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Council Minutes of 2/2/99 2. Ordinance Nos. 99-4 and 99-5, legislation for the Community Development Block `"' Grant projects. Ordinance 99-4 was amended to increase the city's share by $4,000 to '~ $64,000 making it a 40/60 split and getting us one extra point in the Community Block Grant application through the county. The committee unanimously recommended approval. Ordinance 99-5, for the Minority Business and Women Business Enterprise, 15% on the M.B.E. and 5% for W.B.E. The committee unanimously recommended approval. Mr. O'Grady, Chairperson of the Finance Committee: 1) The committee met on January 26. Present were committee members O'Grady, Kasler and Limpert; Council members McKay, Nashar, Gareau and Miller; Mayor Musial; directors of Finance, Law, Service and Safety. (The Finance Committee did meet in conjunction with the Streets & Drainage Committee regarding capital improvements, and the results of that meeting were reported by the Streets & Drainage Chairperson.) The following items were discussed: • Ordinance No. 99-6, which authorizes the Service Director to advertise for bids for a vacuum street sweeper. The existing sweeper was purchased in 1991 with a projected 10-year life. This vehicle will be traded in on the new vehicle. The new vehicle will have brooms on both sides so that streets such as Brookpark Road, which have an island in the middle, can have the curb cleaned without running the street sweeper vehicle the wrong direction down the highways. The committee unanimously recommended approval of Ordinance 99-6. • Ordinance Nos. 99-12 and 99-13 were jointly considered as both deal with proposed reorganization of the Law Department. Ordinance 99-12 creates a second Civil Assistant position and removes two legal clerk positions. Ordinance 99-13 establishes a rate of pay for the newly created part-time Civil Assistant for the year 1999 only. Under these ordinances, the two positions of law clerk which together pay a total of $15,000 annually will be eliminated. The new Civil Assistant position will pay $25,000 annually. It was noted that the low rate of pay for the law clerks has caused difficulty in attracting and maintaining quality people. The new position will replace the two clerks with a licensed attorney who will be able to assist the city with the more than 96 legal issues that will be briefed in the coming months and other work as needed to support the Law Department. The committee unanimously recommended approval and passage under suspension of the rule. Mr. Gareau, Chairperson of the Building, Zoning and Development Committee: 1) The committee met on February 1. Present were committee members Miller, Gareau and McKay; Council member O'Grady; Assistant City Engineer Dave McDermott; Assistant Building Commissioner Tom Rymarczyk; Dan Allen and Bob Thomas of Fortney & Weygandt, (KJMC Inc.); Stephen Schill of Schill Architecture Inc. There were four items on the agenda: • Natesan, S. V. Development Corporation, lot split. The proposal is to split P. P. No. 231-29-013, which has frontage on both Lorain Road and Gessner Road, into two separate parcels. As existing, the parcel is presently zoned divided--a split between Retail Business General and Single Family Residential. The proposed split in the .~;. 5