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2016, when we were dealing with the litigation and multiple criminal charges for property maintenance violations at the Westbury, and part of the resolution of that, to abate a fairly significant multi -hundred thousand -dollar fine that we secured, was for them to make necessary repairs to the structure. Now anyone that's been driving by there for the past several years sees that there's work being done. You might recall that before they started that, we were concerned about deterioration, and an actual panel had fallen off the building and landed outside. On November 30th, I received a memo report to the City of North Olmsted from the contractor working on that project, just to kind of get us up to speed, and I thought I would read a little bit of that to you to help you understand what all is taking place at that site. So the company is Frost Building Maintenance, completed, this was from 2016 to 2022, had completed six repair drops on the building. The work consisted of brick repair, replacement, joint sealants, mortar joint replacement, painting and the application of waterproof membrane to the required balconies. The balconies were in fairly substantial bad shape. The work performed by Frost helped reduce or eliminate the deterioration of the structural elements of the building facade and has increased the overall appearance of the building facade, we think, in a positive manner. In 2023, a separate company took over to do additional work that was EBS Construction, took over the facade work from Frost, covering the same work and the EFS installation on the four corners of the building. In June of 2023, work continued on the repair and preventative maintenance on the Westbury apartment's parking garage, which was in dreadful condition, required to clear the outstanding violations related to the parking garage. By the fall of 2023, all of the walls along the east, west and south side of the garage had been designated for removal and replacement, had been completed. The company, Jadco had also completed a phase on the top of the supported slab repairs, by removing the existing blacktop and performing all necessary concrete repairs in the area. They then went on to another phase at the top of the supported slab and continue to work on the concrete columns and repairs. In 2024, brings us up to this year, the repair work on the garage, starting with the inside of the garage, was commenced. Jadco removed the northern side of the garage's upper level and began removing the existing asphalt and performing additional concrete repairs. One last comment for 2024, Jadco continued working in 2024 inside the garage during the winter season. Work was concentrated along the north side of the garage. Work completed consisted of concrete repairs on the columns, soffit and slab. Asphalt removal on the northwest corner began in April of this year. Concrete floor repairs, starting with a large enough area of asphalt, was removed and also additional concrete slab repairs were completed on the west. So they're nearly finished with the interior of the garage and they're moving on to interior painting. I tell you this just because I think it's a good result. This this had been a problem for some period of time. It was unsightly. It was dangerous. We've received calls from all over, after this went in the media, from all over the greater Cleveland area about enforcement against these what could be deemed negligent landlords. You'll 12-03-24 Council Meeting Minutes - Page 3