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Council Minutes of IO/1/2002 .,„ 6) September 26, he attended a director's meeting at City hall regarding looking at the budget issues for the year 2003. 7) September 27, he attended a health care committee meeting that was put on by the city's personnel director and attended by representatives from most of the city's unions. It was a good labor/management step. 8) On September 27, he provided legal advice to the Police Chief regarding applicability of state law addressing transfers of accumulated vacation leave earned by municipal employees from state agencies to a municipal employer. The law essentially indicates, for employees that are hired after 1987, the city cannot accept transfers of accumulated vacation leave. 9) On September 30, he provided working documents to the Building official and to Councilman Gareau regarding proposed changes to Ordinance Nos. 99-77 and 99-79. These are the very old pending lighting ordinances. This is good legislation far the City of North Olmsted. He had located same model code provisions and had submitted them to the Building official who had reviewed them and believed that a certain number of them could be useful and helpful in the City of North Olmsted in controlling lighting nuisance. Those provisions have been incorporated irrto Ordinances 99-77 and 99-79 and have been sent to the Building official and Councilman Gareau for review. Hopefully, in the not too far future we will have that legislation on the books. Councilman Gareau suggested that the lighting ordinances be taken back into the BZD Committee for discussion. BZD Chairperson Nashar agreed to do so. Finance Director Copfer: 1) She also attended the live burns of the homes on Butternut Ridge Road and was amazed at how quickly a house becomes engulfed in fire. It was interesting to note that the only items still standing at the end of the day were the brick mantel and chimney. 2) On September 18, she attended a municipal finance officers association meeting where the State Issue 2 division representative was present and gave an overview and history of the program-how it is funded and what projects are covered and by what percentages. She was able to bring some of those to the committee meeting, so it was helpful. 3) She attended the first health care committee meeting under the new personnel director's tenure on September 26 where the broker and Medical Mutual represenatives were on hand to give presentations. Also, various benefit questions were addressed. 4) The fire apparatus and equipmerrt bond anticipation notes to replace the notes that are coming due on November 18 of this year are on first reading tonight. The notes are for a lesser amount as 5100,000 is being paid down from the HoteUMotel funds. 5) She and acting Fire Chief Klecan met with Great Lakes Billing to ensure that there is a smooth transition in tracking our new EMS receipts so that there will be a good accounting of what impact the residents and people who work within the city have added to it. 6} Council is urged to read an article in the September 20 Ohio Municipal League legislative bulletin entitled "Municipal Budget Numbers Worse in the Decade." Fifty- five percent of the cities in the survey were not as able to meet their community's financial needs in 2002 as 2001, and 67% of the cities expect 2003 to be worse. By '~` region, the Midwest was significantly worse. The article also discussed the depletion of 4