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Council Minutes of 1/16/79 -3- 2) Safety Committee also met on January 15th and discuaRSSd the "no parki.ng" s3.gns an the fire hydrant side of ev€ry street by June lst of 1979. When cars are parked on both sictes of the sCreet, iC is nery difficult for a driver to see a small child ar soaeflne caming out from between parked care. Hopefully, the "no parking" signs wtll prevent accidents. 3) Safety Ccmnnittee discussed an automobil.e irispection program. At the pxesent ttme, the Police Department does have an inegecCian of cars. Last year, 1,459 warning tickets were handed out. This will be enforced even more strictly. Cars without fenders, head lights or tail lights, without bumpars, or with Jagged metal, will be pulled over and inspected. Owners will be given a ger3od of time to repair such violatioas and the car will be taken off the road if repaixs ara not made. 4) Safety Committee discussed Ordlnance No. 79-1$2 - Jail Staandards. Committee con- curs with the 14ayor and urges Councfl to vote "pes" on this ordinas?ce. 5) Safety Committee discussed with Chief Taqlflx the placiag of the City Seal on police cars. Chief Taylor advised Chat the City has just purchaaed new ahields, enough for three qears, and would like to keep these at the prseent time. Mr. Wilamosky, Chairman of tihe Finance Covatittee reported: 1) Cami.ttee met with all members in attendance as well as the Mayor. Discussed the CZeveland Wster System law suit which ia currently peutting in the Court af Appeals. The CupaMoga County MayQr's and City Manager's Association has asked the City of North Olmstcd, ae well as all coummunities in Che County, to psrti¢igate in sharing the cast of this litigation. The City has participated in the paet. North Olmsted's share, taaaed on a per capita baais, would be $2,788.83. Basically, the intant of the suit is to gire the users of the system a little more control over ita aperation. Ovar 52% of the currexit users of the system are suburban residenta. GTould perscnailq camaemd the City Msyvrts aad Manager's Association for taking on the City of Clevelaad with respect to the water system. Committee recomends that the City of North Olmsted expend the $2,788.88 to help share the cost of the law suit. 2) with regard to the balance of expenditures for 1978, committee has not had a lot of time to review this. In the next few weeks, will be working together with the Admin- istration and the Ff.nance Director, in drafting and developing an appropriation ordinance which hopfully will be a little mave accurate in 1979. We ended the year of 1978 with a balance of $314,642. Some funds are encvmbered. [Je have $134,600 encumbered in the General Fund and $67,221 encembered for the Sewer LLevenue Fuaid for some capital equip- ment. On receipts, all taxes, pxoperty, Iocal government and incone tax, are up over the original estimate. Parking finem, lfquor, etc. are also up. We are dc:wn in per- mits and licenses. Committee will giue Couacil a total report upon a mcre camprehensive review. To conclude, we had an ariginai estimete for 1978 of $3,746,548. We finished the year with revenue of $4,384,958.20. Letters and Communications: Clerk of Council announced receipt of copy of a letter from Gitq Engineer Zurawski addressed to rtr. Krall of 4DOT wfth regard to the problem Mr. Eugeue Sampson has wittr the fence along the I-480 bike gath; receipt of letter from Board of Couaty Commissioners regarding municipal solid waste disposal; receipt of letter from Bureau a€ Adult De- tention Facilities and Services regaxding the semittars on the new Jsil atsndards and how to compiy with them. People addressing Council: Mr. Gerald Freed, 4592 Silverdale Road, addressed Ceuncil and voiced his eoncern and ob3ections to the Rules af Council, No. 13, Standi.mg Cc?mmittees. Feels that evexy Member of Council should be allowed [o vote on this, not the majority party only. Much discussion enaued.