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Council Minutes of 8-17-2021 there are plenty of lead service lines which are from the house to the main and the home owner is responsible for those. Alejandro Chock 24677 Randall Dr. Mr. Chock said he was intrigued by the last week's discussion on 2021-47. He said Councilwoman Hemann wants residents to believe Cleveland Water runs nothing more than a lottery program. He said if you look at Ohio's H2O initiative, Ohio EPA's water supply revolving loan and the federal EPA's drinking water state revolving fund these programs make awards based on the competitive ranking of a pool of applicants. Mr. Chock said Councilwoman Hemann called Cleveland Water's program a lottery because North Olmsted isn't guaranteed funding. He said this means Councilwoman Hemann has to claim these other programs are lotteries as well. Mr. Chock said Council is willing to allow residents water fees to go to neighboring communities and patch the lines into perpetuity. He said regarding the concern of having to buy lines back from Cleveland Water if Council thinks it will leave Cleveland Water anytime in the next 50 years, it should leave Cleveland Water today instead of losing money in a system the City has no long term interest in. Mr. Chock next discussed 2021-53, which is related to a pedestrian hybrid beacon at Clague Park. He said he was one of the authors of the Corridor Study, but it is completed and he is speaking as a resident. He said the Corridor Study recommended a turn lane and signal improvements along with the exact same hybrid beacon at the park. He said the project team identified funding for the hybrid beacon and the other safety features at little to no cost to the City taxpayers using ODOT safety funding. He said the administration brought the plan to Council in 2020-111 in October. Mr. Chock said if Council was interested in public safety they could have drafted legislation compelling the administration to pursue funding for just the hybrid beacon, but they did not do that. He said Councilman Kelly and Glassburn effectively killed 2020-111 in committee and now cosponsor legislation to bring the exact same hybrid beacon to Council at taxpayer expense. On April 13th Councilman Glassburn and Hemann both indicated they wanted forgo the recommendations and wanted a different proposal. Mr. Chock said all of the Councilmembers that were opposed are all joined to propose the exact same thing. He said 2021-53 identifies no grants or funding to pay for any of this work. He said by rejecting previous funding for the exact same project it has missed another opportunity to use new money for new projects. Mr. Chock asked why did Council reject the funding for the project it proposes tonight and leave money on the table for other communities to take advantage of. Council President Jones said holding legislation in committee does not kill it. Councilman Brossard gave Mr. Chock the correct pronunciation of his last name. Councilwoman Hemann asked Councilman Limpert if the legislation Mr. Chock referenced was still pending in his committee. Councilman Limpert said yes, it's been held for about four months now. I