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Council Minutes of 4/15/2008 committee members Jones, Kearney, Mahoney; Council President Kennedy; Councilmen Gareau, Bazker and Orlowski; Directors Dubelko and Limpert and city foreman Don Wilhelmy. • The committee discussed snow removal issues, especially in light of the heavy snowfall the weekend of March 8. The Service Director and foreman described the breakdown of the six salt routes and 20 different snow removal sections of our city. The obligation of the city is to keep the streets open for emergency vehicles. In general, the Service Dept. tries to touch each street within 24 hours. The snow event of Macch 8 was incredibly heavy and this time period was not realized by every street. Council was assured that the city workers did not and do not stop until every street has been plowed. On that particular weekend, people were staggered and working up to 16 hours each. The committee had a spirited discussion on the complications of plowing too close to the curbs which throws more snow into the residents' driveway aprons versus a little farther away from the curbs which, in the case of the March 8 snow event, makes it hard for postal workers to drive their cars up to mailboxes and some residents experienced a delay of mail delivery. In addition, because so many curbs had been reported damaged by the snow plowing, Council asked if the Service Dept. had considered cross-training some of the employees who are asked to plow during major events but aze not regularly behind a plow truck, to do some training ahead of time before the snow season. The committee appreciated the duector and the foreman's frankness regarding their snow plans and the city employees' dedication to keeping our streets clean. • Also discussed was the issue of the Lorain Road east project so as to give Council a better understanding of where the city is at after Council recently passed a resolution requesting ODOT to look into the paving project that they handled two yeazs ago. Lorain Road east is already cracking. The integrity of the seams in the road is questioned. The Service Director did report that ODOT is completing a report on the situation, and the city should be receiving a copy of that report before the end of the month. Council is hopeful that the information between the Service Dept. and the Law Dept. will be adequately shared in a timely fashion so that all entities will have full knowledge of the situation and so that the city could properly proceed to make sure our streets projects conducted by the state are handled properly. 2) April is Fair Housing Month and the Fair Housing Review Board of the city is sponsoring a foreclosure prevention seminaz on Saturday, April 26, from 9:30 until 11:30 a.m. The seminar is free, refreshments aze provided. Please call Vicki in the Law Dept. to make a reservation. This event is timely, but it's really important for all residents to attend. Having this knowledge ahead of time, how to prevent foreclosure from happening or protecting yourself from predatory lending, can only be beneficial. Councilman Gazeau inquired if the city had received the report from ODOT, and Service Director Limpert indicated no. k~~,~.