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For Steve Connelly: will berea ever get a cingular cell phone tower? Answer: Yes. All permits are in place. Cinglular has said its expects to erect the tower before July 15.... Read Full Answer
For Steve Connelly: Mayor you said in an earlier question about the budget that all employees were getting a 3.5% across the board raise this year and we did not. I myself only got a 3% and there were others that got a 4% raise. Can you tell me what happened and why you tell the citizens of Berea one thing and do something different. If you decided on 3.5% how can that be changed? We are already practically losing our raise this year due to the increase of the city's insurance costs and now we find out we are getting even less!! Just so you know after July 1st my pay check will be decreasing and the cost of living for me will increase. How do you expect people to live like this. Do you think we will stay and work here when we make less and less every year?? I would really like some kind of explanation for this and I know the citizens of Berea who voted you into this position would like to know the answer too since all your police officers are leaving due to your fine pay scale!! Thanks for highly paid time. Answer: Yes. The budget contained an increase for each department of 3.5% for each employee. Strictly speaki... Read Full Answer
For Steve Connelly: Mayor Connelly, In March or April the city postponed a public meeting on the park expansion in order to address a P&Z issue on Chestnut street. Has the public meeting on the new park expansion ever been rescheduled? If so, when? If not, why? Answer: The council had planned to review the new park upgrade in a work session, not a public hearing, to e... Read Full Answer
For Steve Connelly: Thannks Mayor for your response, so how can we get the ball rolling on the option of direct deposit? Answer: Tell your department head that you are interested. He will bring it up in staff meeting. That will s... Read Full Answer
For Steve Connelly: what is the statis of the chestnut street project...are we going to get the utilities underground and new curbs and sidewalks...it is beginning to appear that this is not going to get off the drawning board. Answer: The status of the Chestnut Street project is as follows. It was bid as three separate contracts. The... Read Full Answer
For Steve Connelly: there has been discussion of a wet dry option in the next election...also a mail survey has been sent to some of the residents of berea...what is reaction to the possibility of selling or serving alcohol in the city limits of berea..and how do you think the extra money generated by alcohol would be of benifit to the community. Answer: I oppose the propsect of liquor stores in Berea. I have heard some economic development arguments in... Read Full Answer
For Steve Connelly: Mayor Connelly as an employee of the city ive always wondered why the city dosent offer direct deposit like other places. DOnt you think that it would be alot eaiser to just zap the money into an account that haveing to wait on the checks to go through 20 people before the employee gets them? Answer: It has been about five years since the city last considered direct deposit of pay checks. At that ti... Read Full Answer
For Steve Connelly: I am still waiting on an answer about the pool. Has there been kids sick from swimming at the Pool. The baby pool? Answer: There is no problem with health or safety at the pool. If I had the time, I myself would go to the p... Read Full Answer
For Steve Connelly: Have you heard of kids getting sick last week. I do not want to go if there is something to this. Answer: There is no problem with health or safety at the pool. I would go myself today if I had the time.... Read Full Answer
For Steve Connelly: My child's doctor said that there have been several kids sick with Salmonella poising this past week. All of the kids had been swimming at the Berea Pool. Is there a problem? How often is the water tested? Answer: The pool water is tested 6 to 15 times a day. There has been no problem with water quality.... Read Full Answer