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i Council Minutes of 11/15/88 -3- Mrs. Bahas asked for clarification on the Mayor's report that a committee would be formed to "monitor" the development of the Crocker Road Extension; shouldn't the term "in-put" be used rather than "monitor". Mayor agreed that was a better choice of words. Mrs. Bahas stated that her committee would welcome in- put from a well-rounded representative group which would include those people on Mrs. Brookshre's list as well as others. Law Director Gateau reported: 1) The contempt hearing .with respect to the Night- fall Case was heard; the owner was held in contempt and was incarcerated; within twelve hours a permanent barricade was placed across the parking lot to prohibit. individuals from traversing to the back portion of the lot. The appellate hearing, before the Court of Appeals, was also held. If the attorney for the owner of Nightfall had filed the motion to stay, the contempt hearing would not have been held. 2) As reported in the newspapers, the Rocky River Case dealing with the fire- fighters was heard by the Supreme Court. Law Director reviewed that opinion and it basically provides that the portion of Ohio law which required binding arbi- tration in cases of safety forces was unconstitutional. During our last negotia- tions with both the fire and police, it went to fact finding and then became binding on the City. of North Olmsted. This is something the administration can look at in the future; currently, negotiations are taking place with the North Olmsted Police Department. 3) In the last week, had an opportunity to talk to Felix Spitzler at the County Engineer's office; is assembling certain paper work and working with Mr. Spitzler to implement the vote that took place last Tuesday. 4) Has had a long, hard battle with respect to the RTA agreement; fought the case through every court system in the United States - all the way to the United States Supreme Court in order to save the North Olmsted Bus Line, Would urge council to set up a period of time to fully discuss Ordinance No. 88-128, which covers the operating agreement, with Law Director, Tom Terbrack and/or Ken Mues, to explain all the ingredients that went into this contract. Law Director is satisfied with it and recommends that it be passed. 5) With respect to the Columbia Road high accident problem, thinks it only fair to advise council that Ron Tallon has requested the Law Director to prepare an ordinance dealing with the reestablishment of the center line so that it would fall completely within the City of North Olmsted. Has had some trouble with the verbiage - conceptually, it is very difficult to put into language. Hopes to have legislation ready for the next council meeting on December 6th. President Saringer announced that she would schedule a Council-as-a Whole Committee Meeting to discuss Ordinance No. 88-128, the RTA contract, as suggested by Law Director Gateau. Finance Director Boyle reported: 1) Based on the old RTA contract, bus drivers are allowed higher hospitalization coverage than the remainder of city employees; they receive dental and optical care but pay for the difference. Their contract came up in August and in negotiations a proposal was made by Regional Transit to the union for an increase in hospitalization coverage. Since the contract ex- pired in August, the city has been withholding from the employees' pay, an amount equal to what it would have been under the old contract. Since the hospitalization will increase under the new contract, those employees are going to get a refund. Bus Department will refigure all refunds and Finance Department will be cutting these checks the week of the 28th. Anew ordinance will be introduced by the Mayor at the December 6th meeting, covering their admin people, based on the old contract. Would ask council to pass this ordinance at the December 6th meeting since retroactive pay will be involved and Finance Director would like the checks out before the end of 1988. ,. L