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Council Minutes of 12/5/0 Mr. McKay, chairperson of the Finance Committee: 1) The committee met on Monday, November 27. Present were committee members O'Grady, Limpert, McKay and Councilman Nashar; Mayor Musial, Finance Director Copfer and NOMBL manager Terbrack. The following was discussed: Ordinance 2000-163, which is an ordinance providing for the issuance of bonds for the purpose of constructing, furnishing, equipping and otherwise improving a free public library building and acquiring, preparing landscaping and otherwise improving its site. This completes a total amount of the $10,750,000 approved by the voters on November 7. The committee recommended approval. Mr. McKay noted that he was in receipt of the Fiscal Officer's Certificate. AUDIENCE PARTICIPATION Dennis Lambert, 25057 Carey Lane • Does not believe the current plans for the library are large enough. He would like to see a library over 40,000 square feet in case the city has the opportunity in the future to have regional status. • Regarding the Charter Review Commission votes, he congratulated Councilman O'Grady on his votes by rising above his personal opinions and trusting the public to make the decisions. He knows Mr. O'Grady may not personally be willing to vote for the issues, but he supported putting them on the ballot anyway. He still feels that all the recommendations should be placed on the ballot. Law Director Gareau disagreed with Mr. Lambert's opinion. Rae Spalding, 211 Greenward Way South, reported on the Vision Year 2000 and Beyond Committee: • The committee is made up of two groups: a small group of a steering committee whose members are Mayor Musial, Councilmen Limpert and O'Grady and herself; a larger committee made up of about 35 residents. It is really that large committee that has done a stupendous job of presenting their ideas for the future of the city. There was a broad range of members of that committee, and they deserve a big "thank you." They have put in a lot of hard work and a lot of good thought into this project. The committee began in April of 1999 and were commissioned by the Mayor to take a new look at the City of North Olmsted. His instructions were to "throw everything out that you can and see what you can plan for the future" and that's what the committee tried to do. It was a very, very difficult task. The Cuyahoga Planning Commission was brought in for a crash course on strategic planning. They presented the committee with some very interesting demographics for the City of North Olmsted. However, the information was based on the 1990 census, and the committee knew some of the numbers were changed. Under the leadership of the County Planning Commission, the large committee also produced a list of the strengths and challenges specifically for the City of North Olmsted. Members of the last master plan committee came and gave a presentation to the committee. Many of the committee members were somewhat confused as to what the master plan was as compared to what they were trying to produce in this vision plan. At the conclusion 4