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MINUTES OF THE MEETING OF T8E COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF~NdRTS OL'MST~D JANUARY 4, 1977 Present: President of Council Dewey Lampert, Councilmen Beaty, Boehmer, Fairfield, Saringer, Sharpe, Weft, Wilamosky. Also present: Mayor Ralph Christman, Law Director Michael Gareau, Finance Director Williffi.Gerlach, Safety Director Rayesond Carnahan, Service Director ftenry Caster, City Engineex J. Kt~rard Childs, Clerk of Council Nora Bill. Meeting was called to order by President Lampert at 8:00 P.M. President Lampert welcomed Mr. Fairfield, Councilman Ward 1, and announced that Council has decided that Mr. Fairfield will fill the obligations with :tsspect to Standing Committees of Co~cil that Mr. Coggin held which are: Char of the Recreation, Public Parks & Buildings Cammittee and serve as a Member on the following Committees of Council:. Intro-Governmental Relations & Legislation Committee, Streets ~ Drainage Come-ittee and Bu~.lding, Zoning & Development Committee. Minutes of Council Meeting of December 21, 1976, were approved as read. Mayor Christmas reported: 1) have received resignation of Mr. William Freeh, effective 1-177, from Planning Commniasion and is recommending far approval the appointment of Mr. Ronald Zurawski to fill the unexpired term of Mr. Freeh which terminates 12/31/79; 2) Mr. Clarke Olson has asked the Mayor to withdraw his name from consideration far reappointment to the Board of Zoning Appeals. He indicated that~his expected reassignment at work did not materialize. and that he would not have sufficient time for the Board of Zoning Appeals and has withdrawn his name. The Mayor does not have a replacement nay for Mr. Olson as yet; 3) received correspondence from Cong-res~tman Mottl regarding hearings that are to be held on January 20, 1977, in Clevaslamd by the Commission on the Postal Service in an effort to "identify and study problems facing the U.S. Postal Service". He asked the Mayor to armounce this and spread the word around for those interested in expressing their feelings on how better to improve the postal service; 4) In Ord. No. 77-1 there is $178,040 earmarked for Water Pollution Control from the General Fund. It is urgent that some action be taken to offset the pro3ected deficit in the Sewer Revenue Fund. For this xeason will introduce Ord. No. 77-2 which provides for a 60X increase in the sewer rate. The Mayor feels. it is imperative that it be in effect by February 1st in order to realize the additional revenues from it by September 1st. In can unction with that, has. arranged today for Mr. Wayne Kuhn tQ be at City Ha11, January 1Qth, $:00 P.M., to review the actual cash flow in the Sewer Revenue Fund with Council and Administration for 1977; S) will announce appointments to the Architectural Review Board at next Council Meeting, January 18th. At this time would like to request Council establish the compensation for the Members of the Board'as proposed in the ordinance. Would like to recommend the figure of $15. or $25. per meeting. Service Director Caster stated he would like to comment to the appropriate Committees of Cou~tcil. that in August of last year Mr. Weldon submitted a list of equipment needed by the Service Da~-artment and in November sent a reminder requesting a meeting-as soon as possible. Mr. Caster would like to remind Council Co~aittee again and request a meeting as soon as possible. Mr. Costar stated soxe of the equipment could have as much as a 9 month delivery date and explained the need for the equipment. .: .. ~~