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Council Minutes of 11-15-2016 should help residents both upstream and downstream from the school. Councilman Schumann also wanted to verify that the flow would not be changed along the property and that was confirmed. Councilman Barker and the Service Director also highlighted the Service Department cleaned the ditches twice this year as well as executed a joint project with Westlake to Lebern. • An update was also provided on the retention project at the property at or near Pine School. The City has received bids and the City Engineer expects the project to be completed by mid-April. The project is expected to add approximately one million gallons of retention to that area. • Future projects that have not yet been prioritized were also discussed such as enhancements at Chestnut School, various areas along the Root ditch, Sandy Ridge, Bridgeport and other potential conveyance and culvert projects.. • The City Engineer provided a very nice graphic that showed a holistic view of the projects that hopefully we can leverage somewhere such as the city website or in communications with residents. AUDIENCE PARTICIPATION Jeff Campbell 27955 Terrace Dr. North Olmsted Mr. Campbell is a Scout Master of Troop 664 and is also co-director and co-author of the Dover Players Production Somewhere. He wanted to address a letter he received from the City this past spring which discussed potentially moving the Mayor's Court and staff into the Old Town Hall next year. The letter said because of security and interior changes this would prohibit the use of the building for any other purpose. The letter said these changes will take effect January 1, 2017 and was signed by the Service Director. He said Dover Players has had the opportunity to put on new and original plays and musicals at Old Town Hall for the past 15 years. The group would like to see Old Town Hall kept for its original purpose, which was for meetings, lectures, visiting social and art groups, musical productions and performances. He questioned if Dover Player's time has passed and the City has outgrown the local theater. He noted attendance is down, it is hard to get actors to try new material and the group no longer gets newspaper coverage. He also pointed out only half of Council attended his last play about North Olmsted's bicentennial and the latest production no one from Council or the Arts Commission has attended. He said as a resident he likes his city services and applauds a non -tax way of increasing the budget, but with the elimination of Old Town Hall there are no more public spaces that are sheltered from the weather for community gatherings. He asked the City to at least ponder what the City is becoming before eliminating this space for public use. LEGISLATION Ordinance 2016-116 introduced by Mayor Kennedy was given its third reading. An Ordinance amending various sections of Chapter Nine Fifty of the Codified Ordinances of the City of North Olmsted titled "Urban Forest" for the purpose of (1) removing reference to the previously abolished Architectural Review Board; and (2) reassigning, when appropriate, duties previously assigned to the now -abolished board, and declaring 5