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Council Minutes of 6/6/2006 ,,~, in his administration. We have to change the way we do business. The changes in the engineering office will continue. We will continue to do things more efficiently. Councilman Orlowski commented that he too believes Country Club Blvd. and Great Northern Blvd. are key entrances to our city. He has been speaking with the administration about repairing the landscaping timbers, replacing the trees, and repairing the curbs. We need to put a good face forward to people coming to the city Bob Vella, 5573 Barton Road, atwenty-two year resident is upset that he has to come before Council and present his case about drainage issues in his neighborhood. He has spoken with Council Member Dailey Jones and Service Director Limpert about a ditch issue in front of his home. He feels the city needs to do a better job of looking at the sewers. He believes the problems at his home are caused by new construction going on across the street. The water does not go down in one of the ditches. He does clean out the ditches himself. He is upset that nothing is being done to fix the sewer system to his house. Also, the street is higher than his driveway and some of the neighbors. Over the twenty-two years, he has paid taxes and that should be worth a crew coming out to blow out the drains. There are five neighbors who are having problems. He has a sink hole in his front ditch, the water is going down instead of flowing to the creek and nobody knows where the water is going. He and some of his neighbors cannot mow their backyards because of water. One neighbor has water in his garage and front yard when he never did before. Service Director Limpert did come out to his home, but he does not believe the city has addressed the issue. He feels the only road that is being worked on is Claque Road. Mayor O'Grady said that the city is doing much more than just .Claque Road. The eastern half of Lorain Road is being rebuilt. We are going to be working on the Rt. 252 overpass and we are rebuilding streets that were planned for construction this year in Ward I. The Mayor said that Mr. Vella needed to understand the city is limited in what it is legally able to do. If there is a problem with the water and the ditch in front of his home, the city can do something about it. If there is a problem with the drainage system on his property, that is private property and the city is not allowed to use public dollars on private property. Service Director Limpert came forward and commented the city has been out to Mr. Vella's property multiple times assessing the situation. He asked the city to come out because he was sure the sanitary sewers were all blocked out. They were checked and found to be fine. Mr. Vella called his plumber, and the plumber did an inadequate job. The city was called out again and televised the sewers and discovered where his line was blocked. Mr. Vella called his plumber out again, so that part should be taken care of. The sanitary sewers seem to be checking out fine. Storm sewers in that area are limited to the roadside ditches. It is spring time in North Olmsted and there were some dry areas and some areas with a slight amount of water. The backyard does have some water in it. It is not the city's responsibility for finding backyard drainage. He too had water in his backyard on that same day. As far as the sink hole, the city is trying to find out what it is. It is believed, when the lines from the other houses were put in, stone and the Like, some of that water is back feeding through and around the outside of the line. It does seem that several houses are having difficulties all at once. The city is checking to see if it is coincidence or whether there is something that is being 12