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Council Minutes of 6/20/2000 ~<_ North Olmsted will retain, if not enhance, its competitive position in the regional marketplace for years to come. For North Olmsted, this project will add jobs, improve our all-important tax base and make the mall a more desirable place to shop. Law Director Gareau: 1) The retaliation claim by Sunnyside Toyota was scheduled for trial today. In preparation for the trial, many of the documents were gone over, prepared and a trial brief was prepared. He spent most of yesterday interviewing and preparing witnesses and worked into the evening. Previously, the Law Department had asked to submit this issue on the basis of summary judgment. After the court discussed the matter with counsel this morning, the judge suggested that, instead of trying the issue, it seemed like there were more issues of law rather than fact and he set up a schedule for the issue to be submitted on summary judgment. That should be completed sometime in August. Hopefully, the judge will make a ruling on that issue and at the same time on the issue of attorney's fees. 2) With regard to the library issue, the short presentation that was made earlier this evening was the culmination of months of work on the part of the administration and himself in attempting to make sure that, when we finally move forward, that we not only will have the issues squared away with the library district but also many of the legal issues will be accomplished in short order. There still is some work to do. This is a subject that the citizens should look at very closely and is very desirable. 3) Apost-arbitration brief was submitted to the arbitrator yesterday in a case dealing with the refusal to replace a secretary at the Senior Center. When the secretary retired, the position of Activities Coordinator (a non-union position) was filled instead. Hopefully, a favorable resolution will be received within the near future. Finance Director Copfer: 1) On Thursday, June 8, the city sold $2.1 million in notes for the capital improvement program for this year at a 5.4% interest rate. These notes are going to be due September 23, which will match the maturity of last year's capital improvement notes so that we have one issue out atone time. 2) The April revenue and expenditure reports and the first quarter investments May report were delivered to Council today. President Saringer reported on the Committee-of--the-Whole: 1) The meeting was held on May 18 to discuss the issue of mass mailings. All members of Council were in attendance. Because of a controversy regarding a letter that was mailed to a Councilman's constituents, she had requested a legal opinion from the Law Director. All but two Council members agreed with Mr. Gareau's opinion. Mr. Limpert preferred Council mail to residents be restricted to responses to residents. However, broader mailings could be sent with the approval of Council as a whole. The majority of Council did not approve this idea. After a lengthy discussion, it was suggested that perhaps a change in Council's Organization and Travel budget be made to divide it equally so as to allow each person to use their allotment at their own discretion. She may call another meeting in the future to work out this issue for next year's budget. At this time, the majority agreed with the Law Director and no change will be made. 2