Minutes-11/09/1988

The Tiffin City Council met in regular session on Wednesday, November 9, 1988 at the fire station. Mayor Potter called meeting to order at 7:00 p.m. Council members present were Eggers, Morgan, Spivey, Stoner and Stratton. Also present were Mike Hart, Stephen Greenleaf, Todd Kimm, Bob Steele, Darrell Wallace, Tom Morgan, Paul Slaymaker, Delores Madden, Tom Hoyt, Mick Kahler, Lloyd Williams and John Schneider. Motion Stratton second Stoner to approve agenda. Carried unanimously. Motion Spivey second Morgan to approve minutes of special meeting October 11, 1988 and regular meeting October 12, 1988. Carried unanimously. Slaymaker addressed council concerning his request for sidewalks. He stated that Solon is exploring possibility of installing sidewalks now. Cost is more of problem for younger property owners than for older citizens. Tiffin requires sidewalks in new subdivisions. Wife watched kids walking to and from school in front of their house. Not all use sidewalks, but some do. Steele: I was told at the last meeting that a motion was passed to limit the current east exit to the high school to one way going in. I didn't think a high school could be limited to one exit or one way at that time. I had a meeting with Darrell Wallace, Tom McAreavy, Nick Greiner, a state patrolman and a county deputy sheriff. Mayor Potter was also invited to attend but could not be there. We watched traffic after school. If all the buses had to exit onto highway no. 6, they would have to circle the island and drive through kids moving cars after school. There is more potential of a bus hitting a kid if they all have to go out onto the highway. Some buses exit that way now. I asked the DOT about a flag or yellow light. The traffic is supposed to go 25 mph there, but it goes 55 - 60 mph. We would more than quadruple the number of buses going out onto the highway after school. If we had to do it one way or the other, we'd want the Third Street exit going out, not in. But it should be two way. I didn't know all the reasons for the activity at first, but I now understand that it's a sidewalk issue. I'm here for the kids in school. I don't want an issue like sidewalks to put the kids in jeopardy. A school bus could get hit or a kid could get hit going in between cars. The patrolman and deputy are experts and they thought that school traffic should not all exit onto highway because the highway traffic moves too fast. I suggested putting curbs along the Third Street exit and we could extend them all the way up to the school, but the patrol and deputy did not like the idea because they said the cars would get hung up on the curbs. Since then, I heard that there were curbs there before and they were taken out. Their suggestion was to haul in dirt in the spring and extend the current street and build a sidewalk on the other side of the yellow line. Spivey: How many buses go south now? Wallace: Four Spivey: What about the bus to Western Hills? Wallace: It goes out onto no. 6. Spivey: How many turn around and go out onto highway 6 now? Wallace: Three. It's the same in the morning and the afternoon. Spivey: You have a total of seven buses.