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Special Council Minutes of 3/24/2004 upon Council to do that. Mr. Limpert said he believed an agreement was akeady reached with the Service Director on the purchase of the trucks. Since the trucks are on state bid and sometimes those items aze not always available, he would respectfully request that Council allow the trucks to be purchased. The Service Departmerrt needs to replace trucks that aze 12/13 years old that aze ready to fall off the frame. Mr. Gazeau noted there is no legislation pending to authorize any person to acquire these trucks. When the request is made through legislation, the funding request can be discussed at the same time. It's not as though the issue of purchasing trucks dies tonight. Even if the money is appropriated, the trucks cannot be purchased tomorrow. Roll call on the motion to hold the $40,000 appropriation for the purchase of trucks: Kasler, yes; Gareau, yes; Dailey, yes; Limpert, no; McKay, yes; Miller, yes; Nashaz, yes. The motion passed with six yeas and one nay. Mrs. Kasler continued with the report of the Finance Committee meeting of Mazch 24. The Fire Chief was in attendance and made some presentations with regard to his concerns over staffing and overtime constraints that will be put upon him based on the funding that was appropriated for this year. These were concerns that arose since the last time he spoke to Council. After some significant discussion, it was decided to address the Chief's concerns in the future and to let the appropriations go forward as the Finance Director has confirmed that the department is sufficiently funded for a period of time. In a short time, the committee will further discuss the Fire Department's funding. Councilman Limpert, chairperson of the Intra-Governmental Relations Committee: 1) The Intra-Governmental Relations Committee met tonight. In attendance were committee members Limpert, Kasler, Miller and all of Council. Two pieces of legislation were discussed: • Ordinance 2004-46, an ordinance to terminate and cancel the existing lease with the Cuyahoga County Library for the old library building which will be sold to the school district. The Law Director explained that it was basically pro forma. No one had any concerns or questions. The committee voted unanimously to approve. • Ordinance 2004-47, an ordinance to enter into a lease with the Board of Trustees of the Cuyahoga County Library for the leasing of the new library building on Lorain Road. There aze a few changes in the wording compared to the old lease that was entered into probably 30 yeazs ago. There were no questions or concerns, and the committee unanimously recommended passage. LEGISLATION Ordinance No. 2004-21 introduced by Mayor Musial was given its second reading as amended. An ordinance to make appropriations for current expenses and other expenditures for the City of North Olmsted for the year ending December 31, 2004 as amended. Councilman Limpert moved for suspension of the rule requiring three readings. The motion was seconded by Councilman Gazeau and passed unanimously. Law Director Dubelko said he thought there might be an issue as to whether or not he supported the pay adjustment for Prosecutor Dan Ryan. He wanted to state that he did 6