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Council Minutes of 5/20/2008 is on the order of 1/20 of a traditional light. Councilman Ryan suggested the city consider using the countdown device for the Don't Walk signals as it is a safety measure. 4) Charles Dial, 27959 Gardenia, spoke again about the foreclosure issue as he attended training sessions put on by the Legal Aid Society and Baz Association. Although they are working to keep people in their homes, he continues to believe their efforts are not enough because they are not thinking outside of the box. He hopes that the city will do everything it can to move the reform issue forwazd. Council Member Jones announced that the streets tour would begin at 7:30 p.m. on Wednesday, May 28. Residents who would like to attend should contact her or Service Director Limpert. 5) Maryann Schultz Kuzila, 4176 Laurell Lane, spoke about the current conditions of streets in the Laurell Woods development. She provided packets to Council members containing pictures, notes and a-mails from residents in the development. The residents are dismayed over the work that was done last yeaz which has not held up and was only a band aid solution. They understood a temporary solution would be done this spring, but have learned repair work for their development is not going to happen. She was told her street was rated a 6. Their streets aze an embarrassment as is Dover Center Road which people must use to get to the development. Service Director Limpert came forward to address the issue and said some of the repairs the residents were hoping to get and the thoughts were to do full depth concrete patches in preparation of an asphalt overlay. During budget appropriations last yeaz, there was talk of providing an extra $60,000 into the appropriations for street repairs so such work could be done. There was no additional funding. The Service Dept. was left somewhat in a scramble mode that people had expectations that something would be done as pieces of street were in people's tree lawns. Given the fact there was inadequate funding to do as much as they would have liked to do, they went with a partial depth grind and asphalt bridge approach. He was reluctant to push to do an asphalt overlay on those streets in 2008 because the bridge approach is going to work very well on a number of those joints and not very well on some of them. Some of the asphalt bridges are already showing cracks and fatigue because what needs to be done is a full concrete depth patch. The city has tried not to go forward with whoever yells the loudest gets the street repairs. There are streets in other wards that are in far worse shape than the Laurell Woods area. This is a matter of trying to prioritize, trying to move forward as rapidly as possible. In 2006, the city hired a professional outside source to do a rating program. Streets in Laurell Woods did rate much better than streets that are being done this year. As to Dover Road, it is an old county road and the county often contributes funds for major repairs on those roads. Back in 1985 was the last time it was done in North Olmsted with a considerable amount of county help. Into mid-1990's, Westlake's Dover Road was looking like a cow path compared to how nice it was in North Olmsted, and the county provided significant funds to Westlake for the repaving of Dover Road. The county has now committed to help Bay Village with their portion. He believes North Olmsted is next in line to be getting that help. The county has provided help to the city significantly with Clague Road and Great Northern Blvd. and is helping with Stearns. In 2003, we spent $50,000 crackseaiing 12 ~~.~~ _ _ t