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Council Minutes of 06-15-2010 • No special storm-induced brush round-up has been announced. Brush should continue to be bundled for garbage collection. • Streets are being patched and swept. In-house crack sealing has begun. Director of Law Gareau: • The Charter Review Commission has issued their report, and has made fourteen recommended changes to the Charter. Those changes that will appear on the ballot should be delivered to the Board of Elections no sooner than July 2, 2010 and no later than September 3, 2010. He recommends the Committee of the Whole meet and forward their recommendations to the Law Dept. for legislation. • The Law Dept. has completed and filed the 2009 report to the Auditors of State to demonstrate claims and potential claims facing the city. They also completed and filed an agency technical assistance performance questionnaire for HUD to maintain compliance with North Olmsted's fair housing compliance program. • A grievance has been filed by AFSCME concerning distribution of overtime. The complaint states that overtime was allegedly offered to the first and thirteenth employees on the overtime list in violation of the collective bargaining agreement. A hearing is set for June 17, 2010. • The Law Dept. is currently reviewing the peddlers, canvassers and solicitors Ordinance to ascertain any developments in that area of law. • The Law Dept. has received complaints about Platinum Protection Service, a security system entity that is soliciting throughout North Olmsted. One of the trends is solicitation will occur, a sale will be commenced and then within twenty minutes someone shows up to install the security system. Ohio's Home Solicitation Act gives three days to rescind the contract when there is a home solicitation made. If they are installing twenty minutes later, that seems to be a violation. They have ceased going door-to-door at this point. • The Law Dept. is currently reviewing North Olmsted's public records policy. • There has been seven new referrals made to the Law Dept. for prosecution of property maintenance violations. They are working with the owners to gain compliance. • On June 3, 2010, the Board of Zoning Appeals upheld the Building Commissioner's finding that the Surf Shop is operating outside of its approved occupancy permit by changing from a business use to an assembly use. They further found and upheld the Building Commissioner's recommendation and finding that they failed to obtain necessary building permits. The next step will be an appeal to the Court of Common Pleas by the Surf Shop. • An arbitration hearing for an AFSCME grievance regarding staffing and hours at the Waste Water Treatment Plant has been scheduled for Monday, August 23, 2010 at 10:00 a.m. • At the last meeting, he reported out on two commercial properties that have been to the Law Dept. for review -the Stearns & Lorain plaza and the Surf Shop plaza. There were extremely large arrearages in tax payments. The condition of getting an occupancy permit is you have a payment plan or be in compliance with tax 3