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Council Minutes of 11/5/2003 of him and behind him. Mr. Driscoll agreed there was a problem and barrel management needs to be worked on. Law Director Dubelko: 1) Congratulations to the members of Council who have been re- elected. They are soon to become long-termers on the North Olmsted election cycle, and the rest of the elected officials now become the short-termers. Hopefully, everyone will work together and get good things accomplished for the city in the next two yeazs. 2) He attended a lot of meetings over the last two weeks, most of which were related to collective bargaining. He has put about 40 hours of collective bazgaining work onto his schedule the last several weeks. 3) A lawsuit was filed and served on the city on October 27: Erin McCoy vs. the City of North Olmsted. It was filed in Common Pleas Court and assigned to Judge Ann Mannen. This involves an alleged incident at Great Northern Mall between some minors and some members of the Folice Department. Our insurance company has been put on notice, and they aze providing a defense. Finance Director Copfer: 1) Thank you to all who sacrificed and ran for public office in our community. It's not easy putting yourself up to public scrutiny. It's not easy having a full-time job and families while trying to run a campaign. Thank you for caring about the community enough to sacrifice yourself. It's almost a shame that there has to be winners and losers, but alas that is life. Hopefully, they all will continue to find public service as rewarding as they had hoped, and she looks forward to working with them. 2) She received the estimated Schedule A, which is the assessed valuation. The reappraisal, which is a triennial appraisal, to be collected in 2004 went up $40,897,000, which is a 5% increase in the assessed valuation, That equates to $384,000 increase in collections for the city as a whole for property taxes in 2004 over 2003, and $200,000 for the General Fund. 3) Before Council tonight on first reading is the setting of the tax rates ordinance. The general fund is at 6.9 mills, which in the past has been at 7 mills. The other .1 mill went into the general obligation bond retirement fund to cover debt service which is required first. The sewer levy is at .5 mills. There is one more year on that, and it was at .7 mills for the collection that was received in 2003. All the other funds remain the same for a total of 12.5 mills that the city is assessing for taxes versus the 12.7 mills in previous years. 4) The October income tax revenues, which when comparing to the prior year are September's collections, declined from over 2% above last yeaz, to 1.2% above last yeaz. It's approximately 1% over the 2003 plan. It's still holding strong. The withholding section is more than offsetting the decline in the net profits azea of income tax. Councilman McKay, chairperson of the Finance Committee: 1) The Finance Committee met on Tuesday, October 23. Present were all Council members, the Mayor, Law Director, Finance Director, NOMBL manager and City Engineer. The following items were discussed: ^ Resolution 2003-147, a resolution authorizing the Mayor to enter into a contract with the Cuyahoga County General Health District for the year 2004. The City of North