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Speaking of Painesville City Information and Recreation Program Guide “To ensure and improve the quality of life and growth of our community” Vol. 6, No. 1 January-April 2012 The City’s New Automated Emergency/ In this Issue: Community Outreach Program Front Page: Automated Outreach Program he City of Painesville has contracted their information over the phone. T with Emergency Communications Required information includes first and Finance Award Network to license its CodeRED high- last name, street address (physical address, speed notification solution. The CodeRED no P.O. boxes), city, state, zip code, and 2nd Page: system provides City officials the ability primary phone number, additional phone Rec. Park Pond Improvements to quickly deliver messages to targeted numbers can be entered as well. Rental Property Registration areas or the entire City of Painesville. All businesses should register, as Rita McMahon, Painesville City well as all individuals who have unlisted Follow Us! Manager, cautioned that such systems are phone numbers, who have changed their City Income Tax only as good as the phone number or Collaboration & Cooperation telephone number address within the past database year, and those who use 3rd Page: supporting them. a cellular phone or "If your phone VoIP phone as their Lubrizol Adopts Park number is not in primary number. 2012 Council Members the database, you Ms. McMahon Trees Planted at Huntington will not be called." explained, "CodeRED One of the reasons allows geographically 4th Page: the CodeRED based delivery, which system was means street addresses 10 Annual Photo Contest selected is it gives are required to ensure Meet New Council Members individuals and businesses the ability to emergency notification calls are received Citizen’s Police Academy add their own phone numbers directly into by the proper individuals in a given the system's database, this is an extremely situation. The system works for cell Recreation Section Pages 5-13: important feature. phones too, but we need to have an “No one should automatically associated street address to provide Special Events assume his or her phone number is relevant messages." Questions should be Recreation Programs included,” Ms. McMahon said urging all directed to the Painesville City Fire Chief, Senior Citizens Center individuals and businesses to log onto the 440-392-5849. Parks and Public Lands Painesville’s website, While the primary purpose of Rental Facilities...& more www.painesville.com, and follow the link CodeRed is timely notification of to the "CodeRED Community Notification residents during emergency situations you Enrollment" page. Those without Internet will be able to select to receive general Economic Development access may call Painesville’s police notifications also. That is what was so Section Pages 14-15: department (440-392-5840), Monday appealing about the CodeRed program is New Businesses through Friday, (8 a.m.-5 p.m.) to supply that it is highly moldable. Chester’s Under New Management Finance Award Ashlawn Grand Opening recent financial Distinction. “Good Hawley’s Flowers 100 Years A audit of the City by finance is important to Business Breakfast Auditor of State Dave everything government Yost’s office has does. We can’t expect Last Page: returned a clean audit good decisions by the Calendar of Events report. The City’s City Manager or sound City Contact Information excellent record keeping budgetary decisions by has earned it the Auditor Council unless the books of State Award with are clean and accurate.” Recreation Park Pond Improvements Underway he Recreation Park Pond along the banks including irises, T Restoration and Enhancement water lilies, and grasses. The project Project is underway thanks to a grant as a whole will achieve the City’s from the Ohio Department of Natural goal of increasing and enhancing Resources for $19,000 and in-house recreational opportunities in the park support from the Cemeteries and to include fishing, model sail Parks Division. The purpose of the boating, boating, and nature project is to prevent bank erosion, to observation. help with wildlife control and to The restoration of the pond preserve and enhance recreation shoreline and construction of a deck resources, while making the area of will provide valuable recreational the pond more aesthetically pleasing. outlets for current residents and The addition of a deck at the pond future generations. The intent is to shelter near the covered bridge will complete the pond restoration allow ADA accessibility to the pond. improvements and the deck for the Native vegetation will be planted spring of 2012. Fine for Not Registering Rental Property he Rental Registration Program has registered a majority of the units in the City. The units remaining to be registered have been T pursued and are charged a late fee for not registering before the deadline. The late fee was established at $100 for the initial registration and $250 for each subsequent registration. When applying the late fee, the staff has found that the ordinance makes the late fee the same whether you are late for one unit or 50 units. Therefore, Council adopted an amendment to the Ordinance that the late fee be applied per unit. The City will charge $100 for a single family unit and $100 for the Multi-family building plus $25 per each unit in the building. This should create greater equity between the various owners. Follow Us! City Income Tax Collaboration and Assistance he City Economic Development and Cooperation Communications Offices are T f you live within the City of utilizing social media applications on he City Engineer’s Office assisted I Painesville limits, you are required to the Water Department by working Facebook, Twitter and Linkedin. These T file a City Income Tax Return. New on the engineering of a project to paint were especially useful earlier this year and existing residents are mailed a CCA when flooding occurred throughout the the interior of the SR 86 water tank. The tax return form. The general rule is that project is expected to begin this spring. City to keep in contact with the residents your City income taxes are withheld Inter-Department collaboration allows and the media. Information is available based on where you physically work, on the City’s website and it will be for cost savings throughout the City. while the return is filed for the City in Another project to look for in posted on Facebook and Twitter to offer which you live. If you do not receive a the Spring of 2012 is the Tiber Creek the residents another option in accessing form prior to the April 15, 2012 filing pertinent City information. Drainage Area Study. This study is deadline, you can stop by City Hall at 7 being done in conjunction with Lake Richmond Street and pick up the County and Painesville Township required form. The City of Painesville because Tiber Creek run in and out of income tax is 2 percent. the City. The study will identify CCA representatives will be possible locations for retention or available in Courtroom #1 of City Hall detention basins and opportunities to on Saturday, March 10 and Saturday, increase to increase the flow capacity of March 31, 2012, from 9 a.m.-4 p.m. to the creek. assist residents with City taxes. For The first project using the water more information please contact Joel infrastructure fee funds will be a portion Guthleben at 440-392-5777, email to of the waterline on Elm Street. The [email protected] at the City waterline will be replaced with an 8-inch of Painesville or contact CCA directly at line beginning east of Lighhouse Pointe 1-800-223-6317. to the north side SR 2. It is approximately 3,350 feet and DB Bentley is the contractor. 2 Lubrizol Assists City with Lathrop Park ith the help of Lubrizol Lubrizol plant.” said Lee the State of Ohio Cooperative employees who spent time W Corp. employees and Homyock, Recreation & Public purchasing program to make assembling the playground, City personnel a new Lands Director. the purchases. putting down gravel, and playground was recently With Lubrizol's initial Homyock said the mulching. installed at Lathrop Park, which donation of $7,000, City extra funding will help the City Assembly Team 1 is one of the City’s three Council approved the purchase move forward with its two- consisted of Dale Pochodzay, newest neighborhood parks. of $32,000 worth of playground phase plan for park Marc Addison, Angelo Lubrizol adopted equipment for the park. The gift construction. The second phase Cicconetti, Marty Makela, Bill Lathrop Park, located on West makes up the difference in the includes a picnic shelter, trash Keller and Greg Louden. Jackson Street at the site of the cost of the playground cans, benches and a walkway. Assembly Team 2 consisted of former Lathrop Elementary equipment, appropriate surface Sanders said Lubrizol will Ken Frato, Michael Givens, School. Lubrizol Community material and equipment rental continue to work with the Andrea Qurazzo and three Specialist Mary Jane Sanders to install the playground. The Recreation & Public Lands people from the previous explained what the corporation City budgeted $25,000 through Department to see the project to day. The Mulching Team hopes to achieve. completion. consisted of Jeff Bush, Carla "Lubrizol wanted to The Corporation Amsdell, Tyler Kuchta, Carl help when they heard the City assisted with completion of Carnish, Jami Austin, Craig was building a park at the the park by not only donating Hupp (the Plant Manager), and former elementary school site. funding, but also their time Mary Jane Sanders. City Lubrizol used to tutor at the and manpower to help personnel who assisted were elementary school and the assemble the playground Lee Homyock, Stephen neighborhood and former equipment when it arrived.