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THE PRESS 2PRESSPAPERS.COM OCTOBER 30, 2013

Sheffield Lake council shifting Write-in candidate funds to cover repairs Jorge Rodriquez hopes S L to make known his This new equipment is also much more hope to help schools
HEFFIELD AKE

SHEFFIELD LAKE/ SHEFFIELD VILLAGE

By John Edwards

Jorge Rodriquez, 38, is running as a write-in candidate for the Sheffield-Sheffield Lake Board of Education. Rodriquez, 2014 president of the Sheffield-Sheffield Lake Youth Baseball Association (SSLYBA), knows his write-in candidacy for a full four-year term on the board of education is a long shot at best. Rodriquez is well-aware that write-in candidates rarely are elected. But hes running as a write-in candidate anyway if only to establish his desire to do whatever he can to help his school district as much as the SSLYBA, with which hes been involved for years as a parent, coach and board member. He served as vice president in 2012. I was so busy with baseball last spring that I missed the deadline to file petitions to run for school board, Rodriquez said. I didnt really expect to win as a firsttime candidate anyway, so I decided to go ahead and run as a write-in just to get my name out there for the next election in two more years. Rodriquez is challenging current BOE President Sheila Lopez and longtime BOE member and current Vice President Gloria Behrendt for the two four-year seats on the ballot this year. The newest BOE member, Amy DeLuca (who was appointed to serve the remaining two years of August Scarpelli who was elected in 2011 and resigned last spring), is running unopposed for the remainder of that unexpired term. Rodriquez and his wife, Christa, have three children.

Those pump stations now are basically like sump pumps, Bring said. Theres always water By John Edwards standing at the bottom. Those microorganisms in that runoff water At Sheffield Lake City Councils die, and thats what creates the Oct. 22 regular meeting, council bad smell. This new equipment is members covered repairs to a police efficient and would also much more efficient and cruiser and fire truck when exwould require a lot less power to hausted police and fire repair acrequire a lot less do the job and reduce the occacounts didnt have enough money sions when heavy rainstorms left in them to pay for those repairs. power to do the job ... overwhelm the pump stations and Council unanimously approved two force water and sewage out of the ordinances transferring funds between existing accounts in the citys ~ Dennis Bring, system into the lake. Law Director and grant writer general fund. mayor David Graves said an Ohio DeFinance Director Tammy Smith partment of Natural Resources said that funds were moved among grant, to extend the Brookside several accounts in the general fund Trail from its current southern to cover transmission and body reterminus at Ferndale Avenue to make a loop around pairs to a police cruiser that had been hit by a drunk Ferndale Park and connect with a proposed Lorain driver, and new brake calipers for a fire truck. County Metro Parks trail to the Safe Routes to School Those transfers not only added funds to the powalkway on Harris Road, has received approval from lice and fire repair accounts to pay for the repairs, every agency required except for the U.S. Fish and they left both accounts with positive, though small, Wildlife Service. Graves added that the grant cant balances going forward. Smith said funds were only be funded until the current sequester on federal moved among general fund accounts because it spending ends, so theres no need to press the would be illegal to use self-sustaining enterprise USFWS to approve the project yet. fund dollars (accounts like water and sewer funds) to Bring announced that trick-or-treating hours will supplement general fund accounts. be from 6 to 7:30 p.m. Oct. 31. Mayor Dennis Bring, speaking for absent service Council heard a first reading of an ordinance that Director Len Smith (who is recovering from surgery), would ban on-street parking between the hours of 2 told council about new equipment the city might and 6 a.m. to facilitate snow plowing and reduce purchase to improve the efficiency of three pump overtime. The proposed parking ban ordinance is stations on Lake Road. slated for a vote to be approved or rejected after its Sheffield Lakes sanitary sewer lines are about 17 third reading at the Nov. 26 regular council meeting. feet deeper than Lorains, and the pump stations are It will have a second reading at councils Nov. 12 used to bring sewage up to the Lorain level on the regular meeting, then be discussed at length Nov. 19 way to its sewage treatment plant. Bring said the at the work session following a 7 p.m. meeting of the new system could alleviate foul odors from the Finance and Audit Committee. Residents will be inpump stations caused by dying microorganisms in vited to attend the work session (it's on the back of standing water inside the stations. Finance Director residents November water, sewer and refuse bills) Smith said the new pumps and grates could be purin order to voice their opinions on the proposed chased with money in the sewer capital improvestreet parking ban. ment fund, which is an enterprise fund, and would not require any general fund money. Contact John Edwards at news@2presspapers.com

Bryan Jensen for Mayor

As an Avon Ohio resident I am writing this letter to urge everyone in the community to get out and vote on November 5, 2013. I also would like to say a few words about a wonderful man, friend, and current candidate for Mayor, Bryan Jensen. He has been endorsed by our current mayor Jim Smith and also the Chronicle Newspaper. He has served as our Ward 1 Councilman for the past 8 years, along with 2 years in the Avon Planning Committee, and 8 years on the Safety and Service Committee. He also owns and operates a successful business in the City of Avon.

Re-Elect David J. Marquard

to the Avon Lake Board of Utilities

3x8 Cooper He is invested in the intelligent growth of Avon; he resides Disposal in Avon and has raised his children in Avon. He is the obvious candidate to fill the seat of Avons Mayor. He BW
will do his best driving the community forward. He loves our community and will continue to do everything possible to better it. He will stand behind his words. He is not a candidate that shows up at one event to promote his candidacy, but a lifelong Avon resident who has pride in his community. I would appreciate your vote for Bryan Jensen for Mayor on November 5th, 2013.

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