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Council Minutes of 1/19/93 5) Mayor Boyle attended the Cuyahoga County Planning Commission meeting held on January 17. The commissioners have asked Mayor Boyle to accept a reappointment as the representative of the western suburbs. The following topics were discussed at tree meeting: an alternate fuming mechanism for solid waste recycling; the results of a county-wide survey about sub-standard buildings with comparative data from a similar survey cor~:ucted in 1984.. In 1990, North Opted undertook a program to eliminate all sub-standard structures, preferably through renovation. The current. survey is evidence that the program is a success. In the target area, the number of sub-standard multi-family d~lings t~s been reduced to zero. The sub-standard cormiercial structures are down to 22 from 40. 6) On January 8, the Mayor met with NASA representatives to determine what assistance could be given to the city with regard to the prcrp~osed Electronic Data Processing Department. NASA's services wuul.d be limited to helping with analysis, recommending architectures, co-authoring specifications -for hardware and software and sitting in on interviews with potential EDP peril. NASA cannot install hardware or software, write programs, modify programs, de-bug programs or conduct purchasing. NASA has rec that we hire. an EDP staff, beginning with a department head and an assistant. The salary recas~endatcros were: department head, $40,000 - $45,000; assistant, $27,000 - $32,400. The NASA consultants also indicated that the EDP should be an on-going department aril advised against hiring an outside consultant. Law Director Gareau reported: 1) The complaint and quiet title action in the Deerfield recreation case have been filed. 2) A malicious prosecution case has been filed by the husband why had been arrested in a domestic violence call. We have filed a motion for summary judgment raising the issue of governmental immuiity. 3) In the firefighter's case dealing with Capt. Smith and the National Guard, a brief has recently been filed. 4) Relative to the appropriation case for the fire station, the Kerner case, an answer has been filed by .their attorney raising the issues of necessity and price. Next week a hearing will be held relative to the issue of necessity. The city has had a preliminary architectural review of this area; hopefully, we can put that issue to rest ark. proceed on the issue of whether or not the appraised value is in fact the appropriate valve to pay for the land. Finance Director Burns reported: 1) The city has begun the program of filing civil actions against non-paying taxpayers. In December of 1992, $89,046 was taken to hearing; in January of 1993, another $36,676 has been taken to hearing, for a total of $125,722. In addition, after notification to taxpayers that their cases would be going to court, the city has collected $11,112. The total of $125,722 compares to a figure of $139,000 that had been submitted to the court since 1980. Up until this program began, the city had on.l.y submitted $14,0 to the court for collection. Mrs. Beringer, Chairperson of the Building, Zoning and Development Committee, reported: 1) The committee met on January 13. In attendance were Council Members Nashar, Musial, Beringer; Mr. Tilberg and Mr. Kacerik from CEI; Icon Tallon from the city Piarming Commission; City Inspector Paul Grayshaw; Assistant 2 i