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Council Minutes of 5-7-2019 amount was correct. Councilman Kearney inquired as to whether the City verified the property was not damaged. Director Gareau noted after talking to the Director of Service and City Engineer there were no reports of damage by the contractor. Councilman Kearney asked about photographing and was told the site was photographed during the citing process, but no photos were taken during the work in order to keep costs down for the residents. After discussion, the committee voted to hold in committee 3-0. Councilwoman Hemann Chairwoman of the Environmental Control Committee: The Environmental Control Committee met on Tuesday, April 30, 2019 at 7:22 p.m. Present were committee members Hemann, Glassburn and Williamson; Council members Brossard, Kearney, Limpert and Schumann; Council President Jones; Mayor Kennedy, Director of Finance Copfer, Director of Law Gareau, Director of Safety & Service Glauner, Director of Planning & Development Lieber, City Engineer DiFranco, Cleveland Division of Water Commissioner Margevicius, Ms. Jackson also from Cleveland Division of Water and guests. • Discussed was Ordinance 2018-90. A Resolution authorizing the Mayor to enter into agreements with the City of Cleveland, Division of Water to establish a Municipal Utilities District, to restate the Water Services Agreement, and to provide for the transfer of water utility assets from the City of North Olmsted. There are three companion agreements that must be executed together. One is a Municipal Utility District which has to do with revenue sharing and some other things regarding our City that tie us to the City of Cleveland. The second is a Water Services Agreement, which is a restated Water Services Agreement. The City currently has a Water Services Agreement which was executed back in the 1990's. The final one is an asset transfer agreement, which would transfer the water lines to the City of Cleveland along with the entire fresh water system. The essence of the agreements is to create, "a regional economy focused on growth, innovation, and cooperative efforts, rather than competition amongst municipal neighbors within Cuyahoga County." That is under the Municipal Utility District and has great amount of detail to it and is not only about our water lines. It would be misleading to say they want to take over our water lines and fix them for free, certainly nothing is free. The term of the agreements is 20 years. There is a 15 year minimum term at which time the City can give them a notice of cancellation, which has to be a five year notice. If the City chooses to terminate the agreements, the City must buy back the things, transferred to Cleveland Water, they are not just given back. It's pretty complicated. It will renew year to year after that and the agreements tie the City not just for a 20 year period, but in essence future administrations and councils. The City gives up most of its rights in all of the decision making through these agreements. Discussion of concerns are the transfer of ownership interests and possible benefits the City receives. The City does receive the ability to apply, like a grant program, along with 40 other cities to have Cleveland Water work on a project of ours. There is a formula calculation which North Olmsted would be rated along with the other communities applying and they will decide which projects get funded. The pool of money is a guaranteed $10 million across about 40 communities. Cleveland t,