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Mnutes~of the Special Meeting '. ., October 13, 1952' The Council of the Village of Mayfield met in the Town Hall. in Special Meeting on the 13th day of October, 1952, at 8 o~clock P. M®, pursuant to notice, according-to law, Mayor Gustav Swanson presiding. Roll Call - Present: Messrs Waltz, Sloan, Endress, Cass & Oatess Absent: Mr. Scheuring. In the absence of the Clerk due to illness, Mr. Arnold Iid. Edelman, the Solicitor, was chosen to act as C1erlc pro.temo Mayor Swanson brought up the question of joining County Sewer.District No. 3. He said that the Mayors. of the so-called Hilltop Com~'n~ties have held several meetings and feel that joinisag District 3 is a step in the right direction and would not prevent the .eventual formation of a county wide seer district. Another meeting of representatives of said municipalities will be held Wednesday evening, October 15th, at Lyndhurst City Hall and all Councilmen are invited to attend® Mr. John Puzeriski, County Sanitary Engineer, was introduced and explained the details of~the proposed plan. Tt contemplates opening up additional territory in Mayfield Village for joining-District 3, The county has committed itself to assume half the cost as far as general benefits are concerned. Eventually a county wide sewer district is .envisioned, but enlargement of District 3 ,ori.ll not interfere with this, but will. enable the county to take immediate steps to establish means of bringing sewage to the City of Clevelandts Easterly sewage disposal plant. He then asked for questions and discussion. Mr. Frank Woodruff, of the Pease Engineering Company, the Village Engineers, participated in the discussion and explained that the present.Bonnieview Plant would be . discontinued and described what pumping stations, force mains and trunk servers would be installed, all as shown on the proposed plane Anew sewer down Belvoir Blvde to Euclid and Ivanhoe Roads would gather up the sewage from all the Hilltop municipalities and transmit the same to the Cleveland Easterly sewage disposal plant. All_of .Mayfield Village south of and including Wilson Mills-Road would be served. Property owners. in this territory would be assessed by the county on the basis of special benefits to the extent of approximately X190.00 an.acre. Of course, wlien local mains are installed, additional special assessments would be levied. Property owners North of Wilson Mills.Road would not be able to connect with the Wilson Mills trunk sewer because of gravity but it is contemplated that another plan would be instituted to transmit that sevrage to the Euclid Treatment Plant. Mr. Woodruff recommended the passage of an O~inance permitting the county to place all or part of the territory of Mayfield Village into various sewer districts, pointing out that. in that way the county would .assume half the cost. Mr. Edelman pointed out that the ordinance which Council has been asked to pass merely authorizes the county to incorporate all or part of Mayfield Village in one or more sewer districts; that the plans that are