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Council Minutes of 11/3/2004 ^ November 3, the city filed a complaint in Rocky River Municipal Court to recover ~~,~ approximately twelve thousand dollars in damages caused to two police vehicles several months ago on McKenzie Road by an intoxicated motorist. 2) Collective bargaining update: all of the language issues in the remaining contracts that have not been approved by Council have been resolved. The fire fighters contract, Resolution No. 2004-131, is before Council this evening for approval and authorization. The remaining two contracts, ClericaUTech and Dispatch, will be presented at the next regular Council meeting. 3) October 21, attended a meeting with directors Copeland and Wenger and Kiwanis representatives to discuss the Special Children First property on Butternut Ridge Road. 4) October 21, issued formal Legal Opinion 2004-OS regarding the authority of the Chief of Police to control which city officials and employees should have access to confidential law enforcement data bases. 5) October 25, attended another meeting with RTA and NOMBL representatives along with the Service and Finance Directors for the renewal of the operating agreement. As reported to Council previously, these negotiations are extremely challenging this year, primarily because of RTA's difficult financial condition. We are proceeding slowly and cautiously. Negotiations will probably not be completed in time to present an agreement to Council this month. It is possible that he will bring legislation to Council at the next meeting which would authorize a temporary extension of the operating agreement while negotiations for a permanent extension continue into 2005. When the negotiating team is closer to having a better feel for the direction these negotiations are headed, he will provide Council in writing with a more detailed status report. 6) October 22 through 25, reviewed and negotiated changes in the MUMS contract for the new financial accounting system. An agreement was reached on all the recommended changes from the Law Dept., and the revised agreement has been submitted back to Finance. It has been executed by all parties and is ready for implementation. 7) October 26, attended a directors' meeting at City Hall. 8) October 27 through 29, conducted legal research and provided written legal advice to the Director of Finance in the form of Legal Opinion 2004-06 regarding a public record request for certain financial records in "machine readable ASCII text format." He has requested that the opinion be posted on the city's website. 9) October 28, met with Dave Boatman, president of Local 1267 of the IAFF, to resolve the few remaining language differences in the new collective bargaining agreement, which is before Council for approval tonight. 10) October 29 through November 1, made substantial revisions to and legally approved the proposed Sports Venue Advertising contract, which is before Council tonight as an attachment to Resolution 2004-167. 11) November 1, reviewed, revised and legally approved a proposed administration policy regarding Internet and a-mail usage by city employees. 12) November 2, prepared a memo containing legal advice and recommended actions for the administration and the Council Cable Advisory Board regarding an anticipated sale of assets of Adelphia Communications Corporation and a probable transfer of the franchise agreement in early 2005. 3 ,r~Y~~~,<.. ,