently violated in the city go to every homeowner. He has had damage to his property and automobile, and he feels it is because he has been vocal in his neighborhood about code violations. He is very concerned about his neighborhood and feels there has been a deterioration in the esthetics of the city overall. Mr. Jablonski's comments began a lengthy conversation about property maintenance issues. The city has been without a property maintenance inspector for more than a year even though funding for the position was appropriated by Council almost a year ago. Anew inspector was hired last Monday, and 50 percent of his time will be spent on property maintenance issues. Because the city works on a complaint basis, it was suggested to Mr. Jablonski that he call his Ward Councilman or any of the three at-large Council members and they wilt submit his complaints. In that way, he will not be personally involved. The Council members are happy to do this for their constituents. It was explained that several Council members are planning to form asub-committee to address property maintenance issues: how it is approached, how the code reads, how the enforceability reads, the funding issues that come along with that and how this whole concept is going to be approached. With regard to the notification of every homeowner, using the city website and cable channel was suggested as a less expensive and quicker way to notify residents of the pertinent codes regarding property maintenance. Jim Burns, vice-president of Friends of the North Olmsted Library. The Friends would ~~; Iike to thank the city and residents for providing the Cuyahoga County Library system with an excellent facility. Thank you. 7