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Mi1+N7TES OF TFiE NESTING OF THE (~?LfiICIL OF THE CITY OF NORTH OLMSTEA MAY a, 1978 Present: President Dewey Limpert, Councilmen Beaty, Boehmer, Logan, Petrigac, Beringer, Sharpe, Wilamosky. Also present: Mayor Robert 5wietyniowaki, Law Director Michael Gareau, Finance Director Robert Brockman, Safety Director ~3ugene Pure, Service Director Joseph Corrigan, City Engineer Ronald Zurawski, Clerk of Council Nora H311. Meeting was called to order by President Limpert at 8:00 P.M. Minutes of Council Meeting of April 18, 1978, were approved as read. Mayor Swietyniowski reported: 1) the deadline for voter registration for 3uae Primarp is May 5th. One may register at the City Administration Building between now and then during office hours between 8:30 a.m. and 4:30 p.m. Applications for absentee ballots are available also. Service Director Corrigan reported: l) attended a Streets & Drainage Committee meeting on April 20, 1978, and indicated at that meeting we would have a response tonight to several specific requests of some of the citi$eury who attended the Committee meeting. Specifically Mr. James Cornish of 24655 Maple Ridge Road, proposed two short term solutions to the flooding problem of Maple Ridge for consideration of Service Department. At that tosetir~g the Service Directox covered that there are many problems that are leading to the flooding. Ote recommendation was the manhole be raised approximately four inc'~s above the road level so in the event of flooding, water would not drain into the sew due to the holes in the manhole lid, We did inspect the manhole and lid: there are not any holes in the lid so it would not accomplish anything to raise that manhole higher than the street's surface. The other reconmzendaton was that the culverts that are under the driveways leading into the homes possibly be increased in sine. In meetings with the superintendents of the Systems and Treatment Plant it was obvious the ditches in front of the homes have accumulated a large amount of debris; some of the intakes to the various culverts were almost completely blocked by dropped debris, brick works from the basewalls of the driveway culverts, etc. The service crews cleaned them last week. We also inspected where the drstinage Swale goes underground for a short distance in front of the two homes at the point where it crosses the read into Westlake with t.v. camera and it is completely free of debris. We have done what can be done on a short term basis as far as cleaning up the ditches. Regarding the proposal that the culvert size be increased - cost would be substantial because we have a lot of 54" drop at some points from the drive surface to the bottom of the Swale. The City is engaged in an inflo infiltration study that would address the long range problems relative to the floadiug in that area. The other factor is if we do install larger culvert pipes in front of those particular homes, based upon the experience of the .Systems Superintendnt awl the Service Department Superintendent, the backup is created in rainstorms from the restrictive culvert pipe new in Westlake that goes under Hall Road, and the pressuxe comes back from Westlake where it is restricted at the Hall Road culvert. To increase the size of the culvert pipe would not solve that problem and on a cost basis whether the City would pay for it or whether the theory was applied that the abutting property owners are the beneficiaries of the increased culvert pipe and should be assessed by Council is an unclear issue at this point. Would not recommend that this be done at this time;