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Council Minutes of 11/15/2005 • The Rotary Shelter will be repaired soon through a partnership with the city, the North Olmsted Rotary, and our local Home Depot Store. The City of North Olmsted wants to especially applaud the efforts of the manager of the Home Depot, Mike Collins, for his assistance. Service: • The Sandy Ridge concrete replacement project is complete. • The North Park concrete replacement program: Camellia Lane, Nandina Drive and Azalea Lane are complete. The pavement on Gardenia is complete with the exception of a small portion of the east cul-de-sac which is being started this week. The north side of Oring is complete, with the south side being excavated this week. • The asphalt program is complete with the exception of edge lines an the dead end on North Park and sealing the curbs at the Senior Center parking lot. • Regarding the Senior Center ADA doors, the contractor is scheduled to begin foundation work this Thursday. We expect the doors to be delivered within five weeks. 6) The traditional North Olmsted Tree Lighting Ceremony will be held at 7 p.m. on Monday, December 7. Everyone is welcome to attend. Councilman Ryan congratulated the Mayor on his election and said he is looking forward to working with him. He is very hopeful that the city becomes as great as it can be in four years. Law Director Dubelko: 1) For all who participated in the election, Theodore Roosevelt once said: "It's not the critic who counts, not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done one better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is mired by dust and sweat and blood, who strives valiantly, who errs, who comes short again and again because there is no effort without error and shortcoming. But who does actually strive to do the deeds, who knows great enthusiasm, great devotions, who spends himself in a worthy cause. Who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement and who, at the worst if he fails, at least fails while dealing greatly so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who neither know victory nor defeat." Congratulations to all the North Olmsted men and women who entered the arena this year in order to make a difference in their community. In Teddy Roosevelt's eyes, you're all winners. To those of us who won, let's put the election completely behind us and get on with the business of serving the people. Over the next six weeks, he will be reviewing how he does business in the Law Department. None of us can rest on our laurels. We have to continue to improve the way we provide services, and he wants to continue to provide the best legal services in the most cost effective manner that he can for North Olmsted. He is particularly looking forward in a couple of months to moving over into the City Hall campus to be able to provide better advice by being right on campus grounds. 2) North Olmsted voters approved seven of the ten Charter amendment proposals that were recommended to Council by the Charter Review Commission and which were placed on the ballot by Council. One of those proposals approved creating a new 4