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Council Minutes of 9/18/2001 pay from 65 to 70 cents per hour; the city will make available all necessary training for employees to maintain their licenses; the boot allowance increase is $25 per year; mechanic tool increase is $25 per year; inclement weather changes to below five degrees and above 100 degrees; funeral leave will include step-children; under commercial drivers license, the city agrees to pay the cost for the CDL license; Class A CDL will receive an addftiona135 cents per how for the hours they have worked. The contract dwation is from midnight June 30, 2001 to midnight June 30, 2004. The committee recommended approval and suspension of the rule requiring three readings. • Ordinance 2001-106, which authorizes the Mayor to enter irno an agreement with the Clerical and Technical employees. Changes were made in the grievance procedure to allow for grievances to be filed in substantial compliance. Other contract changes include: hours of work, Recreation mairnenance employees who work a shift other than a Monday through Friday shall have two consecutive days off each week, an employee who has to work on their second day off shall be paid double time for that day; paid sick leave not to exccecl one thousand hours; holidays, employees who do not take sick leave for six months shall receive 24 hours off or a cash equivalent of 24 hours; hospitalization, employees shall pay 13% of the medical and the city will pay 87% and the city will offer options with the Option one cost of 2% for single employees; Wages, all employees will receive 3% increases effective July 1 of each year; the head cashier will receive the rate of pay as a Secretary II. The contract will run from July 1, 2001 through Tune 30, 2004. Other changes are: a boot allowance in 2001 will be $2'~5, $3(K? in 2002 and $325 in 2003; Secretary II, if they wish to advance to Secretary I, shall pass an employee's assessment test by a score of 80%; Recreation Department maintenance employees who maintain a Class A CDL license will be paid an additional 35 cents per hour for all hours worked; all building inspectors shall receive a boot allowance. The committee recommended approval and suspension of the rule requiring three readings. AUDIENCE PARTICIPATION Tom Hreha, 6418 Surrey Drive, said it had come to his attention that one gas station in North Olmsted was charging over $3 a gallon immediately after the national crisis that occurred on Tuesday. He suggested that Council draft legislation prohibiting price gouging. Mrs. Saringer said she had recommended that be done and Mr. Limpert said he was glad he and Mrs. Saringer were together on that. Daniel Gallagher, 6853 Chadbourne Drive, asked if people who speak were timed for the five minutes as he felt the person who spoke after him last week had exceeded her time. President Saringer said she did time the speakers. Joe Bouman, 23950 Gessner Road, said he had the opportunity to look at the engineering drawings for the new intersection at Clague and Lorain and feh that it is going to be quite nice. He is concerned about Clague Road south of Lorain Road. He appreciates the one inch skin coat that was put down about four years ago. It was not perfect, but it solved the safety problem. However, it wasn't properly maintained last year and cracks that 8 I