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Regular City Council Meeting Monday, December 2, 2019 Page 32 community should have been done before any permit was issued to the cemetery to allow for this project. Ms. Pouchak explained her neighborhood does want a timeline for the project for next year. This project has been going on for a couple of years, she did not see an end in sight, and thought it was nasty. There needs to be some accountability on part of the cemetery and Frattalones as well as the city. She asked how this will be resolved as expeditiously as possible. She appreciated that the Council will consider regular updates to the residents, which should have been done all along. As to inspections, there has never been any soil covered with straw, it is a mess, and she has never seen an inspector. Maybe the inspector needs to notify the resi- dents when there is an inspection, and someone could go with them. Mr. Aronow explained he sees the company digging and filling in over and over. To him, it feels like the permit was established for a different reason and it feels like the company is excavating a lot of sand. He does not know what happens to it but it has not been a clear dig. It has been digging out and filling with some- thing else for a couple of years. This is not a forward moving project. He felt like this was living next to an industrial site without any control. It is very loud and destructive. Ms. Pouchak explained she talked to the Pollution Control Agency (PCA) and learned the residents can file complaints about dust that is going into the water- shed, and street sweepers are not using water because the dust is being lifted into the air and defeating the purpose of what is supposed to happen and not cleaning the streets. When it rains the sediment is going into the new watershed on Victo- ria that was set up when the road was redone so the city needs to look into that and start making complaints to the PCA. Mr. Richard & Mrs. Susan Munion, 1945 Victoria Street Mr. Munion stated one of his concerns comes from when this project was started over two years ago, trucks were hauling at 6:00, 6:10, 6:15 a.m. He had called the city and was told the trucks were not supposed to be on site until 7:00 a.m. That word must have gotten to the cemetery but the next step in the process was thirty dump trucks idling from 6:15 a.m. to 7:00 a.m. outside his window. He thought the letter that the Council is suggesting is a very good idea but possibly in the let- ter a contact information could be included so when there are problems, residents can call that person. The other issue he had was about two weeks ago, there was a thirty-eight foot side dumper coming out of the service road and during the next three minutes, there were two more side dumpers and a dump truck all waiting for the truck to leave the access road because there is only room for one truck on it so people were passing on the blind curve. That does involve the cemetery and something needs to be done for signage for safety going around that corner.