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Council Minutes of 5/4/2004 .w,, With regard to the property maintenance issue, Mr. Miller noted the church at ~~ BartonBradley looks like a fire trap and is an eyesore. He wondered if the Law Department had become involved in that. Law Director Dubelko said no. Finance Director Copfer: 1) The sewer billing credit report was completed and delivered to the Cleveland Division of Water on April 29. The totals were more in line with what the estimates were. The total amount of approximately $84,000 represents over 3,300 accounts, which is a high number of accounts considering we only have about 12,000 accounts in the city. The individual amounts range from $2 to $107. Not to her surprise, she received two phone calls from Bill Strong at the Cleveland Division of Water pleading that he had no knowledge that this was going on, even though she has been working with one of his staff members for over a year and Dennis Long had been working with the staff member and Mr. Strong before she got involved in it. She is compiling a refresher of memos and a-mails that have been sent back and forth to the Division of Water. Mr. Strong will get back to her on this issue later this week. She was told that they could either enter the data manually or electronically upload it from Excel. She also asked again about billing in less than 1 MCF increments for this current year. Mr. Strong said that their current system is not designed to do that, but in two or three years they will have a new billing system that may be able to do so. She will keep Council informed as to the progress on this issue. 2) She worked at length on preparations for AFSCME negotiations interest-based bargaining and also attended the first session. 3) Nine proposals for the financial computer system were received on April 30. Our consultant is reviewing the proposals, and is doing an "apples to apples" comparison, which he calls "honestizing" the proposals. This process should take about two weeks. Mrs. Copfer's comments regarding the Cleveland Division of Water sparked a discussion regarding the Cleveland Water Department's reluctance to follow our legislation to provide credits to residents who use less than 1MCF of water. It was suggested, if Mr. Strong of the Water Department does not respond to Mrs. Copfer's requests in a timely manner, that the Cleveland City Council or Cleveland Mayor be contacted. Councilman Gareau suggested that Mayor Musial take this issue to the consortium of suburbs and negotiate and work with the City of Cleveland on this topic. We should not be working on this problem alone as other suburbs probably have similar problems. President O'Grady reported that on behalf of the Mayor he had attended the D.A.R.E. gaduation held this evening at Pine School. The students gave excellent presentations, and Office Glen Adamson is doing a spectacular job with these young people. Councilman McKay, chairperson of the Environmental Control Committee: 1) The committee met on Tuesday, April 27. In attendance were committee members Dailey and McKay; Councilpersons Kasler, Limpert, Miller, Gareau and President O'Grady; Law Director Dubelko, Engineer Durbin, Service Director Driscoll, Police Officer Holly, Animal Warden Ward, and guests. Agenda items were as follows: 4