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Council Minutes of 2/21/2006 number of calls in a matter of a month as we are adding additional cities. It's imperative that it has that opportunity to have management there. Councilman Miller, chairperson of the Environmental Control Committee: 1) The committee met this evening to discuss Ordinances 2006-15 and 2006-16. ~ Ordinance 2006-15 amends Section 927.07 of Chapter 927 of the Streets, Utilities and Public Services Code in order to remove therefrom the provision that stormwater storage facilities must be approved by, in addition to the City Engineer, the Planning and Design Commission and the City Council. It was noted by Mr. Gareau that in fact neither the Planning and Design Commission nor City Council have been, nor are they qualified, to review the engineering requirements of a water retention system. Therefore, it would be inappropriate to continue to require that those two bodies review that from the engineering standpoint. Certainly the Planning Commission and City Council have asked intelligent questions and looked at the plan to assure that it is appropriate. But from the engineering specialty field, that is best left with the city engineers. The committee unanimously recommended approval and to add the emergency clause. Councilman Miller moved to amend Ordinance 2006-15 to add the emergency clause. The motion was seconded by Councilman Gareau and passed unanimously. Ordinance No. 2006-15 amended. ~ Ordinance 2006-16, an ordinance controlling post-construction stormwater runoff quality in an effort to improve the quality of water in the rivers, streams, ponds and lakes with the various watersheds in the City of North Olmsted and declaring an emergency. Council had a few questions regarding the definition of a bio-detention pond or facility. There were questions from the model ordinance draft page 15, items 2 and 3 in relationship to performance guarantee and maintenance guarantee and discussion of whether private homeowners and/or homeowners associations should be required and what affect it would have, as indicated in this ordinance, what it would have on them on a long-term basis if they were required to maintain water runoff facilities in their neighborhoods. These questions will be asked at a future committee meeting.. Hopefully, the city engineer will be available or Mr. Limpert can get satisfactory answers to those questions. The committee agreed to hold the legislation in committee, and it was removed from the agenda this evening. 2) Asked Mr. Barker to report on the visit to the LeBern lift station. Councilman Barker: 1) Mr. Kennedy arranged a meeting at the LeBern lift station with Bob Binggeli. Present was President Kennedy and Council Members Barker, Gareau and Miller. They received a brief tour of the lift station and how it works. They were impressed at how clean it was. The office where all the electronics are monitoring the pumps, was a very impressive room. The pumps are two flights down. Everything was immaculate. A pump is running all the time, and then another one kicks in and a third one kicks in when needed. It's all done electronically. The facility is monitored every morning, and a daily log is completed. The wet well is visible outside, and the employees can actually tell when flooding is about to occur on certain streets by the how high the water has risen on the steps. The facility includes a generator room. When power goes off, the generator kicks on and the a front and rear doors to the building go up for ventilation. That room was very, very clean. Council members were very impressed and learned a good deal to help them in the process of understanding flooding problems as they pertain to the EPA and also understanding and visualizing the various equipment needed in such facilities. ~~~