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s ~ Council Minutes of 12/15/92 a revised plan, but it is essentially the same as previously presented to the Board of Zoning Appeals. This plan will be formally submitted to the BZA at its next meeting; however, this will probably have to be reviewed by the Planning Commission to determine how the plan blends with the existing lot. 3) The appropriations case far the fire station was filed this week. 4) The city is currently being threat~d with litigation concerning the peddlers/ solicitors ordinance. Our current ordinance declares door-to-door solicitation to be a nuisance. Businesses would like to be able to make door-to-door calls until 9 p.m. This issue will probably be the challenge for 1993 in the court system. Finance Director Burns reported: 1) A letter of authorization has been sent to the Regional Income Tax Agency to begin the filing of civil actions against delinquent tax payers. 2) The fringe benefit rate established in the Regional Transit Authority contract is 29%; the city's rate is 32X. Historically,. the RTA has run approximately the same percentage rate as ours. The discrepancy seems to be caused by the self- insured hospitalization programs. The city program is funded by expected losses whereas the RTA program is fiuided. by actual claims made. Currently, we are looking at the possibility of an t to the contract for 1992 to establish a specific definition of what items constitute the figures used for the comparisons between percentages. Mr. Lind, Chairperson of the Finance Committee, reported: 1) The cafimittee met on December 8. In attendance were committee members Beringer, Leonard, Lind; PSsyor Boyle; Finance Director Burns; Personnel & Administrative Director Wilamosky; Service Director Bohlmarm; Council President BoeYmier; Council Members Musal and Nashar. Agenda items were as follows: a. Ordinance 92-173 which establishes health care benefits for non-bargaining employees. This legislation will bring the remainder of the city employees into line with the bargaining units' health care costs. The committee approved the ordinance and recotmbended passage. b. Ordinance 92-167 which approves and authorizes an agreement with the North Olmsted City School District. This agreement provides for the sharing of municipal income tax revenues, thereby off-setting some of the loss of property tax revenues relating to the Moen project. This sharing was one of the features in the enterprise zone package passed earlier this year. The committee recommended approval. c. Ordinance 92-170 which is an appropriation ordinance for the first quarter of next year. The amended ordinance has been approved by the majority of the committee. In a minority report, Mr. Lind stated he felt that the line item relating to data processing staff funding should not have been removed until the entire Council had an opportunity to review the data processing proposal. Mrs. Bahas, Chairperson of the Long-Range Planning Committee, reported: 1) On December 10, Hunan Resources Director Copelar~i, representatives from the Community Development Black Grant Program, a~i Mfrs. Bahas met with eight guests at a public hearing. The qualifications and criteria for the CDBG program were discussed. We are currently in the second half of tree program for acquisition of land for senior housing, and this will be the recocnded project for this year. The Long-Range Planning Committee will meet far a further discussion and up-date of this project on January 11. 2