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Mr. Jeff Sturgeon: All right. All right, thank you. And even though we got through that whole process and everything, rest assured that if anything else should come up in the remaining of our time, four and a half more years to go, I can assure you that the Charter Commission will be there for the city should something else come up. It's been a pleasure and very rewarding doing that for the city. Thank you. Mr. Terry Smith: Terry Smith, 6602 Maplehurst Road. I just had a question. I've heard some comments before regarding the roads in North Olmsted, specifically Dover and Clague, I think. They said that they were county roads and that the county had responsibility over them, and so that's part of the reason there's issues there. But I'm just wondering why, when you go into Westlake, the roads are smooth. So is it a joint feature, or is it just, it can't be just the county, if that's true, how the roads smooth out. So thank you. Council President Brossard: Mayor. Mayor Jones: Mr. President. Unless you would like to? Council President Brossard: All yours. Mayor Jones: Okay, thank you. Thank you, Mr. Smith. So you are correct in stating that roads like Dover Center and Clague Road, they're both considered county roads. However, the agreements with the different municipalities, they differ on when the county comes in and rehabilitates the roads. So for example, our section of Clague Road, that's a current county project. They fund these projects a couple years ahead of time, and then so they know that they will be in North Olmsted, while they were here at the end of 24 through 25. You'll notice that then Clague on Westlake's end, though, they will be up for rehabilitation a couple of years down the road. As far as Dover Center goes, Westlake's timetable with the county just happened to come up literally just, I believe it was just a year and a half ago. Our timetable with the county, unfortunately for Dover Center, is almost four years away from now. However, Council had decided during our budget hearings that because our section of Dover Center had disintegrated so significantly, that the city would take funds and pay for that rehabilitation now. Because we couldn't wait for the county's timetable. So it does, even though the county owns that whole stretch of road, each municipality has a different agreement and a different timetable, and that's why there's no consistency, which probably doesn't make a whole lot of sense. But unfortunately, because of the way that our county kind of grew up with each municipality originally creating these agreements with the county during different times, there's not a lot of continuity. 06-0 -25 COUncil Meeting Minutes .. Page 11