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MINUTES OF THE MEETING OF THE COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF NORTH OLMSTED NOVEMBER 19, 2019 Present: Council President Jones, Council Members Brossard, Glassburn, Hemann, Limpert, Schumann & Williamson Also Present: Mayor Kennedy, Director of Finance Copfer, Director of Human Resources Gallo, Director of Law Gareau, Director of Safety & Service Glauner, Director of Planning & Development Lieber and Clerk of Council Massarolo Absent: Councilman Kearney Council President Jones called the meeting to order at 8:00 p.m. in Council Chambers, 5200 Dover Center Road, North Olmsted, Ohio. Members of the audience were invited to join Council in the recitation of the Pledge of Allegiance. The Council meeting minutes of November 6, 2019 were approved as written. The following legislation will be considered for passage under suspension of the rules this evening: Second Reading: Ordinance 2019-93, Ordinance 2019-94 and Ordinance 2019-95. REPORTS Mayor Kennedy: • Mayor Kennedy announced that Randi Jones had passed away and the wake would be at Sunset Funeral Home on Friday from 1 p.m. to 8 p.m. The funeral will be Saturday at 10 a.m. • The Fat Head Race raised almost $14,000 for scholarships this year. • There was a group of middle schoolers that worked with the Administration and worked really hard to get a grave stone on a grave site that was unmarked and listed in the records as "colored." The students figured out it was the Peake and Cousin families, who were some of the first African Americans to settle in the area. The Peake family built a home on Mastick Road in the 1840's. The three students got media attention and a company donated a gravestone. These middle schoolers and their teacher did a great job. • The City missed out on potentially $1,178,282 in funding from Cleveland Water to replace several aged water mains. The City applied for four projects, two would have been accepted. The first was Grace Road which was 2,150 linear feet of eight inch water line. This would have been replaced between Mastick and Elm along with road resurfacing. Of all the projects submitted to Cleveland Water this round, this project scored second overall. Cleveland Water would have awarded $520,219 for this project. The other project would have been Silverdale Road which was 2,640 linear feet of eight inch water line. This would have been