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CITY OF NORTH OI.MSTED ORDINANCE NO. 2002 -43 BY: Mayor Musial and Councii Member McKay. AN ORDINANCE AUTHORIZING THE TRANSFER OF THREE (3) STORM SEWER EMPLOYEES FROM THE SERVXCE DEPARTMENT TO THE WASTE WATER TREATMEN7' SEC7`ION OF THE PUBLIC WURK.S DIVISIUIV, AND FURTHER AUTHORIZING THE PAYMENT OF THEIR WAGES FROM THE SEWER REVENUE FU1VD, AND DECLARIIVG AN EMERG.ENCY. WHEREAS, pursuant to authority provided in Article XVIII, Section 3 and Article XVIII, Section 4 of the Ohio Constitution, the City owns and operates a sa,nitary sewer system (the System), which provides sanitary waste-wat+er collection and treatment services for the City and its inhabitams and for certain adjacem areas in the City of Fairview Park and Olmsted Township and the inhabitants of those areas; and N'HEREAS, the City has, over the years as documemed by administration reviews and reports, including the May, 1996, report of City Environmental Engineer Dennis Long, experienced, at times of heavy precipi#ation, significa.nt inflow and infiltration of storm water irno certain sanitary sewer collectian facitities of the System, resulting in an overloading of the System and sanitary wastewater backups, bypasses and overflows; and WHEREAS, such inflows and infiltrations from the storm water sewer system into the sanitary sewer system create potential public nuisances threatening the health and safety of the inhabitan;ts of this community, as well as may constitute violations of state and federal environmental laws; and WHERLAS, as a result of said administration reviews and reports, the City has employed, and continues ta employ, certain bargaining-unit laborers in the Department of Public Service whose duties are to clean, maintain, and keep in good repair, the City's storm water sewer system, including storm wates ditches, sewers and outlets, in order to minimize inflow and infiitration of storm water imo the sanitary sewer collection facilities ofthe System; and WHEREA.S, the wages and benefits of said bargaining-unit laborers have heretofore been paid from the General Revenue Fund; and WHEREAS, an orgattizational review indicates that the duties perforrned by certain bargaining-unit laborers in the Department of Pubtic Service more appropriately fa11 under the Waste Water Treatmetrt Section of the Division of Public Works, a.nd that the wa$es and benefits of said employees holding these bargaining-unit laborer positions should be paid from the Sewer Revenue Fund; and