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Council Minutes of 03-15-2011 • The swat team was utilized for a domestic disturbance on March 7, 2011 when an individual threatened self harm with a handgun. The incident was quickly resolved. • There was a small kitchen fire at a Mastick Road apartment. Damages were $3,000. • The WWTP Superintendent, Sharon Schlemmer, will retire on Apri129, 2011 after 22 years of dedicated service. • The Civil Service Commission has been advised of Police Chief Wayne Wozniak's retirement date of May 6, 2011 after 33 years of dedicated service. • The Board of Control awarded the contract for the energy audits through the County's Municipal Energy Program to URS Corporation. The project will begin this month and end in June. • The Senior Center raised $1,900 from their 2011 garage sale. St. Richard's donated $1,000 to the Cleveland Food Bank. Director of Law Gareau: • He attended and participated in budget meetings with City Council last Thursday and last Saturday. He has been very proud of the performance of his staff over the past year. The budget this year is the same as last year's original appropriation of $282,000 although they ended up a bit higher at the end of last year due to some separation payments. • On March 4, 2011 he issued legal opinion 2011-02 and answered the question of whether the Civil Service Commission acted within its authority when it scheduled a promotional examination for Chief of Police at a meeting earlier that week. He answered the question in the negative and concluded that the Civil Service Commission was outside its jurisdiction without authority when it scheduled an exam without having received notice from the appointing authority of the vacancy; without the vacancy having been formally established by Chief Wozniak. Chief Wozniak tendered thereafter his formal retirement and the promotional examination will be discussed next Monday at the Civil Service Commission meeting. • The Mayor suspended Civil Service Commissioner Michael Ubaldi for malfeasance and misfeasance after it was alleged that he ignored the directive of the Assistant Director of Law -that he had no authority to schedule the exam. He then allegedly, per the Mayor, tried to post notice of the exam after he was advised the Commission was without authority to do so. Per the Charter, aquasi- judicial hearing has been scheduled for next week where the removal will be discussed and reviewed by Council. Two-thirds of Council must agree with the removal. He advised Council to not undertake any individual effort to gain evidence or learn facts about the case and to wait until the hearing is presented. The matter was originally scheduled for Thursday, March 10, 2011 but additional time for the hearing was granted pursuant to Ubaldi's request. • In Fair Housing news, a pending complaint before the board was resolved through conciliation conducted by Carole Heyward. The complaint was filed by the Housing Research and Advocacy Center based upon testing that they had 2