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Council Minutes of 8/21/2007 Director as to the valuation of the composted soils that are being removed by Three Z, the leaf removal company, to determine what the value of that is. They questioned if we are giving something away of higher value. It is part of that contract and will probably be again in the next contract. It was discussed this evening in caucus and the committee, as well as the rest of Council, agreed to pass Resolution 2007-88 under suspension with the request that the information as to the valuation be provided at a future date. Councilman Gareau, chairperson of the Building, Zoning & Development Committee: 1) The committee met on August 14, 2007. Present were committee members Gareau, Orlowski, Miller; Council Members Barker & Dailey Jones; Planning Director Wenger and Law Director Dubelko. Agenda items included the following: • Frostville Museum, Rocky River Reservation. The proposal had two parts to it. First, was a master plan for the whole museum area. Secondly, was the request for approval to use the carriage house as a public restroom facility. Ms. Wenger gave an oversight of the proposal; Mr. Schumann, vice president of the Olmsted Historical Society, explained what is in the works. This is the same carriage house that was removed from the site of the new Fire Station 2. There has been quite a bit of work on the museum site. They are still working on the church. They are going to be moving into installing the public restrooms, which will be a nice benefit as different events such as charities and fundraisers are held at the site. The church will be open and available for certain occasions in the near future. The Metroparks is contributing a considerable amount of the expense because of the sewer lines that have to be extended. The Olmsted Historical Society has done a nice job with this project, and they do have a five year master plan. For an organization like that to come to the city and show what they wish to do with their time and talents and their money to improve the community is unprecedented. They expect to have use of the church by the fall of 2008. There also is an events barn where electrical upgrades were done at an extremely significant cost. Water service, gas service were installed, and the floor, wall and ceilings had to be redone. They hope to have the restroom facility open by spring/summer of 2009. At the school house, they're going to be installing footings and foundations. They expect to have the complete work for the interior done far the winter and spring of 2011. There is a carpenter house where footings and foundations will be installed; they want to do some floor stone work and begin kitchen work during spring of 2011 with the facility being completed by 2012. There is the display barn addition which they expect to begin during the summer of 2011. The Briggs House summer kitchen should be completed in 2012. There have been numerous site improvements-everything from sanitary service, gas service, drainage issues, walking paths, electrical service, gardens, appropriate lighting. The work this organization is doing is something to be appreciated, respected and supported in every way that we can. Although not required by law to come to us as a community and present us with their master plan and with their request for approval, they did on the restroom facility and that is appreciated. The committee declined to make a motion on the five year plan as that is more of an informative piece as opposed to something they must be bound 8