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Council Minutes of 1/20/2004 AUDIENCE PARTICIPATION Dennis Lambert, 25057 Carey Lane • He agrees with Mr. Miller's comment on Mr. McKay's report that there was no indication there are any PCB's in the transformer. Sometimes people use that as a generic term to discuss oil as something that is there. Charles Dial who also attended the meeting raised the issue regarding alternative plans and alternative engineering • Believes lottery winnings should be taxed as should be horse race winnings and winnings in Las Vegas and Atlantic City. He doesn't enjoy taxes, but feels people who fall into a windfall of $600 or more have no reason not to share a portion of that with the community. • Regarding the library, his concern is the issue regarding how much we agreed to pay for what we were getting. If the contract was signed and the agreement included the design with brick on top, somebody owes the community money back. • He plans to submit drawings and plans of his suggestions for a walking path and barrier on Cedar Point Road hill. Councilman Gareau commented that he had been assured that the city got exactly what we paid for with respect to the library building. Mayor Musial said he wanted to reiterate that the design plans and materials costs did not include the brick. Councilman McKay noted that, if a lottery winner wants to give a gift to the city, that is fine. But the city should not single one person out because they have won money. Charles Dial, 27959 Gardenia Drive. • Does not like what is being done with the pediments on library-it is cosmetically absurd and not at all in keeping with the style. • With regard to the data processing commissioner, the most expensive thing to do is keep changing horses in mid-stream. You need continuity because these things get complex and involved, and anybody new will have to spend a fair amount of time coming up to speed on what the previous people have done. • About PCB's leaking out of the transformer, one of his friends is with the Illuminating Company and they had this problem with their transformers. When they realized this was a problem, they didn't buy new transformers, they just flushed them out and replaced the PCB's with mineral oil. That would be a much cheaper solution rather than $26,000. He feels strongly that this is something the Illuminating Company should be responsible for. Don Pangrac, 23470 Sharon Drive • Several years ago when the intersection at Lorain and Claque was done, it appeared to him to be an oversight not to extend the repair north of Lorain down to Delmere and put in a left turn lane. People making left turns there are backing up traffic. It is a highly congested area. He does not want to see this problem fall through the cracks ~,.,, again as it did before. 11 #~ ~ ,