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1. MINt3TBS OF THE MEETING OF THB COtRtCIL OF Tl~E CITY OP OLMSTED SBPTEMSER 16, 1975 Present: President Francis J. O'Neill, Councila~n Beaty, Coggin, Limpert, Saringer, Weet, Wilamosky. Also preasat: Mayor Ralph Christmsa, Law Director Michael Gateau, Finance Director William Gerlach, Safety Dir~rctor litaysoad Cam, Service Director Henry Caster, City Eagiater J. HoR+ard Childs, Clerk of Council Nora Hill. Absent: Councilman Sharpe Meeting was called to order by President O'Neill at 8:00 P.M. Minutes of Council Meeting of Septe~er 2, 1975, were appxoved as read. Mayor Christassn reported following: 1) Mrs. Sally Milers who has served on the Parks & Recreation Commission is a~rvng from tows; and in her p]ai~ce the name of Mrs. Yvonne Petrigac, 26633 S>weetbriar Drive, has bey subsitted as the School Board's representative to the City Parks ~ Recreation Commission to fill the unexpired tars of Mrs. Sally Myers tersinating 12/31/75; 2) received letter of resignation from Mr. William Tubbs from Board of Zoaiag :Appeals effective imsediately because of gressure of business; do not have a replacemernt for his at this time; 3) Council received copy of letter from Mr. Robert Svoboda, Principal Plr fox Regional Planning Commission, re~trdiag application for discretionary fads through the Housing 6 fbmtnuaity Development Act of 1974. Letter is quite a-elf-e~tc-ry in the almost impossible situation facing us in order to try to have a suce~essful application to HI3D by Septes~ber 38th. Mayor stated he contacted Mr. Svoboda prior to Council Meeting of Septet 2nd, knowing that the legislation was 8 sad met with him after the passage of the legislation to further pursue the p~ilty of getting a grant application in. Mayor read letter from Mr. Svoboda, dated September 8, 1975. Mayor stated because of this letter he decid~t not to pursue the application; 4) On Septesber 11, 1975, met with Rally Smith, representative from Senator St~o's office; Christine Gitlin, retpresaatative from Congr~aman Ran t~ttl's crffee; Art Waldorf and Mike Shaeffer from the Ohio Depart~aent of Natural Resources; G+sor Watkins, 'three Rivers Watershed Ilistrict; Councilman Janet Sariager amd Councilman John Coggin. This meeting was called in order to bring up-to-date tits staffs of Senator Staao's office sad Congr Mottl's office regarding the lc~tg aasd varied history of the ditches and the flooding p>robl~tas of North OlmAtted sad adjacent areas Feels that much was learned by the re~resedattatives and althougta no magic solution to the problem was found, the m~ from the Dept. of Natural ~rourt offered to contact the Corps of Enginsstrs to deEers~te if they would Dace again haere some interest in investigating tSte prt~hems of these ditches. Also. feel that the representatives from our taro re~-r+ae>atatiw offices west away with a t- broader picture of what we face in regard to the problems such as the Norean Ditch and the flooding that we have; 5) Ord. No. 75-211 before Council tonight was requested by the Mayor becaua~e of an ordinance sent to him by t~ Fin~ce DitreCtors of Fairview Park at~d I.~ik~aod end request from them for our passage of an orditaat~ce which would eaau~le the distribu- tion of local government fuxrds t~tt are curraantly tied up in litigation by the City of Cleveland. Would like to request this be passed under suspeaason of rules with emergency clause tonight is order that we carat take advantage of these funds this year; .,., .