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Council Minutes of 10/19/2004 REPORTS ~~.:~,: Law Director Dubelko reported for Mayor Musial: 1) At a recent Cultural Activities Commission, the Mayor administered the oath of office to new members Barbara Brown and Gerald Yustick. 2) The Mayor recently coordinated and provided three tours of City Hall, the Service Garage and the Police Dept. for students of Butternut Ridge Elementary School. 3) A proclamation was made on the Mayor's behalf by Councilman Limpert to new Eagle Scout Paul Moizuk, member of Boy Scout Troop 332, and a resident of Ward I, at his Eagle Court of Honor on October $. 4) On October 13, the Mayor attended the annual Seniorfest at Springvale which was hosted by 86 SITES students representing the Class of 2005. As always, the seniors enjoyed the event which included live music, a dance contest, a TV trivia contest, dancing with the high school SITES students and refreshments. 5) This Thursday, October 21, at twelve noon and 5 p.m., public hearings will be held as to the matter of potentially discontinuing NOMBL bus route 53. The Mayor intends on making initial remazks at the noon meeting as he has already committed to present a State of the City address to the North Olmsted Chamber of Commerce at 12:30 p.m. on that same date. He will be present for the entire hearing at 5 p.m. He urges any Council member or other interested individuals to attend the hearing. Law Director Dubelko: 1) Litigation update: ^ On October 6, he received notice that SERB had dismissed the unfair labor practice charge that the FOP had filed against the city alleging that the city did not bargain in good faith because it had allegedly not disclosed that elected officials whose salaries were set by law in the year 2000 would be getting pay raises in 2004. SERB found no probable cause to proceed further on that complaint. ^ It has been his habit to report unfair labor charges that are filed by the city or by the unions and disposition of them. He believes that falls under the heading of litigation, and believes it's something that the City Council should always aware of and brought up to date on. It is in no way to disparage union members or to comment in any fashion upon how they do their jobs as city employees, whether they're service workers, police officers, fire fighters or WWTP workers. It's the nature of labor/management relations that sometimes both sides don't see eye-to-eye, and fortunately we have a lot of good processes in place that enable us to resolve our differences in an amicable fashion. The filing of unfair labor practice charges is one of the ways that we do this when one side feels that the other side is engaged in an activity that violates some of the basic SERB laws. They have that absolute right to file it, and the other side has the absolute right to defend against it. ^ On October 12, the city filed an unfair labor practice charge against the IAFF Local 1267 regarding the union's invitation to Council members to attend a union meeting to discus, among other things, "pending grievances and our still unresolved collective bargaining agreement." He felt, on behalf of the administration, that it was important to file that unfair labor practice charge and trusts that it will be resolved through the legal process. 2