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Council Minutes of 8/17/2004 2) With regards to Butternut Ridge Road repairs in front of the library, a schedule from ~~ the contractor is not expected until August 24 because he has other projects that apparently are taking precedence at this point in time. The good news is that to mill Butternut Ridge Road from Dover Center to Lorain Road will only take about a day. The paving also will only take about a day. So the project is a two-day process. 3) During the past few weeks, he has had meetings with school superintendent Dr. Stank; Marjorie Snyder, the current president of the Chamber of Commerce; Mike McIntosh, the general manager of Great Northern Mall. Also, he met with County Engineer Bob Klaiber for discussions regarding the Crocker/Steams Road construction. It appears that we may have to negotiate a new agreement because of some changes. He has consulted with the Law Director and it will probably be brought to Council the first part of September. Councilman Nashar expressed concern about the timing of the repaving of Butternut Ridge Road because schools will be opening very shortly. Mayor Musial said he and Mr. Driscoll were aware of that and the city has attempted to expedite the project. Councilman Nashar asked if the county still planned to keep to the same construction timetable for Crocker/Steams. Mayor Musial said the time schedule has not changed, but there are some other items that are coming up which are favorable. Law Director Dubelko: 1) Litigation update: There have been no changes in the civil litigation cases involving the city. A worker's compensation appeal has been filed by Mr. Sermak, (Sermak vs. the City of North Olmsted, Cuyahoga County Common Pleas case No. CV04537245, Judge Judith Kilbane Koch). The case has been assigned to defense by worker's comp counsel, and the Law Dept. will monitor it in-house. 2) There are four real property maintenance cases pending in Rocky River Municipal Court: City of North Olmsted vs. Murphy; City of North Olmsted vs. Chereson; City of North Olmsted vs. BP Exploration and Oil Company; City of North Olmsted vs. Terpel. All those cases are being handled by Assistant Law Director O'Malley. The case involving Samir Khouri regarding the refuse containers at the apartment building on Clague Road has been resolved. The city filed five complaints, and there was a finding of guilty and a fine in all five. To the best of his knowledge, we have compliance. There are refuse containers available which are satisfactory to the Service Director. 3) A negotiation session is scheduled with the AFSCME ClericaUTechnical unit on August 23. 4) At the last Council meeting, he had indicated to Council that he would be issuing a memo on recommendations for revisions/reforms of the city's ethics code. On further consideration, he feels that, since we have a local Ethics Commission, it might be better to bring that matter to the local Ethics Commission's attention and have recommendations coming out of that body rather than directly out of the Law Department. He has contacted the chairperson of the Ethics Commission, Finance Director Copfer, and requested that a meeting be scheduled, hopefully in September, to look at some of the issues on whether or not we should continue to have a local Ethics Commission or whether we should have a local ethics code. 5) On August 5, 2004, he attended an ADA panel discussion at the new library. This was a collaborative effort between the city and the Chamber of Commerce to alert local 2