Safety Committee 01-09-12 Minutes.pdf - Streetsboro
Safety Committee 01-09-12 Minutes.pdf - Streetsboro
Safety Committee 01-09-12 Minutes.pdf - Streetsboro
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prices lower. If only one business was chosen then they could charge whatever they wanted. He<br />
would even prefer to have more businesses on the towing list; “There was no reason to limit the<br />
towing.” He commented that Interstate Towing and Gateway Towing both did a wonderful job and<br />
were able to back each other up. He added that Interstate could handle huge wrecks (that Gateway<br />
couldn’t), that Interstate paid income tax to <strong>Streetsboro</strong>, and they rented property in town. He didn’t<br />
think there was anything wrong with having additional people available to use.<br />
Mr. Kocisko said the <strong>Streetsboro</strong> businesses paid their income taxes to <strong>Streetsboro</strong>, whereas<br />
Interstate was an out of town business and did not pay taxes to <strong>Streetsboro</strong>, which he felt was a big<br />
issue; tax revenue was needed to keep the City operating. Brett McClafferty commented from the<br />
audience that Interstate’s location on Ethan Drive was closed. Mayor Broska understood that<br />
Interstate had left <strong>Streetsboro</strong> because they were taken off the towing list and not making money in<br />
<strong>Streetsboro</strong>, but were to come back to <strong>Streetsboro</strong> now that they were back on the list. They had<br />
gone before the Planning Commission because there were things they had to do to their property in<br />
order to comply with the conditional use permit, which they did, so Planning Commission granted<br />
their conditional use permit. Mayor Broska said when they complied with the Planning<br />
Commission’s requirements, that’s when they went back onto the towing list, and there were only<br />
two companies on the towing list (Interstate and Gateway). He felt competition was important.<br />
Mr. Kocisko felt the businesses in town should be the ones the Mayor (and City) should support,<br />
unless they couldn’t provide the needed service, but there was a towing company in town. Mayor<br />
Broska noted that Interstate Towing had just as much right to compete in <strong>Streetsboro</strong> as any of the<br />
restaurants. Mr. Kocisko wondered if the towing needs of <strong>Streetsboro</strong> were large enough to need<br />
more than one business providing it.<br />
Mr. Claypoole suggested bidding the job and just using the one company that provided the lowest<br />
bid. Mayor Broska said “you can’t do that” because we can’t contract with a company and say they<br />
would get a certain amount of runs or a certain amount of money. He said the City was currently<br />
working on its towing ordinance that had been in place since 1971 that would stipulate what<br />
<strong>Streetsboro</strong> would expect our towing companies to provide and the opportunity to provide that<br />
should be open and not limit the competition. Mr. Claypoole thought the service should be bid like<br />
the trash service.<br />
Mrs. Field said the current ordinance allowed up to five towing companies to be on the rotation.<br />
Chief Mosley explained in the past it hadn’t been an issue because <strong>Streetsboro</strong> Auto was the sole tow<br />
provider for many years. He felt the primary issue to be addressed was customer service and the<br />
towing guidelines/qualifications could be defined through a contract or through an ordinance. Mrs.<br />
Field asked if the consumer could be allowed to choose the tow provider instead of using a rotation<br />
system between the two. Chief Mosley explained that there were police enforcement tows and then<br />
all other tows where the customer could chose a provider.<br />
Mrs. Pavlick wasn’t sure why this was an agenda item. She commented that this country was built<br />
on the backs of small businesses and she didn’t want to stifle anyone from starting a business here or<br />
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