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Council Minutes of 6/18/96 County Library would pay all expenses of the library such as personnel, insurance, maintenance, utilities, etc. We are awaiting the decision of the County Library Board as ~~ to whether they will do the feasibility study. If a vote does take place on this issue, it will be sometime next spring--possibly as early as February but probably in May. 3) The City of North Olmsted and John Knox Church have joined together in a blood donor program. Date and times are as follows: Wednesday, June 19, 1 p.m. to 7 p.m. at the Senior Center; Friday, June 28, 1 p.m. to 7 p.m. at the Community Cabin. 4) A Town Hall meeting will be held on Wednesday, June 19, at Spruce Elementary School in Ward III. Law Director Gareau: 1) With regard to the Fattlar case, the complaint will be amended to a quo warranto action, which is the proper form of action. Although the Law Department has received requests for admissions, they cannot enter into stipulations with opposing counsel because he continually wants to indicate that the authority for the appointment to the position of Recreation Commissioner is the Mayor's rather than the Safety Director's. 2) Along with Service Director Bohlmann and City Engineer Deichmann, the Law Director met with Westlake's law director and engineer regarding the Ehle Ditch. It has been agreed to resolve the differences of opinion and a lawsuit will not be filed. North Olmsted is asking the City of Westlake to consider picking up the start-up costs for the portion of the project that extends into Westlake. 3) The conciliator's report regarding the firefighters contract has been received. The firefighters had asked for a different hospitalization program from that which was agreed to by the other unions. During initial negotiations, the city was willing to make monetary consideration for them buying into the program; namely, increases in uniform allowance, increases in paramedic pay and some other items. This would have meant a several hundred dollar increase in compensation per year for the firefighters. Another problem was that the firefighters had athree-step salary schedule as opposed to a five-step schedule used by the other unions. When the negotiations went to fact-finding, the arbitrator did not find in the city's favor on those items although he did find in the city's favor with respect to the reduction in the amounts given to the firefighters for uniform allowances and for paramedic pay. The fact-finding report was not accepted by the city and the negotiations went to conciliation, which is binding. The conciliator's report found in favor of the city's position with regard to hospitalization and afive-step salary schedule. Collective bargaining means a give and take--both sides genuinely listen and identify the problems and come to a meeting of the minds. This did not occur, and both sides failed. Although the city negotiators feel they have succeeded as administrators, they do not take delight in the fact because an accord was not reached with the union--someone else had to do it. 4) Work is continuing on the legislation regarding video camera surveillance. This past Saturday there was an interesting story in the newspaper about the use of video cameras in England. 2