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Council Minutes of I 1-20-2012 • In the matter of Eugene Dzambasow vs. The City of North Olmsted, he will attend the status conference on November 28, 2012 at 2pm. Director of Finance Copfer: • The Munis software has been loaded into a test ID. This will go out to all Munis users next week and continue to be tested. The building and permits and code enforcement will have access to it and are starting the process of going through the analysis. Last week they had both fixed assets and work orders analysis days with Munis representatives. They are building tables and plan to roll those into the live ID and move forward at the beginning of 2013. • The September quarter end reports were sent late today via E-mail. • On November 8, she attended the Finance Directors' meeting for Rocky River Court. The Clerk of Courts presented their plan for 2013 that show reduced costs to new expected level activity. They are utilizing attrition, hours reduction, furloughs and layoffs. They have cut an estimated $428,000 thus far out of wages and benefits and have raised court costs by $15.00 which will provide about $80,000 in additional revenue. They continue to look at ways to further cut costs. • RITA has analyzed House Bill 601 (uniformity of municipal income tax). They are in the process of analyzing four communities in Cuyahoga County. She has sent Council some information on a few items regarding this. Councilman Barker, Chairman of the Finance Committee: ,,. The Finance Committee met Tuesday, November 13, 2012 at 7:10 p.m. Present were committee members Barker, Schumann and Kearney; Council President Limpert; Council members Brossard, Mahoney, Orlowski and Williamson; Finance Director Copfer and Human Resources Director Farver. • Discussed first was Ordinance 2012-110 which is an Ordinance to make and transfer appropriations for current expenses and other expenditures for the City of North Olmsted for the year ending December 31, 2012, and declaring an emergency. This will place money in various areas for the newly created Mayor's Court and other items in general (work paper attached). Councilman Barker made a motion to recommend approval of Ordinance 2012-110 with suspension and amendments. The motion was seconded by Councilman Schumann and the committee voted 3-0 to recommend approval of Ordinance 2012-110 with suspension and amendments. Councilman Barker made a motion to amend Ordinance 2012-110. The motion was seconded by Councilman Kearney and passed unanimously. Ordinance 2012-110 amended. • Discussed next was Ordinance 2012-113 which is an Ordinance to revise the Codified Ordinances by adopting current replacement pages, and declaring an emergency. This is a yearly update with Conway Greene with an approximate cost of $10,000. Councilman Barker made a motion to recommend approval of Ordinance 2012-113. The motion was seconded by Councilman Schumann and 3 ....r,~~ ,~ -