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Council Minutes of 2/21/2006 Director Wenger for her hard work and a good job with her involvement with this project. The committee unanimously recommended approval of the legislation. • Resolution No. 2006-4, a resolution authorizing the Mayor on behalf of the City of North Olmsted to enter into an agreement with the North Olmsted School District, granting the school district a license to install arxi maintain a removable fence on Diamond Number One Baseball Field at North Olmsted Park, and declaring an emergency. Mr. Hyland, representing the schools, was in attendance. This project is to install a removable fence to have field measurements of 385 feet in deep center field and right and left lines of 315 feet. The cost of the fence will be paid for by the North Olmsted School District and is in the $17,500 range. It will have 48 panels that are 12 feet wide by 6 feet high with the yellow safety cap across the top. There will be 49 sleeves in the grourxl that the fence pasts will fit into. The in-ground sleeves will be capped and covered with sand when the fence is removed. There will also be 40 feet of fence on each sideline which will be permanent. The fence will be installed, maintained and removed by the maintenance department of the schools. It will be up from about the end of March through the end of May. The fence will be stared off site by the school's maintenance department. If the fence is requested to be up longer by the city for other baseball services, that is not a problem. Mr. Hyland said that the schools need a 24-hour notice to take the fence down. Concerns raised by Cour~il included if there were any trees that needed to be removed, would the Cub Scouts still be able to play in the summer, Homecoming aril All Scouts weekend. Also, if the aesthetics of the fence or residents' corr~laints regarding losing the open-space appearance of the park came into question. There was discussion concerning the Cub Scouts who come up to the park twice a week during the spring aril summer to play baseball on or near the area of the proposed fencing. Mr. Ryan and Mr. Miller's concerns were assuaged by Commissioner DiSalvo that, even though there doesn't appear to be an agreement or scheduled time for the Cub Scouts, if the proposed fence was an issue, then the suggestion would be to move the Cub Scouts down to the football field area Mr. Ryan was happy to be able to have an answer for the parents involved with ~ Cub Scouts regarding the playing of baseball at North Olmsted Park. If any trees need to be removed, then the schools have offered to have a 10 to 1 ratio of replacement. Council asked that the replacements be established trees. Council requested of Law Director Dubelko that he aril the administration please keep those concerns in miml when matting up this contract. Council's opinion would be to have ashort-term renewable contract, then along-term contract. The Law Director was in full agreement with Council's questions and comments. The resolution wilt provide that the city aril school district have a license agreement. In Mr. Dubelko's opinion, this is a better way to go than just a handshake between the two entities. Mr. Hylarui's viewpoint was, if the city had any concerns, he would remove the fence. His future plans, if the capital improvement levy passes, is that this fence would be used at a new field in the future. Council was in agreement to let the city and school district negotiate and it is up to them to decide on any restrictions. Mr. Gareau commented that we all know we have a shortage of ball fields for the city oral hopes that this can work out in the long run so the high school team would not have to move somewhere else to have home games. The committee unanimously recommended approval of the legislation by Council under suspension of the rule. Councilman Orlowski, chairperson of the Public Safety, Health & Welfare Committee: 1) The committee met this evening, February 21. In attendance were all Council members,. the Mayor and all directors, Police Chief Ruple and Lt. Gallagher. Approximately two weeks ago, he received Ordinance 2006-48, which is an ordinance creating new Chapter 763 (Public Dance Halls, Teen Dance Clubs) of the North Olmsted Codified Ordinances in order to regulate dance halls and teen dance clubs, and declaring an emergency. He considered fast tracking this ordinance to protect the public welfare, teenagers, neighbors and residents of North Olmsted. Currently, there are several issues which have come to his attention, and he feels it is best to hold 9