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Council Minutes of 5/4/20Q5 He works with asphalt and knows it does not hold up as well as concrete. He is concerned about the city not being able to patch and repair asphalt streets as we do not have enough employees. He is hoping to convince Council to reconsider this and come out and re-meet with residents to see if they can came to some sort of conclusion. He thinks residents should have avoice-it's their neighborhood and they would prefer concrete. Byron is acut-through street and is heavily traveled. Mayor O'Grady said the reality is that the cost of doing the concrete street is five times that of doing it in asphalt. We need to wake up to that reality and deal with it. The administration and Council do want to hear want the residents have to say, but ultimately they have to make decisions based on the realities with which they are faced. Does Mr. Vevrerka feel the residents will agree to a $6,000 assessment for concrete streets? Mr. Vevrerka said no, the residents want to discuss the situation. Mayor O'Grady said this is a dollar issue, and we are faced with the reality of doing five streets or one street, and we choose to do five. Mr. Vevrerka said he felt this would be a quick fix that would come back to haunt us in the future. Mayor O'Grady said it is not intended to be a quick fix. This administration has come up with a program they believe will be a good consistent, economical program. Neither the administration nor the Council would ever opt for a quick fix. Trudy Moore, 3970 Tennyson Lane, said she has noticed that where slab repair has been done, many times the job was not completed by sealing the seams. Sandy Ridge development is already starting to chip at the seams. The city spent most of their budget doing something that would last 35-40 years and not spending the last 2% or 3% to seal the seams. Ninety-nine percent of Tennyson is in excellent condition, and you can still see the tar in the seams and where all the cuts were made. But where they didn't bother to do that, that's where it's deteriorating because water has gotten in and it has frozen over the years. She does feel putting asphalt in her neighborhood is very, very degrading. When she purchased her first home in Canterbury Woods, she thought the streets were beautiful. Concrete streets are an upgrade. LEGISLATION Ordinance No. 2005-45 introduced by Mayor O'Grady on behalf of himself and the entire Council was given its third reading. An ordinance providing for the issuance and sale of $500,000 of notes, in anticipation of the issuance of bonds, for the purpose of constructing, furnishing, equipping and otherwise improving a Fira Station, providing fire apparatus and equipment to be housed therein and acquiring, preparing and otherwise improving real estate and interest therein for its site. Councilman Gareau moved for adoption. The motion was seconded by Councilman Miller and passed unanimously. Ordinance No. 2005-45 adopted. Ordinance No. 2005-46 introduced by Mayor O'Grady on behalf of himself and the entire Council was given its third reading. An ordinance providing for the issuance and sale of $2,055,000 of notes, in anticipation of the issuance of bonds, for the purpose of improving certain designated streets in the city, in cooperation with the Director of Transportation of the State of Ohio and otherwise, by grading, draining, replacing sections of concrete pavement, preparing the surface, resurfacing and constructing and 11