REGULAR COUNCIL MEETING MINUTES OCTOBER 27, 2015
EASTLAKE CITY COUNCIL
REGULAR COUNCIL MEETING MINUTES
OCTOBER 27, 2015
The Regular Meeting of the Eastlake City Council was held at Eastlake City Hall, 35150 Lakeshore Boulevard. The Meeting was called to order by Council President
Mr. D’Ambrosio at approximately 7:12p.m.
The Pledge of Allegiance was recited.
ATTENDEES
Members of Council in attendance were Mr. Licht, Mr. Evers, Mr. Licht, Mr. Hoefle, Ms. DePledge, Ms. Vaughn and Council President Mr. D’Ambrosio. Mrs. Quinn-Hopkins was absent. Also in attendance was Council Clerk Mrs. Simons.
Those attending from the Administration were Mayor Morley, Law Director Klammer, Finance Director Slocum, Service Director Rubertino, City Engineer Gwydir, Fire Chief Whittington and Police Chief Reik. CBO Menn was absent and excused.
APPROVAL OF MINUTES
Mr. D’Ambrosio: We had a lot of things going on in the last couple of weeks and we were unable to finish the minutes from the last meeting. So we are not going to vote on them and we are just going to put them off until the next Council Meeting. We just could not get them done in time.
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COUNCIL PRESIDENT’S REPORT – Mr. D’Ambrosio
Meetings Scheduled
Mr. D’Ambrosio: The next Council-as-a-Whole Committee Meeting is scheduled for Tuesday, November 10, 2015 at 7:00 p.m. The Regular Council meeting will be convened immediately following the adjournment of the Council-as-a-Whole Committee meeting.
Mr. D’Ambrosio: All that I ask is for everyone to go out and vote on November 3, 2015 because we really need your support. We will change our December meetings by a Motion at the next Council Meeting.
COMMUNICATIONS & PETITIONS
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A communication from CBO Menn for the issuance of a Conditional Use Permit to Sree Sai Hotels LLC., dba Radisson Hotel & Suite.
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A communication from Mr. Rubertino Repealing Resolution No.:2015-080 enacted on October 13, 2015 for the correction of accurate location as the Township of Chardon, Ohio.
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A communication from Mr. Rubertino to enter into an Agreement with the Township of Chardon, Ohio for one Durapatcher 12DJ2.
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A communication from City Engineer Mr. Gwydir authorizing an application to participate in Ohio Public works Commission for improvements to Ridgewood Drive.
- A communication from City Engineer Mr. Gwydir authorizing an application to
participate in Ohio Public Works Commission for improvements to East 344th Street.
Mr. D’Ambrosio: We do have some Pending Legislation in an ordinance Committee and I don’t know if you guys want on voting November 3rd and if we don’t we can go on November 17th. Do you guys want to do November 17th? Mayor Morley you are not available?
Mayor Morley: I am not available on November 3rd and I would like to be at that meeting. It has to do with some changes that Mr. Menn is doing with the Building Department.
Mr. D’Ambrosio: I didn’t think that we would be able to so what we will do is hold it until November 17th and we may have some other things.
Mayor Morley: CBO Menn said that they have to be done by the end of the year.
Mr. D’Ambrosio: I had talked with Mr. Menn and that is my understanding too.
COMMITTEE REPORTS
Mr. D’Ambrosio: A Finance Committee Meeting was held on October 20, 2015. Mr. Slocum all that we had on that agenda was the Eighth Side Letter and we discuss that in Council-As-A-Whole. Is there anything else that you would like to add?
Mr. Slocum: No that’s what we covered.
Mr. D’Ambrosio: Mr. Hoefle would you like to make the Motion that you have?
Mr. Hoefle: Yes.
Motions:
Legislation No.: 10-27-(02)
MOTION: Mr. Hoefle moves to add Legislation No. 10-27-(02) to this evening’s agenda an Ordinance amending Ordinance No. 1990-018, adopted February 13, 1990, and authorizing the issuance of a Conditional Use Permit to Sree Sai Hotels, LLC., dba Radisson Hotel & Suites, 35000 Curtis Blvd., Eastlake, Ohio, 44095. Mr. Evers second.
ROLL CALL: Yeas unanimous.
Motion carried. This will appear on tonight’s agenda as 10-27-(02).
Legislation No.: 10-13-(03)
MOTION: Ms. Vaughn moves to add Legislation No. 10-13-(03) to this evening’s agenda a Resolution, Repealing in its entirety, Resolution No. 2015-080, enacted on October 13, 2015 for the purpose of correcting the denoting the accurate location as the Township of Chardon, Ohio. Mr. Licht second.
ROLL CALL: Yeas unanimous.
Motion carried. This will appear on tonight’s agenda as 10-27-(03).
Legislation No.: 10-27-(04)
MOTION: Ms. Vaughn moves to approve Legislation No. 10-27-(04) to this evening’s agenda a Resolution authorizing and directing the Mayor and Director of Finance to enter into an Agreement with the Township of Chardon, Ohio for one Durapatcher 12DJ2, Serial Number 14456, for the total cost of $15,000. Mr. Licht second.
ROLL CALL: Yeas unanimous.
Motion carried. This will appear on tonight’s agenda as 10-27-(04).
Legislation No.: 10-27-(05)
MOTION: Ms. Vaughn moves to approve Legislation No. 10-27-(05) to this evening’s agenda a Resolution authorizing and directing the Mayor to submit an Application to Participate in the Ohio Public Works Commission State Capital Improvement and/or Local Transportation Improvement Program(s) and to Execute Contracts as required. Mr. Licht second.
ROLL CALL: Yeas unanimous.
Motion carried. This will appear on tonight’s agenda as 10-27-(05).
Legislation No.: 10-27-(06)
MOTION: Ms. Vaughn moves to approve Legislation No. 10-27-(06) to this evening’s agenda a Resolution authorizing and directing the Mayor to submit an Application to Participate in the Ohio Public Works Commission State Capital Improvement and/or Local Transportation Improvement Program(s) and to Execute Contracts as required. Mr. Licht second.
ROLL CALL: Yeas unanimous.
Motion carried. This will appear on tonight’s agenda as 10-27-(06).
Mr. D’Ambrosio: Does anyone from Council have anything that they would like to report at this time? Ms. DePledge?
Ms. DePledge: As the Port Authority lesson I would just like to make everyone aware that at the end of the year there are two members who will not be seeking re-appointment to the board. If anybody is interested in be appointed to the Port Authority they can send their resume to Mr. Cema who is the current President of the Eastlake Port Authority or to the Mayor or to City Council. And whoever has the picks sometimes it is the Mayor’s Office and sometimes it is City Council it all depends on who is not being renewed. All of the resumes will be submitted to the Mayor’s Office and to City Council’s Office for consideration of appointment. That is all and thank you.
Mr. D’Ambrosio: Thank you Ms. DePledge.
RECOGNITION OF THE PUBLIC
Mr. D’Ambrosio recognized the public input at this time; he reminded the speakers that there is a 3-minute limit for their comments; all comments are to be directed to the Chair and not include any personalities or individuals.
Len Slodov, 34510 Lakeshore Blvd., Eastlake
Mr. Slodov: I just want to bring to Council’s attention a follow up email that I had sent to the Mayor’s office on October 8th. The owner of The Skill Zone which is a game center involving computerized skill game for gift cards. They have opened on Mentor-On-The-Lake and in Richmond Heights. I did bring it to the Mayor’s attention that he wants to open a game center in Eastlake Plaza. He has been interested in doing this since January. We have been told that we need to bring information in and since January we haven’t gotten anywhere with our Occupancy Permit. The Mayor has said that on ordinance needs to be corrected and even though I believe that Ordinance 761.03 (A) defines computerized skill games is included in that ordinance. It is something that I know nothing about and all I know is that I would like to expedite the Occupancy Permit process. Or that we could be put on the agenda for the Ordinance Committee Meeting to make the necessary changes to the ordinance to allow this. Or to just tell us that the City of Eastlake is not going to allow these skill gaming centers because of what happened previously with the game centers.
Mr. D’Ambrosio: It’s the Internet Café that he is referring to.
Mr. Slodov: Right now we are in limbo and it has been almost nine months and that is a lot of money lost for us. I don’t know if this is the correct time to bring this up.
Mr. D’Ambrosio: It’s always a good time.
Mayor Morley: I’m glad that I can finally meet you face to face instead of through emails. We have been writing back and forth and what I have informed him is that we’ve….that article was when we used to have the internet cafes or the sweepstakes cafes as you may recall. They were deemed unlawful by the state. What we have looked at now and I have been working with the Law Director is…since I’ve talked to you is that we got Willowick’s ordinance and that is what I am going to try to give to Council to see if they want to adopt it. We don’t want to say yes and bring it in because if you noticed in that ordinance there are some fees and we need to have the legislation. If Council chooses to add the legislation we need to have the legislation that all of the fees are talked about before we do that. I think that the Law Director to a point still has some issues. When they came in January and asked us to talk to Richmond Heights we did talk with them and they told us that they didn’t have anything at the time. When you came back I looked up and talked with Mentor-On-The-Lake’s City Administrator with the language that they are using and I also talked to Mayor Bonde of Willowick and the language that they are using. Willowick’s language probably fits us better than Mentor-On-The-Lake. I will continue to work with the Law Director and get the language and give it to the Clerk to give it to Council to look at. Unfortunately it’s a slow process but that is where we are at on it.
Mr. Slodov: A very slow process. Just so the Council knows that I have filled out two requests for these at the Plaza. It’s not a onetime thing…there are some interests out there for small businesses.
Mayor Morley: He owns the property where Nick’s Café and Circle.
Mr. Klammer: Mr. President just so you know that the Mayor has been pushing me one way or the other on it but has mentioned it to me a few times. My apprehension early on it was the ordinance that was sent from Willowick required the City to designate some independent laboratory to test all of these things. And when we circled back to back to Willowick and asked them who did they use and they never found one. It kind of ground to a halt. Mrs. Cendroski and Mr. Menn at that time found a lab and part of my concern is that I want to make that they just work for these companies that sell. Because they all wind up being illegal gambling and they all get shut down. Like the Mayor said about the fees that are under the current ordinance are $5,000. Before we felt a little unfair about $5,000 and they ended up getting shut down and there was will across the board on that. The Mayor is pushing me on so I will look at it and make a determination on it one way or the other and then it will come to you guys want to move forward on it like we did last time.
There was no one else who wished to speak.
LEGISLATION PROPOSED – First number will be 2015-082
10-27-(01) RESOLUTION NO: ___________
Requested by: Administration THIS EIGHTH SIDE LETTER AGREEMENT is Sponsored by: Finance Committee enteredinto by and between the City of Eastlake,
35150 Lakeshore Boulevard, Eastlake, Ohio 44095 (the “City”) and Cascia, LLC, dba The Lake County Captains, Classic Park, 35300 Vine Street, Eastlake, Ohio 44095-3142 (“Cascia”) in relation to the Lease between City and Cascia dated March 15, 2002 for the Eastlake Ballpark, now known as Classic Park, as amended (the “Lease”), effective as of April 1, 2015, and declaring an emergency.
There was no Motion to suspend the rules requiring separate readings and reading in full.
Legislation No. 10-27-(01) is placed on First Reading.
10-27- (02) ORDINANCE NO.:__________________
Requested by: Administration An Ordinance amending Ordinance No. 1990-018, Sponsored by: Mr. D’Ambrosio adopted February 13, 1990, and authorizing the
issuance of a Conditional Use Permit to Sree Sai Hotels, LLC., dba Radisson Hotel & Suites, 35000 Curtis Blvd., Eastlake, Ohio, 44095, and declaring an emergency.
MOTION: Mr. Hoefle moved to suspend the rules requiring separate readings and
reading in full. Mr. Evers second.
ROLL CALL: Yeas unanimous.
MOTION: Mr. Hoefle moved to adopt. Mr. Evers second.
ROLL CALL: Yeas unanimous.
Motion carried. Legislation is adopted as Resolution No. 2015-082.
10-27-(03) RESOLUTION NO.: ____________
Requested by: Administration A Resolution, Repealing in its entirety, Resolution Sponsored by: Council No. 2015-080, enacted on October 13, 2015 for the
purpose of correcting the denoting the accurate location as the Township of Chardon, Ohio, and declaring an emergency.
MOTION: Ms. Vaughn moved to suspend the rules requiring separate readings and
reading in full. Ms. DePledge second.
ROLL CALL: Yeas unanimous.
MOTION: Ms. Vaughn moved to adopt. Ms. DePledge second.
ROLL CALL: Yeas unanimous.
Motion carried. Legislation is adopted as Resolution No. 2015-083.
10-27-(04) RESOLUTION NO.: ____________
Requested by: Administration A Resolution authorizing and directing the Mayor Sponsored by: Council and Director of Finance to enter into an Agreement
with the Township of Chardon, Ohio for one Durapatcher 12DJ2, Serial Number 14456, for the total cost of $15,000, and declaring an emergency.
MOTION: Ms. Vaughn moved to suspend the rules requiring separate readings and
reading in full. Ms. DePledge second.
ROLL CALL: Yeas unanimous.
MOTION: Ms. Vaughn moved to adopt. Ms. DePledge second.
ROLL CALL: Yeas unanimous.
Motion carried. Legislation is adopted as Resolution No. 2015-084.
10-27-(05) RESOLUTION NO.: ________________
Requested by: Administration A Resolution authorizing and directing the Sponsored by: Council Mayor to submit an Application to Participate in the
Ohio Public Works Commission State Capital Improvement and/or Local Transportation Improvement Program(s) and to Execute Contracts as required, and declaring an emergency.
MOTION: Ms. Vaughn moved to suspend the rules requiring separate readings and
reading in full. Ms. DePledge second.
ROLL CALL: Yeas unanimous.
MOTION: Ms. Vaughn moved to adopt. Ms. DePledge second.
ROLL CALL: Yeas unanimous.
Motion carried. Legislation is adopted as Resolution No. 2015-085.
10-27-(06) RESOLUTION NO.: ________________
Requested by: Administration A Resolution authorizing and directing the
Sponsored by: Council Mayor to submit an Application to Participate in the
Ohio Public Works Commission State Capital Improvement and/or Local Transportation Improvement Program(s) and to Execute Contracts as required, and declaring an emergency.
MOTION: Ms. Vaughn moved to suspend the rules requiring separate readings and
reading in full. Ms. DePledge second.
ROLL CALL: Yeas unanimous.
MOTION: Ms. Vaughn moved to adopt. Ms. DePledge second.
ROLL CALL: Yeas unanimous.
Motion carried. Legislation is adopted as Resolution No. 2015-086.
LEGISLATION PENDING
There was no Legislation Pending.
UNFINISHED BUSINESS
There was no Unfinished Business.
NEW BUSINESS
There was no New Business.
ADMINISTRATIVE REPORTS:
MAYOR/SAFETY DIRECTOR – Dennis Morley
Mayor Morley: Thank you, Mr. President. Welcome everyone to this evening’s meeting. Just want to remind everyone that November 11th is Veteran’s Day and to thank a veteran for everything that they have given to us. It is the reason that we get to assemble here and the reason we get to vote. From myself and Council thank you to all of the veterans in our Country. I have been calls about Halloween and it is on Saturday between 6 p.m. and 8 p.m. for the trick-or-treaters for the City of Eastlake. Good luck to all of the candidate’s in Ward’s 1, 2, 3 and 4 on November 3rd. We also have two issues on the ballot and they are Issue 7 which is the Road Renewal Levy and as we have talked about in Council-As-A-Whole this is what gets our roads repaired. Especially with these bigger items if you do the math it is almost $550,000 out of the Road Levy fund for the two projects that are slated for next year. They continue to work on Willowick Drive and Luanna Drive will go into next year. The final date on that would go into April of 2016 and to fix Luanna Drive from this year’s funds also. We also have the Charter change for the rezoning and that would go through the Planning Commission as well as go through City Council as an emergency. It is not the fix all for economic development but we believe that it would be great starts in trying to get some things done were we need rezoning. Where we are at with the Wal-Mart light is for those of you who have been at the last few meetings is that we have talked with Wal-Mart. Our City Engineer and Wal-Mart’s engineer is in the process of picking a study team to do a study on the new entrance on Vine Street and off of 340th. Again it’s not as simple as to say hey we want a light up. It has to go through the Ohio Department of Transportation. They will look into that and hopefully it starts in the next month or so. Remember to go out and vote on November 3rd it is your right regardless of your candidate or issue just get out and exercise your right to vote.
There were no further questions of Mayor Morley
FIRE CHIEF – Ted Whittington
Chief Whittington: Thank you Mr. President. I just want to follow up with what the Superintendent said about the fact that there were a couple of issues at the school in the past couple of weeks. What ended up happening and it ended up being a bigger problem was that there was a lot of false information that got put out at to what was actually happening. Before we were able to get a handle on this is snow balled into something that it really wasn’t. We’ve talked with the students and the staff and we hope that one day we have an opportunity to talk with some parents. From the cities prospective is that we try to make sure that everybody knew in the building that each time we get involved whether its writing on a desk or something that someone says it is scrutinized at a very high level. The decision on how it is handled is one of great thought. Over the two weeks we have had a few incidences and all of which we deemed to be uncreditable and the decision to keep the school functioning was made. We did on a couple of occasions increase staffing down there at different hours of the day. At no time was there a thought that any of the students or the staff felt that there was a safety concern or that they were in jeopardy. Some of the feedback that we got from some of the students is that they were uneasy going to school. If you get any phone calls from any families is that obviously we took it very serious and that our decisions to keep everybody there and functioning was decided because we felt that it was safe to do so. If we did not think that it was or that there was some sort of creditability behind the threat we would take just as much of an aggressive action on the other side. Lie Mr. Thompson said it was an unfortunate series of events and two out of the four have been identified and punished. We are being aggressive with the punishment and the school has an automatic suspension. They have an expulsion hearing because it is recommended that they get expelled. We have been pushing very had especially if they juveniles to put them in the court system and we are trying to skip first steps so that they don’t get slaps on the wrist and that they get punished deeper. I am going to be working with the local district and the state to see if we can get some punishment a little further like getting some kind of notation on child’s transcripts when they graduate that they have been convicted of a threat against the school. When they apply to colleges or they go to sit in front of an employer that they know who they are dealing with and what they are dealing with. We are going to try to push a little bit harder on that too. If you get any questions from parents feel free to call me. I think that the district handled it very well but when you have the social media the way that it is it ended up being a lot of miss information and a lot of critical miss information.
Mr. D’Ambrosio: It’s unfortunate that I have seen a lot of the stuff on Facebook and that and you never know how accurate it is.
There were no further questions of Chief Whittington.
SERVICE DIRECTOR – Nick Rubertino
Mr. Rubertino: We are about six major catch basins away from being completed for this year as far as the catch basins being for the winter. At the beginning of this week we will start working on potholes. Getting the hotbox back out there and seeing what we can get done to get the roads passable in that regards. Also just want to remind residents that leaf pick up is not being done and we are bagging leaves again. We encourage people to not put the leaves in the ditches or the roads because that just creates a problem for everyone else around them. If you get a call we would like them to put them in the bags and not to leave them in the ditches because it does affect everyone around them.
There were no further questions of Mr. Rubertino.
CITY ENGINEER – Tom Gwydir
Mr. Gwydir was absent and excused.
There were no questions of Mr. Gwydir.
FINANCE DIRECTOR – Mike Slocum
Mr. Slocum: Thank you Mr. President I just have three things to report. First of all I cannot stress enough how important this Road Levy is that we put on the ballot for the operation of this City. If this levy does not pass the work that you see in the roads will pretty much come to a standstill. We do not have the money in the general fund for employees to begin with and we don’t have money for road repairs. If this levy does not pass road repairs will not happen. I just cannot stress how important that Road Levy is. My second point is that I do expect Republic Waste to start shutting off garbage collection to several hundred residents here in the next month or so. Mayor Morley, I and the Mayor from Wickliffe met with the Lake County Prosecutor and the Lake County Auditor in which they have acknowledged that they have been collecting garbage assessments for over ten years for the City of Eastlake. Now they have decided that we didn’t have the right to do it. The fact that it is still being done in several other counties in the State of Ohio and I will list Cuyahoga and Lorain now that logic was lost with everybody. They had indicated that they would allow us to certify for this year and we were orally told by the auditor that they will not do that. We are dead in the water with that and they did agree that they would both support (both being the Prosecutor and the Auditor) to try and get a change to the Ohio Revised Code. Which would specifically authorize the auditor to make these collections and they had indicated that without these specific language that they will not collect. Regardless of the fact that other people in other counties do so when the garbage build up in the city I can give you two people who you should thank.
Mr. D’Ambrosio: Didn’t Republic send us a bill for like $100,000?
Mr. Slocum: They didn’t send us a bill they showed us how much the delinquencies are and I was working with them…I had spent a better part of a Wednesday and Thursday prepping so that we could start the process for certifying until we got the word from the auditor. They had about $99,000 worth of delinquencies right now on their books. It is typical for the City of Eastlake based on our own billing. Resident who have always had the garbage pickup they will discontinue it because we cannot certify.
Mr. D’Ambrosio: What is plan B then if they aren’t going to pick up their garbage?
Mr. Slocum: Plan B?
Mr. D’Ambrosio: Yeah.
Mr. Slocum: I have no idea and I don’t have a plan B.
Mr. D’Ambrosio: Mayor?
Mayor Morley: I talked with Mayor Anderson again and he is going to work on the legislation with us as to the prosecutor and the auditor told us that it is a republican run house. I have talks with State Representative Rogers and he is willing to help us. Mayor Anderson is going to talk with the republicans that he deals with most of the time to try and get the legislation. The legislation is that the Townships are included but the municipalities are not. We are going to try and push for that legislation. He did tell me they use Waste Management and that they had 800 residents that they quit picking up and now they are down to 250 because people paid their bills. I don’t know that once we shut off 800 or 900 residents if they say that ok now I’m going to pay my bill. At this point in time that is where we are at.
Mr. D’Ambrosio: Mr. Licht?
Mr. Licht: Is it close to 800 or 900 home is that what I heard?
Mayor Morley: Yes for us.
Mr. Slocum: It’s a little over 800 homes that are delinquent right now.
Mr. D’Ambrosio: Mr. Evers?
Mr. Evers: Two points to make…I assume that Republic will supply the City with a list of those address of the people who are being shut off.
Mr. Slocum: Absolutely.
Mr. Evers: That brings up another problem is that going to be supplied to the building department because we handle calls every week about trash not being picked up? Where do we go?
Mayor Morley: What do you mean about trash not being picked up?
Mr. Evers: We handle calls all week long from people about the garbage is being picked up and that it is sitting in their backyards or their side yard. They could be one of the resident’s who has been shut off.
Mayor Morley: Yard maintenance like we do now.
Mr. Slocum: We did pass legislation about a month and a half ago which made it a criminal offense if they do not have their garbage picked up. I think that we would probably need to find all of our extra people here in City Hall to see where we can start enforcing that. We do have one bullet that we can us with these people.
Mr. D’Ambrosio: Is there anything else Mr. Slocum?
Mr. Slocum: There is one other thing and I would like to do it in a t least a public meeting and not in a committee meeting is that I have resigned in my position as the Finance Director and I will be leaving the City in February. My primary motivation is that this city does not appreciate the people that they have. This City has not been properly supported and the voters have turned down everything. I don’t want to wine for myself because when I look at every Chief, every Director in this City they are all doing the clerical work and our clerical workers. Unfortunately when we are doing that there are a lot of things that we are not doing and so I have decided to move on.
Mr. D’Ambrosio: Mr. Slocum told us about this at our committee meeting. He is right on with it the Chief goes on calls and they don’t really have time to do the Administrative tasks that they are supposed to do. Chief Reik goes on patrols and Mr. Slocum is doing…
Mr. Slocum: Just ask the Chief he lost his secretary what about two years ago and the work didn’t disappear the work is still there.
Mr. D’Ambrosio: We get calls from business saying that we are moving to slow on certain things and I tell them that the Mayor doesn’t even have secretary. He isn’t even in the office 24/7 and he leaves and does things out on the road meeting business and comes back in at 4:30 p.m.-5:00 p.m. and checks his messages. By the time he gets to the messages he can’t really look into anything on that day and so it any have to wait until the next day. It gets frustrating and I’m telling you that we are going to miss you Mr. Slocum and we are sorry to see you go.
There were no questions of Mr. Slocum.
POLICE CHIEF – Larry Reik
Chief Reik was absent and excused.
There were no further questions of Chief Reik.
CHIEF BUILDING OFFICIAL – David Menn
Mr. Menn was absent and excused.
There were no questions of Mr. Menn
LAW DIRECTOR – Randy Klammer
Mr. Klammer: Thank you Mr. President, members of Council, and Mayor. I am going to miss Mr. Slocum but after a report on garbage I’m almost glad that he is gone. You could have said something good and then I’m leaving.
Mr. D’Ambrosio: Mr. Evers?
Mr. Evers: I would just like to point out that the City of Eastlake will sponsor a blood drive with the American Red Cross and it will be on November 5th from 1:00 p.m. to 7:00 p.m. at the Eastlake Community Center. It is on East 349th Street. This will be a continuing thing that will go on every month to every three months.
Mr. D’Ambrosio: Thank you Mr. Evers. Mr. Slocum?
Mr. Slocum: Believe it or not Mr. Klammer had just reminded me of something and I do have a little bit of good news. The Willow Beach Park that is on Lakeshore Blvd. across from Traymore Blvd. earlier this year we applied for tax exempt status from the State of Ohio and we were granted that. Two days ago I got a check in the mail for a little over $10,000 which is a rebate of three years of property taxes that we paid on. I deposited that into the general fund under miscellaneous income. The good thing is that the property taxes will be down $3,300 to $3,400 for that. There was some good news.
Mr. Klammer: In lite of Mr. Slocum’s report I am going to miss him.
Mr. D’Ambrosio: Ms. DePledge?
Ms. DePledge: Just a public service announcement please make sure that check to see where your new polling locations are many of them have changed. You can contact the Board of Elections if you are not sure.
Mayor Morley: Ward 2 will be here and we have the machines in here and they will be here next Monday to set u. All of Ward 2 that had voted at North High School will be here.
There were no further questions of Mr. Klammer.
ADJOURNMENT
The meeting was adjourned at approximately 7:50 p.m.
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JOE D’AMBROSIO, COUNCIL PRESIDENT
APPROVED: __________________________
ATTEST: _____________________________
TRACY M. SIMONS,