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Council Minutes of 6/6/2000 ,~ Condominiums. They had a discussion, and his comment was the City of North Olmsted is considering buying that. He never once said that the city bought the property--that is totally and completely incorrect. Mrs. Kasler noted that Mr. Bouman had made a statement with regard to ownership and she would like that clarified. Mr. Bouman said that the owner, Mr. Farver, told his tenant that he had to leave because the city owned by the property. The other side is already rented to a city employee who is maintaining the property for the city. Mrs. Kasler asked that the issue of the city employee who is a tenant be clarified. Mayor Musial asked Mr. Bouman who the person was, and Mr. Bouman said he did not know. It was hearsay, and he is coming here for answers. Mr. O'Grady commented that, unless this Council authorizes the expenditure of funds, nothing can be bought. This Council has not authorized the expenditure of funds, so he would say nothing has been bought by the City of North Olmsted. Mrs. Kasler said it goes just a little further than that, but she wants to know if that perception is out there that it has been purchased, when in fact, she did not sign her name to anything and did not agree to that purchase. She does not want that being discussed. What she would like to know is the answer to the groundskeeper and asked the Mayor if he had any knowledge of who is living there. Mayor Musial said he did not. He understands that there is an individual living there and his son apparently moved out. There was an individual living there that installed carpeting for a living. He does not know whether he is in or out. There is an individual that lives in the other side of the house that apparently has the same last name as an employee. Safety Director Jenkins said he had just one thing to clear up: As Joe Bouman presented, it was hearsay that he was presenting here. As an observation, he saw Mr. Farver cutting the grass last weekend. Mary Solderich, 5682 Allendale Drive • Her occupation was doing contracts for NASA, and she knows what can be put in to contracts. She doesn't feel the ordinance (PLA) is necessary. If unions gets 90% of the contracts, it would be totally unfair to say the rest of them can't get 10%. To say if they are not union, they have to sign up as a union member, does that make their work quality and safe? She doesn't think so. If Council decided to put in an ordinance that every member working at City Hall had to be a member of the union, would that be fair? She doesn't think so. She doesn't think the ordinance was fair. She doesn't think that what was said about the Council members was fair or true. It was a lot of rhetoric, and she thinks most people saw through it. She does know what can and can't go in contracts--we don't need an ordinance to do it. Mr. McKay addressed Mrs. Solderich and said, when a contractor comes in here and gets a contract, we require a deposit of money to ensure that that contractor does a good job and done on time. It doesn't make any difference if he is a union or non-union contractor. He doesn't know how the quality of work is going to be upgraded because it's already to our standards and we go and inspect it. Mr. O'Grady thanked Mrs. Solderich for her comments--they were good. He believes too that the things that were said were so outrageous that people will see through them and won't believe them. That's very much (90%) the kind of calls he received at his home--people expressing outrage over the tactics of the ABC. The other calls were asking what was going on, which was a fair question. Wants to emphasize that there was a lot of 15