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Coancil Minutes of 4/16/2002 Mayor Musial, Service Director Thomas, City Engineer Deichmann, Council members Kesler, McKay and Gareau. Resolution 2002-50 would allow the administration to go out for bids for water main cleaning, repairing and relining as well as other improvemeirts in the area of Summerland, Virginia, MacBeth and Esther Avenues. Significant grant dollars are involved. There have been many previous discussions about these projects, and the committee unanimously recommended to approve. Councilwoman Kesler, chairperson of the Public Safety, Health & Welfare Committee: 1) The Safety Committee met on Apri19. Present were ail the committee members, the Safety Director, the Mayor and several guests. The committee discussed Ordinance 2002-52, which is an ordinance that amends Section 3 S 1.04 and 3 51.20 of the Traffic Code in order to remove from Chapter 351 duplicative provisions relating to handicapped parking violations. The ordinance and the discussion concerned making consistent Ordinance 2001-127 with any changes that had been made to those previous sections. The committee recommended approval unanimously. 2) On behalf of the "Burger Boys," she announced that they were holding a celebrity bartending fund-raiser on April 28 at Dave and Jerry's to benefit the American Cancer Society Family Camp. She has had an opportunity to work with Mr. Miklosovic at one other occasion for this particular group, and it is a truly worthy cause. 3) Adding to the Law Director's comments with regard to the mock trial they had participated in, she would like to commend the DARE program and Officer Adamson specifically for the wonderful and professional job that he does. She further commends him on his rapport with the fifth grade students, .and she believes that is really the basis of the program. If they remember Officer A one time in their life, it may be the one time that it's most necessary and it may keep them on the straight and narrow and away from drugs. The students did a great job at this event and were very well prepared. Officer Adamson does a wonderful job. Councilman Miller, chairperson of the Intro-Governmental Relations and Legislation; Long-Range Planning Committee: 1) The committee met on Tuesday, April 9, and in attendance were committee members Miller and Gareau and Law Director Dubelko. (Committee member Kesler was ill and had left earlier.) Agenda items were as follows: • Ordinance 2002-42, an ordinance amending Sections 533.05 of the General Offenses Code to define the offense of importuning in gender neutral terms. At the request of the ordinance's sponsor, Mr. Gareau, and at the suggestion of the Law Director, the committee unanimously agreed to hold this ordinance in committee pending the Ohio Supreme Court's decision in a related case, State v. Thompson. • Ordinance 2002-41, an ordinance amending Section 533.07 of the General Offenses Code in order to maximize the passible penalties for the offense of public indecency. Issues discussed included the topic of discretionary powers the police would have in citing under the state code versus city ordinances, whether a first time offense should be first degree misdemeanor or something less, and whether a person convicted of exposing oneself, as in a flasher, should be convicted of a greater offense than one was convicted of public urination„ as on a golf course behind a tree etc. The committee asked the Law Departmem to review this issue and see if a muhi-tiered 6 . ~.,~~..:.. .. w,. .