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Council Minutes of 2/7/2007 ,, • Resolution 2007-1, a resolution authorizing the Director of Public Service to advertise for bids for the award of a contract to provide new pavement markings to various streets at various locations in the city, as detailed in the specifications on file in the Engineering Deparhnent, and authorizing the Mayor, following approval of the Board of Control, if necessary, to contract for the same with the lowest and. best bidder, and declaring an emergency. Mr. Collins explained that this contract is for all stop lines, cross lines, painted island arrows, "only" lines, and school crossing lines. Streets that are not included in this legislation are Great Northern Blvd.., Country Club Blvd. and Stearns Road, because these streets are going to be worked. on this year anal the line painting will. be completed at the end of the projects. Council asked about Ohio Department of Transportation standards and. how often the lines need to be painted and if there is a specific type of paint that is to be used. Mr. Limpert replied that some lines are to be painted every year. Mr. Collins said that the city will be using the 2002 specs for paint; the 2005 specs are more costly. The city is in compliance if we use the 2002 specs. Mr. Limpert said that the city used the 2005 specs to paint the east end of Lorain Road. Council asked if the streets that were painted last year are going to be included. in this resalution; Mr. Collins replied that the streets that were painted in 2006 are not included in this legislation. When. asked. if there was a plan. to do the streets on alternating years, Mr. Limpert said that is what usually happens and the interior streets are painted every year. Mr. Collins said that last year not all. of the streets were completed because they ran out of time, manning, and funds. The issue of crack sealing was again brought up and Council questioned if there was any thought given to completing the crack sealing and then painting? Council urged management of this issue. Mr. Limpert replied that he would take that under advisement but that they needed to go out to bid for the striping so that they can see what price they are looking at. Mr. Collins said that it is important to watch. over the areas that are in need of crack sealing because a better alternative might be to recycle those areas instead of crack sealing them, because the paint does not adhere to crack sealing very well. The committee unanimously recommended approval of the legislation. 2) The Streets & Transportation and Finance Committees met on. Monday, January 29. Present were Streets & Transportation Committee members Janes and Barker; Finance Committee members Tallon and Miller; Council Members Gareau and Orlowski; Council President Kennedy; Service Director Limpert, City Engineer Collins, Finance Director Capfer and Planning :Director Wenger. Agenda: • The committees met regarding the Street Rehabilitation Project. 1VIr. Limpert began by explaining that the project was requested by Council to have a professional. survey done of the streets in the city. This project was worked on by the city and by Bowen. and Assoc., the firm. that the City :Engineer is with. Mr. Tallon expressed concern that there was a lack of concrete street repairs listed on the survey and his fear is that the concrete streets will never get done. He said. that the Lauren Woods development has not seen a major street repair in 34 years, and his recommendation would be to ptrt this development into the 2007 street 10