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Council Minutes of 8/3/99 County Prosecutor's office. It was our position that the county or State of Ohio ought to ~, pay that cost. 4) On July 12, notice was received of a lawsuit against the City of North Olmsted by Timothy DiFranco. Mr. DiFranco was involved in an automobile accident wherein a police officer rear-ended his vehicle on Great Northern Boulevard on an icy winter day. The case has been turned over to the insurance company for defense. 5) On July 15, notice was received from the Ohio Civil Rights Commission that an unsuccessful applicant for a job with the city had filed a complaint with the commission charging that the city had refused to hire him because of a perceived disability as an alcoholic. The Law Department is in the process of responding to that charge. 6) On July 22 and 23, all three members of the Law Department civil branch attended a two-day municipal law conference in Columbus. 7) On July 30, a status conference was held in federal court on the Faia case. This is the individual who brought a 1983 action against the city and police officers in federal district court charging that the city unlawfully searched his house in connection with a 911 call. 8) August 2, he met with the RTA representatives concerning the status of land acquisition for the new bus garage and informed them that we had reached an agreement with both property owners. We are in the process of preparing the purchase agreements. In turn, RTA is preparing a lease agreement for the lease-back of the property and also a proposed lease whereby the city would lease the garage that would be built. The city will control the land and RTA will construct the building, so cross-over leases are required. 9) On August 3, he attended a SERB hearing in Columbus concerning two unfair labor practices filed by the city dispatchers concerning two Police Department policies, the uniform policy and the shift trade policy. Also in attendance were Safety Director Jenkins, Assistant Law Director Carr, Police Chief Ruple and a sergeant from the Police Department. We have a tentative resolution of that, but the details have to be worked out. Mayor Musial reported for Finance Director Copfer: 1) There are twelve pieces of note legislation before Council this evening-eleven are renewals and one is $300,000 of new borrowing for Springvale. The eleven renewals are not required to have three readings and athirty-day wait. However, the Springvale note requires three readings and thirty days before the borrowing can occur. Therefore, this must be passed by Friday, August 13. This is an enterprise fund for which the payback is intended to be self-supporting. 2) In June, there had been discussion about potentially going out to the bond market in September to take advantage of the portion of the 1992 bond issue that is eligible for refunding. However, the bond market from a seller's perspective is not what it was thirty days ago. The monies that would have been saved by the lower rate have dropped below where it makes sense to do this. 3) The appropriations ordinance before Council this evening has both additional appropriations and transfers of appropriations. 4) Our software system continues to be plagued by a looping glitch. There were line item transfer budget revisions within control groups requested from departments for May and June which could not be entered. When the first one was posted, the looping process began all over again. Departments were sent through-the-day revenue and expenditure ,~,