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Council Minutes of 12-21-76 _2_ Fresident Lampert scheduled a meeting of Council as a Whole on January 11, 1977, 8:00 F.M., City Ha11, to discuss request by Mayor with respect to Stearns Road improvement, and requested the Mayor, City Engineer to be in attendance. Mr. Boehmer will contact Mr. Ron Zurawaki of County Engineer's office and request him to be at meeting. Fresident Lampert announced that Mayor Christman was elected President of the Cuyahoga County Mayors and City Managers Association. finance Director Gerlach reported the Finance Office is moving two doors south; the data processing equipment arrived today after having been lost in transit for two weeks, and is to be installed toc~rrow and hopefully will be all set up in two weeks. Law Director Gareau reported: 1) sometime ago Councilman Wilamosky requested a legal opinion with respect to the installation of additional traffic control devices on Lorain Rd. It was Law Director Gareau's impression at the time there was some controverpy as to whether or not additional signalization could be put on Lorain Rd. because of the fact that in 1971 we had entered into an agreement with Cuyahoga County regarding signalization. Law Director Gareau reviewed the ordinance as well as the agreement in light of the Charter, etc. and found that the ordinance that was passed back in 1971 was contrary to our Charter in that our Charter requires that you can have no emergency clause when you have a joint exercise of control or power and, also, the Charter requires that you have to have three readings. In this particular instance we had neither. In addition, according to the Revised Code a county cannot legally insert in their agreement a provision whereby a City cannot continue to exercise their control of local self government; and this agreement had various clauses that restricted us. Consequently, the Opinion that Law Director Gareau has rendered is that he believes despite the fact that there is a contract in existence that the City can add additional slgnalization; resynchronize or do whatever else they sa desire with respect to Lorain Rd. Mr. Wilamosky stated regarding the Legal Opinion and outcome of Transportation Committee, that he has received requests as of this past weekend from people from Decker Rd. for this traffic light. Mrs. Saringer, Chairman Streets & Drainage Committee, reported: 1) Committee agrees that Ord. No. 76-177 for resurfacing portions of Lorain Rd. in conjunction with Ohio Dept. of Transportation be placed on second reading this evening; 2) scheduled a Streets & Drainage Committee meeting on January 6, 1977, 8:30 P.M., City Hall; also to notify the Equalization Board for Mill Rd. improvements to be present. Mrs. Saringer requested the Clerk to ascertain if Mr. Goggin will be available for the meeting before notifying the Equalization Board to be present. Mr. Wilamosky, Chairman Finance Committee, and Long Range Planning Committee, reported: L) Committee recommends flrd. No. 76-182 which deals with the or$anizatianal chart of the Fire Department be passed under suspension of rules this evening and stated reasons - one of which is to save the Finance Department work in preparing payroll because as it now stands the ordinance would be adopted next year and would have to go retroactive; Z) Committee recommends Ord. No. 76-188 be passed under suspension of rules this evening being that it is necessary that appropriations be placed into the necessary funds for the completion of the year.