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_. Council Minutes of 12/20/94 Mrs. Saringer, Chairperson of the Building, Zoning and Development Committee, reported: 1) During this evening's caucus, Council discussed a special permit and a variance for William Sta~ki, 31083 Lorain Road. The Board of Zoning Appeals has approved this 340 square foot variance and S foot height variance to convert and Marge an existing carport for use as an accessory building to store a boat. Also, a second variance was approved for a second shed on the property. This property is not in a residential area, and Council had no objections. Mrs. Sariager moved to approve the special permit to enlarge the non-conforming building; second by Mr. McKay; motion passed unanimously. Mr. McKay, Chairperson of the Infra-Governmental Relations, Legislative and Long- Range Planning Committee, reported: 1) The committee met on December 6, and in attendance were Council Members Lind, Musial and McKay. Reappointments to various boards and commissions were discussed and approved by the committee. Mr. McKay moved to reappoint the foIlowiug board and/or commission members: Robert Koeth and Anthony Manning to the Planning Co for the term January 1, 1995 to Decerer 31, 1999; Brian Zergott, Susan Ferencik Krieger and Mark Yager to the Architectural Review Board; Charles Miller, Joe Lang, Betty Lord and Tony Smerakii to the Landmarks Commis~on; Philip Engoglia to the Board of Building Code Appeals; John Maloney to the Board of Zoning Appeals. The motion was seconded by Mrs. Saringer and passed unanimously. Mr. McKay, Chairperson of the Streets & Drainage Committee, reported: 1) The committee met on December 12; in attendance were Councd Members Bahas, Lmd, Limpert, Musial, Nashar, McKay and Service Director Bohlaa~ann. The committee discussed Ordnance 94-170, which is an agreement between the city and Cuyahoga County to replace Clague Road Culvert No. 1 over Coe Ditch. Cost to the city will be $30,000, and the committee recommended passage. 2) At the committee meeting, Service Director Bohlmann gave all present a list of the street repairs and capital improvements for 1995. The committee will discuss the greet repairs in the near future and the decisions made will be based largely upon how much money is available. Councilman Nashar did not have a committee report but wished to comment on Ordinance No. 94-184, the annexation of a portion of Olmsted Township. Mr. Nashar has received phone calls from Townshpl- residents asking about the change in property taxes and whether pensions would be subject to the North Olmsted 2% city income tax since the Township does not have an income tax. Finance Director Burns said that the city income tax rules would apply to all residents. Residents do receive a 100% credit for taxes paid to their city of employment. However, income such as pensions, interest and dividends are not taxed. The matter of property taxes is more complicated because the school districts will not change. The rollbacks that are applied to the school portions of the property tax will not change. Therefore, the only part that will change is the millage that now goes to the Township would be reduced to the millage that now goes to North Olmsted. The current Township millage is higher than the millage that the City of North 2