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Council Minutes of 9/16/20(13 ,~,,,~ 6) With regard to the trash collection contract, bid documents should be prepared within a week. 7) At Springvale, the outing bookings for September and October are very strong. Golf sales aze on plan for September. The former Cleveland Brown Eddie Johnson Memorial Golf Outing which is hosted by Bernie Kosaz will be held at Springvale on September 19. 8) The Civil Service Commission is now preparing to move forward with the Fire Department Lieutenant rank testing. 9) The Recreation football program is going strong, and the department is making prepazations for proceeding with the bleacher installation at the indoor pool and the second phase of the security plan. 10) The Senior Center will be hosting its third annual spaghetti dinner this coming Friday. All proceeds benefit the Senior Center activities. 11) The second phase of the labor/management training class will be held tomorrow. This program was brought to our city and followed through by Personnel Director Cheryl Farver. The first session held eazlier this summer worked out extremely well. 12) The administration is working on three projects: nepotism policy for the city; use of city cazs by employees; possibility of fingerprinting of employees and contractor employees who aze responsible to the city via contract. Law Director Dubelko: 1) The grand jury has no bill on the Springvale investigation. This is without a question good news for the city. However, the County Prosecutor has written a letter to the State Auditor asking for an audit of Springvale. 2) Ordinance No. 2003-120, which was recently passed by City Council, has updated the methods for notifying the public of special meetings. The ordinance provided for updating through website announcements and community channel. It is probably better than the old method of publishing and posting. Regazding the cable channel, he plans to ask the Data Processing Commissioner if the information can be scrolled across the bottom of the screen for quicker access. 3) Regazding the sale of the old library building, he had originally talked about the possibility of placing the Law Department in that building. If there was a city government use for the entire building, that would be fine. But it appeazs that right now the present use would simply be to place the Law Department there with 1,500 squaze feet in a 11,000 square foot building. He understands that it may make more sense to authorize the sale of the property instead. He still expects that sometime, somewhere the Law Department will be located in City Hall or another city owned property. 4) Labor negotiations have not begun, but a management meeting was held on September 11 for the purpose of a general discussion of management proposals for the upcoming NOMBL and fire fighter contracts. The NOMBL contract had a July 31 termination date, but it has been extended to October 31. The fire fighter contract terminates in December. Under that contract, negotiations should start 90 days in advance. Presently, the first meeting is scheduled to take place the first week in October. 5) After realizing the management labor meeting had been inadvertently scheduled for September 1 1, he called Fire Chief Klecan and suggested the time/date could be changed. The Chief, true to fire fighter tradition, indicated that the Assistant Chief could preside over the 9/11 ceremony that date, and he would do his duty and attend the management meeting. That says something about fire fighters from the Chief on down. 2