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Council Minutes of 12-04-2012 the Year and the State Department of Ohio Veterans of Foreign Wars' Police Officer of the Year. • The BOC approved the proposal from Medical Mutual of Ohio to provide TPA services and excess insurance for the 2013 hospitalization program. The renewal is up 10.5% -the national trend increase is 11%. • The City and the Dispatcher's union reached an agreement. They met twice with the union and they agreed to the same wage increase as the FOP with some minor modifications to their labor contract. The new contract will be available at the next meeting. Director of Law Gareau: • In the matter of Eugene Dzambasow vs. Brian Bielozer and The City of North Olmsted in Federal District Court, he had the opportunity to attend a pretrial conference. The trial date is set for February 19, 2013 at 9:00 a.m. The City is anticipating afive-day jury trial scheduled in Youngstown commencing March 11, 2013. • AFSCME is scheduled for negotiations to begin on Monday, December 10, 2012 at 9:00 a.m. Director of Finance Copfer: • Today, the Board of Control approved a contract renewal with AT&T reducing the number of Centrex lines for the City's phone system, which saves over $45,000 over a five year period. An additional PRI line was added with another company. This process concludes the phone system evaluation. She thanked Nichole Smith of the IT Dept. and Donna Murphy for their help with this. Councilman Barker, Chairman of the Finance Committee: The Finance Committee met Tuesday, November 27, 2012 at 7:03 p.m. Present were committee members Barker, Schumann and Kearney; Council members Brossard, Mahoney, Orlowski and Williamson; Law Director Gareau, Finance Director Copfer and Planning/Development Director Wenger. • Discussed first was Resolution 2012-114 which is a Resolution dispensing with a formal RFP process and authorizing the Mayor to enter into a contract with Richard L. Bowen & Associates, Inc. to provide engineering consulting services to the City of North Olmsted, and declaring an emergency. Bowen has been with the city since 2008, and this contract is for a three-year period. The Planning/Development Director requested a salary increase of $4,000/year for the Engineer and a $2,000 increase for the Assistance Engineer. There have been no increases since 2008, and these gentlemen put in more hours than the contract reads. The contract total is around $300,000 per year. When the city had an internal engineering dept, the yearly cost was over $560,000 per year with outside services costing $200,000. Councilman Barker made a motion to recommend approval. The motion was seconded by Councilman Schumann, and the committee voted 3-0 to recommend approval of Resolution 2012-114 with suspension of the rules. 2 ~n,~,~,~~... „. ~„~~~~~,. _~ . ~sm