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At its regular meeting scheduled for 4:00 p.m. today, Toledo City Council will likely vote on the following legislation: • Ordinance 331-16 authorizing the expenditure of $4,013,535 for removal and disposal of spent lime and embankment relocation for construction of basin projects at the Collins Park Water Treatment Facility. Proceeds for the project will be allocated from the Water Bond Improvement Fund. • Ordinance 336-16 vacating ProMedica Parkway between Monroe Street and North Cove Boulevard, and portions of Rathbun Drive and Christie Drive, to facilitate expansion at the campus of ProMedica Toledo Hospital. • Ordinance 337-16 making a zoning change at 219 Page Street to facilitate the expansion of the Surgical Building on the campus of Mercy Health - St. Vincent Medical Center. Ordinance 338-16 will also likely be voted on which would amend the hospital’s Institutional Campus Master Plan to add the site to the overall campus. In addition, a series of ordinances levying special assessments for various public service expenses in 2015 will likely be voted on which include: • Ordinance 300-16 which would levy $19,595,706 for sprinkling, sweeping, cleaning and removing snow on municipal streets, alleys and public ways; • Ordinance 301-16 which would levy $3,670,812 for street lighting expenses outside the Downtown District; • Ordinance 302-16 which would levy $244,735 for street lighting expenses within the Downtown District; • Ordinance 303-16 which would levy $4,189,059 for controlling the blight and disease of shade trees within public rights-of-way as well as planting, maintaining, trimming and removing those trees; and • Ordinance 304-16 which would levy $340,438 for cutting and destroying noxious weeds on vacant properties. Special assessments are generally levied upon the properties located on those streets, alleys and public ways where the services occurred. In the case of tree maintenance services, the assessments are citywide, and the properties receiving weed services are assessed individually. The special assessments will appear on 2017 property tax bills. All Council meetings are held in Council Chambers on the first floor of One Government Center, located on Jackson Boulevard in downtown Toledo.