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Council Minutes of 5/4/2004 - ~ to the legislation were agreed upon. Mrs. Kasler made a motion to amend Resolution ~~'- 2004-68: (1) to note the legislation is for the purchase of cell phone service, not purchase of phones since the phones are included in the contract (the old phones will be retained for use in the Police Dept. at the suggestion of Councilman Miller); (2) a cap on the expenditure for this service to $20,000 for two years (changed from $25,000 at the recommendation of Councilman Limpert); (3) the addition of an emergency clause; (4) the addition of a clause stating the lack of need for a formal bid due to the dollar amount of the contract. The motion was seconded by Councilman Gareau. Roll call: Kasler, yes; Gareau, yes; Dailey, yes; Nashar, yes; Miller, yes, commenting that the use of the old cell phones is for Community Policing and use by city crosswalk guards for no-cost emergency use to call 911. Roll call continued: McKay, yes; Limpert, yes. The motion passed unanimously. The committee unanimously recommended approval of Ordinance 2004-68 to include the amendments and contingent upon receiving a final policy, signed and dated by the administration, particularly the Mayor; and suspension of the rule was recommended. As of this evening, she can report the final cell phone policy signed by the Mayor on May 3 was received. • Resolution 2004-27, a resolution authorizing the Director of Public Service to advertise for bids for seven copy machine leases and service agreements. This legislation had been held in committee, and the Service Director requested that it be brought out of committee as he had completed compiling information which had been requested by Council during the Finance appropriations. The information included the number of machines in the city, where they are located, when the leases were to be renewed and the cost of those leases. Mr. Driscoll brought all this information back to the committee on Apri127, and the subject of renewal of the leases brought to attention that leases renew at different times. Therefore, this legislation needs to be amended to read six copy machines as opposed to seven. The number of machines in the city is not being reduced, but rather the times at which they are renewed. The committee unanimously recommended approval as amended and passage under suspension of the rules. Councilwoman Kasler moved that Resolution 2004-27 be amended to read six (6) copy machines instead of seven (7). The motion was seconded by Councilman Limpert and passed unanimously. Councilman Miller, chairperson of the Public Safety, Health & Welfare Committee: 1) The committee met on Monday, April 26. Present were committee members Kasler and Miller, City Prosecutor Ryan and Assistant Law Director O'Malley. The following item was discussed: • The North Olmsted Traffic and General Offenses Code. This was the first of several meetings which will be held. This issue will involve a lot of work on the part of the Law Department and some work from Council. Basically what has happened is Ohio Senate Bill 123 has updated the state-wide code and North Olmsted needs to adjust its code accordingly. It was the feeling of the Law Department that this would be a timely place to begin discussion of changing some of our own traffic and general offenses codes. Some of the issues preliminarily discussed included the following: the DUI code is now an OVI code-operating a vehicle under the influence; driving 7