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Friday, April 13, 2012
City-Owned Vehicles Policy
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Swimming Pools On Last Leg
Below: Highlights of a discussion regarding the swimming pools.
Council
President, David Miller: “Realistically, how much life
is left in that pool?”
Service
Director, Jim Anderson: “At Bexley?”
David
Miller: “Yes.”
Jim
Anderson: “Not much.
The sand filters are rusted, the metal, we needed to replace the sand
filters. We need to replace the pumps,
the motors, the boilers, the heaters are old.
I mean there’s a lot of issues with the pool. The pool’s cracked on the bottom, the decking’s
failing" … "We’ve been patching them every year.
Some of the walls, the dividing walls that caved in we had to rebuild
the bricks on it. Over the last couple
of years we’ve done it in-house; but they’re old.”
Finance
Director, Joe Filippo: “My suggestion you get a committee going like
right after budgets are over and start having a plan to do something with those
pools. Don’t wait till September,
October, November”… “a recreation committee just for a serious look at what we
need to do with these pools.”
David Miller: “So, worst case scenario, come June when kids get out of school, get ready to hit the pools; we have a hot summer. Worst case scenario is that our pools could die.”
Jim
Anderson: “We’ve had problems the last two years with
opening. I know at Bexley last year the
expansion joint, there’s like a big expansion joint; it failed. So we had to drain the pool, pull it out and
replace it. And we had to have a company
come in and re-grind the whole pool because there was so many leaks and it’s
concrete you know, it’s kinda failing underneath.”
At-large
Councilperson Marty Gelfand: “It sounds like all this talk
is leading to a discussion we need to have about a pool levy.”
Ward 4 Councilperson Jane Goodman: “We passed the road levy…part of the road levy promise was…”
- time: 8 min. 01 sec.
Snow Job
Tuesday, April 3, 2012
Unusual Opposition
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- Outside council was brought in to negotiate all city union contracts.
- Jon Bauman handled the Cedar Center negotiations with Gordon Food Service, Bob Evans, Coral Company and DeVille Development.
- The cost of outside council paid from the law department budget appears to be in the range of $150,000 - $160,000. The total amount allocated for the Legal Administration in 2012 is $333,432.
- time: 8 min. 18 sec.
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