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Council Minutes of 12/16/2003 Council takes on currently since the last time the various committees were named and arranged. (The complete changes have been presented to Council and copies are available to the public in the Council Chambers.) The new committees will be as follows: Finance Committee; Environmental Control Committee; Intra-Governmental Relations Committee, eliminating the terms "and Legislation; Long-Range Planning"; Streets and Transportation Committee, eliminating the word "Drainage"; Building, Zoning and Development Committee; Public Safety, Health & Welfaze Committee; Recreation, Public Pazks and Buildings Committee. The Transportation Committee has been eliminated and will be a part of Streets & Transportation Committee. All members of the committee and Council members who were present discussed the various committees and how they would relate to each other. Collective bargaining and various financial arrangements, including but not limited to borrowing, will come under the Finance Committee. Street lighting will come under the Streets & Transportation Committee and traffic control devices and signalization will now come under Public Safety, Health & Welfaze Committee. After discussion, the committee recommended approval of all the proposed changes to Rule 13 as presented in written form. Councilman Miller moved that Council approve the changes to Rules of Council No. 13. The motion was seconded by Councilman Gazeau. Councilwoman Kasler thanked Councilman Gazeau for doing the lion's share of the work on this project. It has been a very good effort of working together for everyone. Roll call: Miller, yes; Gareau, yes; Dailey, yes; Kasler, yes; Limpert, yes; McKay, yes; Nashaz, yes. The motion passed unanimously. Councilman Dailey, chairperson of the Transportation Committee: 1) The committee met on Tuesday, December 9, to discuss Ordinance 2003-175, an ordinance authorizing the Director of Public Safety to purchase six (6) new Crown Victoria Interceptor Cruisers and related police equipment for the North Olmsted Police Department through the state purchase program, further authorizing the Mayor to execute all necessary contract documents and declazing an emergency. In attendance were committee members Dailey, McKay and Miller as well as all other members of Council, Finance Director Copfer and Law Director Dubelko. Discussion centered azound replacing the vehicles. Currently, the vehicles have over 100,000 hard miles on them as well as the fact that two vehicles have been totaled out during the last year due to collisions. Seeing the need for these new vehicles, the committee voted unanimously to pass Ordinance 2003-175. AUDIENCE PARTICIPATION Dennis Lambert, 25057 Carey Lane, is very happy that the Council of Governments has formed a group to overview water rates. He expressed concern that the City of Cleveland is planning to transfer laid-off employees to the Water Department. This may be an attempt by Cleveland to balance their budget by transferring the cost of salaries to the suburbs in the way of higher water rates. The Council of Governments will be a good place to begin to oversee what is happening with water rates-we need to be vigilant. 7