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Council Minutes of 2/6/01 ~ volunteers his time teaching chess to students at Maple School and tutoring students in ~;~ math. He also vohmteers at Fairview Hospital. 3) Recently, a resident who was concerned about water rates asked about the possibility of forming a partnership with neighboring cities who have their own water system. (Avon Lake for example.) Our Environmental Engineer, Dennis Long, looked into this and has indicated that there would be a question of capacity and supply. Also, there is the cost of constructing water lines from North Olmsted to the other city. As soon as all the information is gathered, it will be passed along to Council members. 4) With regard to the electric deregulation, NOPEC is still in heavy negotiations with two potential suppliers, Green Mountain from Texas and AEP from Columbus, Ohio. Hopefully, the announcement will be made in the middle of February. Following that, informational letters will be sent to North Olmsted residents giving them the opportunity to opt-out. Assistant Law Director Dubelko: 1) On January 18, the Law Department filed a brief with the American Arbitration Association in connection with the dispatcher grievance over the appropriate rate of pay for the dispatchers in the city who work overtime on holidays. The American Arbitration Association has indicated that a decision would be made by the arbitrator within 30 days. 2) The Law Department has provided a written legal opinion to the Civil Service Commission regarding the applicability of Civil Service visual acuity standards for fire fighter applicants. 3) A written legal opinion was provided to the Building Department concerning the new FCC regulations which limit the zoning authority of the city over local fixed wireless telephone companies. Recently, Teligent had applied to provide this service to the two tech park buildings on Country Club Boulevard. The FCC amended its OTARD rules to treat these type of antenna in the same fashion as home satellite dishes. When that regulation initially went into effect, the City of North Olmsted, upon the recommendation of the Building Department, opted not to regulate those and to make them exempt from our local regulations. Council may wish to do the same thing with respect to the antennas for organizations like Teligent. It should be noted that this rule applies only if the antenna or dishes are a meter or less in diameter. 4) Pursuant to the authority granted by Council, the Law Department has sent correspondence to all the property owners of land where the new library is proposed to be built to offer to purchase the properties for their appraised values. The city has obtained appraisals on all of those properties. None of the offers have yet been accepted. Law Director Gareau has had some preliminary discussions with a number of the property owners. The Law Department is in active negotiations with an attorney representing the owner of the lumber yard property. 5) The Law Department has issued a written legal opinion to the fire chief regarding the right of union representatives to be present at management meetings at the fire station. b) On January 30, a representative of the Law Department attended a Council committee meeting to provide legal advice in connection with an important pending piece of legislation, Ordinance 2001-05, which is the community access to city media ordinance. 7) The Law Department has provided a written legal opinion to the Building Department on the applicability of the Ohio Basic Building Code to repairs at the post office in North 2