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Council Minutes of 8/20/2002 for said purchase subject to approval by the Board of Control. It is cheaper to buy the salt in the spring and the summer months. The committee recommended approval. ^ Resolution 2002-120, a resolution authorizing the Director of the Department of Human Resources for and on behalf of the City of North Olmsted to apply to the Western Reserve Area Agency on Aging for funds from the said agency for city programs under Title III of the Older Americans Act of 1965 which provide funding for transportation, nutrition and support programs and partial funding for supplementary programs. The committee supports the senior programs and recommended approval. 2) The Finance Committee met again on Monday, August 19. Present were committee members Kasler, Limpert and McKay; President of Council O'Grady and Councilpersons Dailey, Gareau, Miller, Nashar; Mayor Musial, Law Director Dubelko, Finance Director Copfer and Engineer Deichmann and 28 citizens. Discussed were the questions unanswered from the August 13 meeting: ^ The Mayor's administrative assistant and the secretary's job description were provided to Council. Councilperson Kasler proposed to cut the Mayor's office appropriation $30,000 for next year. ^ The Mayor stag one person would be laid offthis year and one person transferred to the Wastewater Treatment Plant. The head mechanic will continue to manage fleet maintenance. The money for a new Service Director will serve to provide for the Service Department secretary for the remainder of the year. The Service Director position should be filled in a matter of eight weeks. Through attrition, the sewer rate increase should not happen unti12004. ^ The Personnel Department Secretary II position was filled due to the volume of work necessary to operate the department. ^ Outsourcing of the Data Processing was cost prohibitive and should be done as a last resort. ^ Duties being cut for the auxiliary police are traffic direction at churches on Sunday's, development patrols and the monthly meetings of the unit will be reduced to every other month. ^ On the school guard issue, the posts that were eliminated were Dover and Lorain; Sparky and Lorain; Butternut and Burns; Porter and Lorain, 2 positions; Country Club and Victoria; Sweetbriar at Pine; McKenzie and Southern. ^ The economy will determine the replacement of the dispatcher next year. ^ Council was provided with the fire hydrant flushing program. ^ Council was provided a list of vehicles used by the administration. ^ The economic development coordinator will not be paid on an hourly basis at this time. ^ The reduction in the forestry line item does not affect the wages; therefore, the chipping program will not be reduced. 5