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Council Minutes of b-7-78 -2- Service Director Corrigan discussed the City's cost of $k21,000 - which is a rough analysis - with Mr. Beaty, and how such figure was arrived, etc. City Sagineex Zurawski reported: 1) the contractor is back on the Clague Road culvert project to put the final touches - the final grading, sidewalks, sad pedestrian bridge. Rapafully that work should be cos~le~ted by the said of the month; 2) on June 20th ODOT will be ciug tba bide for the Columbia Rfl~ and Lorain Road resurfacing projects. The coaplet~.c~a date is October 15th; 3) on June 1st, the apparent low bl.d~r for the double 0 section of I-4-80 was the Great Lakes Construction y of Cleveland. That work should also begin soon. Attended a pre-construction s~aeti~ on the section between McRasasie and brace Road: the contractor for that section is the Aorvit$ Construction Company; 4) had previously x~sported to Council about amgnesite concrete: did a trial appli- cation of that on the curb lase of Park Ridge Road for the southbound action. City &ctgineer Zurawaki was disappointed in the quality of the workmanship in that section and he reported that to the Sitwt C~rpa~tty who assured him they will come in at their cost and do a toeu:h-up on the curb lie. City Bngineer Zurawsfci thiaka we should experiment further on the use of that ~tterial and stated reasons therefor;the pavement this such isproved to what it had been prior to the application; 5} all of the data has been collected for the Brookpark Road survey and it has been finalized into foam which will be subffiitted tomorrow to ODOT District 12. Mr. Logan stated he would like to personally thank Mr. Zurawski with respect to the completion of the Brookpark Road survey and the engineering and traffic investigation. Tt was at ~c. Logtxt's request that this was done and Mr. Zurawaki has completed in excess of 8!? hours of his own time on this project as well as over 30 hours of departaent t.mm. tfr. Logan stated Mr. Zurawski deserves credit for saving the City a large of ~roney that the City would necessarily have to pay an outside firm to do the study, etc. Law Director Gateau reported: 1} several mcmtha ago had reported oa the Sig 0 Case: The City had sought an injunction to restrain the 'Sig 0 Dealership from eliminating one of the trees that they arg~aaaally included in the development plan when it was submitted by Uuhl~wan Oldsmobile sad they, in turn, tried to have the court permit them to cut the tree down. The Court had ruled in favor of the City and sstrained them from taking the tree down. They had filed an additional motion asking for a new trial and this past week the Court overruled that motion and if they are going to appeal it, they will have to take it to the Court of Appeals; 2} most of the people is this x^eom were not around when the Baldwin Case was originally tried before the Civil Service Commission. That case involved a police officer of the City who was d3aMeharged by the City. The case was taken to the Civil Service Com~assiaa: the Civil Service Cosmuission reversed the decision and merely suspended the officer sad reduced him in rank. The Citp appealed - at that time Mr. Gateau was not Law Director - and the case was referred out to Squires, Sanders & De~sey. They have w~-rked on it these 4 years. It went into Gammon Pleas Court - the Commo~- Pleas Court upheld the City's appeal and the officer was discharged. This past week tyre Court of Appeals upheld the ComAwn Pleas Court and Law Director has not heard w~tether or not that will be appealed to the Supremo Court; 3) today filed a lawsuit on behalf of the City seeking an injunction against a property owner on Louis Drive from utilizing a single residential property far multi- family purposes; 4) since last Council Meeting ham issued a Legal Opinion dealing with the garbage incentive program. The opinion is in the office of the Clerk of Council. Basically,