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Council Minutes 6/17/2003 REPORTS Mayor Musial: 1) On Friday, June 13, he attended the ribbon cutting for Charter One Bank located in the Tops store. 2) He has a call in to newly appointed school superintendent Kurt Stanic to set up a meeting with regards to the utilization of the old library building. Members of Council and specifically members of the Legislative Committee will be invited to attend. 3) Slab repairs should start in North Park Estates next week and in Sandy Ridge shortly thereafter. 4) Lear Nagle Road was reopened at 3 p.m. on Friday, June 13. 5) The South Canterbury Road contract should be signed this week, so that will be started soon. 6) Safety Town is currently underway with two graduations on June 20 and another group graduating on June 27. About 150 children are expected to participate in this program which emphasizes traveling safety for small children. 7) The DARE golf outing will be held on June 27 at Springvale Golf Course. 8) The Assistant Fire Chief job posting has occurred, and testing procedures are commencing through the Civil Service Commission. 9) The roof repair contract for Fire Station No. 2 roof has been executed with work commencing within the next three weeks. 10) All Scouts Weekend was conducted this past weekend. It was a Beat success primarily because the weather was terrific. 11) He wished to reply to statements made by Ms. Amy Cornish, a former city employee, at the Council meeting of June 3. Ms. Cornish made statements regarding computer files, city services and alleging possible safety risks to residents. These kinds of allegations can sometimes take on the appearance of fact when viewed in the form of the written word. He must respond to the allegations and ask for definite proof and details to substantiate them. Without such proof, he believes an apology and statement of misrepresentation submitted by Ms. Cornish to the residents and City Council would be in order to set the record straight. Ms. Cornish alleges electronic files in city computers were deleted. He asks that the files be identified as well as the dates and location of the files and whether there were copies of the files. An investigation conducted by the North Olmsted Police Dept. into this matter concluded the case unfounded. Given Ms. Cornish's level in the city organization structure while she was a city employee, she may not have known the complete picture regarding City Hall computer tampering that was going on. Ms. Creadon's files were being moved around, and her computer was accessed by someone continually during roughly the September/December 2001 time period. How could this be, they did not know. Thus, he retained an outside computer specialist to investigate. He informed the Mayor that someone installed PC Anywhere on Ms. Creadon's computer, which enabled that someone, or anyone else with the password, to enter into her computer and do whatever they wanted with the files. Once PC Anywhere was deleted, her computers were no longer tampered with. Ms. Cornish stated that what she had witnessed was enough for her to cast her vote for Mrs. Kasler at the mayoral election. He asks what she witnessed and where are the facts and evidence? Ms. Cornish also stated that, when reviewing the Council minutes for the past several months, she noticed an abundance of employees attending the Council meetings to express their concerns about the Mayor's cutback on staffing. He asks what is an abundance? Is less 2 o _ - ,~. .. _ .,~ ... .