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Council Minutes of 8-17-2021 The Environmental Control Committee met again on Tuesday, August 17, 2021 at 7:25 p.m. Present were committee members Hemann, Glassburn and Williamson; Council members Brossard, Kelly, Limpert and Schumann; Council President Jones; Mayor Kennedy, Director of Finance Copfer, Director of Human Resources Gallo, Director of Law Gareau, Director of Planning & Community Development Lieber and guests. • Discussed was Resolution 2021-47. 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. The purpose of the meeting was to clarify if the Mayor had been able to get in touch with Cleveland Water for the purposes of finding a day to meet with the committee. The Mayor reported he has reached out and has not heard back. The committee voted 3-0 to hold the legislation in committee pending hearing from the Mayor about Cleveland Water being able to attend an upcoming meeting. Councilman Kelly asked for a moment of personal privilege. At the last Council meeting there had been an issue of parking on W. 231" Street. I'd like to give a shout out to Chief Wagner from the Police Department who looked through the ordinances and realized people had been parking ok the way it was. The two citations that had been written that were not left side of the curb were either voided or money returned to the one that paid it. Everyone is aware of what the parking ordinance is down there now. On 231, everyone seems to be happy. The Chief also put the speed monitoring sign down there for a week and I appreciate that also. I want to thank the administration for that. AUDIENCE PARTICIPATION Jeff Sturgeon 3092 W. 231 Mr. Sturgeon said he would like to thank Councilman Kelly for speaking with the Police Chief and for now allowing parking on the street for now. He said he mentioned at the last meeting there should be some discussion on this and he still thinks this should be looked at closer, not just on W. 231, but on other streets as well. He said if you read the Ordinance it says if there is a curb you need to park between the sidewalk and the curb, meaning the tree lawn, and not on the street. Mr. Sturgeon said right now the Police Chief is going to allow it by asking residents to pull over a little bit due to the discussions around this in the late 1990's. Mr. Sturgeon said the City technically is not following its own ordinance. He said the ordinance was written in 1980 and it might be time to look at it. He also said some people on the street put up stakes to prevent parking and he asked if that had been approved. Mr. Sturgeon also stated he does not think the Cleveland Water agreement is a good thing for the City at this time. He said there are too many unanswered questions. He said he thinks everything works towards Cleveland's favor. He also said Mayor Kennedy brought up lead pipes and there are no lead pipes in the mains. He said mentioning Flint has nothing to do with North Olmsted and it wasn't a good comparison. Mr. Sturgeon said M