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-~•. Council Minutes of 04-OS-2011 happen. We've had it empty there for a couple of years now. I'm looking forward to having that property being used again. My vote is yes. Roll Call continued: Kearney, yes; Williamson, yes; Schumann, yes; Orlowski, yes; Brossard, yes. CMS 11-02 Sunoco approved. Councilman Kearney, Chairman of the Recreation, Public Parks & Buildings Committee: The Recreation Committee met Tuesday, March 22, 2011 at 7:15 p.m. Present were committee members Kearney, Brossard and Orlowski; Council President Limpert; Council members Barker, Mahoney, Schumann and Williamson; Mayor Kennedy and Law Director Gareau. • Discussed was Ordinance 2011-33 which is an Ordinance amending and restating Section 957.01 of Chapter 957 (Alcoholic Beverages on Public Grounds) of the Codified Ordinances of the City of North Olmsted in order to establish a revised system for future approvals of one-time alcohol sales and consumption in the Community Cabin. The Ordinance was held in committee as the Law Dept. has to research some questions asked by the committee. This Ordinance will be discussed in committee on Tuesday, April 12, 2011 at 6:35 p.m. AUDIENCE PARTICIPATION Dennis Lambert, 25057 Carey Lane said he is delighted to hear the Mayor is considering looking at leaf pick-up in-house. He was concerned about leaf pick-up for the City of Fairview Park when he was on Council, plus he worked on the streets of Rocky River for twenty-one years and he got to know the Service Director, Don Umerley at that time. His idea was to put boxes on the back of thirty yard packers which pack ten times the quantity. If you assess leaf pick-up, the biggest cost is not picking up the leaves. The biggest cost is that truck leaving the machine and going somewhere to dump the leaves and driving back -fuel, time wasted and that is leaves not being picked up. Rocky River did it effectively and efficiently, and sometimes they picked up more than once a week on the same streets. Lambert encouraged the Mayor to take a look at the City of Rocky River's leaf pick-up operation. Tim Smith, 6053 Sherwood said he attended both hearings on the removal of Michael Ubaldi from the Civil Service Commission. He expressed disappointment he felt, not with the result of the voting, but with the need for a hearing. After listening to the testimony, he was suspended because he ignored a directive and was posting the test without authority. Yet O'Malley was asked if he had the authority to issue that directive under the Ohio Revised Code, the Charter or any case law to which he admitted he did not. It also appeared the test was never actually posted. There was just the intent to post it. He questions why there was a hearing. It seemed like a waste of the City's resources to do that. Since the secretary did not post it, he was looking for information on how he would post that himself. Smith said he thinks that's something that most people would ask how to do once they were stopped during procedure. This Council and 5