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Council Minutes of 10/4/2005 offense code cases; 109 pleas were taken and there were 2 trials with one conviction and 1 acquittal. Finance Director Copfer: 1) Last week, a NOCOP Board of Trustees meeting was held. On Thursday, NOCOP moved out of Old Town Hall and into the Butternut Ridge Road property. Don Copeland, the Executive Director of NOCOP, has resigned as he has accepted an interim position as the Executive Director of the county agency that is handling the entire senior and disabled transportation initiative. Regarding NOCOP, it had been anticipated to merge into F.I.R.S.T. within a year or two. That is now being considered to be fast tracked to the end of June. They have to apply for the 5013C, which does take some time. By then, we will know how it is working out although and we believe it is very well organized and that it will work in the same model of NOCOP. We believe it will be very successful, and the goal is to move NOCOP into F.LR.S.T. 2) The Finance 101 Committee-of-the-Whole meeting was held last week and went well. Information covered included the CAFR reporting, city appropriations and the general ledger. The attendees received a better overview of how the system is set up and what the end result is required to be. 3) The annual information filing for 2004 was filed last week. This year was the first year that it had to be filed electronically only in one location. 4) The August 2005 monthly financial statements were distributed today. 5) Along with Assistant Finance Director Bruxvoort, attended the Ohio Society of CPA's annual accounting show. Some of the highlights included information on the commercial activity tax, the big tax reform that occurred in taking away the net profits returns and restructuring the state tax process which does come to us through local government funding and others. Information was also provided about the personal property tax phase-out. President Kennedy: 1) The Committee-of--the-Whole met on Wednesday, September 28, for a class in "Finance 101." In addition to himself, attending were Councilmen Tallon, Barker, and Orlowski. Finance Director Copfer did a great job in presenting the information, and all who attended learned quite a bit. Councilman Nashar, chairperson of the Streets & Transportation Committee: 1) The Streets & Transportation Committee held a public meeting on September 26 on the Crocker/Steams project. Present were committee members Orlowski and Nashar; Council members Gareau, Barker and Miller; Mayor O'Grady, Law Director Dubelko, Planning Director Wenger, City Engineer Durbin, Service Director Driscoll, Safety Director Limpert; representatives from the County Engineer's office Brian Driscoll, Jamal Hasani and Mathew Wahl. Also attending were area residents who wished to address the Crocker/Steams Road noise wall. The noise wall is to be part of the roadway construction project. At this meeting, residents were invited to address questions pertaining to the design and the color of the proposed wall. Residents were shown design and color charts. The Planning Director distributed forms so that the residents could select a color and design, and they were asked to return the forms within 7 to 10 days. Other issues which were addressed including concerns about hazardous material traveling through on Crocker/Stearns Road, the speed limit, access streets off of Crocker/Steams 6