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MINUTES OF THE MEETING OF THE COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF NORTH OLMSTED MARCH 19, 2013 Present: Council President Jones, Council Members Barker, Brossard, Kearney, Orlowski, Schumann and Williamson Also Present: Director of Law Gareau, Director of Finance Copfer, Clerk of Council Gallo, Director of Planning/Development Wenger and Director of Human Resources Farver Absent: Council Member Mahoney Council President Jones called the meeting to order at 8:00 p.m. in Council Chambers, 5200 Dover Center Road, North Olmsted, Ohio. Members of the audience were invited to join Council in the recitation of the Pledge of Allegiance. The minutes of the Council meeting of February 5, 2013 were approved as written. The following legislation will be considered for passage under suspension of the rules this evening: Second Reading -Ordinance 2013-28, Resolutions 2013-29 & 2013-31; First Reading -Ordinance 2013-33. REPORTS Mayor Kennedy: • The Cuyahoga County Solid Waste District has awarded the City of North Olmsted a 2013 Community Recycling Awareness Grant in the amount of $5,000. Secretaries Renee Overstreet and Coletta Strippy applied for the grant to allow for funds to purchase yard waste bags for the city's Yard Waste Program, and the cost associated with an informational mailer and postage to increase recycling awareness and community recycling opportunities for our residents. • The Police Dept. installed the Live Scan fingerprint device which allows officers to eliminate the ink rolled fingerprints. The booking officer rolls the finger onto a scanner which scans the print electronically. After the prints are taken, the program will tell the officer if the fingerprints are acceptable to be submitted to BCI. Only one set of prints need to be taken instead of several inked cards being created. Once officers are trained, this will eliminate finger print cards that cannot be accepted due to smudged inked rolled prints. In the future, when the State of Ohio begins their program, the live scan will allow an unknown arrestee to be identified immediately by scanning both thumbs if they have been arrested and their prints are on file. Also, booking information obtained at the time of the