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Council Minutes of 11/16/2404 McKay; Councilmen Gareau and Limpert; Law Director Dubelko, Finance Director Copfer, Service Director Driscoll, Planning Director Wenger and Personnel Director Farver. Discussed was Resolution 2004-170, a resolution authorizing the Director of Public Service to advertise for bids for the purchase of a maximum of 35,000 gallons of sodium aluminate for a twelve month period for the use by the Waste Water Treatment Plant for phosphate removal and authorizing the Mayor to contract for the same and declaring an emergency. This is a yearly expense necessary for the Wastewater Treatment Plant operation. The cost is expected to be between seventy and eighty thousand dollars, and the committee recommended approval. Councilman McKay, member of the Streets & Transportation Committee reported for Councilman Nashar, the chairperson: 1) The committee met on November 8. Present were committee members Nashar, Dailey and McKay; Councilman Limpert; Service Director Driscoll, Law Director Dubelko, Personnel Director Farver. The committee discussed Ordinance 2004-171, an ordinance enacted by the City of North Olmsted, Cuyahoga County, Ohio, herein referred to as the Municipality in the matter of the herein described improvements (replacement of the Cedar Point Road Bridge No. 22 over the Rocky River) and requests the cooperation of the County of Cuyahoga by its Board of County Commissioners and declaring an emergency. The city has requested the replacement of the Cedar Point Road bridge over Rocky River at no cost to the city. The request must be made at this time in order for the funds to be provided by the County and the federal government. The projected is scheduled for 2010 but the process has begun now as it takes quite a while for the federal government to get the funding established for these projects. The committee recommended approval. Councilwoman Kasler, chairperson of the Finance Committee: 1) The committee met on November 8. Present were members Kasler, Gareau and Limpert; Councilmen Nashar, Dailey, Miller, McKay; directors of Law, Finance, Personnel, Service, Safety, Human Resources, Planning and NOMBL Manager Terbrack. Agenda items were as follows: ^ Ordinances 2004-164, 2004-165 and 2004-166. (Ordinance 2004-164 is the administrative/legislative non-bargaining employee salary ordinance; 2004-165 is the NOMBL part-time hourly employee salary ordinance; 2004-166 is the NOMBL full- time non-bargaining employee salary ordinance.) These salary ordinances had been discussed in a prior meeting, and the committee was awaiting additional information from the administration by way of details and explanation, specifically for 2004-164 and 2004-166. The major discussion centered around Councilman Gareau's suggestion that the pay ranges should be extended out to 2007 with the raises indicated as follows: 0% for 2004, 4.5% for 2005, 4.5% for 2006 and 2.25% for 2007. Councilman Gareau felt strongly that a statement should be made for future pay raises and new philosophy that's slowly becoming established that an automatic standard percentage is not necessarily going to be the case. As a dissenting member, it was her position to only extend as far as 2006 so that the ordinance mirrors collective bargaining contracts and keeping all the salaries in line, both administrative salaries and union employees, since it appears that in all of the other areas of this legislation that was the purpose of the legislation being presented. The committee 5 ~,_.._~. ~r .«..~ ,... ,...