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Council Minutes of 3/1/83 _2_ 3) Met with National City Bank, corporate services, trust and public funds officers about a cash flow system currently being investigaCed. This is a way of keeping most of the City's money active and invested, through the use of another bank account through that system. City would know exa.ctly how many outstanding checks, and the amounts, would be clearing the following day; would give the Cifiy an extra day of "float" and allow City to invest an exact amount rather than trying to anticipate it. 4) Received a letter from the City of Cleveland utilities advising the City of North Olmsted will be receiving $346,706 from sewer collections for North Olmsted and $10,319 for Olmsted Township. 5) Met with Workmens Compensation Company which services the City in unemployment and workmen comp cases at the initial stage. They survey our rates, losses, etc. and fight for a lower workmens comp r$tes. For the year 1983, City will be paying on rates established through activities in 1982. City's experience rate is at -59.53; premium rate will be 1.24. Anything that is a minus on the experience rate means that it is a safe activity; the lower it goes, the safer it is. North Olmsted was at a-38 in 1982; is ncaw at -59.53 which makes it one of the safest cities in the State of Ohio. 6) Conrputer is running January and February and will be running March. Council is still getting financial statements offthe RITA computer but Finance Department is running parallels. Hopefully, March and April statements will be run off new computer. 7) Homestead Exemption Forms will be available from the County when the new County Auditor takes office on Ma.rch 13th. Law Director Gareau reported: 1) On the 29th of March, will be in Cincinnati to argue the City's appeal in the RTA Case, the anti-trust action filed against the Regional Transit Authority. 2) Attended a pre-trial ccmference with respect to an older case dealing with the challenge of the City's right to suspend policemen for five days without having a hearing. This deals with the age old question of whether or not the City, a chartered municipal corporation, has the right to have rules and regulations different from the State. Law Director Gareau believes it does and has alresdy briefed it. This should be decided within the next two months. 3) Cuyahoga County Board of Revision has decided last year's case with respect to the Great Northern property snd increased the assesed valuation; the Mall portion is twenty three plus millian dollars in assessed valuation and the Strip Center is nine million plus. Basicaliy this means an increase in revenue for the City of $20,000+ and $60,000+ for the Bvard of Education. 4) Within the last two weeks, pre-trial was held on the Patrolman ,7andecka case. This is the Civil Service case where a police officer, while ,jogging, shot a dog. Hevas eventually suspended; case was heard before the Civil Service Commission; was apgealed to the Court of Common Pleas. At the pre-trial conference, the Judge agreed to hear it on the transcripts and briefs already submitted. 5) Law Director and Assistant attended a seminar with the Cuyahoga County Law Directors' Association where basically the subject matter was the discussion of the court case doing away with governmental iamunity. This is going to have a drastic affect on municipal corporations and we`11 be hearing more about it in the next couple of months. The thing that is ironic about the elimination of governmental immunity involved a case in Summ.it County dealing with the odor coming from a sewage treatment plant and the Supreme Court of the State of Ohio ruled exactly the opposite when North 0lmsted had its case, both in the Court of Appeals and before the Supreme 4D Court. So there has been a complete turnaround on that issue in just three or four years.