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Council Minutes of 5/7/86 -2- 6) City of North Olmsted has made arrangements to join the county credit union; council members, full-time and part-time city employees will be eligible to join. 7) City of North Olmsted will be joining other communities in a campaign to keep the Cleveland Indian Baseball Team in Cleveland. North Olmsted will cooperate with the Greater Cleveland City and Civic Association by attending the May 23rd baseball game at the stadium. Anyone who would like to attend this game should contact Pat Martin; cost is $9.00. 8) May 20th is Senior Citizens' Day; Mayor Petrigac has proclaimed the entire month of May as Senior Citizens' Month; read the proclamation she has issued honoring North Olmsted's Senior Citizens as a valuable asset to the City of North Olmsted. 9) Pointed out the new logo which can now be seen on all North Olmsted buses. Law Director Gareau reported.: 1) Assistant Law Director Dubelko and he argued the Cooper Case in the Sixth Circuit on Monday. Law Director had talon three days off last week to review the transcripts of about 800 pages. as well as 250 pages of briefs in various cases. Assistant and Law Director went to Cincinnati on Saturday and spent two days brain-storming the various issues before arguing the case on Monday. Unfortunately, Law Director had only seven minutes to argue his part and Assistant Law Director had only six minutes to-argue his and were only allowed one minute of rebuttal. All the issues could not really be covered but Mr. Gareau thinks the court did point out some very interesting aspects of the case and there has been a lot of development as far as the-issue of res judicata and collateral estoppel; it may well be because the EEOC was inter- ested enough to argue as amicus curiae in this case. They had someone from Washington there to argue the case. Mr. Gareau assumes that if the court should rule in the city's favor, the. issue will probably go to the United States Supreme Court. 2) As reported, have received the Burger King decision and have filed a notice of appeal. 3) Will argue the Zurawski Case in the Court of Appeals next Tuesday; this deals with the Common Pleas Court Case that was decided against Zurawski and went to the Court of Appeals. 4) With respect to the other case pending in Federal District Court with regard to Zurawski, Mr. Gareau has had a request to settle; informed Mr. Zurawski's attorney that the city is not interested in settling because the city has a very strong case in the Eighth District and has the issue of the statute of limita- tions, which is clear cut, in the Federal District Court. Feels the court should make the decisions rather than trying to settle for a monetary amount. At this point in the council meeting, Mrs. Saringer took her place at the council table; time being 8:30 P.M. Finance Director Boyle reported: 1) Rocky River Court has sent the city $10,549.50 as its share of fines levied by the court as well as a report stating they are in the hole for the first quarter of 1986 by $2,610. 2) Fairview Park has sent the city a check in the amount of $64,124, which is the final payment on the 1985 sewer bill. First estimated payment of $65,500, for 1986,. is due September 1st. 3) Audit is underway but the field work has not begun; Finance Department is in discussion with the auditors - doing work papers for them and getting the con- firmations together. Actual field work .will begin on Monday, May 19th.