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Council Minutes of 8-3-2021 The Committee of the Whole met on Tuesday, August 3, 2021 at 7:30 p.m. Present were Councilmembers Brossard, Glassburn, Hemann, Kelly, Limpert and Williamson; Council President Jones; Mayor Kennedy, Director of Human Resources Gallo, Director of Law Gareau, Director of Planning and Development Lieber and guests. • The Clerk of Council gave a brief update on the Ward redistricting in North Olmsted. • Discussed next was the City's server going down in late June and through most of July causing IT to spend approximately 400 hours repairing the server. Council will schedule another Committee of the Whole meeting to discuss this more. Councilman Kelly asked for a moment of personal privilege. He said he had a question for the administration. On Monday he got a couple of phone calls from several residents on W. 231s' St between Lorain and Alexander. There were a number of vehicles that received parking citations mostly regarding parking on the street and on the tree lawn. One of the residents went out to talk with the police officer and was told any vehicles parking on the tree lawn area would be cited and that no tire should go past the white line on the edge of the street. The Police Chief told Mr. Kelly as far as he knew parking is not allowed on any street with a double yellow line. At this point, the residents don't know what to do because they have been parking on that side of the street for ages. Mr. Kelly asked the administration if it could look into this and see what the rule is going to be about parking on W. 231 and requested a moratorium on citations for people parked out in front of their houses, except for very flagrant violations. Clerk Massarolo was asked to check previous minutes and in 2000 and 2001, Council had actually looked at this issue on W. 231st. Councilman Kelly said Director Gareau, who was a Councilman at the time, had introduced legislation to prohibit all parking on the street. That was Ordinance 2000- 100 and it was tabled. Mayor Kennedy said he will meet with the chief on this issue and get back to Council on it. Councilman Kelly said he had a question from a resident that they are not sure what to do now as there are so many new people on the street who do park out in front of their houses. Now everyone is afraid they are going to get a citation if that particular police officer comes down and decide to enforce it again. Mayor Kennedy asked Councilman Kelly what the Police Chief had to say as this was the first he is hearing of the issue. Councilman Kelly responded the Chief said some citations were made for left side of the curb, but some citations were for just parking. Mr. Kelly asked the administration if the City could just hold off on citations during the day when people are parked in front of their house until a decision could be made about the future of parking on the street. Mayor Kennedy said the City can get that done, it might have been a neighbor who called, but would look into it. AUDIENCE PARTICIPATION 3