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Council Minutes of 3/7/89 -2- 9) Has received two resolutions from Cuyahoga County Commissioners; one asks municipalities to support the semi-automatic weapons bill and the other asks support for the proposed anti-discrimination legislation in the City of Shaker Heights. Law Director Gareau reported: 1) Has received notice of a claim from a patron of the Rec Center who was hit with a hockey puck several months ago. Has re- sponded, indicating that there is a provision in the Ohio Revised Code which states that a city has absolute immunity and is free of liability where such a function is held with no admission charge. 2) Attended a liquor board hearing dealing with-carry-out wine across the street from Christ the King. Testimony was taken; no decision was given. The hearing officer will look into the fact that a portion of the precinct is dry for wine by the glass and after this investigation will make his ruling, 3) Deposition in the Dingess Case has been scheduled for next week. 4) Has forwarded to the Mayor, the proposed settlement of the landfill case; city must determine what it wants to do. Finance Director Boyle reported: 1) Arthur Young and Company will begin their field work tomorrow; after discussion with Finance Director Boyle, they will begin to look at records for the next couple of weeks. 2) Will be calculating the Township sewer rates for the period beginning in May, along with any adjustments. 3) After contacting the County Budget Commission on Monday, received from Arthur Young on Saturday, the adjustments to final balances and cash balances from the 1987 audit which has enabled the Finance Director to change the amended certif icate to reflect the true balances going into 1989. These figures have been forwarded to the Finance Committee, the Administration and the County Budget Commission; should be receiving new amended certif icates shortly. 4) A recent article in the Sun Herald, with respect to the Fairview Park contract for sewer collection, seated thati North Olmsted would have seven or eight hundred thousand dollars coming from Fairview Park for prior capital construction - their share of the 1972 and 1982 renovations. The thought was that it could not be used for the Rec Center roof but could be used for other needed programs the city does not have money for. Since those renovations were paid for primarily out of the Bond Retirement Sewer Fund, other than a couple of years. in the 70's, before the establishment of that fund, Finance Director Boyle believes the entire amount, or a major portion of it, would have to be returned to the Bond Retirement Fund for sewer. It is a question of whether it can go to the Sewer Capital Fund, since it was capital needs that were being addressed at the time; it cannot go to an operating fund because it did not come out of an operating fund. It is a reimburse- ment and is going to have to go back into it. 5) A couple of bills in Columbus have been causing some concern. One of them, Senate Bill 28, provides income taxes for schools. The Ohio Municipal League, as well as a-few other municipal and county governments, have been objecting to it because they do not want to allow schools into our territory as far as tax collectons. There are committee hearings on it today; it is being amended. Con- trary to the OML, it is being extended to all school districts. Originally, it prohibited income taxes to cities of 100>000 or more, which would not have too much affect on North Olmsted. It provides a $50 credit to all Senior Citizens, which may require a constitutional amendment, and it limits the initiative to voters to once every five years. Also., House Bills 127 and 263, which should be passed in the next couple of weeks, allow for joint economical development districts between municipalities and counties. This can be of interest to North Olmsted because of the border with the Township; North Olmsted can either purchase land or go into a joint venture with the Township to develop land adjacent to the Industrial Park. By virtue of the bill, anyone who developed in there would have to pay the city's going income tax rate which would be shared between the Township and the municipality depending on how the contract was written.