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Council Minutes of 4/16/91 Mayor Boyle reported: 1) The City will celebrate Earth-Arbor Day on April 26 with a program beginning at 10:30 a.m. at the North Olmsted Park. Children from our elementary schools will be making presentations aril reading essays about recycling. 2) There are several pieces of legislation at the State level that are of interest to North Olmsted: a. The Ohio Senate is considering legislation (SB 11) which prohibits the sale of alcohol where gasoline is sold. In the past, Council has supported such legislation. b. House Bill 97 will allow the PUCO to regulate cable television. c. House Bill 83 will place perychiatric care for stress of police and firefighters under workers' camp. This could result in higher costs to the City; police and firefighters should be treated as any other employee who falls victim to stress. Mayor Boyle reported for Law Director Gareau: 1) The Ohio Municipal League has cited the case of Faughender vs. the City of North Olmsted as a break-through in Ohio law. Finance Director Burns reported: 1) Has distributed copies to Coi~cil of the most recent amended certificate and a certificate from the County verifying that our appropriations do not exceed our expected resources. 2) Legislation may soon be presented to the Ohio Legislature to amend the PERS system. On July 1, employees who are nat covered by PERS or the Police and Fire Pension Fund are required to be covered bay the FICA Social Security tax. PERS is considering mending their program ~ that those same people will now be eligible for PERS. The cost to North Olmsted under the FICA program is $30,000; the cost for the PERS proposal would be $56,000. 3) The new IBM 400 computer was installed on April 4; the new programs were installed on April 10. The Finance Department is currently taking instruction and training on the equipment and use of the programs. Mr. Nashar asked if use of this computer could be extended to other City departments. Mr. Burns replied that, although the first programs to go on are the financial and payroll packages, future tie-in of other departments is a possibility Mr. McKay, Chairperson of the Environmental Control Commmittee reported: 1) The Committee met on Monday, April 8, to discuss Ordinance No. 91-58, which deals with the LIHEAP program and its discontinuance in the State of Ohio. In attendance were Council Members Bahas, Nashar, McKay arxi guest Bob Zufall. Mr. Zufall gave the Committee some insight on the HEAP program, which was started in the early 1980's when the price of natural gas and gasoline was rising very quickly. The Federal Government established the LIHEAP program to help low-income families pay their utility bills during the winter months. The program has been on the reduction list since 1985; and, at the present time, about 40% of the winter utility bills are reimbursed. There is also an emergency one-time payment of $175. In 1990, 10,500 families were on HEAP in Z