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Council Minutes of 5/7/2003 announce that the city is looking for a Service Director and will be accepting resumes until May 21. The Cuyahoga County Mayors and Managers Association will send out an announcement to the members requesting recommendations in the event they know of anyone qualified that may be looking for a job as Service Director. Initially, the resumes will be screened by the Mayor, the Personnel Director, the Safety Director and the City Engineer. Interviews will be scheduled shortly after the initial screening process. The selected applicants for this screening process will be interviewed by the Mayor, Personnel Director Farver, Safety Director Jesse, NOMBL Manager Tom Terbrack, City Forester David Wendell, Service Department foreman Don Wilhelmy, City Engineer Gary Durbin and WWTP Superintendent Bob Nichols. The city has already received 14 resumes. 3) A Records Commission was formed and held their first meeting on Wednesday, April 30, to review the records management of the city. The committee will meet again in a month with action and reports on various items relating to safeguarding accessibility of public city records. 4) The first negotiation regarding union contracts is with NOMBL. The negotiating committee is comprised of Law Director Jim Dubelko as the chair, primary member Don Copeland, NOMBL Manager Tom Terbrack and NOMBL Operations Manager Scott iJhas. Advisors to this committee are Personnel Director Farver and Finance Director Copfer. As other union negotiations are begun, the committee will be adjusted to meet those needs. 5) The Board of Control met to review three items: (1) Lorain Road rehabilitation project. There were two bidders, Karvo Paving Company and the Osterland Company. The award was made, as the best and lowest bidder, to the Osterland Company with a bid of $2,073,891.15. The engineering estimate was $2,941,929; (2) Slab repair 2003 project. The four bidders were A & J Cement, Konstruction King, Fabrizi Trucking and T. C. Construction. Of the four, A & J Cement was low with $181,325 on the base bid. The engineering estimate was $190,000; (3) Pavement markings for 2003. There were four bidders: Trafl~ech Inc., Dura Mark Inc., Aero-Mark Inc., Oglesby Construction Inc. The low bidder was TrafJtech Inc. at $60,088. The engineer's estimate was base $70,000. Alternate A involving diagonal lines on the crosswalks came in at $2,000, for a total bid of $62,088. In answer to a question by Councilman Nashar, Finance Director Copfer said that the city's share of the cost for the Lorain Road project would be $470,000 out of a total cost of $3.5 million Councilman Gareau asked when the Lorain Road project would begin. City Engineer Durbin answered that the city must first receive the notice to proceed from the Ohio Public Works Commission. The project will take approximately 160 days to complete. Councilman Miller questioned the Mayor on two issues: ^ He asked about the status of the repair project for Louis Drive as he did not see it listed in the specs book. Mayor Musial said that Assistant Engineer Becker had prepared an analysis of the cost of Louis Drive, and he believed in was approximately $30,000. There has been no decision as to whether or not that street will be repaired 2