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Council Minutes of 10/4/Z005 remind them that we want to keep this thing going, and it's important to us. He believes in taking the "good neighbor" approach. Councilman Miller asked Service Director Driscoll whether the weir in the Ehle ditch would be removed. Mr. Driscoll said that project would require the advice of a certified engineer. He does see where it definitely would have benefits to North Olmsted residents, but he is sure it was put there for a purpose. Mayor O'Grady commented that he specifically addressed this issue with Mayor Clough. The removal of that weir would benefit the City of North Olmsted, but it also would benefit Westlake residents who live in that area and who had flooding on August 28. He asked Mayor Clough to take a look at the engineering that said this was the right way to do things because it doesn't make a lot of sense to him. Councilman Miller said he felt the EPA would certainly have something to say about blocking water in one city and preventing it from flowing into another city, especially when you have this type of direct, immediate impact on the health and welfare of the citizens of the affected community. Councilman Orlowski commended Service Director Driscoll on the work the department is doing on the free flowing creeks and ditches. However, he still believes the city should consider atwice-annual program of snaking out and back flushing the storms throughout the city. In Ward IV, he believes some of the problems where the water was backing up was due to the problem with the sediment and debris that's collecting in the storms. Mr. Driscoll said that was a very good suggestion. Just today he met with the foremen who direct the Service storm crew and the Systems crew. A plan was devised to rearrange the crews slightly to get the two jet vac trucks out on the road cleaning sewers everyday. This will continue up until shift works starts. It will be continued through to the main streets. We are going to pick up the pace on how we are cleaning bath sanitary and storm sewers. Flushing of storm sewers in the Deerfield area will begin as early as tomorrow, and sanitary sewer flushing will begin in the Pine Ridge area as early as the beginning of next week. This work will be followed by televising. Law Director Dubelko: 1) There has been an appeal by C & C Realty from a decision of the Board of Zoning Appeals denying its request for a use variance. That was filed in Common Please Court on September 2 and was assigned to Judge Strickland-Saffold. (Case No. CV05571582.) 2) During the period of September 21 through October 4, he prepared correspondence for and attended a meeting of the Board of Elections regarding a language issue relating to Issue 97, the Charter change affecting the Planning Commission. The city submitted to the Board of Elections a request to submit a corrected ordinance to the board. On September 26, the board unanimously approved the city's request. 3) Attended a Board of Review meeting on September 21. 4) September 23, provided a letter of advice to the Mayor regarding recommendations for changes in the city's policies regarding purchase orders. 5) Attended a directors' meeting on October 4. 6) Prosecutor's report summary: There were 252 cases handled by the City Prosecutor in the month of September. Of those, 178 were traffic code offenses and 74 were general 5