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Council Minutes of 9/6/2005 just east of Clague Road is an abomination. There is no reason that should have been allowed to end up the way it is. Our city is having to put resources into that to help Westlake. He doesn't think Westlake is being that cooperative with their ditches. If you look at their history, they don't want traffic going through their town-sounds like the same thing with water. Some of this is having a great impact. Mayor O'Grady said he had not heard about the flow from Fairview causing difficulty in North Olmsted. He heard they had to bypass in Fairview. He can have our Service Director look into this to see if there was an impact. l ti) Don Pangrac, 23470 Sharon Drive, did not have water, but his neighbor did. Has anybody thought that North Olmsted was a lot of farm land years ago and we have continued to build and build. We put asphalt down and the water has got to go someplace. We've had trees taken out for developments. We continue to cover over land which absorbs water and so the water has to go somewhere. Where does it wind up-in our storm sewers and sanitary sewers. Other cities have put a moratorium on construction, maybe this city should look at that. LEGISLATION Ordinance No. 2005-27 introduced by Council Members Miller, McKay, Nashar, and Kasler was given its third reading. An ordinance providing for the submission to the electors of the City of North Olmsted of an amendment to Sections 1, 2 and 3 of Article N, and Sections 2 and 4 of Article IX, of the Charter of the City of North Olmsted to provide for the President of Council to be a member of Council appointed by a majority of the members of Council, rather than a separately elected office, and declaring an emergency, as twice amended. Councilman Nashar moved for adoption, and the motion was seconded by Councilman Ryan. Roll call: Nashar, yes; Ryan, yes; Miller, yes; Barker, no; Gareau, no; Tallon, no, with comment. This ordinance took a lot of time, study and going over. Prior to his getting onto City Council, he was on the Charter Review Commission. At that time, there were two separate ordinances for the elimination of the President of Council's position, one from the Mayor and one from Mr. Lambert. The commission studied them, but he did not feel they were in order at that time. This ordinance is probably the closest to what he feels is acceptable, but he is trying to be consistent in his moves, his votes and his voice and had to vote no on this as he did on the other two. As to the ordinance itself, he wants to commend his colleagues, Mr. Miller, Mr. Nashar, Mrs. Kasler and Mr. McKay, for thinking outside the box and trying to improve something or make a move to change something they felt would help the city. Roll call continued: Orlowski, yes. The motion failed with four yes votes and three no votes as five votes (two-thirds) is needed for passage of Charter amendments. Ordinance No. 2005-27 is not adopted. Ordinance No. 2005-104 introduced by Mayor O'Grady was given its third reading. An ordinance authorizing the Director of Law to retain outside counsel to assist the City of North Olmsted in matters relating to the proposed transfer of the cable franchise of Adelphia Cleveland, LLC to Time Warner NY Cable LLC, and declaring an emergency. Councilman Gareau moved for adoption, and the motion was seconded by Councilman Tallon. Roll call: Gareau, yes; Tallon, yes; Ryan, yes; Orlowski, yes; Nashar, yes; Miller, yes with comment that he is voting yes only because it's his understanding that the city will be reimbursed for any 22