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Council Minutes of 9/28/2li05 our third attempt to secure Issue 2 funding. The committee unanimously voted to suspend the requirement for three readings and to remove the resolution from committee. Councilman Tallon made a motion to amend Ordinance No. 2005-130 as submitted. The motion was seconded by Councilman Miller. Roll call: Tallon, yes; Miller, yes; Nashar, yes; Barker, yes; Orlowski, yes; Ryan, no; Gareau, yes. The motion passed with six yes votes and one no vote. AUDIENCE PARTICIPA~IQN 1) Dennis Lambert, 25057 Carey Lane, was surprised at the amount of debris taken out of the Hall ditch and said that must translate into a lot of man hours, and we are paying to do that instead of Westlake. Regarding the purchase order system, perhaps Council, as the keeper of the dollar, may want to look at proposing an ordinance that requires certain types of purchase order agreements to have the Mayor's signature on it so that he is aware these things are happening so there are no surprises at budget time. On 2005-123 regarding trash cans, he feels that Council should add restrictions as to how close a garbage can is to a neighbor's house because of odors. 2) Sheldon Myers, 23947 Ambour Drive, has never received a response to his letter regarding flooding. He asked Service Director Driscoll what qualifies as a trouble spot for flooding as 26 residences on the street had flooding in one day. Regarding retention basins, there is an area north of Maple Ridge, west of Clague and south of Ambour Drive, for years that has been a retention basin. But last summer, one of neighbors was allowed to put a pipe in that went almost to the center of this retention area. He took the pipe as far as the sidewalk and the city tied it into the storm sewer. There was no trouble on Ambour Drive until that pipe went in. Granted there was a heavy downfall, but that did nothing but exacerbate the flooding in the basements. Service Director Driscoll said the city has been out there and looked at the issue and addressed it. A pipe running into a swale, until we see any reason why it shouldn't be, is a legal connection. The city has been in that area cleaning sewers and addressing the neighborhood homes. There are backyard drainage systems in that area and they do pose problems for us to get in there and fmd access to get in and clean them. 3) Terry Groden, 25211 Chase Drive, after last meeting he sent an e-mail to Mr. Barker which was forwarded to the Mayor. He referenced in that the city's ongoing effort to help maintain the property values in city. Understands that and supports it, and he has also supported school levies which are important to the community to help maintain property values. Afraid if we can't come up with a viable, long-term solution to flooding problem, we are going to have declining property values. People are not going to be as willing to spend money on school levies because they will be using money repairing damages to homes. It is imperative to come up with some kind of long-time solution. The city owes that to the residents. The Mayor said he agreed. We need to protect residents' investment in their homes and the administration is working in that direction. We've inherited systems and infrastructure that are inadequate. When rapid building in the city took place, it was done without enough controls. The result was developers built ® to save themselves money-not to protect households and developments they were 13