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Council Minutes of 8/6/2002 Inswance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPA), pending and passed state legislation of interest to municipalities, updates an Section 1983 law, public records law and current topics panel discussions. If any member of Council has any interest in any of these areas, he would be happy to provide the information. ^ July 16, a civil action was brought against the city by Southeast Golf Car Company, challenging the city's decision to competitively bid the golf car rental agreemern. The city had awazded the contract, pwsuant to authorization by Council, to the lowest bidder. Southeast was the second low bidder. He prepazed a brief in opposition to Southeast's motion for temporary injunctive relief. The matter was heard on the same day, which is often the case in actions seeking injunctive relief, and actually was settled on that day also when the low bidder (there were only two bidders on the contract) decided that it did not wish to be involved in litigation and withdrew its bid rather than engage in litigation. The city Board of Control subsequently met, permitted the low bidder to withdraw and awazded the contract to the second low bidder, Southeast Golf Car Company, who delivered the golf cars on time for Springvale's opening on August 1. ^ On July 16, and subsequently on July 30, he attended two work sessions of the Planning Commission regazding the rezoning of Pazcel E. At the conclusion of the July 30 session, Planning Commission unanimously voted to initiate two ordinances, one rezoning Pazcel E to Mixed Use D Use and the other making changes to the regulations for that district to provide more flexibility for mixed use development and also to protect the adjoining neighborhoods from adverse impacts of development. Council members McKay and Nashaz are sponsoring ordinances on these two matters which will be on first reading tonight. ^ On July 17, he attended the first of many July and August meetings with city administrative officials concerning the city's 2002 budget crisis. Other meetings were held on July 18, 22, 24, 25, 26, 29, 30, 31 and August 1. It should be noted that the director's team spent almost 12 hours alone on July 26 assembling recommendations to increase revenues and reduce expenditures for the city. ^ On July 18, the U. S. Wallcovering sign finally came down. This was the result of a lot of hard work and persistence on the part of the Law Department and Building Department. Special credit for this should go to Bryan O'Malley, Assistant Law Director, and to Dave Peltz from the Building Department ^ July 22, he prepazed a response to a letter from the Friends of the Library criticizing the city's alleged delays in construction of the new library. ^ July 23, he completed a memorandum to the Personnel Director regarding application of fair labor standazds regulations on the subject of compensatory time off for city non-bargaining employees. ^ July 23, he prepazed for and attended, along with the Finance Director and other administrative officials, a firefighter mediation session which lasted all day. ^ August 2, he had a meeting with both judges of Rocky River Municipal Court and the magistrates of that court on the subject of Rocky River Court operations as they affect the City of North Olmsted. ^ On August 5, Assistant Law Director O'Malley azgued the case of North Olmsted versus Terrence Reagan in the Court of Appeals. 3