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Council Minutes of 8/16/2005 ® • Ordinance 2005-115, an ordinance providing for the submission to the electors of the City of North Olmsted of amendments to Article III, Section 4(d), Article IV, Sections 3 and 5, and Article V, Sections 2 and 3, of the Charter of the City of North Olmsted to allow for the filling of vacancies by election to the unexpired terms in the various elected city offices when the vacancy occurs no less than 30 days prior to the candidate filing deadline for next regular municipal election and the unexpired term has at least two years remaining, and declaring an emergency. There was significant discussion about this, and the committee unanimously recommended to Council the legislation be passed. 2) In advance of first reading this evening, the Law Director prepared the following legislation for consideration by the committee: • Ordinance 2005-118, an ordinance providing for the submission to the electors of the City of North Olmsted of an amendment to Article VII, Section 2 of the Charter of the City of North Olmsted to change the name and composition of the city Flanning Commission; to further change and expand the authority of the Planning Commission, further to change the Master Plan review and approval process and relieve the requirement that under certain conditions, voter approved zoning or rezoning proposals for multi-dwelling use. The committee recommended that Council go into Committee- as-the-Whole to consider this legislation. • Ordinance 2005-119, an ordinance providing for the submission to the electors of the City of North Olmsted of an amendment to Article VIII, Section 6 of the Charter of the City of North Olmsted to provide two additional exceptions to the requirement for competitive bidding in the expenditure of city funds, to-wit: (A) emergency situations, and (B) purchases of goods and services through state offered programs, and declaring an emergency. A third part concerning sole source providers was removed and is not part of the legislation. As it exists, Ordinance 2005-119 was unanimously recommended to Council for passage. • Ordinance 2005-120, an ordinance providing for the submission to the electors of the City of North Olmsted of amendments to Article III, Section 3, and Article V, Sections 2 and 3, of the Charter of the City of North Olmsted to provide the express grounds and due process procedure for City Council to remove a Mayor, Director of Law, or Director of Finance from office, and declaring an emergency. The committee unanimously recommended the legislation to Council for passage. • Ordinance 2005-121, an ordinance providing for the submission to the electors of the City of North Olmsted of amendments to Article III, Section 5 and Article V, Section 1, of the Charter of the City of North Olmsted to clarify the existence and extent of the separate authority of the Mayor and Directors to appoint and remove city officials and employees, and declaring an emergency. The committee unanimously recommended the legislation to Council for passage. 3) There was significant discussion by the committee on Ordinance 2005-27. As chairperson of that committee, he would have preferred the input from the Law Director on this legislation this evening had been provided earlier. He personally has strong feelings about this particular legislation, but he feels the committee meeting would have been the place for the discussion. The committee did have a long discussion and did discuss the fact that the Charter Review Commission did not approve it by a vote of 3-2 as there were commission members who were absent. The committee discussed the substance of the legislation. He did not get the feeling, 12