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Council Minutes of 8/6/2002 However; there has been an amendment and the committee will reschedule to review ,;, the ordinance again. ^ Ordinance 2002-105, an ordinance establishing the Environmental Specialist position salary range as either afull-time or a part time position and otherwise re-establishing the rates of compensation for various administrative and legislative personnel. The position of the Environmenrtal Specialist has been determined to be a part-time position, and the ordinance will eliminate the position of the Environmental Engineer. Questions arose as to the parttime demand each week or the job requirement of 40 hours the same week or zero hours other weeks. The Law Director will reseazch the state law. It was suggested a rate of $32.75 per hour to be paid at this time. The committee will review the ordinance again after the August 6 Council meeting. Councilwoman Kasler, chairperson of the Public Safety, Health & Welfaze Committee: 1) A Public Safety Committee meeting was held this evening prior to the caucus meeting. Present were all of Council; the Directors of Safety, Finance and Human Resources; other city department heads; several guests. Discussed was a stock transfer request for Midland Food Services, Pizza Hut, located at 27845 Lorain. The Police Department, as always, was consulted and had expressed no objections. The committee unanimously decided not to object to the stock transfer for Pizza Hut. Councilwoman Kasler moved that Council have no objection to the stock transfer for Pizza Hut. The motion was seconded by Councilman Miller and passed unanimously. Councilman Miller, chairperson of the Intra-Governmental Relations and Legislation; Long-Range Planning Committee: 1) On Monday, June 24, the Intra-Governmental Relations and Legislation; Long-Range Planning Committee met to discuss several ordinances. In attendance were committee members Miller and Gareau. Ordinance 2002-99, an ordinance providing for the submission to the electors of the City of North Olmsted of an amendment to Article III of the Charter of the City of North Olmsted to authorize elected first-term mayors to make interim director appointments and declaring an emergency. Because this issue has been discussed extensively in the form of Ordinance 2002-20 and was previously recommended for passage by committee and passed by a majority of Council members under that ordinance number, the committee voted 2-0 to recommend passage of Ordinance 2002-99 with minor adjustments to reflect language that would affect future director positions not currently in existence. The Mayor could not attend the meeting but submitted a letter stating that his comments regazding this issue have not changed. Ordinance 2002-100, an ordinance providing for the submission to the electors of the City of North Olmsted of an amendment to Article III, Section 5(a) of the Charter of the City of North Olmsted in order to eliminate the Charter requirement that the Mayor obtain the concurrence of two-thirds of the members of Council prior to removing from office the Director of Public Service, the Director of Public Safety, Director of Human Resources, or the heads of any other city departments or divisions created by Charter and appointed by the Mayor and declaring an emergency. Councilman Limpert, a co-sponsor of this ordinance, explained that he believes it is ridiculous to have to require two-thirds of Council to approve an executive decision 6