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Council Minutes of 2/18/97 Mr. McKay commented that he believes there may be an alternative to Ohio S. B. 19 which was recently introduced by Representative Ron Mottl Jr. Mr. McKay said that he does not think that the federal government should be absolved of responsibility either. The federal government has the scientists who created the monster, and they are the people that turned it loose for so-called peaceful use. They do have the means to find a solution, and they should be working closely with the states to find that solution. He believes a coalition between the federal government and state governments should work on finding a solution to this problem. Mr. Limpert stated that it is his opinion, if there is an alternate bill, then passage of the resolution should be held off. Mr. McKay stated that we have to move forward on this because the bill is due to move out of the Senate and into the House on March 1. Mr. Musial said he did not believe the opposition to S. B. 19 has a problem with Ohio taking care of its own nuclear waste but did not want to take waste from the other states in the Compact. He suggested that Ohio do what the State of Illinois did: Illinois entered into a compact with the State of Kentucky which does not have a nuclear plant. It is important to recognize that, if S. B. 19 is not approved, Ohio may possibly be required to accept waste from all states. He is not in favor of Ohio taking nuclear waste and would recommend that we join into a compact with anon-nuclear state. Mr. Limpert said there are problems with that because it increases the chance that the cost will be the sole burden of Ohio taxpayers. Mr. Musial stated that he would rather have Ohio spend some of its $1 billion slush fund on this rather than accept nuclear waste from other states. Mr. Nashar commented that he had in his possession petitions containing over 500 signatures of citizens who are opposed to the State of Ohio accepting nuclear waste from other states. Mrs. Saringer suggested that copies of the petitions be sent to the appropriate people along with a copy of Resolution 96-187, should it pass. Mr. O'Grady, Chairperson of the Intra-Governmental Relations and Legislation; Long- Range Planning Committee: 1) Mr. O'Grady made a motion to approve the reappointments to the various boards and commissions as suggested by the Mayor. The motion was seconded by Mr. Lind and unanimously approved. (The list of reappointments can be found in the Mayor's report.) 2) The committee will meet at 6:30 p.m. on Wednesday, February 26, to interview the nominees for new appointments to the Board of Zoning Appeals and the Human Resources Advisory Board. 3) The committee met at 6:30 p.m. on Monday, February 10. In attendance were Council Members O'Grady, Lind, Musial, McKay, Limpert and Nashar and Service Director Bohlmann. The subject was sweatshops and Resolution 97-9. Discussion centered on concern by Mr. Musial relative to the inconsistency of the terms used in the original ordinance, which were: "harsh or sweatshop," "harsh sweatshop," or "sweatshop"--which one should it be? There was no other objection to the ordinance. The terminology has been changed. The committee recommended approval to passing this ordinance under suspension, which has already been done tonight. 4) At 7 p.m. on February 10, the committee met to consider the Community Development Block Grant. Present were Council Members O'Grady, Lind, Musial, McKay; Nashar, Limpert; Human Resources Director Copeland; Service Director Bohlmann; Joyce Weber and others of the Allendale/Carey area; Shannon Smith, Jack Konold, Ray Puzzitello and 7