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Minutes of the Regular Meeting of Council Monday, April 18, 2016 Page 10 COIYgMEl\TTS FROM COUNCIL PRESIDENT SAI'OliTAFtO Council Healthcare Codified Ordinance Review Council Healthcare goes in line with the Codified Ordinance Review. We are ]ooking at the Ordinances that we cui7•ently have and will have inare of a discussioil when we get to that ordinance that will remain in New Business on First Read. Next we will go into Department Head reports. You will notice that I am not going to call on everyone because everyone does not have a report tonight. DEPARTMENT HEAD REPOR'TS: Mary Betsa (CounciI) - Reporting on behalf of the Civil Service Coinmission, patrol officer applications are being picked up. The cut-off •is April 21 S'. The testing will take place on April 28t1' In the newspaper this Thursday will appear the fact that applications will be available for Fire/Paramedic. That testing will take place in August. You will find this all on our website if you know of anyone interested in either of the exaininations. Just a reminder that an Ethics seminar is scheduled in Strongsville on June lst.and in Warrensville on June 2nd. If you are interested in attending, let ine know. 'I'hank you. Tom Cappello (Engineer) - Updating on the 2015 Road Prograin at Glenview, Boiinieview and Beech Hill, we are continuing doing the roadside ditchwork and culverting portions that were previously culverted. They finished up on Bonnieview and Glenview. They will be working on Beech Hill tomorrow and that's moving along. The 2016 Road Prograin began last week. They concentrated over by North Commons or South Cominons between Parkview and the pool. They are expanding the eastenl portion of that roadway to facilitate parking for The Grove. Also, Hickory Hill was supposed to begin today but they pretty much just set up signs and will be out on the road toinorrow. Chief Eugene Carcioppolo (Fire) - Someone had asked me what we do at the Fire Department so I did a two week report kind of to just surrunarize what we have done in the last two weeks so I am just going to read that to you real quickly. We responded to 27 emergency inedical service calls, 15 einergency fire calls. There were 14 fire safety inspections. There were 7 car seat installations. We did 4 EMS drills, 3 fire drills and we had 11 emergency call backs. When our ainbulance responds to a call that is out of our coinrnunity or transports to a hospital further than Hillcrest we will do an emergeney call back to bring people back into the station. So that's a little suinmarization of what we have done over the last two weeks. I will give you another one in 2 more weeks. I also wanted to update you on the Rescue Task Force gear for the ballistic equipment that Council had approved a couple months ago. I had written a letter to the Hillcrest 100 requesting assistance in purchasing three additional sets of rescue task force gear. They approved that letter and they sent us a check today which I forwarded to the Finance Department so they purchased