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Council Minutes of 11/20/2007 ' ~~~.. information on the State certification requirements for a certified jail and potential reimbursement costs. The committee unanimously recommended for approval of Resolution 2007-130 to all of Council. • Ordinance 2007-135 was briefly discussed, an ordinance amending Section 1 of Ordinance No. 2002-103 in order to authorize the Mayor or his designee to utilize the services of collection agencies to more effectively collect EMS billing delinquent accounts. At the request of the Finance Director, the committee unanimously recommended to hold the ordinance in committee pending additional information. Council Member Dailey Jones, chairperson of the Streets & Transportation Committee: 1) The Streets & Transportation Committee met at 7:55 p.m. on Tuesday, November 13. Present were committee members Barker and Jones; Council Members Gareau, Tallon, Orlowski, Miller, and Council President Kennedy; Directors Limpert, Thomas, Copfer, and Dubelko. On the agenda was Ordinance 2007-133, an ordinance amending Sections 901.04 and 901.05 of Chapter 901 "Excavations" of the Streets, Utilities and Public Services Code, respectively entitled "Contractor To Make Street Repairs; Failure To Comply" and "Deduction And Refund" in order to regulate right-of--way excavation deposits and restoration by private contractors not affiliated with public utilities or communication companies. She and Councilman Gareau had sponsored this legislation after viewing projects that were not done satisfactorily. For example, Emerald Village and the new homes built on Barton Road. When these projects were done, our city streets were opened up, but a less than stellar job was done patching them back together. When the streets are not properly repaired, our city has to come up with the funds to go over a job that was poorly done. This legislation would give more authority to the Service Director and the City Engineer to enforce standards of restoration and also retain deposits so that these companies would guarantee proper restoration of our city streets. The Service Director said that the administration is working on this angle in previously introduced legislation and hopefully these two issues can be combined into one piece of legislation. The committee voted unanimously to hold the ordinance in committee. The meeting ended at 8:07 p.m. LETTERS AND COMMUNICATIONS At the request of Joanne Botson, a letter which she sent to Recreation Commissioner DiSalvo was read: "Dear Mr. DiSalvo: I've been attending the Deep Water Aerobics classes at the North Olmsted Rec Center for over 6 years. Tom has been attending for 15; Sara for 11, Ellen for longer than I have. I attend because I have arthritis and water exercising was suggested by my doctor as a way to keep fit painlessly. It works. I look forward to it every Tuesday and Thursday evening. Most of the regulars in the class also attend for health reasons. For years we had relatively quiet, enjoyable classes with a water aerobics class at each end of the pool. Lately, it's been very disruptive with lap swimmers and what seems like hundreds of screaming, yelping kids taking lessons. We complained among ourselves, because we TAX PAYING CITIZENS of North Olmsted and the classes were therapeutic and convenient, we closed our ears and kept on swimming. Your letter was a shock! After being offered a quarterly and even an annual 7