Mayor’s Report for February 24, 2014
Allied Waste will begin delivering the new trash containers
sometime this week. While some neighborhoods may see the
new trash cans in a few days, it will take several weeks before
the whole city is covered. If you wish to have your old trash can
removed from your property please mark it by writing “Take
me” on it and put it out with your trash.
As I had announced last Monday, Brad Fairfield has resigned
from the position of business liaison for the city. He will
continue to help the city, on a voluntary basis, to pursue a
number of projects that he has been working on for a number
of months. In his place we have hired Janine Mackert to fill the
position of business liaison. Ms. Mackert has a Masters in
Public Administration from Cleveland State University and had
worked for the City of Lorain in its Community Development
Department for ten years. She has had success in grant writing
and also developing professional relationships with public and
private stakeholders in order to attract new opportunities to
grow and develop in the City of Lorain.
The City of Avon Lake has a redesigned website and our goal
was make it more informative and user-friendly. We encourage
you to visit avonlake.org to find out what’s going on in our
town. Your suggestions as how to improve the site are always
welcomed.
I received a call from Mark Baird from NRG last week and he
informed me that NRG will begin the process of contacting
residents along a proposed pipeline route from south of
Grafton all the way up to Avon Lake in order to obtain
easements for the natural gas project. This is the first step in
the very complicated project. It is my understanding that the
mayors of the cities in which the pipeline will run through have
been contacted and briefed by NRG about the project.
Service and Engineering Department manager Joe Reitz
informed me this afternoon that we have spent $72,226 on
overtime in the service department so far this year. This is in
just seven weeks. We will need to make an adjustment to our
budget in the coming weeks to anticipate a shortfall in that line
item.
The Ward Four meeting will be held on Wednesday, February
26 at 7:00 pm at Troy School. If you can’t attend the meeting
please go to avonlake.org and watch one of the Ward meetings
posted on our website.