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Council Minutes of 10-03-2023 Councilman Glassburn, Chairman of the Finance Committee did not have a report. However, Mr. Glassburn moved to remove Ordinance 2023-94 from the Agenda and refer to Committee. The motion was seconded by Councilman Madden and passed 6-1. Roll Call: Yes: Glassburn, Madden, Hemann, Scarl, Williamson, Gilchrist No: Umpert Motion carried. Ordinance 2023-94 was removed from the Agenda and referred to Committee by a vote of 6-1. COMMUNICATIONS None. AUDIENCE PARTICIPATION Chris Kmiecik 23727 Elm Road Ms. Kmiecik came to Council to oppose the cell phone tower being placed at the North Olmsted Community Park. She has been a resident of North Olmsted since 1977 and is retired from a local park district. She has spent 30 years working to protect wild places. She stated that green spaces are crucial to our health and wellbeing. Connecting with nature helps with stress, anxiety, depression, etc. It improves concentration and cognitive function, etc. She continued to explain the benefits of parks and green spaces. She feels putting a cell tower in the park is no different than putting other types of industrial development there. She does not believe the park was the only place to put this tower and mentioned other places she felt were better suited to protect the very small green space in North Olmsted. She ended by saying she does not understand why more communication was not put in place to notify residents of this cell tower. Connie English 5009 E. Park Drive Ms. English watched the video from the lune 27, 2023, Recreation Committee Meeting and one of the questions was how tall it would be, wherein Director Pinchek confirmed that it would be 60 ft. Director Upton did not say how tall it was going to be, only that it would be baseball light height. Ms. English noted that everyone was fine with that except Ms. Copfer who stated it was going to be 140 ft., and no one else mentioned the height. Ms. Hemann noted that the height is listed on the exhibit attached to the legislation, and noted that sometimes things are mentioned in Committees in order to put forth a record for the public. Ms. English stated the Rec Director was wrong in stating it was 60 ft., and asking shouldn't the Rec Director know what the height was. She questioned how Council could make a decision without all the information. Ms. English quoted Section 1151 (a — g( of the codified ordinances, as she feels it pertains to this conversation. Ms. English handed Law Director Gareau and all of Council a public records request. Law Director Gareau stated that he is not the custodian of the records requested, but will do his best to ensure it gets allocated to the person who is the custodian of those records, wherein there may be follow-up to ensure the records request is properly handled.