Chief Bill Turner and his firefighting crew have invited the public to tour the Highland Heights fire department on Saturday, Oct. 24th from 10:30 am to 1 pm.
Recycling Bins
There are still recycling bins available for purchase at the service department. Just throw your cans, bottles, and plastic items in the bin and bring it out to the curb on your regular trash day. It's convenient and it reduces the amount of garbage that gets hauled to a landfill.
It was reported to council that there was a downloadable bin order form on the city's website, but I sure as heck didn't see it a moment ago, when I looked for it.
Halloween
We can all breath easy and make our plans now because council passed, as an emergency measure, an ordinance declaring that Halloween would be celebrated on, well, Halloween, Saturday Oct. 31st.
Engineer's Report
Although the construction looks to be complete, there are still unresolved issues pertaining to the rebuilt Bishop/Highland Road intersection. The city has not yet signed off on the project, and the contractor is purportedly demanding more money.
Happier news is that the Ridgebury Blvd. project should be completed, with a final layer of ashalt added, by the end of the month.
New Laws
Council passed two significant pieces of legislation:
- An ordinance addressing empty homes under foreclosure; and
- An ordinance stating that gas royalty payments are included as reportable income, for city income tax purpoes.
Councilwoman Cathy Murphy, who worked hard to bring both ordinances to the council floor, thanked the cities of South Euclid and Lyndhurst for their assistance with the foreclosed homes ordinance.
Speaking of Gas Wells...
The current rumor is that Cutter Oil (who drilled the well on Jim Dasher's property along Wilson Mills) is actively pursuing a second gas well to be placed behind residential property on the east side of Bishop Road, between Hawthorne Drive and Highland Road.
We can only hope it's just a rumor---and that the property owners along Bishop have done more than just listen to the golden financial promises made to them, but instead have actually researched the negative impact that giving up their mineral rights to a drilling company will have on their property value (and on their neighbors' property values too).
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