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Council Minutes of 12/1/98 ,,~ • Ordinance 98-142, which makes and transfers appropriations for current expenses and „~ other expenditures for the city for the year ending December 31, 1998. The committee unanimously recommended approval. • Safety Director Jenkins noted the need to correct an oversight relating to the pay for the Assistant Chief of the North Olmsted Fire Department. In light of the fact that the Assistant Chief's pay is routinely tied to the pay for the Captains on the Police force, the committee unanimously recommended approval and passage under suspension of the rule of Ordinance 98-144 which is on first reading this evening. Mrs. Kasler, Chairperson of Recreation, Public Parks and Buildings Committee: 1) The Recreation and Finance Committees met in joint session on November 30 to discuss Ordinance 98-141. Present were Councilpersons Miller, O'Grady, McKay, Nashar, Gareau, Kasler; Safety Director Jenkins; Service Director Bohlmann; Finance Director Copfer; Springvale Facilities Manager Strnad; Mayor Musial. This ordinance was created to combine and establish positions and pay ranges for employees of Springvale Golf Course. The ordinance was discussed at length and a management decision was reflected in the ordinance that combined four positions into two new positions and adjusted pay ranges to reflect wage increases consistent with other city employees. The committee recommended approval of this ordinance. However, the Safety Director was asked to supply further information with regard to exact salaries for each full-time employee in addition to those reflected as ranges in the ordinance, and to supply job descriptions for all positions listed in the ordinance. That information was received this evening. Based on that document and based on some informal questions that were asked this evening, the legislation will be discussed at a future committee meeting. AUDIENCE PARTICIPATION • Charlotte Sammon, 126 Vista Court, expressed concern about what she and other residents of the golf course development see as a deterioration of the North Olmsted Golf Course. The residents are concerned about the lack of concern for the golf course by the Bower family and felt they might be considering closing the course and putting in more cluster homes. Mrs. Sammon wondered if there was an ordinance that controlled the usage of the property. Law Director Gareau said, if the property she was referring to was common area, it would be subject to the condominium declarations and deed restrictions. Mrs. Saringer said it was her belief that there was a deed restriction to the effect that the property has to remain a green space. Mr. Limpert said that density issues would dictate the property could not be filled with more cluster homes. However, he does not believe it is within the city's jurisdiction to legislate the quality of the greens and fairways. Mayor Musial said he believed Mrs. Sammon was concerned about a possible further development of the area, but such a proposal has not been submitted to the Council. Mr. Gareau said that perhaps there was some confusion because Mr. Bower had recently appeared before Council for an unrelated project in the Brookpark and Mastick Road area. h•~av 4