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Council Minutes of 3/8/2000 Mr. Gareau also addressed the school representatives about the fact that, when he recently received a notice about the expansion of the community service channel, he wrote to Cablevision about the poor reception on the channel devoted to the city schools. He received a phone call back rather quickly to tell him that the problem must surely be isolated to his home and they would send out a crew. Within 20 minutes of the first phone call, he received another call informing him that he was correct and there was a problem with the signal of that channel. The channel is now crystal-clear. Mr. McKay scheduled a Finance Committee meeting for 7 p.m. on Monday, March 13, to discuss Resolutions 2000-19 and 2000-20. The Service Director and Mayor are asked to attend. Mrs. Kasler scheduled an Intra-Governmental Relations and Legislation; Long-Range Planning Committee meeting immediately following the Finance Committee meeting to discuss Ordinance 2000-24 and Resolution 2000-25. Representatives of the school board and the Law Department are requested to attend. Mr. Nashar scheduled a BZD meeting for March 14 at 6:30 p.m. to discuss Ordinance 2000-23; Ordinance 2000-12, the sign code; Planning Commission items. The Building Commissioner, Assistant Engineer and a representative from the Law Department are asked to attend. Mr. McKay reported on the ad hoc committee which is meeting to discuss honoring past Council members. The committee members decided to ask SITES students to research the names of previous Council members. Mr. Limpert, a member of the committee, explained that the committee plans to prepare a book of the names of past Council members and all elected officials since the time that North Olmsted became a city, which happens to be 50 years ago. Mr. O'Grady said it had been his understanding that the purpose of this committee was to somehow honor past members of Council who had made a significant contribution. He had heard the criteria was either that the person had died in office or had served in elective office for 20 years. Mr. McKay and Mr. Limpert indicated that was not a part of the process at this time. Mr. Gareau scheduled a Streets & Drainage Committee meeting immediately following the Legislative Committee. He would like the committee to discuss a system which he has been researching that will enhance the city's traffic control system. This has to do with emergency vehicles and the ability of our traffic control devices to recognize approaching vehicles and to trigger the traffic lights to allow the emergency vehicles to proceed safely through the intersection. Several communities in the county do have this system in place. The Safety Director, Service Director, Traffic Engineer and representatives of the safety forces are asked to attend. Mayor Musial gave his report at this time: 1) The Charter Review Commission had their first meeting on February 29. All the members were present, and were given a copy of the existing Charter and a copy of the proceedings of the 1995 Charter Review Commission in toto so they could review what was done five years ago. As Council will 12