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Council Minutes of 5/1/2001 4) DARE graduations will be held on May 15, 16 and 17 at Forest, Butternut and St. Brendan's schools. Law Director Gareau: 1) Regarding the meeting with the County Library officials, it was a somewhat productive meeting and the feasibility of using a construction manager versus a general contractor will be discussed. 2) He has been in contact with both property owners with respect to the remaining parcels to be purchased for the library site. There has been a lot of `Toot dragging." However, it does appear resolution is close, and he hopes to make a determination of how the city will proceed within the next week. Finance Director Copfer: 1) Last Wednesday, Council received the first quarter investments report. 2) The auditors are continuing their work, and she has been kept busy conferring with them and filling their requests for documents. 3) Regarding the bond sales, the municipal market has spiked recently-when the stock market does better, the municipal market does worse. As a resuh, she is patiently waiting for the ideal time to sell the bonds so that she can get the best price possible. Councilman Miller noted that Council was in receipt of the letter from the Finance Director with regard to the estate tax check, which is an issue he previously mentioned. As he predicted, more money came in than expected, and the check for $185,000 is only the first of two checks that the city will be receiving. He requested that this issue be assigned to the Finance Committee for discussion. President Saringer requested that Councilman McKay take this matter into Finance Committee, and he agreed to do so. Councilwoman Kesler, chairperson of the Intra-Governmental Relations and Legislation; Long-Range Planning Committee: 1) A committee meeting was held on April 11. Present were committee chairperson Kesler, Councilmen Miller, McKay, Nashar, Dailey and Limpert, Council President Saringer. Also in attendance were the City Engineer, Service Director, Safety Director and the Mayor. The topic was Ordinance 2001-46 which reads: "An ordinance creating new Section 111.02 of Chapter 111 of the City Administrative Code, entitled `Mandatory Minimum Contracting Standards Relating to Bidder Responsibility' which provides for the establishment of minimum contracting responsibility standards to be imposed upon all bidders on city contracts involving improvements to real property." As the sponsor of the ordinance, she explained to the committee that the purpose of this legislation is to codify and, therefore, provide the force of law and consistency for all contracts beyond requirements made by the city at this present time of any contractors doing work on city property. The legislation provides requirements and disclosures beyond those already informally required. In addition, it codifies procedures for utilizing this legislation. It should be noted that, unlike prior similar legislation, 1) Ordinance 2001-46 does not apply only to projects of a minimum cost or value, but instead requires that certain standards be met for contractors performing any work on any city property; 2) It provides that these requirements be made of all bidders at the initiation of the public bidding process, thereby insuring that any bidders finally considered as the lowest, most responsible bidder, would akeady have passed or 2