QUARTERLY SPRING 2004 440-461-2210 Holidays2003: DidWe SeeYou? Visit the Mayfield Village web site at: www.mayfieldvillage.com 6621 WILSON MILLS ROAD MAYFIELD VILLAGE, OHIO 44143 VOICE OF THE VILLAGE SPRING 2004 VILLAGE PHONE NUMBERS: 2004 VILLAGE ROSTER All Emergencies (Police, Fire, Ambulance) .......................... 9-1-1 Mayor: Bruce Rinker Worton Park 442-3677 Animal Warden (contact MVPD) ............. 461-1234 Council President: William Buckholtz Ward 4 Worton Park 442-5959 Village Hall (Administration/Finance Dept.) .......... 461-2210 Council Pres. Pro Tem: Dr. Stephan Parker Ward 3 Hardwood Court 446-1537 Fax ..................................................... 461-7349 Lyndhurst Municipal Court ..................... 461-6500 Council: Joanne Cinco At Large Echo Drive 423-0363 M.V. Police Dept. Joseph Saponaro At Large Oakwood Drive 442-2833 (Non-emergency) ............................... 461-1234 Thomas Marrie At Large Walnut Drive 449-2307 M.V. Fire Dept. William Marquardt Ward 1 Bramblewood 442-7295 (Non-emergency) ............................... 461-1208 Patsy Mills Ward 2 Kenwood Drive 449-4922 M.V. Building Department....................... 461-2213 M.V. Service Department ......................... 442-5506 M.V. Parks & Recreation......................... 461-5163 SERVICES PROVIDED AT VILLAGE HALL: Mayfield City Schools • Dog License (General Number) .............................. 995-7200 • Progressive Fitness Center Passes (for Cuyahoga County residents) (MV residents must show proof of Mayfield High School Pool • Golden Buckeye Card Applications residency and photo ID) (after 6 p.m.) ...................................... 995-6840 • Handicapped Parking Card Applications • Solicitation Applications Mayfield Library ..................................... 473-0350 • Home Energy Assistance Applications • Voter Registration Mayfield Schools - • Notaries Public (Cuyahoga County residents) Adult Education ................................. 995-6850 • Parkview Pool Passes (restricted dates) B.F.I. (M.V. Rubbish Carrier) ............ 216-441-6300 Parkview Pool .......................................... 446-1688 RESERVATIONS/RENTALS: Weather/Cancellation/Activities • Senior Center/Community Room • Parkview Pool Hotline ........................................ 440-954-4114 • Wiley Park (Pavilion, Ball Diamonds, • Parkview Pavilion/Playground Volleyball Courts) (adjacent to Pool) • Gazebo RUBBISH REMINDER SERVICES PROVIDED BY THE POLICE DEPARTMENT: BFI collects rubbish and recyclables for • CHAD Stickers (Children Have An • "Help Save Your Life" Program. MV residents on a weekly basis free of Identity; safety seat ID) (Recording your critical medical charge. If you are a new resident, • Bicycle Licenses ($1.00) information to assist your rescuers contact Village Hall to find out what • Fingerprints (for residents and those could help save your life.) day collection is in your neighborhood. employed in MV) • EMD - All MV Police Dispatchers are Also contact us if you need a recycling • TTY (also referred to as TDD; a TTY is trained in Emergency Medical bin or a brochure describing acceptable a device that enables people who are Dispatch and will provide you with materials for recycling. The only deaf, hard of hearing or speech disabled pre-arrival instructions when the holidays that will affect rubbish to use the telephone by typing messages situation allows. collection during 2004 are: back and forth to one another) • Memorial Day (May 31) and • Labor Day (September 6) SERVICES PROVIDED BY THE FIRE DEPARTMENT: Also remember that per Village • Odor Investigation (If you smell gas, • Smoke Detectors and Smoke Detector ordinance, rubbish may be placed at the burning orders, smoke or anything out Batteries (for to the elderly, disabled and curb no earlier than 6 p.m. the night of the ordinary, the FD will respond to those unable to provide their own, the before your collection day. Please put investigate. We will attempt to identify FD will provide and install these out by 6:30 a.m. on pick-up day. any hazard present and if possible lifesaving devices at no cost. The FD will eliminate it and notify the appropriate also check your existing smoke detector.) agencies.) • CPR and Basic Life Support Training • Downed wires (If you notice a wire (The FD conducts at least one CPR down in the road, in your yard or training course a year; available to all anywhere else, notify the FD. We will residents; free of charge) VOICE OF THE VILLAGE investigate, determine if there is a • Car Seat Inspection and Installation (By “A MEANS OF KEEPING OUR hazard, secure the area and notify the appointment) RESIDENTS INFORMED.” appropriate agencies.) • Family Bicycle Helmet Program (By • Carbon Monoxide (If you suspect that appointment; helmets may be purchased Issued quarterly • Founded in 1972 you may have CO in your home or if at our cost) Editor: Mayor Rinker your CO detector is in alarm or making • Public Fire Safety Education (The FD noise, the FD will respond and will Printing/Postage Village Funded offers ongoing educational programs check for dangerous levels with our focusing on Kindergarten and 3rd grade equipment. We will then attempt to students. A safety program/fire isolate the problem, contain and extinguisher training is also offered to hopefully eliminate the hazard, ventilate MV businesses.) when necessary, notify any additional • Educational Tours and Presentations Visit the Mayfield Village agencies that might be needed and tend (Tours of the Fire station and educational web site at: to anyone who might be ill.) presentations are offered by appointment mayfieldvillage.com • Public Assist (i.e. invalid and shut-in to groups throughout the year. Residents e mail: [email protected] assists.) may stop by during normal business hours.) 2 VOICE OF THE VILLAGE SPRING 2004 emo from the Mayor M by Bruce G. Rinker I write and talk a lot 7. Goetz’s Grove. You’ve seen the new waterfalls about the future; I roam plunging east of S.O.M.; we’ll complete the south around in it often. Let me pedestrian tunnel and begin rough work for trail add, quickly, before the and park improvements within the new 4-plus-acre implications of that park on both sides of S.O.M. statement linger, that this 8. The Methodist Church congregation is moving is really just a matter of out this spring. We’ll begin some modest changes preoccupation. Like willing the train to reach its to the building; we’ll continue planning in earnest destination as it pulls away from the station. (My the preservation of this landmark as the parents found long vacations especially challenging architectural anchor, the heart, soul and center of with me in the backseat.) our Village. Presently, I am pleased to report my preoccupation is 9. Wilson Mills Road east of S.O.M. will be very much with the here and now: nearly a dozen resurfaced. This is largely a project of the construction projects are moving forward this year. Cuyahoga County Engineer. Work is likely to begin 1. S.O.M. Our general contractor, Great Lakes in late summer. Construction Company, tells us it intends to 1 10. White Road will get a new sidewalk and complete the entire 2 /4 mile-long road widening landscaping to connect North Commons Drive by November. The Greenway corridor is with the entrance to North Chagrin Metroparks materializing. at S.O.M. This should restore the look and feel of 2. 3 Softball fields are being built just south of the country road that runs along our north border Parkview Pool. The two adult fields will feature and provide another trail link between us and the lighting for night games. Metroparks Reservation. 3. Wiley Park. Stream restoration, replanting and re- 11. Building No. 4, Progressive’s North Campus. landscaping will be completed by fall. A new leg of Last August we celebrated the groundbreaking for the Greenway Trail will run north from the Skoda, the fourth 200,000-plus square foot office Minotti lot along the ballfield and redesigned building on North Commons Boulevard. Our stream. The entire park is getting a much needed successes with the 10 projects outlined above flow facelift. directly from Progressive’s success as the leading employer in the region. 4. Skoda, Minotti itself is erecting a 20,000 square foot addition, reconfiguring its parking lot and These are projects literally changing our landscape this relandscaping the site to dovetail with the Wiley year. And make no mistake that they are the Park restoration. foundation for future public works geared to improve our quality of life through the design of “place” – to 5. Whitehaven Cemetery will get a structural and promote better interaction between us and our landscaping makeover. The east-side S.O.M. bike environment and one day to offer an ideal setting for path will be nudged onto the cemetery grounds to arts and cultural stimulation. We rejuvenate and facilitate the landscaping enhancements and offer revitalize Mayfield Village with each passing year. I travelers a more scenic and interesting stretch of can hardly wait to get there. trail. 6. S.O.M. Woods Judge Krenzler’s 25-home cluster development will continue the transformation of the Goetz’s Grove municipal park north of Fisher’s Tavern. 3 VOICE OF THE VILLAGE SPRING 2004 Council comments Patsy Mills Tom Marrie Ward 2 Council-At-Large Joanne Cinco Council-At-Large Councils’ work has begun with the Hopefully all of you enjoyed a challenges that will continue to make wonderful holiday season and may you Spring is around the corner and with Mayfield Village the best community in all be blessed with a very healthy and that in mind I would like residents to Cuyahoga County. happy New Year. be aware of any needed improvements Welcome to Joe Saponaro, the new Congratulations to our newest fireman, on their property dealing with drainage Councilman-at-large. Gino Carcioppolo, who was sworn in and infrastructure. The Drainage and on December 15th in front of Council, Infrastructure Committee needs to be The start of a new year should create many family members, and friends. notified in writing directed to City new outlooks for projects old and new. Good luck and best wishes to you Hall.