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Council Minutes of 3/4/2003 address their concerns. The ordinance was unanimously recommended for approval. Mayor Musial said he had noted that the ordinance does not provide for excused absences. At the committee meeting, the Law Director addressed that concern to the satisfaction of the committee. ^ Ordinance 2003-33, an ordinance providing for the submission to the electors of the City of North Olmsted of an amendment to Article III, Section 5(a) of the Charter of the City of North Olmsted to require that the mayoral appointments of directors be subject to confirmation by a majority of the members of Council. It is not the intention of the sponsors or any member of Council to present this for passage at a special election. The Mayor did indicate that he feels that this would put too tight a collar on a mayor and that Council approval may cause delay. That was discussed briefly. Mr. Limpert questioned whether or not Council would be participating in some form of interview aspect of the process. The committee recommended to hold the legislation in committee for further review at a later date. ^ Resolutions 2003-29 and 2003-34 were discussed jointly. These resolutions address basically a water issue and the intention of both of these is to empower the Mayor to use the clout of 34,100 residenrts in this city and their purchasing power of water, and that the city should be simultaneously approaching Avon Lake and the entire Lorain County district regarding the purchase of water. There is a question as to whether or not our buying power can assist the residents in lowering their water bills. It's been brought forward on frequent occasions, and the Mayor did indicate that he has met with the Avon Lake mayor and did tour their facility with former engineer Paul Deichmann. The committee also discussed the issue of the Suburban Mayors and Managers Association to collectively purchase water from Cleveland at a better rate and, wherever possible, to try to negotiate a better deal. This is an issue that will not be solved quickly. Hopefully, this will be a start to enable water bills to drop down a bit through the clout that we have--through the western Suburban Mayors' Association and our own city. Both resolutions were unanimously recommended for approval. Mrs. Kasler commented on Mr. Miller's report with regard to the Charter amendment that a suggestion was brought to the committee by a resident who suggested it be a veto power as opposed to an approval power. That suggestion was discussed by the committee and will be reviewed prior to this coming back into committee discussion. As Mr. Miller stated, this Charter amendment is being considered for the November regular election so there is time to take a good look at that ordinance. Mr. Limpert added that the committee did have some discussion as to whether it was necessary for Council to pass legislation on this issue since the administration is already working on it. It was the desire of the committee to move forward with these resolutions. In the five-year plan, these sort of things were mentioned and written up by him. 2) The Mayor has asked that Council appoint Mr. Dailey to the Tax Incentive Review Council. Mr. Miller made a motion to appoint John Dailey for the term of 1/1/03 to 12/31/05 to the Tax Incentive Review Council. This is consistent with the position that Mr. McKay had when he was on both the Housing Council and the Tax Incentive Review Council. The motion was seconded by Councilwoman Kasler and passed unanimously.