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Council Minutes of 10/18/2005 • The asphalt program landscaping will be done by the end of this week. • The Americans with Disabilities Act doors that are scheduled to go in at the Senior Center will not be complete this month. The project was delayed due to some confusion with our contractor and a former city employee. The Service Director and representatives of our Building Dept. met with the contractors on October 14. The plans will soon be approved, and we anticipate installation prior to the end of the year. • The sidewalk and steps at the Police Station have been repaired. Law Director Dubelko: 1) October 11, provided legal memorandum to the administration regarding positions at Springvale; provided legal memorandum to Council regarding the Suburban Collision Center issue with respect to the special permit issue discussed at the last Council meeting; attended a director's meeting. 2) October 13, provided legal memorandum to the Service Dept. regarding issues relating to bidding of the Clague Road reconstruction project. 3) October 14, worked on issues relating to the Fair Housing Review Board including recertification of the city's staff with HUD. 4) October 17, attended a safe staffing meeting along with the Finance Director and others at the Fire Dept. 5) October 18, attended a directors' meeting. 6) Litigation update: • October 12, received a corrected notice from SERB in the matter of the city's unfair labor practice complaint against the city's fire fighters. A determination of probable cause and direction to hearing was issued. The corrected portion was the parties were directed to attempt to mediate before a full hearing is held. • The Charavell case, a NOMBL worker's comp case which had aScott-Ponzer claim element to it against the city's insurer, has been settled by insurance defense counsel. There will be no deductible paid by the city. • The Fiorelli case, involving a NOCOP accident. The city had been dismissed out of that action, but NOCOP remained a party. The insurance counsel settled with NOCOP. There is a deductible involved the insurance company will not pay in the amount of $10,000. It's proposed that that amount will be apportioned between the various communities that participated in NOCOP. • October 17, the city received notice of a lawsuit by the Shelley Company, the contractor on the Lorain Road reconstruction project. The claim is for approximately $47,000 damages regarding what the contractor believes it was entitled to as a result of acceleration of work on the project. That case has been assigned to Judge Callahan. The city's answer is due on or about November 10. • October 17, an award was issued in the holiday pay arbitration matter with the city's fire fighters. This is a grievance by the fire fighters regarding changes in work schedule for staff in the fire prevention bureau and the impact that those changes have on the holidays to which fire fighters are entitled. Arbitrator Ferree decided the case in favor of the fire fighter grievant. No monetary award was given. However, the city is required to go back to the old schedule and permit the fire fighter to have a full holiday even though the work schedule was changed from five eight-hour days to four ten-hour days. He is not recommending to 3