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Council Minutes of 11/3/2004 Service, Safety, Law and Personnel, the Mayor and guests. The following items were discussed: Ordinance 2004-158, which is a transfer ordinance. Several changes took place within the budget. In summary, there was no additional cost to the budget as the transfers were within the line items and from one department to another where money was found and able to accommodate some needs in other areas. One item that required some additional information was the transfer that occurred in the Building Department. However, the committee recommended approval and suspension of the rule on this transfer ordinance pending an additional meeting on November 3 to explain the remaining Building Dept. transfer questions. Ordinance 2004-164, which addresses salaries and benefits for non-bargaining administrative and legislative personnel. Ordinance 2004-165, which addresses part- time NOMBL personnel; Ordinance 2004-166, which addresses NOMBL salaried non-bargaining personnel. These ordinances are an attempt to legislatively mirror their corresponding bargaining agreements in those areas. All of these ordinances were held in committee in order to provide the committee time to read and absorb some information provided by the administration, which information was in support of these changes. 2) A Finance Committee meeting was held this evening, November 3, with all of Council present as well as directors of Finance, Safety, Service, Law, Personnel and the Mayor. The committee discussed the remaining questions regarding the Building Department transfer in Ordinance 2004-158. The Safety Director provided a memo which explained that this transfer was needed for overtime for a pending maternity leave and approximately 90 hours to complete drawings and records for permits that were closed out this year. This is necessary due to the shortage of one building inspector at this time. The committee was satisfied with that explanation and had previously approved passage. Councilman Miller, chairperson of the Public Safety, Health & Welfare Committee: 1) The committee met on October 26 to discuss Ordinance 2004-149, afollow-up from the meeting that occurred on Tuesday, September 28. Council received a copy of the grant application involved in that resolution and discussed it. The purpose of the FEMA grant is due to overuse of the single regional main voice fire channel in our city, lack of communication interoperability between mutual aid fire departments, lack of a tactical fire channel at large incidents and lack of communications equipment available to mitigate large incident response. The goals involved are to purchase a Computer Aided Dispatch system, a bank of 30 hand-held portable radios with batteries. The Computer Aided Dispatch system will cost approximately $189,000. Frequency switches that allow interoperability and the switching systems that will be on four different vehicles will cost approximately $25,000. The thirty radios will cost approximately $35,000, and training costs on the equipment will be approximately $10,000. The total grant proposal is $348,270, with a 10% matching participation from the City of North Olmsted. One of the concerns and questions brought up is where will this money come from, and the answer is it will come from the HoteUMotel Fund in next year's budget. It was indicated that it is • not anticipated to negatively affect any of the city's services that we now have or use 6 ar.. ~...-•-as#*rv*alkaMt3tt.*~ '+« ,...*v iw . S y:.n{ ,.' "+'..~' ••nmen f ..... a+:.p-. ...