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Council Minutes of 6/18/2002 additional commitment to the City of North Olmsted, a $10 million bus garage to be built in the industrial parkway and which will house up to 60 buses indoors. This project is planned for ZOOS-2006. 2) The Northern Ohio Golf Association has commenced building their administration building and museum on the North Olmsted Golf Course. The foundation is in and it is proceeding quite nicely. 3) He is pleased to announce that it does look like the Springvale Golf Course will be open on August L 4) Everyone is invited to attend the annual Fourth of July bike decorating contest, parade and picnic. S) A very successful employee appreciation day picnic was held on Friday, June 14. He would like to recognize Safety Director Lisa Thomas who organized the event quite well. There was a committee of approximately 1 S people representing nearly all the departments. They gathered door prizes which were awarded to lucky individuals. About 1 SO people attended the picnic. Because of donations, the net cost of the picnic was only $12. Lisa Thomas deserves a round of applause! 6} An update on the library is as follows: The proposed elevation drawing was in existence since before the vote of the library November 2000 and was first shown to the public in the city tent during Homecoming of August 2000. The monies for the library project were borrowed in late 2000, early 2001. In December of 2000, Council passed legislation authorizing the Mayor to enter into an agreement with the Cuyahoga County Library Board of Trustees, which was signed by both parties on December 19, 2000. Almost immediately, a dialogue ensued between legal counsel for the library trustees and legal counsel for the city as to questions involving using a general contractor or a construction manager with multiple primes. The issue was resolved in early 2002 by an agreement of going out to bid bath ways;. a single bid utilizing. a ,general contractor and simultaneously using a construction manager and going out with multiple prime bids. Negotiation early 2001 commenced to purchase the properties, with the four Butternut Ridge property purchases being consummated in March of 2001. The approximate purchase prices were: Canepa property for $240,000; Dyer property for $98,000; Davis property for $122,500; Dunphy property for $2fi0,000. Also, the James Lumber property was purchased in August of 2001 far $1,4 million, and the abandoned gas station property was purchased in November of 2001 for of $475,000. Council authorized the Mayor to sign a contract with Spice Costantino Architects in April 2001, and the formal contract was entered into on February 8, 2002. The contract with the construction manager, H. R Gray, Inc., was entered into on April 11, 2002. The matrix of approvals and responsibilities between the architect, City of North Olmsted, H. R. Cray, Inc. and library board of trustees was generally finalized per letter from Joyce Dodrill, County Prosecutor and legal counsel for the library board of trustees, on April 11, 2002 and confirmed at a meeting held on May 8, 2002 of all the parties. A press release was sent out on April 18, 2002 inviting residents, all of Council and members of boards and commissions to attend the presentation on May 6, 2002 by the architect and the library regarding information and asking for input and comments. Besides each member of Council being invited, members of the boards and commissions being individually invited included the Board of Zoning Appeals, Architectural Review Board, Board of Building Code Appeals, Cultural Arts Commission, Planning Commission and the 2 ..