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Council Minutes of 1Z/Z/2003 band from North Olmsted High School and a choir from the high school will entertain. There will be refreshments served. Everyone is invited to attend. Law Director Dubelko: 1) Negotiations for fire fighters, police officers, correction officers, dispatch and bus line employees are in full swing and have taken up most of his time for the past two weeks. 2) On November 20, he attended a meeting in Rocky River Municipal Court regarding the state's new traffic code that goes into effect on January 1. The Mayor and the Finance Director were there as well as the City Prosecutor. Consistent with this change in state law, he has already recommended to Council, and Council has appropriated the funds to do a limited recodification of our local traffic code by January to reflect these state law changes. There was some discussion at this meeting at the court as to whether the member cities will in a wholesale fashion incorporate all of the state law changes, or incorporate most of them and retain some differences in their local codes. The Law Department is studying that issue and will make recommendations to Council prior to the time that Council acts legislatively upon the recodification. 3) On November 24, he received correspondence from Gary Ebert, Bay Village's Law Director and counsel for the Westshore Council of Governments. COG is currernly studying a proposal to build and implement a regional fire dispatch system utilizing space at St. John Westshore Hospital. Mr. Ebert asked that all of the surrounding law directors review an RFP document which had been prepared by COG's consultant for the design/build of a dispatch cerrter at the hospital and then comment upon the same. He will be responding to Law Director Ebert and will essernially note to him that, subject to approval of the North Olmsted City Council, the City of North Olmsted, if it chooses, may legally participate in the project. This issue is not presently before the City Council. 4) On November 24, he served as a judge in Council President O'Grady's middle school classroom. His students were re-creating the famous Boston massacre trial in which five Colonials were killed by British soldiers. As always, he appreciates Council President O'Grady's invitations to bring members of the city government into his classroom to assist in the educational process. 5) On November 24, he received a memo from Assistant Law Director O'Malley advising that the city has collected $7,500 of the amount it settled upon with Salim Suleiman arising out of a traffic accident and damage to city property. This settlement was approved by Ordinance 2003-113, The amount we have received thus far is from the insurance company, and it represents the policy limits. There is still a balance due from the defendant, which must be collected, if at all, directly from him. The Law Department will monitor this situation. 6) On November 26, along with the FOP's representative, afact-finder was chosen for the police collective bargaining negotiations. He received a notice of this appointment of the fact-finder today. It should be noted, as a result of amended Substitute HB 95 effective June 27, 2003, SERB no longer pays any portion of the fact-finding and the parties now have to bear the entire cost. Perhaps once again the state is moving in the direction of solving its own financial difficulties by increasing our financial difficulties. 7) Today he received notice from IMI,A, the Irnernational Municipal Lawyers Association, that the United State Supreme Court had decided two cases that have implications for municipal corporations, One is an ADA decision, the other is a Fourth 2