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Council Minutes of 4/2/2002 5 days of sick leave for Officer Rayner who will be returning to duty very shortly. The motion was seconded by Councilman Miller and passed unanimously. • An incident which occurred at the Recreation Center on March 9 related to the use of the defibrillator. The Safety Department explained that a man entered the Rec Center, had what appeared to be a cardiac incident and the EMS squad was dispatched and arrived within two to throe minutes. Unfortunately, the gentleman passed away. However, there was an issue on an electronic defibrillator which is present at the facility, but was either not accessible or unable to be accessed by the staff at that time. The is~e before Council, however, is a concern about the policy and training regarding this equipment and ensuring that the equipment is not only accessible but that all employees are properly trained. The committee was assured by the administration that all part-time and full-time employees will receive training (if they have not already received training) in regard to this defibrillator, the use, the accessibility, the availability, the location of the defibrillators at both Springvale and the Rec Center. Notices have been provided to all employees to that effect. Also, there will be a glass cabinet purchased, similar to what is available for fire extinguishers, where that can be broken and that then is easily accessible for use. Council has suggested that this same type of glass case be considered for the other facilities that have defibrillators. Mr. Miller made an additional request for a logo or sign that designates what the equipment is used for-something that can be quickly seen by anyone in the building, whether it be an employee or member of the public- so that it is easily and universally recognized as a defibrillator location so that they can also be of assistance should that be necessary. Special accommodations or considerations will need to be made with regard to the Senior Center since that is attached to the Community Cabin and there is a differemial in hows. A further suggestion was made that all employees take advantage of the CPR training that is offered by our Fire Department. The question of liability on the part of the city was presented to the Law Department for their review. • Ordinance 2002-41, which is an ordinance amending Section 533.07 of the General Offenses Code in order to maximize the possible penalties for the offense of public indecency. This was recommended by Councilman Gareau and it in effect removes the requirement that a person be convicted of multiple offenses before the punishment arises to a first degree misdemeanor. The legislation will raise it to a first degree misdemeanor on the first offense, and the committee believes that the first offense is the most serious. The committee recommended approval of Ordinance 2002-41 unanimously. • Ordinance 2002-42, an ordinance amending Section 533.05 of the General Offenses Code to define the offense of importuning in gender neutral terms. Simply stated, the ordinance was changed so that it is gender neutral in effect within the wording of the ordinance. Law Director Dubellco noted that he had suggested that the committee proceed slowly on this and not pass it in a knee jerk reaction. After the committee meeting, he took a look at the definition of importuning to see if it had any particular meaning, and it really simply means making a request persistently and in an obnoxious manner, to continue on and on and on. The case that brought the proposed change in this ordinance about was the Cleveland vs. Iv~estros case, which Councilman Gareau brought to the attetrtion of Council. In the Maestros case, Judge 7