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MINUTES OF THE MEETING OF THE COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF NORTH OLMSTED JANUARY 5, 1993 Present: Council President BoeYtmer, Council Members Bahas, Leonard, Lind, McKay, Musial, Nashar, Saringer Also Present: Mayor Ed Boyle, Law Director Michael Garesu, Finance Director James Burns, Clerk of Council Barbara Semen Council President Boetaner called the meeting to order at 8:02 p.m. in Council Chambers, 5200 Dover Center Road, North OLnsted, Ohio. Members of the audience were invited to join Council in reciting the Pledge of Allegiance to the Flag. The minutes of the meeting of December 15, 1992 were approved as written. President Boehmer announced that Ordinances 93-2 and 93-3 would be added to the agenda and passed under suspension of the rules. Mayor Boyle reported: 1) The Jump-Start America ordinance that was passed last July resulted in the purchase of 24 American made ears by city employees. This ordinance has been revised to continue into the new year. 2) The Greater Cleveland Regional Transit Authority has announced cuts and rate increases. Along with L staff, Mayor Boyle attended the GCRTA public hearings to protest the cuts and rate increases. Also, Fairview Park Mayor Kari Kubb added his protest to the cuts in service to the western suburbs. A meeting with Mr. Tober, General Manager of GCRTA, has been scheduled. Hopefully, they will listen to NOMBL's suggestions on ways to save money that will not see the end of our city bus line. We have presented GCRTA with suggestions that will save approximately $150,000; they want another $150,000. We have explained that, although that amount is only .0091X of their budget, it is 8.6~ of the NOMSL budget. This would have a drastic effect on NONIBL. Hopefully, we will be able to work out compromises which will best serve the riding public in the western suburbs. 3) The city will distribute a city wide survey on the Police Department. This survey will ask residents to comment on Police service and. to make recommendations. Hopefully, this will result in a safer city. 4) Over the last couple of weeks, we have had 18 reported cases of flooding. Six of this rnmaber were swap pump failures; however, we did send out pumps to help the residents until they could fix their pumps. Some of the problems were due to sur- charges, cleaning, and improper elevations. We are addressing those problems, and we urge any resident who hss a flooding problem to contact the Service Director or the City Engineer. If we do not know where the problems exist, we carrot fix them. 5) On December 1 of last year, ~e received the financial breakdown for North Olmsted from Cablevision. What Cablevision has been producing are statements for V Cable, Inc. which is the parent corporation. Our franchise agreement states that they will produce statements for North Olmsted since this is where their fees are based, and we need to have sane knowledge of what is being collected. This infor- mation has not been presented on a timely basis. In addition, owc equipment to provide information for Channel 3, the community access, has been down for many