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r ... r . Council Minutes of 10/6/87 -2- 3) Pretrial was also held on the Halleen Case in an attempt to resolve some of the differences; another pretrial is set for next month to see whether or not any progress has been made towards settlement. 4) With respect to the long-standing AFSCME Case, in which BFI claimed violation of contract and a payment of $15,000, North Olmsted lost the arbitration and appealed to Co~ton Pleas Court; Judge has finally requested that it be submitted on briefs. A brief was prepared within the last three weeks and is now before Judge Gorman. 5) City has been fighting to retain its bus line since 1977, after the first contract expired; was threatened by RTA, about two years ago, with the running of competing and parallel lines. At that time, the previous administration and Law Director attended a board meeting and RTA indicated that if an audit was taken, whoever won the audit would prevail. The results of this audit will be issued tomorrow and a press conference held. 6) Pretrial was held with respect to Developers Diversified Case; case will be tried in March. 7) Council had objected to a new D3 liquor permit for Frankie's Pizza; hearing was scheduled; Law Director asked Assistant Fire Chief to reinspect the permises; Assistant Chief Osterhouse reports that the violations have been corrected, there- fore Law Director has withdrawn the City's objection with respect to this permit. Finance Director Boyle reported: 1) Finance Director and Service Director have been investigating a Pension Pickup Program for 1988 similar to one introduced a couple of year ago which would allow the city to pay the 8.757 the employees are presently paying. This would not decrease their pays as far as pensions or any of the other benefits but would tend to increase their net income and save the city a few dollars. The bugs are still being worked out; the plan will probably need legislation; Service Director will handle this through the administration. 2) Finance Director has been developing a number of new financial reports, one of which was sent to Budget and Management Director Cunningham, which lays out, in net, the monthly income and the monthly expenditures from the prior year against the income or expenditures of the year-to-date expenditures, so that at a glance, Director Cunningham could project where the city would be toward the end of the year. This projection cannot be right to the dollar, because of inflation, etc., but should be of some assistance in the end of the year transfers. Another new report will be going to council and the administration, showing where the city is this year as opposed to where it was at the same time last year; will provide a little better comparison to see how the city is moving. 3) Meeting was held with Regional Income Tax last week with respect to the delays with the refunds. Hopefully, this has been corrected by setting priorities and changing the internal programming. RITA also came up with something interesting in hospitalization which they tried about a year ago. They are under Blue Cross and Kaiser,. as North Olmsted is, and they went to a deductible which the employee does not have to pay - it is picked up by RITA. Employees submit their bills to Blue Cross or whoever, pay their share and RITA picks up the difference; it's been quite a savings, in fact, the deductible has increased even more this year. Finance Director had brought it up at a committee meeting about a year ago but held off until the results at RITA could be evaluated; the results have been pretty good. Their cost of collection so far this year is down to 2.09 as opposed to last year at this time when they were at 2.6 so North Olmsted may be realizing a decrease in the cost of collection.