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Council Minutes of 11/18/2008 in compliance with the Manual of Uniform Traffic Control Devices. Putting up signs that go over and above that might cause problems, which should be something that's looked at by Engineering and Police. Then, if legislation is needed, to come back with that legislation. Councilman Gareau noted the goal was to make it clear that trucks should not be going down side streets to try to get to I-90. He noted that trucks will not be able to go further north once they get to Center Ridge Road which might make the drivers travel Lorain Road to other streets that go through to I-90. Mr. Burns noted that for years Westlake resisted extending Route 252 and making it into afour-lane road. Currently, the only section of Columbia Road that isn't four lanes is from Center Ridge to Rose Road. In the meantime, Westlake is saying they're not going to make Crocker Road a truck route. It's afour-lane road and it connects the two interstates and does exactly what Route 252 was supposed to do. Somebody needs to look a this and find out what really happened here and why we're going to put this kind of money into this improved street and then the people who were supposed to use it, the truckers, to connect between the two freeways aren't going to be allowed to use it. Councilman Gareau said Westlake might be careful that it gets what it wishes because, if these trucks are going up to Center Ridge Road and they can't go further north, they're probably going to want to go down Center Ridge up to Route 252. Mr. Burns noted that is a problem because Center Ridge Road doesn't have standard lanes and two trucks can't even pass. 4) David Welch, 6352 Somerset Drive, said the city is sorely lacking a very user-friendly website. The city website is hard to maneuver and navigate and there's little information that is easy to get to. He wondered if anybody was working on this and noted the schools had recently updated their website. Mayor O'Grady said the website as it exists today is avast improvement over what it was. However, Mr. Welch's comments are well taken, and the city has been working for almost a year now to completely revamp the website and to bring it into the 21S` Century. It's going to be vastly improved; it's going to be easy to navigate through with drop-down menus and an improved appearance. The change is coming soon. 5) Tim Smith, 6053 Sherwood, a hockey parent, wanted to address some potential lost revenue at the Rec Center and ice rink. Residents were told previously that the Rec Center is a drain on city funds. As a ice hockey referee and an instruction staff member, he was asked to conduct a seminar to instruct new and young referees to become ice hockey officials. He tried to book some ice time at the North Olmsted ice rink. He left two messages, and he even left a written note at the front desk. There was no response. Since then, he has spoken to the hockey director from the Elyria hockey club who was having practice at the Baron's rink at Brookpark and Tiedeman roads. The Elyria hockey director told him he contacted North Olmsted trying to baok ice time and never got a response. Our Rec Center is losing out on revenue. He wondered if there are plans to market the Rec Center and try to draw in this revenue instead of letting it go right down I-480. Mayor O'Grady thanked Mr. Smith for his comments and asked him to speak to Community Life Services Director Dailey. 10 ~.