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Minutes of the Regular Meeting of Council <br />Monday, June 15, 2015 <br />Page 5 <br />BUILDING - John Marrelli <br />There was no report. <br />ENGINEERING - Tom Cappello <br />There was no report. <br />LEGAL DEPARTMENT - Mr. Diemert <br />There was no report. <br />FIRE - Chief Eugene Carcionpolo <br />There was no report. <br />FINANCE - Ron Wvnne <br />There was no report. <br />POLICE - Chief Richard Edelman <br />Chief Edelman reported, after 40 years of service, Sergeant Timothy Schutt is retiring. His last <br />day will be Friday the 19th. I hope you will all join me in wishing him well. We will be filling <br />his open position with one of our part-time officers who is on our top 10 list, Steven Palko. <br />I sent you an e-mail last week about the CECOMs issues. There was a link in that e-mail to the <br />Cleveland.com article in which it was described how the County at the last minute decided to not <br />move forward with the construction of the emergency operation center in Bedford Heights. That <br />was an integral part of the discussions we had with the County in our consolidation talks. We <br />met with representatives from public safety and from CECOMs since that article came out. Their <br />-opinion right now is that rather than spend the $15 or $18 million dollars they planned on doing, <br />they are going to co-locate with one of the existing regional dispatch centers. More than likely it <br />will probably be Bedford Heights because they have the most room. There's only three cities in <br />that dispatch center. I can't say for sure because they have not made that decision. I asked <br />Brandy Carney what that means to co-locate with the other centers. I said, does that mean you <br />are going to essentially take over that center and it's going to become CECOMs? She wouldn't <br />say yes or no. She just said, well, we would like to call it co-locating. Well, the fact that this all <br />came down at the last minute and we have been negotiating in good faith with the County, Chief <br />Carcioppolo and I decided that it's probably in the best interests of Mayfield Village if we just <br />stop our consolidation efforts right now just so that we can take a step back, look at our options <br />again and revisit some things we have looked at before including building it here in Mayfield <br />Village and proceed from there. I don't think we are in any hurry at this point. We will give it to <br />the end of the year and see what happens in 2016. At this point that's where we stand. Your <br />dispatch center is not moving. We will have more information for you when it is available.