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MINUTES OF THE MEETING OF THE. COUNCIL OF THE CITX OF NORTH OLMSTED DECEMBER 5, 1985 Present: President James Boehmer, Councilmen Bierman, O'Grady, Petrigac, Rademaker, Saringer, Tallon, Wilamosky. Also present: Law Director Michael Gareau, Finance Director Edward Boyle, Clerk of Council Florence Campbell. Meeting was called to order by President Boehmer at 8:05 P.M., in Council Chambers, 5200 Dover Center Road. Members of the audience were invited to loin Members of Council in reciting the Pledge of Allegiance. Minutes of the Council Meeting of November l9, 1985, were approved. President Boehmer expressed Council"s condolences to ,the Swietyniowski family on the. death of Leo Swietyniowski. He .also extended congratulations to ,~ Mrs. Yvonne Petrigac who will be sworn in as Mayor of .the City of North Olmsted and will take office on January 1, 1986. Before moving into reports, President Boehmer reported: l) Three pieces of legis- lation are being added to toni.ght's agenda: Ordinance No. 85~~.33, to make and transfer appropriations for current expenses and other expenditures for the city for the year ending December 31, 1985; Ordinance No. 85~-1.34, to make appropriations for current expenses and other expenditures for the city for the year ending December 31, 1985; Ordinance No. 85-38, amending Section 351.18 of Chapter 351 of the Codified.Ordinances entitled "Parking Generally", to provide for an increased penalty for violating Section 351.20 entitled "Handicapped Parking". Law Director Gareau reported:. 1) Tuesday, a full day .was set aside for taking depositions from various individuals at City Hall with respect to the Crumbley law- suit; Assistant Director of Law Dubelko was in attendance. 2) Mayor Swietyniowski, NOMBL Executive Assistant Terbrack and .Law Director Gareau attended a conference in .Orlando, Florida with respect to privatisation as it affects mass transportation and what .the new policy .is with respect to the Urban Mass Transportation Administration for future transportation. needs throughout the country. The future will see changes made in the transportation system,throughout Cuyahoga County as well as the rest of the state and included in these changes will be competition. If anything came out of this particular conference, it had to do with the aspect that competition, either by virtue of having two governmental en- tities compete with one another, or private industry compete with one another, is a healthy thing and reduces cost. Although the city has done so in .the past, it should look at terms of competition, not only .the basic. service aspect but particu- larly in trying to cut some of the costs. RTA has, in the past, had a policy of providing parity as far as expenditures for wages and things of .that nature; the City of North Olmsted is going to -have to look at turning back same of its staff through attrition to make sure it can not only compete with private industry but with RTA itself. Law Director is still attempting to set up a meeting to establish .the ground rules for the audit so that it can be finished and by next June the city will know how it stands. ~. _ .u.~~,~,~, ~,