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Council Minutes of 6/21/2005 attempting to modify the CBA is an attempt to change the status quo established by the CBA and its customs and practices as set forth in the 2/28/05 arbitratian award. The procedure in effect as of 3/24/04 shall remain in effect until a further hearing is held." A preliminary injunctive hearing was held on June 20. Following that hearing, he reviewed the matter with the administration, and he contacted opposing counsel. So as not to have a flipping back and forth of procedures involving something as important as call back in the Fire Department, the city has agreed voluntarily to go back to the old call back procedure until we can get this issue litigated on the merits before Judge Sutula. We will be living by the old call back procedure that was awarded by arbitration, but the court will proceed now to hear the merits of our argument in the motion to vacate which was filed by the city. And that is whether or not the arbitrator award has truly drawn its essence from the collective bargaining agreement. The court has established a schedule for filing stipulations of fact, allowing us to contact the court if necessary for a limited facts hearing and has established our schedules for briefs by the city and the union. That briefing schedule carries out the case to early November. 2) On June 9 and 10, he responded to a series of four public records requests by IAFF Local 1267 president Boatman involving a request for all disciplines measured against fire fighters in the last several years, all citizen complaints against fire fighters in the last several years, program materials from the OFE program, the graduation of the Assistant Chief that the Mayor reported he attended, and also a request for records of certain personnel-Fire Chief, Assistant Chief and one of the Captains in the department. These were public records request made by the IAFF Local 1267 president, and they have all been responded to appropriately. 3) June 11 to the present, he has been working on the proposed F.I.R.S.T. lease. (First Integrated Regional Senior Transportation consortium) The lease has been prepared, several drafts have been made, circulated within the administration and it's on its way now to the F.I.R.S.T. representative. The lease has already been authorized by City Council, and is for the property on Butternut Ridge Road. 4) June 13, he attended the final meeting of the Charter Review Commission's pentennial review of the City Charter. He attended mast of the meetings and feels the Charter Review Commission did an excellent job, including former commission member Ron Tallon who is now serving on Council. Also, farmer school board member Claire Hayes was a member of the commission, current Fair Housing Review Board chairman Nicole Dailey Jones did an excellent job on the commission as well as the chairperson of that commission himself, retired Law Director Michael Gareau. It's a really tough job and they've got a relatively short time frame to review the entire Charter. They took input from current members of the administration on current issues. They took information and input from people outside the city government, and they looked at issues they themselves felt were appropriate. They met their mission on time and they have submitted today recommendations to City Council. He encourages City Council to look at their work very carefully-a lot of thought and effort was put into it. This Council has probably even a shorter timeline to do its job if it wishes to place some of these issues on the ballot. The issues must be submitted to the Board of Elections no earlier than 120 days before the election, and no later than 60 days before the election. 6