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Council Minutes of 3/21/2000 ~.. ;. President Saringer reported that the following legislation would be passed on suspension of the rules: Resolutions 2000-19, 2000-28 and Ordinances 2000-29 and 2000-30. Mrs. Kasler, chairperson of the Intra-Governmental Relations and Legislation; Long- Range Planning Committee: 1) The committee met on Monday, March 13. Present were President Saringer, Councilmen McKay, Limpert, Nashar, Gareau, Miller and Kasler, the Mayor and guests. Agenda items were as follows: • Resolution 2000-25, a resolution urging the North Olmsted school board to take action necessary to seek an adjustment of the North Olmsted School District's boundaries so as to include within the district that portion of the Cinnamon Woods development recently annexed to the City of North Olmsted but still located within the boundaries of Olmsted Falls School District. Members of the school board and school system representatives were invited to attend. However, they were unable to make this meeting. It was represented by the administration, however, that there were some concerns on the part of the school board with regard to this resolution. Several members of Council urged that the resolution go forward while there were some members who wished to hear the input of the school board prior to moving forward with the ordinance. The committee, however, recommended approval with the stipulation that a conversation with the school board be shared with Council. To that end, she contacted superintendent Fenton's office but has not had an opportunity to speak with him as yet. She is scheduling a Legislative Committee meeting for April 3 at 7 o'clock to re-discuss this prior to going on third reading. Prior to that, she will have had a conversation with Mr. Fenton. In addition, Mr. Fenton also submitted some suggestions through the Mayor to her this evening that she has not yet reviewed. She will discuss those with him and bring that to the committee and to Council prior to moving forward. ~ Ordinance 2000-24. Several concerns were expressed in discussing this ordinance regarding some of the details and some of the wording in the ordinance. It was suggested that some amendments be made with the agreement of the sponsor, and it was returned to the sponsor of the ordinance for further review. By unanimous vote it was held in committee until the amendments are finalized. Mr. Gareau asked that Mrs. Kasler consider discussing Ordinance 2000-24 at the Legislative Committee meeting on Apri13. Mrs. Kasler agreed. Mr. O'Grady said that he wholeheartedly supported Mrs. Kasler's idea of bringing Resolution 2000-25 back into committee. He thinks it is an important message to get across that Council is supportive of the school board as they work to try to properly district people who live in the City of North Olmsted within the city school district. It is a very good thing and it's something that we need to accomplish. However, he wants to make sure that, as we do that, we should insure that we have a tone that says we are supportive of the board not a tone that says we are telling the board what to do. As we look at that again in committee, we can make sure we're going in the right direction. 3 i