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road will be closed to northbound traffic. The detour is Walter Road to Westwood Road. Please mark on your calendars Thursday, October 3rd at 30 a.m. for a groundbreaking ceremony for the Kingston Townhomes Development. This is an approximately $15 million project going in near the corner of Brook Park Road and Grace Road. As part of Fire Prevention Week, Fire Station 2 will have an Open House on Wednesday, October 9th from 5:30 until 7:30 p.m. There will be a vehicle demonstration, a station tour, touch a truck, among other things as part of this open House. As Council is aware, last year, thanks to Council's authorization, the City was awarded a Safe Routes to School Planning Grant. This grant is looking at safe routes for our high school and middle school and our upcoming new elementary school. As part of the planning phase, there will be a tent at the Thursday, October 10th North Olmsted High School football game against Bay to gather feedback from parents and students about their thoughts on the safety plan. This is just one type of outreach as the plan continues to be developed. Once completed, the City will be able to use this plan to receive Safe Route to School Grant funding to implement any recommendations that are made. Finally, while it seems a way off, Halloween will be here before you know it. The Citywide Trick -or -Treating will be on Halloween, as usual, Thursday, October 31st from 6 until 8 p.m. Residents who wish to participate should turn on their porch light. Also, after a successful first year, we are bringing back Trick -or -Treating at City Hall for children 5 and under. It will be held at City Hall Friday, October 25th from 12:30 until 1:30. The event is free, however, we encourage registration to ensure that there's enough candy for all those who want to participate, and Mr. President, that concludes my report. Council President Pro Tempore Glassburn: Thank you. Madam Mayor. Director of Law Gareau, do you have a report this evening? Law Director Gareau: Thank you, Mr. President. • I do have a brief update on a matter that I reported out to you, really some time ago concerning a property maintenance item. Here in the City of North Olmsted, you may recall I circulated photos to show the condition of what really was a hoarding property, I think it's safe to describe it as, and the repeated efforts made to gain compliance of the property owner at 5035 Porter Road. That matter, the court gave great deference in an effort to get compliance to clean up; but the day eventually comes for sentencing. There was not any real effort, I believe, made to clean up the property. In an unprecedented, that neither Prosecutor O'Malley nor myself have seen, the judge before sentencing wanted to do a site visit. • So the judge went out to see the property, came back, and because there was no compliance made, no real effort to clean up the property, the property owner received a seven-day jail sentence, and was taken from the bench directly to jail. That is something that has never happened, rarely happened, I should say, here in North Olmsted; but the condition of the property and the effect that it has on the neighbors is it warrants that type of stern punishment. I know people say it's only a 09-17-24 Council Meeting Minutes - Page 2