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Council Minutes of 5/15/2007 was no objection from committee members Barker and Jones to passing this resolution. under suspension when it came formally before Council. ~ Ordinance 2007-50, an ordinance amending Section. 103.03 ("Official Seal") of the Administrative Code in order to require all city vehicles, except for unmarked police vehicles, to prominently display the official city seal. Councilman Orlowski, one of the sponsors of this legislation, said that the purpose of the legislation was to make sure that all city vehicles had the city seal on display. Service Director Limpert stated that the police cars of the city do not have the official city seal on the vehicles. Mayor O'Grady said that this legislation was not good govel-nment anal that Council should make laws anal the administration should nm the city; he has an objection to the legislative body interfering with the operation. of the administration. Mr. Barker said that he was not in favor of this ordinance. Mr. Kennedy asked if the Service Director had a cost estimate for this project. Mr. Gareau asked if it was known if there was any inappropriate use of the administration's cars, and the Mayor and Service Director both said. that they were not aware of any abuse. Committee members Barker and Jones voted unanimously to not recommend approval to Council. 2) Tonight the Streets & Transportation Committee met at 7:20 p.m. Present were committee members Barker and. Jones; Councilmen. Gareau, Orlowski, Miller and President Kennedy; Mayor O'Grady and Service Director Limpert. The purpose of the meeting was to receive an update from Service Director Limpert regarding where we were on certain. streets projects at this point. He pointed out that the bids on outside contracts for crack sealing have come in, and a bid will be awarded tomorrow for that project. As far as in-house crack sealing, he anticipates to having afull-time staff and summer help working on those streets this summer. The asphalt overlays and asphalt recycling program bids are due in on June 5. The city is trying to keep up-to-date with the patching, not a cold patch but running it over with the hot sealer. Slab repair program is underway, and Lauren Woods is going to be next on the list for slab repair. Mr. Limpert stated, as far as overall, the streets projects thus far are right where they thought they would be except for street sweeping which is a bit behind. Questions from Council concerned crack sealing on certain streets and whether or not Mr. Limpert had heard back from the State of Ohio regarding the street situation on Lorain and Columbia.. He hasn't heard back from them yet. The concern is that the street is only six months old and. there is cracking there. It's a heavily traveled area as far as truck. traffic. 1Vlr. Gareau asked Mr. Limpert to stay on that and maybe get the Law Dept. involved. Mr. Miller asked about Dover Center. Mr. Limpert stated the city is going to request that the county combine funds with Issue 1 funds as opposed to in the past when the city has approached the county on this project, they went fora 50-50 split. We are going to try to take a different approach this time anal see i f we can get somewhere in the next few years with the county on Dover Center. There was a question. regarding the overlay program if the specs were narrowly written. 1VIr. Limpert said the parameters of that have been broadened. Thanks to Mr. Limpert for this information as Council appreciates being updated as they are always asked about streets. 6 ._