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Council Minutes of 8/21/2007 senior transportation fleet. We received a $40,000 van for our use at a cost to our taxpayers of about $4,000. 10) CDBG public hearing will be held on Wednesday, August 22, at 6:30 p.m. in Council Chambers for the purpose of soliciting community development project ideas for 2008. Work continues on the 2007 grant project, which is ADA assessment of all city facilities. 11) He is very pleased that this terrible sound system that we have all been working and struggling with over these many years will be replaced soon. He expects the new sound system to be installed next week with the new caucus room to follow a week later. 12) He and the Planning Director will be visiting with the County Commissioners this Friday where they will accept on behalf of our city a grant in the amount of $70,000 from the Transportation for Livable Communities program. 13) Proud to have sworn in three new police officers who will be headed off soon to the Police Academy. The city accepted our first shipment of eight new patrol rifles that were expensed out of our Law Enforcement Trust Fund. Training with the weapons will begin very soon. 14) Record August rains have been testing our system, which is a negative. Every dark cloud has a silver lining, and that is we've had excellent data that we're getting from our test through the Phase II study we're doing for the EPA. Consultant on this project, CT Consultants, also continues with studies at the Dover and LeBern lift stations. 15} Public meeting held on August 14 for replacement of sound barrier walls on I-480. Several concrete patterns and colors were available for affected residents to see. Their input is being analyzed by ODOT and they will be getting back to us on it. 16) Service Director, Planning Director and the school police officer hosted a tour of administrators for the North Olmsted City Schools. The tour touched on all major city facilities and other noteworthy sites throughout the city. 17) Bob Nichols, our WWTP Manager, will be retiring after many years of service to our city. Pleased to announce that Sharon Schlemmer, our Pre-treatment Coordinator, will be replacing him as Acting Plant Superintendent soon. 18) Regarding legislation, Council has before them 2007-93 which is on second reading and requested for suspension today. He will emphasize that we are now in our third month of the administration's effort to secure support from Council regarding this safety issue. Certain members of Council have chosen repeatedly to ignore the administration on this issue that is important to the safety of our citizens. Today legislation is pending before Council that will address this safety issue for only a portion of the time requested by our safety officials. (At this point, the Mayor made comments which the Council President felt were not appropriate, and he asked the Mayor to avoid personalities.) The Mayor said he would rephrase and continued by saying this matter has been handled in a way by select members of City Council to the extent that for the first time in years a minority report was filed by a member of Council questioning the actions of the majority members on that committee. His administration has met repeatedly with the same dissenting members asking for support only to be turned down time and time again. They met for the first time on June 19 when the administration asked for suspension after introducing Ordinance 2007-79. There was a discussion in caucus and an agreement was reached. That agreement, once the members of Council who agreed to it got to the Council floor, they changed their mind. Instead of suspension it went to the Public Safety Committee chaired by Mr. Orlowski on June 25 for extensive discussions. On