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Council Minutes of 3/4/2003 the belief of this group that our traffic code is outdated and not consistent with the state law. In response to this, she contacted the North Olmsted Police Dept. regarding our present traffic code. With the assistance of Mr. Miller, she has received legislation on this topic from another city. This is an issue open for discussion. Mr. Oswald has asked to make a presentation to Council. She will invite Mr. Oswald to make a presentation to the Safety Committee, all Council members and residents who are interested in this issue. She believes, after talking to the Police Department, that it is worthy of discussion with regard to our traffic code. Councilman Miller, chairperson of the Infra-Governmental Relations and Legislation; Long-Range Planning Committee: 1) The committee met on Tuesday, February 28. In attendance were all members of Council, including the President of Council and the Mayor and Law Director. The following items were discussed: Resolution 2003-28, a resolution expressing support for the BRIDGE program and its components: Adopt an Offer or Fire Fighter; Career Connections; Crossovers, After- school Activities and declaring an emergency. This is a program addressed to 7a' and 8a' graders. It will support the joint efforts of the city Dept. of Human Resources, through its Community Diversion program, and the North Olmsted Board of Education to develop and implement a BRIDGE program in order to assist community youths in learning to deal with alcohol, tobacco and other drug use and abuse issues and to mobilize and promote healthy young development. Thanks to Chris Allegra who made the presentation. At this point, the team group coordinating this and going after some grant money, numbers six and their projected goal is to be up and running in eighteen months. This is aprevention-oriented program. The resolution is sponsored by all members of Council and the Mayor and was unanimously recommended for approval and passage under suspension of the rule. Resolution 2003-30, a resolution creating a new citizens' committee for the purpose of gathering and presenting to City Council projects for consideration for the city's Community Development Block Grant. (CDBG) applications for federal fiscal year 2004 through 200b. This is an annual type resolution that we pass in order to go forward with the CDBG application process. The only amendment that was made was recommended that the age bracket for one of the committee members would be changed from b5 to 60 to make a wider field of eligible committee persons. Along with that amendment, the resolution was recommended unanimously for approval. Ordinance 2003-25, an ordinance creating new Section 139.12 and 141.08 of the Administrative Code entitled respectively "Additional Duties of Safety Director" and "Additional Duties of Service Director" in order to require the Directors of Public Safety and Public Service to attend all regular meetings of the City Council. The issue was discussed at length. As the majority of questions that come before Council from the citizens routinely are questions that address either the Safety or the Service Director, Council feels that it is imperative that these people be present. They agree with the Mayor's comment that he can't know everything that is going on. He needs the assistance of these people. If a citizen takes an evening off and gets the nerve up to go to the microphone and is fiustrated enough to come here and ask a question, they are entitled to an answer and to have the person who is responsible available to 7