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Council Minutes of 10/7/2003 ~: 10) The Safety Department is receiving, reviewing and logging all property maintenance ' complaints. 11) A Building Inspector has been hired, Mr. Kenneth Midgley. He will begin work on Monday, October 13. Mr. Midgley will have 50% of his activity devoted to the exterior property maintenance inspections. In answer to a question by Councilman Nashar, Mayor Musial said the Metropazks will do their portion of the Bradley Road project as soon as practicable, weather permitting, the first part of next year. With regard to a question from Councilman Gazeau, Mayor Musial stated that the Metropazks recently purchased a long rectangular piece of land fronting on Lorain Road which goes all the way back to the park. They plan to install a path from Lorain Road to the pazk. Councilman Gazeau asked, as part of the crack sealing project, that the city give consideration to our own pazking lots and driveways at City Hall and the Recreation Center which do need maintenance. Mayor Musial said he would look into the cost. Finance Director Copfer said she would caution that the funding source for the crack sealing project is a street maintenance fund. So, those funds could not be used. Funds from the General Fund and the Recreation Fund would have to be used. Law Director Dubelko: 1) He has spoken with the Data Processing Commissioner regarding increasing the frequency of announcing special meetings of Council on the government access cable channel. He found that the Mayor had akeady spoken with her and had implemented an increase in the frequency of the announcement. It rotates every three minutes. Hopefully, the new system that was introduced by Council member Miller to do both the websites and the government channel is going to result in more word getting out of special Council meetings and meetings of other boards and commissions of the city. 2) On September 23, he attended a Board of Control meeting where several change orders related to the new library project were discussed. 3) On September 30, he provided legal advice to the Mayor on the subject of whether, from a compatibility of office perspective, one individual could serve on more than one city board or commission. 4) On October 2, he met with Council member Kasler and resident Jim Kennedy to discuss the Law Department's role in real property maintenance enforcement. There was some discussion about possible legislation to be introduced involving the Law Department becoming involved earlier in the enforcement process. 5) On October 3, he met with city representatives and representatives of Cold Harbor, a contractor on the new library project, regazding a claim of Cold Harbor that delays in original time schedule for the library construction have caused damages to the contractor. Those are on-going discussions. 6) October 3 through October 6, he spent a considerable number of hours reviewing the fire fighter collective bargaining agreement, conducting research and assembling management proposals in anticipation of collective bazgaining with IAFF Local 1267. The management team last met on October 6. The first bazgaining session with the union is scheduled for tomorrow afternoon. 5