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Council Minutes of 2-7-78 -4_ Citq Engineer Zurawski reported; ].) have one project under construction and that is the Clague Road Culvert. Of course progress has bean,. delayed because of the weather and if there is no break in the weather progress 1s going to be further delayed; 2) currently the Engineering Office has a number of projects that are under design or will be under design sometiae during the year: last meetie~g mentioned the Porter Road Culvert - we are naw making progress in the develaprent of plans, specificat~;ons and estimates for that job. We are on schedule and hopefully there will be a contract award during the Spring; 3} also will be designing the replacement for the short section of *he Hampton Dxive sanitary sewer. It is approximately 6.8 ft. of an existing l0" sanitarry newer which has collapsed. This involved the replacement of two manholes which have an infiltration problem, and approxim~-tely 100 lineal feet of concrete pavement. Hope to have tl-,stwady by the Spring of this year also; 4} the other project is the Beech Lane Culvert and, like the Claque Rd. culvert and the Porter Rd. culvert, is financed 100X undex the Co~;unity Develop~awmt Block Grant Funds, Hope to have the culvert under construction late this year and possibly the award sometime during the Summer. Law Director Gareau reported: 1) the Burkett Lawsuit - it appears that it should go forward on Febiuaxy 2lst. Law Director has been engaged in going through all of the records preparing for this trial: has in the last week hired an appraiser on behalf of the City to testify as an evert witness; 2) have been engaged in the on-$bing program with respect to combating the requests for decreases in assessed valuation by commercial and multi-family businesses. Law Director thinks Council should adapt a resolution and at least make the State Senators and State Representatives aware o~ the fact that the state law presently pretty much hamstrings the effort~a of the local school board and municipality with respect to fi~tiug these r~egets for decreases. Law Director Gareau explained that a multi-family or commercial establishment has a right to use s method other than fair market value in determing what the value of their property is and that is the operation approach. Law Director Gareau explained the method of operation approach and discussed other inequities in the Law. Feels Council should get involved and will work with Council regarding a resolution. Hopefully we can get other communities to go along with the City of North Olmsted and ultimately get the entire Cuyahoga County to correct this wrong. Safety Director Petre reported: 1) regarding the North Olmsted Recreation Complex figures now available indicate that income at the Complex for 1977 was $428,753 while our expenditures were $436,594. plus approximately $16,000. in unpaid bills that will be carried aver into 1978; 2) are currently studying the feasibility of having trained auxiliary policemen with arrest powers. The estimated cost to the City would be $350. per man. We feel this would be an excellent idea to supplement our regular officers due to manpower shortage which exists in the lbt.ice Department at this time; 3) have not yet acted on Ord. No. 77-194, with regard to the sale of 1,136 lbs. of scrap lead from the police firing s because of the con: versus price factox which would result in an expense to the City. The solution offered would be to wait until we have at least 3,E?At} lbs. of scrap lead to sell at one time. This solution is acceptable to the Police Department. Mr. Beaty as&ed Safety Dixectar Petre if there is a schedule for putting on additional poli.ceawen. Safety Director discussed same explaining there is no schedule as yet - will be making a r®commendation to Council in the near future.