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Council Minutes of 7/S/95 Law Director Gareau: 1) With regard to the Fattlar lawsuit, the insurance company has denied liability on grounds that the lawsuit is framed as a declaratory Jet action which is excluded from coverage. The Law Department has filed and answer and is prepared to defend the city. A motion for summary judgment will probably be filed in August or September. Finance Director Burns: 1) Recently he presented Council with a schedule that shows revenue comparisons between projected anal collected revenues for income taxes and sewer billings. The sewer billing f gores used for comparison are those that were drawn up by Malcolm Pirnie, and those numbers reflected the entire billing at the new rate. However, the Cleveland Water Department prorated the increase so that water usage before April 1 was at the old rate and at the new rate after April 1. 2) The Regional Income Tax Agency has made the annual refund to the city on the retainer for processing our income tax co~Ctions. The refiu-d was $171,218. North Olmsted accounts for 4.8% of all transactions at Re~ianal Income Tax and 3.6% of all the dollars collected. Net cost to North Olmsted. after the refimd is 5121,485, or 1.6% of our collections. RITA conducts a yearly program of inspecting apartment buildings to verify that tenants are listed as city taxpayers. Last year this process identified 78 new taxpayers who had not previously resided in a RITA city and 192 indisriduals who had moved from a RITA city to North Olmsted. Mrs. Saringer, Chairperson of the Building, Zoning and Development Committee: 1) The committee met at 6:30 p.m on July S. In attendance were commbttee McKay, Nashar and Saringer and Assistant Engineer McDermott. Agenda items were as follows: a. A water main easement for Cinnamon Woods. The required legislation will be on the agenda at the next Council meeting. b. Sytlm' Concepts, 29919 Lorain Road, a proposal to construct a buiid~g for retail office and warehouse use on a lot adjacent to the existing facility. Owner Mr. Gary Case and neighbors Mr. and Mrs. Benedict were in attendance. A special permit was granted by the Board of Zoning Appeals. The lighting has been addressed, and it has been agreed that a six foot board on board fence will be installed. The Engineering Department has requested a detailed design of the loading dock in order to be sure that there is no interference with the sewer. All other issues were addressed satisfactorily. The BZD Committee did not request that the front canopy be extended. Mr, and Mrs. Be~rexlict were satisfied with the resolution of several items of interest to them. Mrs. Sar~ger moved to approve the special permit and the proposal to construct a bring with the condition that the lot split will be properly pursued and a detailed design of the loading dock be submitted and approved so as not to interfere with the sewer system and with all the recommendations of the Planning Commission; second by Mr. Nasltar; motion passed unanimously. C 2