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Council Minutes of 8/17/2004 businesses to the ADA and what compliance with the act entailed for local businesses. Much credit for this panel discussion should go to both Planning Director Kim Wenger and Human Resources Director Don Copeland who devoted a lot of effort to setting it up. This is one good example of how the City of North Olmsted and the business community can work together on an effort to make the city a better place in which to live. 6) In late July, the city's Law Department experienced its second crash of their server hazd drive. The city's new computer consultant, Denny Barto, did a very good job of determining why there have been two server crashes in the past yeaz and was able to fix the problem. He was also able to recover data from the hazd drive. Kudos to the new consultant. 7) On August 12, he responded to a public records request for information related to the fire fighters' entrance level examination for Civil Service. He has provided legal advice to the Civil Service Commission regarding that public records request. 8) On August 12, the Cuyahoga County Court of Appeals decided the case of City of North Olmsted vs. Himes. This was an appeal taken by a defendant from his conviction for reckless operation in Rocky River Municipal Court. The defendant claimed that the trial court erred by failing to dismiss the charge against him which was reinstituted following a declazation of mistrial by the trial court judge in the first trial on the same chazge. The city defended the trial court's ruling in the Court of Appeals. However, the Court of Appeals concluded that the circumstances under which the mistrial was announced in the first trial precluded a retrial of this defendant. Accordingly, the court reversed the trial court's decision. After reviewing the substance of the Court of Appeals decision as well as considering the fact that the conviction was for a misdemeanor offense and that it is improbable that the Supreme Court would elect to take to this case in, he does not believe that the decision should be further appealed. 9) He attended a Boazd of Control meeting on August 10 and directors' meetings on August 10 and 17. 10) On August 16, he met with the Service Director, Finance Director and the NOMBL Manager to discuss the renewal of the RTA operating agreemenrt. That group is scheduled to meet with RTA officials on August 30 to formally begin the process of negotiating a renewal of the agreement. The current agreement was for the five-year period 1999 through December 31, 2004. The current relationship between the city and RTA is excellent, in large part due to the leadership of NOMBL Manager Tom Terbrack and the city's cooperative efforts with the Park-n-Ride. There is every reason to believe that the negotiations for renewal of the operating agreement will be very productive, and he thinks RTA will make every effort to complete those negotiations and get a renewal agreement back to Council in time so Council can adequately review it and enact on the legislation to approve the renewal agreement. Finance Director Copfer: 1) Under a new Ohio Administrative Code Section 742-7-14, the Ohio Police and Fire Pension Funds aze requiring the city to pass a new resolution to put on file with them for employers reporting their member contributions on a tax- deferred basis. This has been done since the mid-1980's. They sent a model resolution which was utilized by the Law Dept. in drafting ordinances 2004-134 and 2005-135. This doesn't change anything that we had been doing. It just reaffirms that we aze doing it on atax-deferred basis for the employee's share. 3