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Council Minutes of 12/7/2004 President O'Grady announced the following legislation would be considered for passage under suspension of the rules: first reading, Resolutions 2004-132 and 2004-193. President O'Grady announced a special Council meeting would be held at 7 p.m. on Wednesday, December 8, in the Mayor's conference room regarding the RTA operating agreement. REPORTS Mayor Musial: 1) He attended the Council committee meeting regarding the Master Plan, and it was very well presented. 2) He attended the Community Council president's dinner and gave the oath of office to the new officers of the North Olmsted Community Council. 3) The VFW Police and Fireman of the Year dinner was recently held to honor Fireman Weisbarth and Policeman Calvitti. 4) The tree lighting ceremony was held on Monday, December 6. It was a pleasant evening for all as Santa, Mrs. Claus and their friendly elf were there as well as carolers from Chestnut School and the Pep Band from the high school. 5) The Springvale Task Force report was received and distributed to Council. He hasn't had a chance to review it, but he did believe there was an error in that the report noted meetings were held with the previous Law Director. To his knowledge that did not occur. ,~ 6) Extensive discussions and meetings have been held regarding the situation involving NOMBL and RTA. Some of the areas involve legal aspects, and he will refer any further reporting to the Law Director. 7) A revised timeline and target dates have been prepared for the Fire Station No. 2 replacement project. It is being reviewed, and a recommendation will be made to Council in the next few weeks. 8) The last of three passes for leaf collection is being completed. Last year's collection was approximately 17,000 cubic yards, and this year several thousand more cubic yards have been collected. Once the contractor has completed the final pass, city employees will make a list of areas where leaves remain, and the list will be given to the contractor. When that list has been completed, the program will be complete. Law Director Dubelko: 1) Litigation update: • November 26, received notice from the Court of Common Pleas that a case management conference in the Ganley court action has been set for January 14, 2005. • November 30, the city's appeal in the Dana Joyce case was settled and dismissed based upon the settlement that was authorized by Council. • November 30, a case management conference was held in the Nancy Kovacik case. The case has been referred to court mediation, and the court has set diapositive motion deadlines, final pre-trial and a jury trial date in the middle of 2005. • December 3, notification was received from SERB that the unfair labor practice that the city had filed against the fire fighters in the midst of the negotiation period had been dismissed. The city had alleged that the fire fighters had committed an unfair labor practice by submitting the subject of minimum staffing issues to the fact finder. 2