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Council Minutes of 12/3/2002 Jesse has since written a memo to Council stating that he and the Mayor had discussed the topic of having media inquiries referred to the Mayor's office. That discussion took place prior to the memo being written. Also, Mr. Jesse has admitted to correcting a misspelling in the memo. Council cannot tolerate, and she as an individual Councilperson will not tolerate misrepresentations or lies being made to Council by the administration. Not only is Council being deceived, but the citizens are being deceived and their rights and privileges to the truth are being abused and ignored. Mrs. Kasler asked that the Mayor request Mr. Jesse's resignation. Mayor Musial said he had not seen the memo and that is why he called it "bogus." He was concerned that the memo had no signature or indication of authorship and has now directed that all memos aze to be identified by a signature or initials. Mr. Miller said he agreed that there had been an attempt to deceive Council and agreed with Mrs. Kasler's request for the Safety Director's resignation. Mayor Musial said he was not considering any disciplinary actions against the Safety Director at this time. Councilman Miller asked the Mayor how many applicants had applied for the positions of Service Director and Safety Director. Mayor Musial replied there were 13 or 14 applicants for the Service Director position and no applicants for the position of Safety Director. Law Director Dubelko: 1) On November 20, he attended the VFW award dinner for the North Olmsted Fire Fighter and Police Officer of the Yeaz. Congratulations to Police Officer Tim Cook and Fire Fighter Dave Mortash for their awazds. 2) November 22, he provided a legal memorandum to Council member Miller regazding administrative and legislative functions regarding comp time policy. 3) On November 25, the Law Department's sub-web page was up and running. Thank you to Joan Gency and Mike Jaworske for their efforts in connecting the Law Department to the city's web site. All of the legal opinions issued by the Law Director this yeaz aze now on the site and available to members of the administration and Council as well as to the public, along with a-mail and phone numbers for the Law Department personnel. 4) On November 26, he issued Legal Opinion No. 2002-19 regarding the Mayor's authority to unilaterally reduce the salaries of appointed directors within the salary range established by Council. 5) On November 26, he attended Community Council's dinner for the installation of their officers. Congratulations to city employee Tom Herbster who completed two years as the Community Council president. Tom exemplifies volunteerism in the City of North Olmsted. 6) He is currently serving on jury duty. Finance Director Copfer: 1) Along with Personnel Director Farver, she met with the Bureau of Workers' Compensation representative regarding changing the way the city pays workers' compensation premiums, from a premium based on payroll dollazs to a retrospective premium base. Retrospective premium base is about the closest thing municipalities can get to aself-insured program as legally possible under the State of Ohio. The city has a good history with managing its workers' comp claims and offering transitional work jobs. If our history is any predictor on future claims experience, and 3