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Council Minutes of 3/18/2003 also an increase in new real property tax revenue. Unfortunately, that will not be paid unti12004. Law Director Dubelko: 1) On March 5, he attended a meeting with the Mayor, the Finance Director, the City Engineer and Fairview Park officials regarding the service agreement for sanitary sewer services with the Fairview Park satellite district. After that meeting afollow-up memo was sent to the city's consulting engineer to ensure that any EPA required or recommended changes in the service agreement be presented to the administration for negotiation with Fairview Park. It may be that Council will be seeing some legislation coming down the line from the consulting engineer for doing additional environmental services for the city in connection with the Fairview Park service agreement andJor the Olmsted Township service agreement. 2) On Mazch 6, he attended a meeting with Olmsted Township and county officials and again with the Mayor, Finance Director and others regarding the Township service agreement including the expansion of the sewer district in the Township for the 7EDD project. 3) On Mazch 7, he prepared and distributed memos to the administration and to Council supplementing the legal opinion previously drafted regarding the legality of comp time for non-bargaining unit officials and employees who are exempt from the overtime compensation regulations of the Fair Labor Standards Act. 4) On Mazch 8, he notified the Department of Personnel of a claim that had been made against the city by two minors who alleged through their attorney that they had been assaulted by several North Olmsted police officers at the mall. These types of claims are received from time to time and are typically turned over to the Personnel Department to contact the city's risk manager. 5) On March Z 0, he provided legal advice to the Finance Director in the form of a memorandum discussing the duties and responsibilities of city auditors. This is one of the functions of the Finance Director's office. In the City Charter, the Finance Duector has the duties which are imposed by state law upon city auditors. 6) On March 11, he attended a Board of Control meeting to discuss fee proposals received from engineering firms for design engineering for road culverts on Bradley Road and Windsor Drive. Because of possible funding shortages, the boazd took no action at that time pending additional information from the Service Department. The Board of Control met again today on that same issue and once again took no action because of questions that remain regazding this project's urgency at this time. 7) On March i 1, he provided the State Auditor's office with a copy of his legal opinion regarding use of comp time by city officials. 8) On March 12, he provided the Civil Service Commission with legal opinion 2003-4, which discusses the subjects of eligibility lists and contracting for testing services. 9) bast week, he attended the wake for Mary Slama, former administrative assistant to Mayor Swietyniowski. He got to know Mary when she was serving as Mayor Swietyniowski's assistant and they worked on numerous projects together. She was an extremely fine human being. As the Administrative Assistant, she did a lot of the things that are now part of the duties of the Personnel Director. 10) On March 13, he attended a meeting at the Cuyahoga County Law Director's Association. The topic for discussion was historic tax credit transactions. He thought it 2