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Council Minutes of 3/17/92 5) Human Resources Director Don Copeland has been appointed as the coordinator to implement the program for the Americans with Disabilities Act. Mr. Copeland attended a seminar ~ ADA last week in Washington, D. C. He believes that the seminar save him six months to a year in background work; therefore, he will be able to implement our program much sooner than expected. 6) A committee of representatives from six employee bargaining units and the administration has been forged to study hospitalization. The members are as follows: Ohio Patrolmen's Ber~volent Association, Beth Kabura; Police Officer Calvetti; Firefighter Jay Power; North Olmsted Municipal Bus Line, Mark Weldon; AFSCME Service, Mr. Miles; AFSCME Clerks-Secretaries, Mrs. Scott; AcMin3.straton, Safety Director Gandy and Service Director Bohlmann. Because hospitalization is a major budgetary problem, the camu.ttee has been formed to develop a hospital- ization plan that will meet the needs of our esployees and remain cost effective. It should be noted that the employees have volunteered their time to research this very important issue. Law Director Gareau reported: 1) Yesterday, a brief was submitted to the arbitrator with regard to the hospitalization issue. 2) Tomorrow will present an oral argument in the Court of Appeals with regard to the AFSCME case dating back to the early 1980's when the city switched from the union to BFI for trash pick up. 3) The Supreme Court has refused to take in the appeal on Sunset Memorial Park. 4) The first draft of the brief for the private detective case has been prepared and reviewed. This will be submitted to the Supreme Court. 5) Met this past week with the attorney for Mr. Lester who is a police officer who was discharged during. his probationary period. A lawsuit has been filed seeking mandamus to~have him reinstated because he was not given a hearing before he was discharged. Finance Director Burns reported: 1) Last week the $4.3 million notes were sold; the interest rate on those notes will be 3.717 2) Council has been supplied with the most recent mended certificate from the County. With the exception of the hospitalization fund, the n~nbers agree with the worksheets that were used to develop the appropriation ordinance. The budget commission will not change the hospitalization furl until they receive and process the appropriation. Mr. McKay, Chairperson of the Environmental Control Committee, reported: 1) Along with Mr. Musial, attended the meeting of the Cuyahoga County Solid Waste Manage- ment Committee on March 10 at Rocky River City Hall. The Cuyahoga County Planning Commission submitted copies of the solid waste plan. This is a very generous plan that allows ccxnm~mities that already have collection in place to cxyntinue. Each Council Member and the Service Director has received a copy of the plan. At some time in the future, this will come before all the individual city councils for a vote. The Environmental Control Ccxr~nittee will soon meet to discuss the plan. 2