Cuyahoga Falls City Council holds regular meetings on the second and fourth Mondays of each month. Council committee meetings are held on the first and third Mondays in order to allow councilmembers to publicly discuss pending legislation that will be voted on at regular meetings. The public is free to comment on pending legislation during the allowed time set aside as part of committee meetings.
A special meeting of city council was held Monday, May 16 to read in and assign A-56 to a committee.
A-56: A resolution authorizing the city of Cuyahoga Falls to commit a 25% required match for a brownfield remediation grant, administered through the Ohio Department of Development, for the necessary environmental cleanup of real property, currently owned by the Community Improvement Corporation of Cuyahoga Falls, and known as 333 Pleasant Meadow Boulevard.
After being assigned to the finance committee for discussion that night, Planning Director Rob Kurtz returned with a presentation showing that this ordinance will allow the city to commit to funding 25% of the total clean-up of the former Mud Run Gun Club through available Brownfield funds. The city had previously applied for funding to remediate this area but did so under the city’s name. This application lists Community Improvement Corporation of Cuyahoga Falls as the property owner– the prior application was rejected, listing the city as the owner. The committee voted to bring this out for a vote before all of council, passing 11-0.
Cuyahoga Falls City Council committees met next to discuss ordinances read in last week:
Planning and Zoning Committee:
A-51: An ordinance authorizing and approving the Final Subdivision Plat for Plaza at Chapel Hill – Third Replat located on the south side of Howe Avenue between Main Street and Center Drive. Rob Kurtz made the presentation on this legislation, explaining that currently the plat in this area consists of lease lines separating the parcels; this measure would convert the lease lines to actual property lines should the owners of any parcel choose to sell the properties. He stressed that there is nothing in the works at this time for any changes at the plaza and all this will be changing in the description and nothing else. The last changes to the subdivision plat for this area was in 1986. The committee voted to bring this out for a vote before all of council next Monday.
Finance and Appropriations:
A-52: An ordinance authorizing the director of public service to enter into a contract or contracts, without competitive bidding, with Independent Diesel Service for the maintenance and repair of city diesel electric generators. Service Director Anthony Zumba stated that back in January when the city took bids from three companies for the city’s generators, Independent Diesel Service was the low bidder. As the lowest bid that was over that would have normally been covered by the Board of Control, it was put into this ordinance not to exceed $90,000. The committee voted to bring this out for a vote before all of council next week.
A-53: An ordinance authorizing the mayor as director of public safety to enter into a contract or contracts, without competitive bidding, with Motorola, Inc. for the maintenance of the public safety regional dispatch system equipment. Josh Kingston explained that this software upgrade will give our existing Motorola equipment features such as Link Layer along with the ability to do over-the-air programming, as well as perform preventive maintenance. The costs would be split between the departments using the radio system. The committee voted to bring this out for a vote before all of council next Monday.
Public and Industrial Improvements Committee:
A-54: An ordinance authorizing the director of public service to enter into a contract or contracts, according to law, for the replacement of the roof on Fire Station 5, located at 3497 Wyoga Lake Road. City Engineer Tony Demasi showed that the roof was new in 2006 and had a prorated warranty. After reviewing five bids, the leaking roof will be replaced in the same manner as the roof on the city building, with the shingles replaced with a metal roof and the flat roof with rubber roofing. The warranty on this roof will be 30 years and work will begin this summer. Normal operations of the station will not be affected during construction. The committee voted to bring this out for a vote before all of council next week.
A-55: An ordinance authorizing the director of public service to enter into a contract or contracts, according to law, for the construction of Paddle Park and the expansion of the existing corner plaza located at 2170 Front Street. According to City Engineer Tony Demasi, this will be a small park located at the corner of Front and Portage and will be landscaped with rocks, grass and donated kayaks. There will be a small stage to be used for parks and rec programs and street musicians. It was approved by the historic review committee and had three bids received on the project with construction expected to last 90 days. The committee voted to bring this out for a vote before all of council at next week’s meeting.
