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Council Minutes of 5/16/2006 associated with moving stone. The committee unanimously recommended approval. • Resolution 2006-88, a resolution authorizing the Director of Public Service to advertise for bids for the purchase of 5,000 tons of asphalt, tack coating and related items for various Service Department needs throughout the city as detailed in the specifications on file, further authorizing the Mayor to enter into a contract with the lowest and best bidder to purchase said asphalt, tack coating and related items, after Board of Control approval, and declaring an emergency. Mr. Limpert explained the resolution and stated that the city's current contract for these items is up in July. When asked what related items consisted of, the Service Director indicated that they were things such as hot patch and cold patch. The committee unanimously recommended approval. • Discussed the residual funds from 2003 borrowing for potential street repair projects. The Finance Director stated there was approximately $40,000 in borrowing money left over in this fund. This fund could not be used for asphalting; however, it could be used for pavement replacement or slab repair. Some areas for slab repair that were brought up were Great Northern Bivd. and the Lauren Woods area. All of the Council members present and the administration present acknowledged that there are many streets in the city that are in need of repair. The Law Director briefly described some disputed items that were in litigation now regarding the resurfacing of Lorain Road west, and the Finance Director recommended waiting to utilize this money until the results of this litigation are known. Other questions that were asked in corr~rnittee regarding the progress of street repairs including patchwork were requested to be held until another time. AUAIENCE PARTIC;'.ATION Terry Groden, 25211 Chase Drive. • As a representative of the Deerfield Park Civic Association, he suggested that the city have more or better communication to the residents who were affected by flooding last year regarding where the city is in the progress of the process to address those problems. Mr. Barker has been kind enough to keep him updated as much as possible, but there are questions in his mind and his neighbors' minds as to what, if anything, is being done. For instance, why is the camera. which is being built to specifications to help monitor the sewer systems taking so long? Why is the process to hire an engineer for Phase II of the study taking so long? The residents would like to know a little bit more about the strategy behind the improvements to the pumping stations. Why is so much attention being paid to those? Why aren't the issues with the Walter Road trunk being addressed before the pumping stations? Is the city still monitoring and maintaining the ditches? The Phase I report recommended community involvement. The city might be better served and be better servants if they get out in front of this issue and have some kind of communication with residents, especially neighbors in Deerfield Park and Ward II. 13