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Council Minutes of 12/16/86 -3- 6) Every six or seven years, North Olmsted Law Department handles the WEB legal work. The only reason he has a negative feeling about this is that the last time North Olmsted had it, there was extended Litigation on the "bomb bucket", which was finally resolved. This does create a burden on the Law Department - to not only handle the city's litigation but to handle that for all the other West Shore communities. 7) As promised, has prepared a resolution regarding the RTA proposal as dis- cussed at the last regular council meeting; feels it should be backed by council and by the administration. Also, the suburban communities in Cuyahoga County, and perhaps the suburban communities in Columbus, Cincinnati and other major metropolitan areas, should be contacted and involved. The section, "Whereas, communities in Cuyahoga County, who have in effect given up their franchise right to operate transit systems in favor of the existing Regional Transit Authority, may now wish to form smaller than county transit authorities to meet their own existing transit needs" is basically what it is all about. Feels North Olmsted has the wherewithal. to do it; can reform the board and perhaps can set the pace for not only Cuyahoga County but for the rest of the metropolitan areas in the State of Ohio, Finance Director Boyle reported: 1) Received the budget from the Regional Income Tax Agency; projection for income tax collections for North Olmsted for 1986 was 3.6 million dollars; it came in at $3,580,000. The projection for 1987 is $3,750,000, about a 4.177 increase. Two years ago, the cost of collection was 3.327 and has continuously come down; cost this year will be about 3.287; budget for next year is 3.247. It will cost North Olmsted approxi- mately $95,000 to collect taxes this year, which is a lot cheaper than if the city had done it. 2) Most of the last few weeks has been. taken up with compiling material for fact finding, material for transfer of appropriations, material to make appropriations; gathering, adjusting and analyzing the material. President Saringer asked the Clerk of Council to note that Councilman Lackey is now present; time being 8:15 P.M. Mr. Wilamosky, Chairman Finance Committee reported: 1) Finance Committee met with Safety Committee and Chairman O'Grady will report out on this joint meeting. 2) Following the joint meeting, Mr. Wilamosky met with Mayor Petrigac with re- spect to two parcels of land being offered to the city: one on Columbia Road and the other in the Garden City Subdivision, The parcels were looked at; they are not the greatest, one totally being land-locked and one having some appearance of usefulness. Discussed the possibility of checking to determine if the city could secure a guaranteed title. The following day, through the efforts of President Saringer, shared additional information with the Mayor. One of the parcels has a delinquent tax in the amount of $300; the other parcel is delinquent in the area of $600. After discussion, Mayor Petrigac indicated she would write a letter to the property owner, advising him the city would be willing to accept the property providing it could get a guaranteed title and that the delinquent taxes would be corrected prior to acceptance. Committee will await a response from the property owner and advise council.