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Council Minutes of 9/6/2005 ® • Case of Jennifer Pauley v. the City of North Olmsted, EEOC, charge No. 220205853. This was a complaint filed by a former secretary to a former safety director contending that her firing was retaliatory. The EEOC has investigated the matter and has issued a dismissal notice on August 24. The complainant now has 90 days to bring an action in court. 2) In August, the Prosecutor handled 283 cases, and 71 were general offenses and the balance were traffic matters. There were two trials held, and convictions were obtained in both. He is batting 1000% with trying cases in Rocky River Court, which is continued bad news for criminal defendants. 3) Attended an Ethics Commission meeting on August 17. Attended meetings for the Board of Tax Review on August 18 and 25 and the Fair Housing Review Board on August 25. 4} Met with the architect for the new fire station on August 22 and his attorney regarding final language for the contract for his professional services. Hopefully, that will conclude this week. On August 24, the city opened an escrow account with Chicago Title for the real estate purchase transaction. He expects the land to be titled to the city by October. On August 25, he met with administrative officials to coordinate matters relating to architectural services for the new fire station. 5) August 25 through 28, along with Mayor, Council, members of administration, participated in the Homecoming. It was a very good 4-day event, and a good time was had by all. 6) Spent August 29 with the city's fire fighters. Attended labor/management meeting in the afternoon with FMCS mediator Viscocill and attended a safe staffing meeting in the evening. Finance Director Copfer: 1) Council and directors have July's month-end reports. She began to analyze June and got caught up in budget issues to get transfer ordinance ready-never gat to the point to give an informed answer to Mr. Miller's question of an estimated unencumbered balance. She will provide it as soon as possible. 2) Involved with the Board of Review on a taxpayer appeal case. Thanks to Council for moving forward on outside counsel this evening. 3) She and Kim Wenger met with Emerald Village regarding the possibility of utilizing a financing vehicle similar to industrial revenue bonds that utilize the city's capacity to borrow at a tax exempt status. This issue was discussed with bond counsel. Even though it does not put the city at risk for the debt payments or any associated fees, there is a question regarding how much of our bank qualified $10 million that we're allowed to utilize at a tax exempt rate City Council would be willing to forego if it's unused. We pretty much know 2005 that there is nothing unexpected that we need. But they want a projection for 2006, which we're not prepared to do and have informed them of that. This was just an introductory fact-finding meeting. She informed them anything the city would be willing to do would definitely go through the Council process and may also involve the use of a dormant community improvement corp. 4) With Cheryl Farver, met with Kevin Bang of Master Benefits and then met with the health care committee to discuss renewal proposals and timelines. The timeline is tight since we expect these proposals to be a starting point, and then the committee expects to review and revise benefits if necessary to meet their required goal of cost containment. She appreciates Council's suspension of the rules on this issue so we can move forward. r,, 9