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Council Minutes of 1/20/2004 Councilman Nashar inquired as to who would be making the repairs at Fire Station No. 2. Mayor Musial said it is an in-house project. Councilman Dailey commented that he recently had numerous calls from residents regarding the condition of the city streets, not necessarily the main streets that are being salted consistently, but primarily the inner streets within the subdivisions. He wondered if there had been any consideration given to going back to the old policy of salting the inner streets. Mayor Musial said he has taken drive-throughs of the city streets and, although there may be snow on the street, it does not seem to impede driving if the speed limits are observed. The staff has been instructed to be sure that they salt the curves and the intersections, and much of the time the salt is partially carried through the rest of the street. He can certainly revisit the salt policy if Council wishes. At the same time, perhaps cost figures can be provided as to how much salt is being saved. Mr. Dailey noted that there are problems even when the speed limit is observed. He has slid passed his driveway at 10 mph, which is well under the speed limit. There is a safety concern. Law Director Dubelko: 1) He attended collective bargaining management and negotiating sessions on January 7, 8, 12, 14 and 20. 2) He attended an informational meeting at City Hall on January 9 regarding the proposed regional dispatch center. 3) He conducted research on January 9, 12 and 15 regarding a legislative request as submitted by Councilman Gareau relating to the recent passage of amended H.B. 12 signed by Governor Taft which establishes astate-wide licensing program authorizing licensees to carry concealed weapons in the State of Ohio. Councilman Gareau's request is to determine whether the City of North Olmsted may lawfully prohibit state licensees to carry concealed weapons on city grounds, including city parks. As applicable to municipal corporations, amended H. B. 12 appears to only prohibit licensees to carry concealed weapons in public buildings owned or leased by municipalities, but doesn't prohibit carrying concealed weapons on public grounds owned by municipalities. The Law Department is researching that issue for Councilman Gareau and will provide advice to him. 4) On January 9 and 16, he met with the Mayor and various administrative officials to discuss the issue of the vinyl siding on the cornice peaks and pediments of the library. He was asked to look into that issue, but has not come across any documents to indicate how it started. He does know how it ended the architect, after taking input from various city officials, city boards and commissions, prepared plans and submitted those plans to the Planning Commission, Architectural Review Board and Council's BZD Committee. All the appropriate boards and commissions approved the plans as presented. He advised the Mayor's office that, if at this late stage the plans were desired to be changed, after the cost figures were examined to see whether or not it would be cost prohibitive or not, it would require returning this issue back through the Planning Commission and Architectural Review Board to change what are the officially approved plans for the library. 5) He attended Board of Control and Directors' meetings at City Hall on January 13 and January 20. The Board of Control meetings were scheduled to review change orders on the new library project as well as the recently completed Lorain Road rehabilitation 3