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~, ., Council Minutes of OS-03-2011 • The Fair Housing Poster Contest is closed. Judges will be assembling soon. They hope to have winners selected and announced at the next Council meeting. Director of Finance Copfer: • The auditors are at the city again, and she is working on the draft financials so she is making progress. • She closed the month of March and is reviewing the information before it is released in order to address the revenue shortfalls in municipal income tax and CAT tax reimbursement. • She spent a lot of time on the sewer rate study which is in it third or fourth draft. She will be bringing that forward shortly. Councilman Barker took a moment of personal privilege to announce that he has replaced Nicole Dailey Jones as a Board Member on the Northeast Ohio City Council Association. There will be a meeting Thursday, May 19, 2011 at Parma City Hall in Council Chambers to discuss how northeast Ohio benefits from Cleveland's economic development. Councilman Orlowkki, Chairman of the Environmental Control Committee: The Environmental Control Committee meeting of April 26, 2011 was called to order at 7:06 P.M. In attendance were Council President Limpert; Committee members Barker and Orlowski; Council members Kearney and Schumann; Mayor, Law Director, City Engineer, Building Commissioner, Asst. Supt. of Collections and guests. • First item on the agenda was resolution 2011-55 which is a Resolution authorizing the Director of Public Service to advertise for bids for the award of a contract to provide construction services to upgrade the Dover and LeBern pump station controls, as detailed in the specifications on file with the Engineer and authorizing the Mayor, following approval of the board of control, to contract for the same with the lowest and best bidder, and declaring an emergency, as amended. This legislation will allow the City to go out early for bids on improvements to the inside of two possibly three pump stations. There are five pump stations, namely LeBern, Dover Center, Broxbourne, Bradley and Moen, within the City. A 2005 study and report provided information on the condition of the controls at the Dover Pump Station. The study stated the control panels were obsolete and needed to be replaced. This replacement is part of the pump station improvements. Due to the size of the pump station the pumps and generators are not being enlarged or changed. The electrical controls and emergency generator at the Lebern Pump Station are to remain. The controls were replaced approximately three years ago and the emergency generator is believed to be able to handle the new 75 horse-power motors. The LeBern pump station pumps, will be enlarged from 50 H P to 75 HP with corresponding electrical motors and 3