Richfield Township Trustees Meeting
4410 W Streetsboro Road
Richfield, Ohio 44286
September 5, 2007
7:00 p.m.

Richfield Township Trustees
September 5, 2007

The Richfield Township Trustees met for their regular meeting on September 5, 2007. The meeting was called to order at 7:07 p.m. with the following in attendance:

David Wyatt, Trustee Chairman
Laurie Peters Gilmore, Trustee
Shano Cica-Mraz, Trustee
Linda Bowmer, Township Administrator
Laurie Pinney, Zoning Inspector

A motion was made by Mr. Wyatt and seconded by Ms. Cica-Mraz to approve the minutes of August 23, 2007. The motion passed with unanimous approval.

A motion was made by Ms. Gilmore and seconded by Ms. Cica-Mraz to approve warrants 7, 8, and 13284 – 13328. The motion passed with unanimous approval.

Ms. Pinney had no Fiscal report.

The Zoning report was provided by Ms. Pinney. The OPC Cleveland Workshop is scheduled for November 9, 2007. The office will be closed to allow the staff to attend. Zoning Board members have been given registration forms and the Trustees should return their forms if interested in attending. The Zoning Commission had discussed the use of alternates and at this time would like the Trustees to continue to appoint at least one alternate to the five-member board. The Zoning Commission has made recommendation for rezoning of 22 privately-owned and 49 publicly-owned parcels and a text amendment for open space ownership and maintenance regulations that would apply to the R-3 and R-4 zoning districts. The Zoning Commission public hearing for these amendments will open on September 27, 6:30 p.m. and the Trustees public hearing will open on October 4, 7:00 p.m. The Summit County Planning Commission review of the text amendments will not be completed until October 18, so the public hearings for the adoption of the text amendments will be continued to the October 25 Zoning Commission and November 1 Trustees meetings. The Zoning Commission plans on going to a twice-monthly meeting schedule for at least the rest of 2007. A motion was made by Ms. Cica-Mraz and seconded by Mr. Wyatt to approve the new meeting schedule for the balance of 2007. The motion passed with unanimous approval.

Ms Bowmer presented the administration report. Summit County has locked in a fixed rate for the month of November 2007of $8.94 for the natural gas aggregation program. Thereafter the program will go to monthly variable rates. A motion was made by Ms. Gilmore and seconded by Mr. Wyatt to declare the current Konica photocopier, purchased in November 2000 at a cost of $7,980, as surplus. The motion passed with unanimous approval. A motion was made by Mr. Wyatt and seconded by Ms. Mraz to purchase a Konica C252 color photocopier at a price not to exceed $10,500. The motion passed with unanimous approval.

During Citizen’s Forum, Richard Fleming, 2780 Columbia Road, asked the trustees to describe in greater details the changes proposed for the R4 district. Ms. Mraz explained the changes tighten regulations for open space.

A motion to adjourn was made at 7.55 pm by Mr. Wyatt, seconded by Ms. Mraz and received unanimous approval.


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