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Council Minutes of 6/6/2006 whatever it takes to solve this problem. Mayor O'Grady spoke on behalf of the members of Council who voted in favor of allowing this use as they did so based upon the facts that were presented to them and with the exact same use occurring in another neighborhood without problem. Once Council does their job, the responsibility comes over to him and his administration. The most important mission in his administration is to protect residents. The residents' quality of life is being impacted. The Safety Dept. is aware of the problem and it is being investigated through the Building Dept. The legislation that is coming forward today will give the administration the tools to start getting something done. He will take action. Councilman Miller suggested the business refrain from using the equipment during smog alert days. Perhaps this is an EPA issue and we can get that organization involved. Councilman Orlowski said an activist groups had monitored the recycling of chemicals at a plant in the Cleveland Flats. He suggested that company could be looked into to see what process was used and what corrective measures were taken. Councilman Tallon echoed Mr. Kennedy's earlier comments and said he too would respond within a few minutes if the residents would call him when they detect a problem. Byron Vine, 26601 Leenders Lane, also spoke on the Suburban issue. He is a former safety director of a company and said that this is anout-of-control process. Also, it is a health hazard due to same of the materials being used and there is also the potential for an explosion hazard. These issues were talked about in the past, but he wants to reiterate that this is not just a nuisance but a potential for health and safety hazazds. This is an out- of-control process and it's likely that somebody is going to get hurt. Dennis Lambert, 25057 Carey Lane, said he felt the. city needed an engineer. A city engineer would have help~l in looking at the Suburban situation in the first place and would be able to help analyze what is causing the problems now. He agrees that this is a health hazard. Regarding city streets, he has a concern about Country Club Blvd. which he feels needs attention. He believes the problems are coming from underneath the street where the slabs get disjointed and start "floating." County Club Blvd. and Great Northern Blvd. are the main streets that visitors and business interests see when they come into this community. They stay in those motels; they visit those office buildings. And they come in off of Great Northern Blvd. to get there and go. All the wishes in the world to do good things for this city aze not going to happen unless you have business people who want to come here, want to bring their business here, want to locate here and pay taxes here. So those streets are vitally important. A city engineer should have been on the bus when Council took the street tour to give recommendations. An engineer will be needed to corroborate the information that will be coming from the outside company that will evaluate the city streets. Professionals were brought in with the Suburban proposal, and they concluded there wouldn't be a problem, but there is. A city engineer would have been useful in that situation. Mayor O'Grady said he felt Mr. Lambert's comments with regard to an engineer were without merit. What we have here is a situation where assurances were made, and his administration intends to make certain that those assurances aze carried out. The discussion on the engineer is totally separate from this. He will continue to make change 11