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'+~ Council Minutes of 4/7/2009 the smallest there, and at that time he stated funds didn't need to come directly into North Olmsted for this to be a success. The measure of success is that it improves our infrastructure, improves the quality of life for our citizens and puts our people back to work. North Olmsted recently was awarded through the Byrne Memorial Justice Assistance Grant (JAG) program, federal stimulus dollars in the amount of $100,000. These funds will be used within our North Olmsted Police Department to improve the communications systems. Additionally, we continue to work very aggressively with our elected officials in Columbus, our state representative, state senator. We're in contact with the Northeast Ohio Areawide Coordinating Agency. The vast majority of federal stimulus dollazs for infrastructure have been awazded by the state. But other pools of this money are sent out to a local coordinating agency. He is on the board of NOACA, and we are in very close contact with NOACA to continue to try to find more dollars to bring into North Olmsted for our citizens. He was on the phone twice last week with Congressman Kucinich regarding our projects requesting federal set-asides both to help in our portion of the Dover Center Road reconstruction and for the reconstruction of the industrial parkway on the west side of town. These aze placed very highly on his list of federal set-asides. Thanks to all of our directors who have been very diligent in these efforts, but specifically Director Limpert, Director Wenger, and Director Thomas for their efforts and successes they brought to North Olmsted. 5) The improved city website has resulted in increased traffic as residents aze realizing not only can they gain a great deal of information off our site, but they can even request forms and file forms. The improved site has been a great success. The cable channel has improved as well. We are using better technology. We're rotating through as we take the old data, and we're putting it on to new and better slides. Also, for the first time have the ability to specifically schedule when particulaz events can be shown. 6) The city has received a grant in the amount of $3,500 from the Cuyahoga County Solid Waste District to promote recycling efforts in our community. Work is proceeding in this effort at a great pace. We r~ently worked with students from North Olmsted High School to film an introductory description of the things the city is doing in the efforts for recycling. 7) Next organizational meeting for the North Olmsted American Cancer Society Relay for Life is 6:30 pm on Tuesday, April 14, at the North Olmsted Recreation Center. Contact the Community Life Services Department for more information to volunteer or participate. 8) The Landmarks Commission will be presenting the first speaker of their 2009 speaker series on Monday, April 13. Deneen Kassouf of the Cuyahoga County Recorders Office will be presenting research on a number of North Olmsted's historic homes and teaching research methods available to the public. The event begins at 7 p.m. in Council Chambers. 9) Our Division of Youth Services is working with the Planning Department on traffic studies for the Multi-Modal Transportation Project. Traffic counts will continue on Saturdays. 10) Fire activity was minimal and EMS runs were down during the first quarter of 2009. House fires and false alarms remain low as compared to this time period last year, which is a very good trend. 2