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• A Council Minutes of 5/17/88 -2- 5) Is again hearing from the federal government that there is money for highways; states such as Ohio are literally giving mare money then they are getting back. In order to apply, a city must have matching funds or undertake the engineering. If a state does not use the money, it goes back into the general fund. The State Highway Department plans to do a lot of planting along I480 this year.; they have quite a few projects throughout the state including some major highways within Cuyahoga County. About 15.4 million dollars has been set aside for highways in the State of Ohio, yet North Olmsted does not have any projects ready to go; this is a major concern since we do not have matching funds or money for the engineering. It is important that North Olmsted does not lose this fund from the State of Ohio because once it is lost, it goes back. into the general fund. 6) EPA requirements are going to get even more stringent aver the next few years. This includes such things as sludge removal and the quality of storm water and will increase future costs considerably. 7) Had the opportunity to take a side trip to Baltimore to visit the harbor de- velopment. The develoger of this project is. the one Cleveland is looking at to develop their port. The Baltimore harbor development is outstanding; hopes the same company is hired to redo the Cleveland lake front. Law Director Gareau reported: 1) The Nightfall Case was dismissed by the Court of Appeals because of failure to file a brief and assignments of error. There was a motion to revive the case, which the court granted, but. there was no stay of execution so a hearing will be held before Judge McAllister on June 3rd as to why they should not be found in contempt. 2) Received word this past week that the Supreme Court of Ohio has refused to take in the Romp Case, consequently, because they refused to certify the record, unless the city takes that to the United States Supreme Court, that is the final order. City has sixty days within which to appropriately zone the property. Two of the Supreme Court justices refused to go along with the .ruling and dissented, which means at least two judges out of the seven agreed with the city's position and at least thought the issue was interesting enough to take into the Supreme Court. 3) City of North Olmsted has been sued by Eliza Jennings Development over a dispute of a tap-in fee that is to be charged to multi-family structures in the Township. This was filed in the Court of Appeals on a mandamus and the city will file an answer by this Thursday. 4) Last Friday, signed an opinion indicating that funds confiscated by the Police Department of North Olmsted, in fact, were appropriately confiscated and could be allocated 10% to the Drug Administration and 90% to the City of North Olmsted. The Police Department will, in fact, get an order from Common Pleas Court to con- f iscate those funds. 5) Last Friday, attended a Liquor Control Board hearing with respect to Eddies. Dectective Mason and Law Director presented evidence of 137 incidents that occurred over less than a two year period dealing with this liquor license. The establish- ment is now called "Livingston's" but there has been no application for a transfer of the license. While the owners may claim there is a different ownership, in fact, there has been no change of ownership that has come through. Law Director has re- quested that the license not be renewed. Finance Director Boyle reported: 1) Today, the Ohio Legislature held hearings on H.B. 527 which increases bid limitations for municipalities to $10,000. Will keep council advised when a decision is reached. 2) Hearings are also being held with respect to H.B. 389 which affects the Police and Fire Pension System. The bill was originally written to give a cost of living increase to long-term recipients of the pension,. widows, orphans and dependents, the people who had been passed over by H.B. 721 and S.B. 112. Does not believe this pension system is being run correctly; it is far more. costly than the Public Employees Retirement System and actually does not provide much more in benefits. u:~ :~