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Council Minutes of 11/16/2004 authority of the Chief to revise policies relating to call-back of fire fighters when squads are out on the road. 10) He recently received an interesting legislative alert from the Ohio Municipal League regarding pending HB 260. Originally, this was a bill that was intended to make certain reforms in estate tax laws only, but it has been amended to address a municipal court issue. The amendment provides that a newly established mayor's court must charge and collect certain court costs that have been in place for building construction and computerization in municipal courts and then pay those costs back to the district's municipal courts. This would make it difficult to charge the city's own costs for the operation of a mayor's court. This amendment, which is opposed by the Ohio Municipal League, doesn't have anything to do with the original subject of the bill and probably violates the one subject rule. It has been passed by the House, and it is moving on to the Senate. 11) November 15, he attended, along with the Safety Director, Service Director, Planning Director, Bldg. Commissioner and Asst. Fire Chief, the meeting regarding a timeline for land acquisition and building construction for the new fire station. 12) November 16, he provided legal advice to the Safety Director and Fire Chief regarding the obligation under the collective bargaining agreement to pay fire fighters who attend arbitration hearings as grievance witnesses or union representatives. 14) He has reviewed the list of pending legislation and found several which could be tabled. 14) City Prosecutor Dan Ryan has submitted formal written notice of his plans to retire effective January 16, 2005. Dan has been a member of the city's Law Dept. since 1980, and prior to that he served as an Assistant County Prosecutor in Cuyahoga County. He will be sorely missed. Dan did a good job for our city, and once again the city will be losing an employee who has a vast amount of institutional history regarding city operations. The hiring process has begun, and a new Prosecutor should be on board by January 16. Finance Director Copfer: 1) Today she sent a memo to Council regarding future sewer credit checks. She would like to discuss this topic at an upcoming committee meeting as a change does need to be made. (Finance Chairperson Kasler agreed to take the issue into committee.) 2) Based on discussion from a recent committee meeting, she has presented to Council several scenarios with regard to setting the salaries for Ward Council members and the President of Council. Hopefully, that issue can be added to the next Finance Committee meeting so the legislation can be introduced in December. 3) The month of September financial system is closed. The reports were distributed to Council and the directors last week. She has not had an opportunity to analyze them in any way to revise ayear-end unencumbered balance amount or to change that amount. 4) The tax rate ordinance which was received last week from the County must be passed tonight as it must be sent to the County Auditor before the next Council meeting. The rate changes were discussed in caucus this evening. Councilman McKay, chairperson of Environmental Control Committee: 1) The committee met on November 8. Present were committee members Dailey, Nashar and 4 .,~ _ . , _ ~ M. „~,.,~,,.~,.~ . ,..~..~ .~ .. _ ,.~~ i