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Council Minutes of 6/2/98 volunteers. Mr. Simko and Mr. Nielson were recognized by all present, and they . expressed their thanks for the proclamation. • The S.I.T.E.S. (social involvement through education and service) program at the high school has concluded its seventh year of service. The program is the recipient of the Ohio Best Practices Award. The S.I.T.E.S. students also participated in the North Olmsted Community Volunteer Services Day by completely painting and landscaping a property. Students Eric Harder, representing the 1999 class, and Lynn Pecullis, representing the 1998 class, and teachers Christine Kilbane and Robert Pierce were recognized and presented with a proclamation. The students and teachers were recognized by all present, and they expressed their thanks for the proclamation. Law Director Gareau: 1) When the trees were being decimated on Parcel E, the Service Director, Safety Director, police officers and Building Department personnel all attempted to stop the removal of those trees. As a result, two actions were taken: a criminal action was filed in Rocky River Court; an action was filed in Common Pleas Court to prohibit the removal of the trees. Unfortunately, Judge Gravens of the Rocky River Municipal Court has declared a portion of our ordinance unconstitutional--that portion dealing with the necessity of a permit before trees are removed. He is disappointed with respect to the ruling of the court because he believes anyone in municipal law knows that any ordinance adopted and passed by Council is presumed constitutional. To overcome the presumption of constitutionality is a very, very arduous task. A hearing was never held--it was simply done on briefs. He is looking at an appeal of the decision. 2) Regarding the Chamber of Commerce case, Judge Nugent has made some housekeeping rules basically dealing with requests for restraining orders and things of that nature that were wounded by the fact that we had reached agreement to negate those and also adopt a schedule. 3) Assistant Law Director Dubelko met with Todd Hunt last week regarding the wireless communication ordinance, which is an overlay zoning ordinance dealing with places that the towers can be located. The ordinance will be introduced soon. 4) We were required to choose a factfinder for each unit of AFSCME. The same factfinder was chosen for both. Finance Director Copfer: 1))Semi-annual interest payments on bonded debt outstanding of approximately $57 million, not to be confused with total debt which is approximately $62 million, were paid on June 1 and will be paid on June 15 totaling $1,592,000. 2) She has received the response of bond counsel from Mr. Miller's request at the last Council meeting and has delivered it to Council in caucus this evening. 3) She has a draft of the April 30 EEA and Revenue reports; however, she did not provide Council with it this evening as she has not had an opportunity to review it. She is concerned because we had some problems late last week and early this week with our system, and she would like to ensure this did not cause information to be lost in batches and also posted improperly. So she is taking the opportunity to review the report before giving it to Council. :~. two 2 ..., .~: ~. .,.ha.~..~r.w"i _wa.W 1•.:-y ~...a~IW N;.:-~-~.--~+K^4%~. _.ir,>.. .. .. _....