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Council Minutes of 3/5/02 ,r.~ affect the status of the current directors of Public Service, Public Safety and Human Resources who are each serving on an interim basis pursuant to appointments made by the Mayor under Ordinance 97-122. Notwithstanding the adoption of Ordinance 2002- 12, the said three directors shall each continue to serve as irrterim directors until the earliest of the following events occurs: (1) the one year anniversary of the date of his or her irnerim appoirnmern by the Mayor, whereupon he or she shad automatically become a permanent director; (2) his or her removal from office by the Mayor; (3) his or her appointment as a permanern director by the Mayor; (4) his or her resignation from office." Those four terms are consistent with Ordinance 97-122 as it existed. The amendment was put forth to clarify a potential issue. Since the appointmerns were already made, it seemed sensible to go ahead and offer that amendmern. The committee unanimously recommended the legislation as amended, and it will be passim at the next Council meeting. Councilman Gareau, chairperson of the Recreation, Public Parks and Buildings Committee: 1) Various capital improvements projects have been proposed for North Olmsted Park and are being considered by the Recreation Commission. The funds will come from borrowing which occurred last year which have been partially deplet~i with improvements from last year. It should be noted that the total anticipated cost of potential projects for this year vastly exceeds available funding. Nevertheless, there are several items being considered by the Recreation Commission: (1) Installation of certain toilet facilities and various electrical and lighting upgrades for various outdoor structures at the park. Due to its anticipated cost, this project is not feasible for this year. (2) Installing outdoor tennis courts on the west side of the park, north of the existing cut- through. (3) Installing outdoor basketball courts in the same vicinity as the tennis courts which would be built. Both the tennis and basketball courts are currently out of use, with the tennis courts having been closed several years ago and the basketball courts having been shut down because they were in a state of disrepair. (4) Installation of a shuffleboard court in the vicinity of the Senior Center. This project will be delayed until a decision is made as to the location of the future Senior Center. (5) Installation of replacement horseshoe pits, which would have to be relocated with the construction of the tennis and basketball courts. (6) A grind out, replacement and striping the current parking area, which would be a very expensive project. (7) Installation of atwo-phase, multi-purpose a~halt path circling the park. This would expand the existing path at the northern end of the park and create a loop. There is over a hundred thousand dollars left in the fund, so the choices are several but they are limited. Once a recommendation is made by the Recreation Commission, Council will be notified for final approval. Councilman Limpert, member of the Recreation Committee: i) The Recreation Committee met immediately following the Environmental Committee on February 26. Present were Mayor Musial, Law Director Dubelko, Recreation Commissioner Morgan, Council President O'Grady, committee members Limpert and Dailey and Council members Nashar, McKay, Kesler and Miller. The committee discussed Ordinance 2402-14, which expands the range of rates that can be charged by the Recreation Department. In the past, these types of ordinances were in place for many, many years and inflation then eroded what that revenue bought. This has hurt the ability to 7