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Couaci! Minutes of 4/2/2002 cell phones that they have in their possession in the event assistance is required. Lastly, ,~ over 10,000 flyers have been printed. The community policing officers are distributing them to all of the major gocery stores in the area with the intent of placing a flyer in a grocery bag to better inform the citizens of North Olmsted. Hopefully, we should be very well prepared for April 8. Law Director Dubelko: 1) He has been continuing to meet with representatives of the RTA regarding the agreement between the city and RTA to reimburse the city for any costs it expends in conjunction with the city's cooperative efforts in the Park-n-Ride facility. The ordinance approving that agreement will be an for final reading on April 16, and by that time we should have an agreement that is satisfactory to the city Law Department and the RTA Law Depaitrnent. 2) He has been diligently working on ordinances relating to parking violations, including handicapped parking violations. A lot of the work has been generated by concepts that he had with respect to improving Chapter 351 of the Traffic Code, and a lot by various other city officials who have weighed in on proposed changes. Most recently, he received input from Chief Ruple and from Building Commissioner Conway. His irnent, from the Law Department's perspective is that, when the legislative dust settles on all these ordinances, Section 351 will have the provisions prohibiting parking violations, and particularly handicapped parking violations, in proper form reflecting the process that the Police Department utilizes in serving parking tickets. Secondly, the provisions that are still in Section 351 relating to Zoning Code matters will be placed in the Zoning Code or Building Code so that the city's Planning Commission and BZA can apply these provisions in performing their duties relating to Zoning Code enforcement with new developmerns. 3) He also attended the All Nations event at the high school on March 26. It was a very moving event, particularly to someone like him who had two grandparents who went through the naturalization process. He would like to commend Paul Barker and Bob Klabunde on the awards that they received that day. He has gotten to know Paul very well over the last year, and he certainly represents what citizen participation in the democratic process is ail about. 4) Our City Prosecutor, Dan Ryan, is doing an excellent job of taking on his responsibilities as the City Prosecutor. He is very computer literate, and he would like to do something to improve the computerized coordination between Rocky River Municipal Court and the Police Depamnern so that he can better track all cases on the docket. Hopefully, with some cooperation on the court's part and on the Police Deparlment's part, we will have a better computerized docket in the future. 5} Assistant Law Director O'Malley has prepared several legal memoranda for both the Planning Commission and the BZA attempting to better acquaint each body with new developmerns in zoning and planning law to help them better understand and perform their duties relating to new developments in the city. He has reviewed the memoranda prepared by Mr. O'Malley, and believes they will be very helpful to each of these importarn city boards. 6) Council Rule 49 requires that the Law Director provide an opinion an all ordira~;nces imposing fines, penahies, forfeiture or imprisanmern. In this connection, he would like to thank Council and the Safety Committee for giving him the opportunity to weigh in on 3