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Council Minutes of 2/20/90 -2- city-authorized medical examinations; b) prior claims, when increases or continuences are requested, will be examined and probably challenged.; c) Workmens Compensation Bureau will be requested to issue a separate list for departments with high claim occurrences. This will make those departments more accountable to the workmens' comp rate as well as to the employees' safety. Both issues are important to the administration. 4) Visited Columbus last week with Director Wilamosky looking for money. Met with former State Representative Colonna, several other state representatives and state senators as well as the Director of Public Works. The good news is that there is some money in Columbus; the bad news is that it is mostly wrapped up in matching funds. North Olmsted can accommodate matching funds through engineering - for instance $200,000 for engineering for Ccuntry Club in order to receive the $2,000,000 required for reconstruction of this street. City could easily list about $2,000,000 in engineering costs that it could incur this .year which would, through matching funds, produce about $20,000,000 in work but obviously this cannot be done - the city does not have that kind of an appropriation. Will be meeting with the Finance Committee to decide what programs can be accomplished. 5) While in Columbus, also testified on the Bingo Bill sponsored by State Representative James Petro. This bill will allow Bingo for seniors, 60 years old and above, for 25G a card and with the majority of the money being returned to the winners so it could not be construed as a fund raiser but as dust pure entertainment for seniors. Mr. Petro asked Mr. Colonna, who is sponsoring a Bingo Bill pertaining to churches and fraternal organizations, to add his bill for the seniors and Mr. Colonna agreed to do so. The bill now-has bi- partisan sponsorship and passage could possibly take place by mid-year. 6) On the lighter side, the administration received a letter today from the Citizens' State Bank advising that it is a finalist in the Readers Digest Sweepstakes. Mayor Boyle will have to change his name to Mr. N. Olmsted but $5,000,000 has been placed in the Citizens' State Bank in this name and at a 28814 Lorain Avenue address - which happens to be Fire Station No. 1. This should certainly clear up some of Chief Van Kuren's problems. Law Director Gareau reported.: 1) City of North Olmsted presently has a claim pending against it for an automobile accident involving a snow plow and a van. State Farm Insurance filed a subrogation claim against the city for the damage done by the snow plow, which they paid for; they seek to have the city re- imburse them for this payment. The Municipal Tort Reform Act, adopted several years ago, provides that the city is not required to reimburse an insurance company on a subrogation claim. Various appellate districts, throughout the State of Ohio, have either been declaring this section of the law unconstitutional or declaring that it is constitutional. Today, the Supreme Court of the State of Ohio issued its ruling on an issue and upheld the law. Consequently, expects the law suit filed against the city last week to be withdrawn. 2) In small claims court this past week, sued Kellor's Jewelry for failure to pay their false alarm fees in the amount of $200. 3) Has filed a brief in the Eighth Appellate District Court for the Private Detective Case. 4) Attended the annual seminar for the Law Directors' Association yesterday. Finance Director Burns reported: 1) As directed in Ordinance No. 89-81, the Finance Department is notifying landlords of multi-family buildings that as of January 1st, 1990, they are required to provide lists of their tenants. Is also sending the same. letter to the owner's associations of condominiums asking them to forward the notice to owners who lease out to tenants. Is allowing a little more reporting time to ease the burden of their reporting and the paper- work on their part. ~. r, _ . , _ . __~ _ ~;_~~~:~,~~