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Council Minutes of 11/19/2002 ^ Ordinance 2002-164 and Ordinance 2002-177. Ordinance 2002-164 amends Section 171.07 of Chapter 171 of the Administrative Code of the City of North Olmsted entitled "Secretary to Housing Council/Tax Incentive Review Council" in order to provide better accounting for services rendered to the city and for compensation received by the employee holding the position and declaring an emergency. Ordinance 2002-177 sets the rate of pay for that position. Ordinance 2002-177 requires the secretary of the Housing CounciUTax Incentive Review Committee to be paid on an hourly basis and otherwise re-establishing the rates of compensation for various administrative and legislative personnel and declaring an emergency. Ordinance 2002-164 requires that the s~retary of the Housing CounciUTax Incentive Review Committee keep time sheets as to (1) the project worked on; (2) the amount of time spent on the project; (3) a brief description of the project. Ordinance 2002- 177 sets the hourly rate for the secretary with the starting rate at $14.18 per how. In 2003, the top of the range shall reach $18.22 per how. The committee recommended approval on both ordinances by a vote of 2 for and 1 against. ^ Resolution 2002-165, a resolution authorizing the Mayor and the Director of Finance to compensate Lisa Thomas, former Director of Public Safety, for 99.5 hows of accumulated and unused compensatory time on a moral claim basis and declaring an emergency, It was discussed that the city does not have acity-wide policy of compensating for compensatory time. Due to the financial conditions of the city, the committee recommended not to approve. ^ Resolution 2002-168, a resoh~tion authorizing the Mayor of the City of North Olmsted to enter into a settlement agreement with Ed Bak, retired Fire Chief of the City of North Olmsted. The agreement will discharge all claims and liabilities between both parties. The committee recommended approval. ^ Resolution 2002-169, a resolution authorizing the Mayor of the City of North Olmsted to enter into three agreements with the SBC Ameritech for 60-month terms in order to provide data line services currently used by the Police Department, North Olmsted Municipal Bus Line and the Wastewater Treatment Plant at a reduced rate and declaring an emergency. If the city enters into this agreement for sixty months, terms of the data line services will become lower. The committee recommended approval and suspension of the rules. ^ Resolution 2002-173, a resolution authorizing the Mayor of the City of North Olmsted to enter into a network service Internet edition agreement with the Regional Income Tax Agency (RITA) providing for the city's Finance Department to have read-only access to the taxpayer history, and declaring an emergency. The Finance Director needs to be able to access records of taxpayers' history to provide information on a timely basis to solve problems and inquires. The committee recommended approval and suspension of the rules. Ordinance 2002-175, an ordinance creating new Section 131.01 of the Administrative Code entitled "Mayor's Contract Authority" in order to provide the Mayor with the limited authority to execute contracts involving expenditures of $5,000 or less without express Council authorization and declaring an emergency. The committee believes that the Mayor should be permitted to execute all contracts below $5,000. The committee recommended approval.