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Council Minutes of 2/6/01 ,~ Olmsted. Under the supremacy clause of the U. S. Constitution, the city cannot impose any types of state or local building regulations against a federal agency unless the federal agency chooses to abide by those local regulations. Finance Director Copfer: 1) The November revenue and expenditure reports were delivered to Council's mailboxes on January Z. The December revenue and expenditure/ encumbrance and appropriations ledgers were delivered to Council's mailboxes this evening. Also given to Council was a copy of the investments made in 2000. 2) On January 17, the $8 million bond anticipation notes were sold. We received a rate of 3.75% interest. These were closed on January 31, and the money is safely invested. Mrs. Kasler, chairperson of the Intra-Governmental Relations and Legislation; Long- Range Planning Committee: 1) The committee met on Tuesday, January 30. Present were committee members Kasler, Miller and Nashar and all other voting members of Council, Mayor Musial and Assistant Law Director Dubelko. The committee discussed Ordinance 2001-05, which is an ordinance creating new Chapter 177 of the city Administrative Code entitled "Community Access" in order to establish anon-public fora, permitting community organizations to announce community events in certain media owned and operated by the city and further to permit such organizations to announce such events on banners erected in a limited air space area above Lorain Road, near the North Olmsted Community Park. Several issues of concern were raised regarding the ordinance: • The cost to the city for erecting and dismantling banners at the park location and the possibility of a fee associated with that service. • The frequency of the ability of the organizations to place a banner, which now reads in the ordinance as four a year per organization. • Whether there should be a restriction of the months that banners are permitted because of weather conditions during the winter. There may be liability concerns about a banner across the road being disturbed by inclement weather. • The possibility of fiuther defining "community organization" to require atwo-year residency of the organization in the city. • A change in the application review process, from the Mayor's present proposal that the Mayor's Administrative Assistant or designee review the application and author opinions on any application that was denied, to instead mandating that a review of that process be done by the Law Department. • The committee further requested the review of 177.06 to determine if any additional standards might be warranted with regard to the construction of any kind of banner across the road. • Liability issues were also discussed and several concerns remained at the end of the committee meeting to the extent that the Legislative Committee voted unanimously to hold Ordinance 2001-05 in committee until further review by the Law Department and administration. 2) The committee interviewed Elaine Diederich, who was appointed by the Mayor to the Housing Council for the open term of 1/1/99 to 12/31/01. Ms. Diederich is a practicing CPA and has a thorough understanding of tax abatement and tax issues. She is presently a volunteer in various activities throughout the city and other cities as well. She is the 3