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Council Minutes of 6-16-2020 • Discussed next was Resolution 2020-63. An Ordinance approving and authorizing the acceptance of coronavirus relief funding under the Coronavirus Aid, Relief and Economic Security (CARES) Act and Ohio Senate Bill No. 310, affirming the expenditure of said funds by the City consistent with the CARES Act, and declaring an emergency. This aid money comes from the federal government. Because of the size of our community, our share is handled by the County. Our estimated share is $781,000. The money can be used for COVID related expenses outside of our budgeted expenses. This includes capital improvements to help upgrade city properties to help stop the spread of COVID and to purchase PPE. There is a quick spend down as the money must be contracted by October and spent by December. The committee voted 3-0 to recommend to Council with suspension. Councilwoman Hemann Chairwoman of the Environmental Control Committee: The Environmental Control Committee met on Tuesday, June 9, 2020 at 7:31 p.m. Present were committee members Hemann, Glassburn and Williamson; Council members Brossard, Kelly and Schumann; Council President Jones; Mayor Kennedy, Director of Law Gareau and guests. • The Mayor updated the committee regarding the city's interest in various properties owned by the Ohio Department of Transportation and the North Olmsted City School District as they related to the potential to ease some of the flooding issues the City has struggled with. The Mayor mentioned Director Lieber had a meeting on June l l with the schools and discussed the various ODOT properties. Committee member Glassburn inquired about ditch cleaning, dredging and the formation of a storm crew similar to one in place some time ago. The Mayor agreed to send Council the presentation to the residents along with the meeting schedule. Additional information about ditch cleaning along with county reports and information from the Waste Water Treatment Plant would also be provided to Council. Councilwoman Hemann requested a moment of personal privilege. I would like to wish Director Glauner well and tell you that I am very much going to miss the quick service and response you always gave to all of our residents, mine in particular. Thank you so very much for your time with us. I would also like to acknowledge with regard to the Environmental Control committee that Council did receive the resident presentation and resident meeting schedule, but we are still not in receipt of some of the other information and items from the administration. I know they will take a little while to accumulate, some of them are a little older in records. To that end, I will have our Clerk of Council send an e-mail with the items that are owed and hopefully we can get those this week or at the onset of next week. I would also like to thank the Service Department for their work to open the community gardens. I have had a garden since its inception and feel it is an important part of our community. I would like to thank Council President Jones for her donation of potato seed starters and the Oxcart Pantry gave me their particular garden plot to plant all of those potatoes, which I did today. When they are harvested they should provide approximately 10 families with potatoes for a week or two. 3