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Council Minutes of 5!8lZ002 ~, to discuss various issues: (1) Updating and advising on the status of the geotechnical and site survey data RFP's and Council approval thereof. (2) Review of official project schedule. (3) Discussion on the sanitary sewer system and storm drainage system adjacent to the library site. (4) Review of the existing North Olmsted storm drainage ordinance and the city's preliminary estimate for sizing the construction costs for the storm drainage system for the new library. (5) Review of the azchitects schematic documents. (6) A discussion of concerns of the library matrix and construction design process. The administration has been working with Spice, Constantino Architects, the construction manager H. R. Gray, and representatives of the library in establishing a timeline for the construction of the library. This timeline is scheduled to be finalized by the end of May and plans are to have it posted in Council's caucus room so that everyone will have an opportunity to see how the library is progressing. The scheduled completion date for the library is February 2004. Law Director Dubelko: 1) On April 26, the Law Department filed the appropriation action authorized by Council with respect to the proposed public roadway for the proposed RTA Pazk-n-Ride. Notice was received from Probate Court that a hearing has been set for May 22 before Judge John E. Corrigan on the city's motion for a quick take. 2) The Law Departmem is a bit closer to being completed. The law library is being assembled and is almost complete. Council members are welcome to stop by to see it. Also, he has been conducting interviews for a city law clerk who will work 35 hours per week and part time thereafter during the school year. Hopefully, someone will be hired before June 1, which will complete the staffing of the city Law Department. 3) The legal work for the proposed termination of the EPA consent decree is almost complete. The city has negotiated down the fines that were to be paid to the U. S. EPA and Ohio EPA. Those checks have been cut by the Finance Department and have been submitted to the city's special legal counsel. Today he was informed that the unopposed motion to terminate the consent decree was filed with the district court. Within the next several weeks, the court wilt review the motion and presumably approve it. He will keep Council informed on the status of the court approval. This is almost the culmination of a lot of good work by several people in the city administration over the last several years. He would give a lot of credit to former Law Director Michael Gareau who did a great deal of work on this and equally to Dennis Long who is the city's current environmental engineer. Because of his background with the federal government side of the issue and his background of engineering, he did an excellent job of putting the city in the position to resolve this matter. 5) The third fire fighter arbitration has been decided in favor of the city. This grievance and arbitration involved a claim as to whether the city should pay overtime for lunch periods to fire fighters who are on 8-hour training days away from the fire station. The arbitrator concluded that the city was not required to pay them overtime compensation under the Fair Labor Standards Act nor under the express terms of the collective bargaining agreement. 6) Adding to the Mayor's report with respect to the master contract form process that is being reviewed, the conract forms are being standardized. The first one that has been standardized is the professional services form. The direction that he is trying to advise the city to move in is to standardize the process of awarding these professional service ~- 2 r~ ., ~.~,k,.....,.~...~q,. ~,,~,,...,w,~,~ .... .