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Council Minutes of 9/4/2001 Councilman McKay, chairperson of the Finance Committee: 1) The committee met on ~, July 24. Present were Mayor Musial, President of Council Saringer, Service Director Bohlmann, Safety Director Jenkins and all of Council. The committee discussed Ordinance 2001-97, which increases the imprest petty cash fund at the Recreation Center from $150 to ~ 1,450. The increase is needed for the start-up monies for the three cash registers and other needs. The petty cash fund has not been increased for 25 years. The payments made out of the petty cash fund must have a receipt and, when the receipt is presented to the Director of Finance, the account will be reimbursed. The committee recommended approval. Councilwoman Kasler, chairperson of the Intra-Governmental Relations and Legislation; Long-Range Planning Committee, noted that one of the subjects at the next meeting will be the Community Block Grarrt proposal as presented by Mr. Copeland and the CDBG Committee. She asked that Council members review the report from Mr. Copeland and be prepared to discuss this topic. She has reviewed it and, once again, Mr. Capeland did an outstanding job in preparation and explaining what the committee has been discussing. Several members of the committee are in the audience this evening: Paul Barker, Jack Eustace and Julie Brown. It has been a pleasure to work with the entire committee. President Saringer announced that Resolution 2001-85, which grants consent far the assignment of the Cable Television Franchise of Ameritech New Media, Inc. to WideOpen West Ohio, LLC, has been removed from the agenda for this evening. AUDIENCE PARTICIPATION Tom Hreha, 6418 Surrey Drive, is disappointed that senior citizens in a great nation like the United States have to travel to a foreign country to get prescriptions at lower costs. Doug Sebring, 6250 Wild Oak Drive, Assistant School Superintendent, said he was pleased that Resohtion 2001-85 was withdrawn from the agenda. Mr. Sebring is concerned that a new contract will not provide the services that the schools currently are receiving. Law Director Gareau explained that the process of gratrting consent of the transfer of the franchise does not mean the contract is to be renegotiated. There is a window of opportunity far the city to correct deficiencies in the existing cotiti'ail as opposed to changing any of the terms and conditions of the existing contrail. So any services that are being provided now will continue to be provided. The city has brought a consultant on board to look at the contract to make sure there are no deficiencies. If there are, then those can be corrected as a condition of the transfer of the franchise. Daniel Gallagher, 6853 Chadbourne, questioned whether the STOP program is self- funded. He believes it is not because there is not provision for maintenance and repairs of vehicles. He also would like to know how come no other program in the City of North Olmsted is allowed to keep revenues. Finance Director Copfer answered that there are many funds that do keep their resources because they are special revenue funds. They are designated as a special revenue when they are created under legislation, for example when the Recreation program was started many years ago. The general fund, which does 7