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MINUTES QF THE MEETING OF THE COUNCIL of THE CITY of NORTH oLMSTEH DECEMBER 6,1994 Present: Council Presid~t Bcr, Council Members Bahas, Limpert, Lind, McKay, Musial, Nashar, Saringer Also Present: Mayor Boyle, Law Director Gareau, Finance Director Burns, Acting Clerk of Council McFarland Council President Boehmer called the meeting to order at 8:20 p.m. in Council Chambers, 5200 Dover Center Road, North Ohn~ed, 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 November 15, 1994 were approved as written. President Boehmer announced that a public hearing will be held with regard to Ordinance No. 94-95 at 7 p.m. on Monday, December 12. Also, a special Council meeting wdi be held at 7:30 p.m on Monday, December 12. Mayor Boyle reported: 1) In 1990, the North Olmsted Police Department was understaffed. At that time, Councilman O'Grady, Chairperson of the Safely Committee, Police Chief Marsh and Mayor Boyle formulated an eigl-t-year plan whiff would replace officers who had retired and/or resigned over the prior four years and would acid Been new officers to the force. The imQlem~tation of the plan is cont~uing; and, in the area of commn~.nity policing, a DARE officer and a crime prevention officer have been added to the force. The plan calls for one officer to be added per year in 1995, 199b and 1997. However, ft is poss~le that the crime bill recently passed by Congress will allow the city to add all three officers in 1995 instead of one each year. The Mayor and Chief Sefcek will apply for a grant which would provide $75,000 per officer over athree-year permed paid out in decreasing amounts each year. Also, the application process and subsequ~t approval of the grant wdl put the chy in line for future grants for equipment purchases. According to Federal gu~ddines, North Olmsted should have a Police force of approximately 6S officers. Because of the decreasing crime rate, it is the det of the Police Department that number of officers is not necessary. The three .officers to be added will bring us to a complement of S 7. 2) The GCRTA contract has been negotiated and the accepting legislation is before Council this evening. In the paw few years, NOMBL has suffered from cuts to service by RTA which, if continued, could drive us out of business. The new contract inchtdes