Wow! I just got back from the City Council ‘pre-meeting’. I saw over 100 unhappy people there. Mr. Grimes (North Canton Director of Administration) started the meeting with a presentation to the Council. Afterward, several residents spoke about their experiences and frustrations concerning flooding / sewer backups and the recent flooding in particular.
I picked up several interesting tidbits and ideas and will try to put them in a readable form over the next several days and share them with you. I’ll also work on getting a meeting transcript posted here.
The overriding themes at the meeting seemed to be that “the city has a problem, and has known about it for a long time”, “the problem is getting worse”, “a multi-jurisdictional effort is going to be required to deal with the problem” and “it’s going to take time and money to fix it”.
…more later…
-Paul