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Council Minutes of 11/19/20(12 Councilman Miller, chairperson of the Intra-Governmental Relations and Legislation; Long-Range Planning Committee: 1) The committee met on November 12 to discuss Ordinance 2002-172. In attendance were committee members Kasler and Miller and Law Director Dubelko Ordinance 2002-172 authorizes the Mayor to accept conveyance of fee simple of certain real property and record same, to then enter deed restrictions upon to run with the development land and then to reconvey the title to Fairview Office Associates, LLC and declaring an emergency. The property is located between Brookpark and I-480 at Clague Road and is being developed with office sites on the Fairview property and North Olmsted is getting the parking lot. The purpose of the deed change was to protect the city's interest in access from Clague Road, the ratio of parking to green space and the maintenance of landscaping and sidewalks on the site. Thanks to a well-written memorandum from the Law Department, there was minimal discussion because it was well explained in the memorandum. The committee recommended approval unanimously. Mr. Miller remarked that he does look forward to the city being in better financial shape so that the position of a planning director can be funded. He is frustrated by this situation where Fairview Park gets the high tax paying office space and North Olmsted gets the parking lot. Councilman Gateau noted that, not only is North Olmsted getting the parking lot, but there is someone interested in putting up a cell tower on the land. Councilman McKay noted that North Olmsted is also getting the retention system for the project. AUDIENCE PARTICIPATION Dentis Lambert, 25057 Carey Lane. He is disturbed about the pending layoffs of city employees. Rhetoric, pandering and finger-pointing are not going to resolve the problem. No one's job is secure. The bottom line is that a lot that should have been done hasn't been done. On Council's part, he has brought to attention through administrations the need of Council to do homework when it passes budgets. He considers it to be a serious issue when positions are abolished. This community delivers 90% of its effort toward safety and security of community and the services it delivers. The other 10% are administrative functions to comply with state and federal governments. The primary job of the community is to dispense services and guarantee a safe, secure environment for residents. A community needs dollars to do that. He has addressed the issue of needing to raise dollars-and not from the taxpayers' pockets but through good planning, zoning and development. When the issue of a Service Director was being considered, he met with the Mayor and gave him a list of guidelines he thought the new Service Director should have: A Service Director should have a good working understanding of organized labor; ability to understand collective bargaining and what is involved; good at marketing because this job would fold nicely into legislation regarding economic development for the community and a director for that; and salesmanship as far as bringing forth new taxpaying entities to the community. He doesn't know if the current Service Director fills that bill ar not. This is a serious issue. He is dismayed it got to this point and is hoping that Council wilt do what it is supposed to do in the next budgetary hearings to find out really where the dollars are and talk to the people that really run the city. Council should stand on their ground as far as where they want the dollars to be allocated and let the Mayor Live by those. The administration needs to move forward. He has a 12