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Council Minutes of 8/3/2004 ~~. just about there. He would anticipate very little additional action in the case, and a decision perhaps in September or October. 2) Collective bazgaining update. Bazgaining sessions have been held with seven sepazate units in this last yeaz. Negotiations have been completed and Council has authorized agreemeirts with Police officers, Corrections officers and NOMBL employees. Two of the unions, Fire and Dispatch, went to fact-finding. The fact-finding reports have come back, and neither of the fact-finding reports was rejected either by the city or by the union. Those contracts will be prepared and the legislation presented soon, possible at the next Council meeting. The negotiations with AFSCME Local 2681, Service and Clerical/Technical units, aze not yet complete. As mentioned in caucus, an issue has come up with Service which can be discussed in executive session if Council wishes. Regazding ClericalJTechnical, an IBB negotiating session is scheduled for August 23. Hopefully, by the end of September the whole collective bargaining process will be complete. 3) During the last half of June, he prepared and reviewed all the closing documents for the sale of the old library building. The transaction successfully closed on June 29, and the city's sales proceeds were transmitted to the Finance Department. 4) On July 2, he provided notice to the Safety Director and the Fire Chief of a fire fighter grievance arbitration. It's scheduled for August 31 before arbitrator Howazd Silver. 5) As of July 1, the city's new Lexus Nexus legal research service has been on-line replacing Westlaw at some savings to the city. 6) During the month of July, he attended several meetings with county and city officials relating to the proposed amendmern to the city's contract with the county to provide sewer services for Olmsted Township. 7) With assistance from the city's two new law clerks during July, a lot of legal reseazch was conducted on a number of subjects which may be of interest to City Council: OSHA regulations, and how they would apply to the city; cell phone issues; local ethics codes; the subject of storm drainage; airport noise. He personally conducted some reseazch on housing codes, particulazly relating to occupancy issues, and has provided the results of that research to the Building Commissioner, the Human Resources Director and the Planning Director. 8) On July 14 through 16, he attended the annual Ohio Municipal Attorneys Association summer seminar in Columbus. Topics addressed at the seminar included the following: a 1983 litigation update, zoning law update, Ohio tort law, employment law, municipal finance, legislation update, substance abuse, ethics, professionalism, homerule government, collective bargaining in tough economic times, sanitazy and storm sewer developments, economic development and annexation, Ohio's new carrying weapons statute and public contracts law. He has been attending these seminazs regularly for the past 23 years, and this was one of best in the timeliness of the topics involved and the quality of the speakers. 9) On July 15, the city received an arbitration awazd back in the Breifath police abbitration. The arbitrator affirmed but modified the action taken by the city's employee in that case. 10) He would like to make recommendations of topics he believes Council should look at again before the end of the year: First, reforming the city's ethics code. It needs it. The r city has been through the procedure relatively recently and, one way or the other, the