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Council Minutes of 8-3-2021 Ms. Bowden said on May 23 during the hearing at City Hall the dog owner verbally attacked her and said she thought the owner should have been arrested for disorderly conduct. Director Gareau said he can assure Ms. Bowden the dog owner is not getting special treatment. He said he can't speak for the judgment of the officers, but that he can't recall an instance where the City has had something similar happen in a public meeting or hearing. He asked Ms. Bowden to let the City continue to keep working to get the justice she wants. He said if the dog owner was getting special treatment she wouldn't have 11 counts against her at Rocky River and be looking at a lawsuit downtown. The City is doing what it can and will continue to. Ms. Bowden said she can't believe if the police are chasing a criminal and she is basically a criminal at this point, why they can't locate her. She asked if the police let the other communities know and say look out for this license plate? She said she doesn't feel the police are doing its job. Ms. Bowden also asked if the license bureau is able to pull up in the computer when someone has a warrant out for their arrest? Director Gareau said that can happen. Ms. Bowden asked how many continuances the dog owner can get. Director Gareau said the court will grant reasonable continuances for cause within reason. He said he doesn't think she has one yet, she just didn't show up. Ms. Bowden talked about how this incident has affected her. She also said the prosecutor doesn't return her calls and she wonders if that is normal. Director Gareau said he would ask the prosecutor to call Ms. Bowden back. Aaron Campbell 6316 Brighton Dr. Mr. Campell said he wished to address Resolution 2021-47 regarding Cleveland Water. He said he has reviewed the proposal and believes it is a good way to tap into millions of dollars of investment for the City it would otherwise have to come up with itself. He said Cleveland Water is willing to do this because communities have no plans to fund replacing water pipes and decided it is better to do it themselves rather than get stuck repairing pipe failures for the unforeseeable future. He said the reason given by members of this Council for not joining is due to litigation between Westlake and Cleveland Water. Mr. Campbell says he does not believe, and he does not think it's likely Councilmembers believe Westlake could legally cut off North Olmsted from its water source if Westlake were to leave. He said Westlake is unlikely to change suppliers due to the infrastructure such as the filtration plants 115 million gallons compared to Avon Lake's 50 million gallons, a lack of redundancy in Avon Lake's system and the need to replace all water meters. He said Westlake understands these facts and will continue to keep their water mains to the filtration plant open. Mr. Campbell said all that is besides the point though 5