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Council Minutes of 4/6/2004 • Hopes that everyone will take a close look at the regionalization issue. He believes it skirts accountability of county officials to do their job and it does generate a shifting of wealth from certain communities to other communities. Perhaps the problem with Cleveland is that it is too big, and a regional government will make it even bigger. Maybe they should go back to the old neighborhood concept, with the neighborhoods-for example, Brooklyn, Westpazk, and Collinwood-managing their own affairs. With regazd to Mr. Lambert's comments on the refuse problem being enforced by the Building Commissioner rather than the Service Director, the Law Director noted there are two sepazate codes and there is some overlap. The apartment license code is enforced by the Building Department. The department is short a property maintenance inspector, so there aze difficulties enforcing that. It's a more draconian provision, and it would provide for yanking a license and nobody could stay there. The refuse code is under the jurisdiction of the Service Director. It is a little less draconian and, given the city's manpower shortages and the nature of the problem, it is probably more appropriate to approach the problem that way. As to the Charter Review Commission, the Council does need to look at assigning the clerical functions for that commission. Chapter 109 was revised before the standing Charter Review Commission was put into place, so that will need to be updated. On the new carrying concealed weapons statute, the police obviously can enforce the state code even in the absence of local ordinance provisions. Typically, the city's codification service would pull all those things into our local code on a yeazly basis. Don Pangrac, 23470 Shazon Drive • Inquired about the scheduled date to begin repairs on south Claque Road. Mayor Musial said the city would do a temporary top coat on south Claque between I-480 and Lorain Road. Service Director Driscoll said he expects asphah to become available in the next week or so. He needs to be guazanteed a week of dry weather for the city crews to do the work and estimates it will be done by the end of May. • Asked the Mayor about the schedule of meetings for the county association of mayors and managers and if the meetings were open to the public. Mayor Musial said the meetings were open to the public and he would provide information as to the dates to Mr. Pangrac. • He is opposed to Ordinance 2004-14, the rezoning of land at Claque and Lorain roads. Janet Saringer, 23336 Stoneybrook Drive. • Called Council's attention to the passing of a former Council member, Dolores Sharpe. She was a good person and a hazd worker. • Is opposed to the rezoning on Claque Road. When someone wanted to do that on Fleharty or Bailey, the city fathers were opposed to it. They said, if they gave a little bit, it would continue on down the street. That rezoning never transpired. She feels the same way about this. It is going to be a problem because of traffic the azea is already congested. She is opposed to rezoning anything from residential to retail. 11