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Council Minutes of 3/21/2000 2) This morning, he attended the fifth annual All Nations New Citizen Naturalization ,, Program at North Olmsted High School. Thirty-eight new citizens were sworn in by Judge Nugent. The program seems to be getting better and better every year, and it was very impressive and very meaningful. Law Director Gareau: 1) Since the last Council meeting, a brief has been filed in opposition to the appeal to the Court of Appeals on the Olmsted Township annexation. Also, a motion for reconsideration was filed. As Council will recall, the Common Pleas Court turned down the motion for a stay and Olmsted Township immediately filed an appeal. North Olmsted was given a period of time to file a brief in opposition to that. We also filed a motion to reconsider the issue of a stay pending that appeal. 2) In the Moran case, he has been pretty active in that case lately, dealing both with the insurance company and appointed counsel. Finally, we have gotten discovery moving although the discovery period was extended to mid-April. We have depositions that are set for numerous witnesses that were designated by the plaintiff. 3) With respect to the Chamber of Commerce case, we received a motion for interim fees and have today filed a request fora 60-day extension to respond. Consistent with that, is Ordinance 2000-30 asking this Council to hire a special counsel to assist in pursuing the fee litigation. We also are asking leave to file a motion for summary judgment regarding one aspect of that case which is a retaliation claim. That is scheduled to be tried on April 10. Also, at the meeting last Tuesday, members of the Chamber of Commerce were there with a couple of experts. At that time, he indicated that he planned to consult with an expert of our own with whom we have previously consulted. He has forwarded to this expert various paperwork that is necessary for him to get up to speed so that, when we receive recommendations from the Chamber of Commerce next week, those will be shared with him and we will be ready for a meeting to discuss the various aspects, whether we amend the ordinance or we go forward with the way it is right now. Finance Director Copfer: 1) The EMS billing service that we are currently using is going out of that line of business. Along with Fire Chief Ed Bak and Safety Director Tom Jenkins, she will meet with potential billing services. We can allow the previous billing company to continue to work the existing receivables. Also, we are looking at improving the billing process and optimizing the collection of the billed revenues in a timely manner. We will focus on those things and, of course, fees. 2) On Thursday, March 16, the last police and fire pension report in the revised format was mailed. She spoke with the pension funds member supervisor this week who said that the reports were now compliant with their requirements and he felt that our format was excellent. This huge data base creation took approximately three and a half months. This was truly a team effort of Finance, Data Processing, Police and Fire departments. A special acknowledgement goes to Gary Hannum, Amy Cornish, Mary Kay Lilly, Kevin Whalen and Lee Gerber. Also thanks to those people who covered more than their jobs while enabling the team to focus on the task at hand, specifically, in the Finance Department, Danielle Smith who performed two jobs for six weeks and did it without a complaint. 2