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Council Minutes of 2/3/87 -2- 8) Has requested the Law Department to prepare legislation for a Charter amend- ment eliminating the words "nor shall he hold any other public office or public employment" under the. section covering the. Mayor. North Olmsted is one of the few cities to have this prohibition;- it may be to the city's advantage, if positions open up on the RTA Board, to have this prohibition removed. 9) Has requested Council to confirm the appointment of Dave Spoerke to the Board of Building Code of Appeals; Marie Case to be re-appointed to the Architectural Review Board;P_a.t Strange to be re-appointed to the Human Resources Advisory Board and Brian Zergott to be appointed to the Architectural Review Board. 10) Has received letters from North C1lmsted High School, from Bay Village, the YMCA, and others, with respect to the possible elimination of the YDP Counsellor. 11) Has received the Five Year Study Plan from the Citizens' Ad Hoc Advisory Committee which will be meeting this week to refine their conclusions. Would like to meet with council the first of next week to go over the plan. Does not feel there is time to consider any type of ballot issue to be placed on the ballot by May. Mr. Wilamosky asked, in light of the. letters received with respect to the YDP Counsellor, has Mayor Petrigac changed her position with respect to continuing with the cuts in YDP. Mayor responded that she personally feels this is an asset to the city; if there is a way to fund that program beyond July, would like to have that done, however, she has been unable to find the monies for this program in her appropriations. If council can find the money, it would be a priority that she would like. Mr. Lackey noted that with respect to the Mayor's request for legislation to change the charter to allow the Mayor of North Olmsted to accept appointments to other boards, the issue was brought up by Mayor Swietyniowski at the 1985 Charter Review Commission. Commission was in favor of it at the time but did not act on it because of more important priorities. Law Director Gareau reported: 1) As discussed at the last council meeting, he did file the law suit against Nightfall; a temporary restraining order hearing was held; city agreed to meet and try to work out same of the existing differences. A preliminary injunction hearing is set for tomorrow. Nightfall had agreed to come before the Planning Commission and they did so. Members of the commission suggested the meeting to iron out some of the problems and, in fact, such a meeting was held Last night but nothing was worked out. Positions have been solidified, so the city will go forward tomorrow morning, in court, on the preliminary injunction. Will be keeping council advised. 2) As indicated, had submitted a brief in the Citrus Trust Case; the case has been continued. 3) Appeared for the Fire Department before a "fact finder" with respect to wage negotiations; this has finally been concluded. 4) Met on site with alighting expert at Halleen; he has presented some preliminary findings relative to the lights; he intends to visit the site again Thursday even- ing, when the establishment is open, to examine the light pollution. He has already indicated there is some substantial problem with the lighting and will be making recommendations. Will present the findings to Halleen;. if they refuse to cooperate or neglect to cooperate, city will go back into court on the preliminary injunction z~ on this case. ,~ Mr. Rademaker asked what Nightfall's objection was to complying with the city with respect to the resident's complaints of code violations. Mr. Gareau stated that basically they complain about the cost; they have the impression that they are "grandfathered" and that they do not have to do what the city is asking them to do.