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Council Minutes of 10/7/86 _2_ 4) At the request of council, a meeting was held with Bill Peinert, Superin- tendent of Schools. The school guard program, if run by the school system, would almost double. The lowest paid, part time person on their payroll makes $6.00 per hour, with benefits. If Ordinance No. 86-87 passes, the city will only pay school guards a high of $4.67, with no benefits. Safety Director Becker, Budget and Management Director Cunningham and Mayor Petrigac had a second meeting with Superintendent Peinert at which time he pointed out that the school system could not pay for the parochial school .guards. School guards work about 54 hours per day, which amounts to $46,500 the city is presently paying. Butternut School has two guards with a total of eight hours daily; Maple School has three guards with a total of twelve hours daily; Pine School has two guards with a total of eight hours daily; Spruce School has two guards with a total of eight hours daily; St. Brendan has one guard with a total of four hours and St. Richard has three guards with a total of twelve hours. 677 of the budget for school guards, amounting to $31,155, goes for public school guards; the balance for parochial school guards. If council will give the Mayor its determination, she will write the school system, asking them to underwrite the public school system's portion. 5) The last part of the Mayor's report covered the state of the Rec Complex Roof; Mr. Fattlar and Mr. Fabek presented a report and slides which showed the deterioration of the roof and ceiling. Law Director Gareau reported: 1) Attended a pre-trial Iast week in front of Judge McMonagle on the Seven Hills versus the-City of Cleveland Case. In 1976, council had adopted a resolution agreeing with the Seven Hills case. They were trying to regionalize the Cleveland Water System. The lower court had, in fact, regionalized it; it was reversed by the Court of Appeals and then the case was settled. In the settlement entry, the attorney for the plaintiffs reserved the right of the court to retain continuing jurisdiction for the purpose of assessing attorney fees. At the pre-trial, Law Director Gareau raised the question of the statute of limitations because they are seeking in excess of $14,000 from the City of North Olmsted. When a second resolution was offered to council, council re- jected it; Law Director's position is that .the City of North Olmsted never hired the services of Mr. Slifka. He has two weeks to brief the city's positon in the form of a motion to dismiss; will be submitting that within the next two weeks. 2) A case is presently pending before the Bureau of Employment Services, dealing with one school guard who has filed for unemployment compensation when she was off during the summer break. She is the only school guard to do so and the bureau has awarded her unemployment compensation for each of the three years she has done this. This year, when it was brought to the Law Director's attention, he has contested it. The law provides that if an individual works for the Board of Education and is a seasonal employee, then. there is no unemployment compen a- tion when they are off season. The only reason the bureau has continued to give her compensation, even though it is seasonal., is simply because there is no firm agreement between the School Board and the City of North Olmsted with respect to these positions. Will hold a pre-trial conference at 7:30 P.M. tomorrow, by telephone, in which all parties will get an opportunity to present their positions. 3) Has presented the city's complaint to .the Court of Common Pleas with respect to the Halleen matter. Has had a number of continuances simply because the city has been unable to get its expert to look at the situation. Law Director was at the truck lot last night because he was informed there was a different kind of bulb in one of the lights. Although the glare was somewhat reduced, it probably is not significant enough to resolve the problem. Has conferred with Mr. Tallon; in the next week,. will contact an expert to present some kind of proposal to eliminate the glare when these lights are turned on.