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Council Minutes of 10/16/2001 Auxiliary officers will be used for traffic control at the Clague Road Congregational Church. 6) Today, the RTA board met and awarded a contract for $218,000 to R. L. Bowen & Associates of Cleveland for final design and architectural engineering services for the North Olmsted transit center near the intersection of I-480 and Columbia Road. The facility, which is expected to cost more than $2 million to construct, will include some 350 parking spaces, a building waiting area for passengers, extensive landscaping and a noise wall. Law Director Gareau: 1) He reported in caucus about the progress that we are making with the Board of Elections case. Most people by now understand that we had obtained a temporary restraining order from the Supreme Court regarding the issuance of absentee ballots until the court can look at the issue that was raised with respect the failure of the Board of Elections to re-precinct the wards that were established by the City Council. He submitted an affidavit to the Supreme Court as a part of the evidence that the failure to re-precinct and, if we would vote in the wards as they were previously established in the previous precincts, hundreds if not into the thousands of people would be disenfranchised. It's a very serious matter. The Law Department prepared and filed the merit brief and evidence with the Supreme Court. Assistant Director of Law James Dubelko spent the entire night on Tuesday, October 9, at the office writing the brief. He then had it transmitted to Columbus and filed with the Supreme Court. The Board of Elections filed their brief today. Once again, Jim Dubelko will be at the office putting together the brief so that it can be filed tomorrow in the Supreme Court. We expect a ruling from the Supreme Court either late this week or early next week. 2) With respect to the library, we were supposed to have a meeting last evening regarding the contract with the project manager. We received communication from the library board that they did approve the party that we had chosen but wanted some modifications. The Law Department, the Service Department and Mayor's office are currently looking into that issue to determine what type of agreement can be made regarding how the architect is going to work with the construction manager and how the city is going to work with everybody. 3) On the Clague Road widening project, there are nine property owners involved. The Law Department has appraisals and has made offers to all nine owners and are close to an agreement with five of them. Assistant Law Director Dubelko and he met on Sunday to prepare agreements, gather documents and review the status of the project. Letters, along with proposed purchase agreements and deeds and other types of agreemenrts, were sent to four of the owners. Hopefully, these four owners will be under contract very soon. Finance Director Copfer: 1) The third quarter investments made report was distributed to Council today. President Saringer reported on the public hearings held on October 15: 1) A public hearing was held at 7 p.m. on Ordinance 2001-108. This ordinance amends Section 1123.09 of the Zaning Code in order to establish a clear procedure for notice to be given to condominium property owners affected by requested variances. There were no residents in attendance and no comments from Council. ~.r _.~.~ ~~.. I ;i