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Council Minutes of 8/20/2002 :~ milled and repaved starting Monday, August 26, with completion slated for October 11. ~' The only roadway the contractor plans to use in North Olmsted is State Route 252, from Great Northern Boulevazd/Columbia Road from I-480 south into the Township. Councilman Miller asked the Mayor the status of the repaving project for Lorain Road. Mayor Musial said he cannot give a precise starting date, but it will be started this year and the city has received two grants. Law Director Dubelko: 1) During the past two weeks, much of his time was taken up attending numerous meetings concerning the current budget appropriation imbalance. He has attended meetings with the administration, with the AFSCME union officials and with the Finance Committee. 2) August 6, he met with other city administration officials and Horizon officials regazding the sub-lease of the facility operated by Horizon on Butternut Ridge Road, which is city-owned property. He is awaiting a proposed sub-lease from Horizon's attorney and there will be legislation coming to Council on that in the future. 3) August 9, he met with Councilwoman Cazolyn Kasler to discuss the mayor's court proposal that has been discussed among city officials. He is in the process of researching various legal issues associated with the potential creation of such a court for the City of North Olmsted. 4) August 9, he provided members of Council with a memorandum on the subject of full- time versus part-time municipal employment under federal, state and local law. 5) August 13, he attended a Boazd of Control meeting with other city directors and the Mayor regazding amendments to the library azchitect's contract, disposal of surplus city equipment and a change order for Springvale clubhouse which is nearing completion. 6) August 14, he provided Council with a memorandum on the subject of play streets. This issue was raised at the last Council meeting. The basic result on that was inadvertently the words "play street" were not deleted during a prior codification process because we no longer have a process of creating play streets in the City of North Olmsted. During the next codification process that will be technically corrected. 7) August 15, he met with Building Commissioner Dave Conway regazding three long- pending ordinances before Council. Two of them sponsored by Councilman Gareau relate to the subject of lighting nuisance. He plans to meet again with Mr. Conway and Mr. Gazeau to discuss these pending ordinances. 8) He met with Building Commissioner Conway regarding Ordinance 99-110, sponsored by Councilman Miller, which would establish a better process for acquiring information from contractors and sub-contractors relating to income tax obligations owed by their employees to the city. Finance Director Copfer: 1) The Auditor of State's office released the 2001 audit at the end of last week. No material weaknesses were noted, and limited management recommendations were made, which is a good improvement over the last five years. She is proud of that accomplishment. 2) Thank you to Council for their diligent efforts, attention and long meetings during the budget and appropriations discussions. She has been looking at these numbers for a long time, so she understands how overwhelming and intricate this process can be. She looks 2