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Council Minutes of 6/21/2005 5) June 15, he attended a meeting with the ClericaUTech bargaining unit to resolve the issue of including several part-time positions in the bargaining unit. This is something the administration and the union had agreed to a couple of bargaining cycles ago, but is just now being completed. One of the proposals may have some need for City Council to become involved legislatively. There has been reference made to our real property maintenance inspection program. Council recently adopted legislation authorizing the creation of a seasonal property inspector posation. That has drawn some questions from the union. The union has reminded the city that, under SERB, seasonal employees are limited to no more than 14 weeks on the job. Otherwise, that's the grounds far exempting them from a bargaining unit. It is the expectations, as he understands it, of Safety and Building to have that position in place more than 14 weeks per year. So, he believes that the administration will submit legislation in early August to change that position from seasonal to part-time with the understanding that the funding will not change. 6) June 16, he provided Council with a list of his recommendations for pending ordinances to be tabled, which aze before Council under Miscellaneous Business tonight. 7) Today, he received from the Mayor's office correspondence relating to the proposed transfer of the Adelphia cable franchise to Time Warner. City Council has 120 days to act upon the proposed transfer, and the clock began ticking around June 10. In November, he had advised the previous administration that this was coming and to get the Cable Advisory Committee together, but it did not happen. He has since sent a second memo to the new administration to request that the Safety Director call that advisory committee together to look at what issues maybe outstanding with respect to the way that Adelphia has performed its obligations under the franchise agreement. We have an opportunity to bring those matters to the attention of Adelphia and Time Warner before we get a new cable company in the city and perhaps strengthen some provisions in the agreement. If nothing else, we can address potential concerns that aze out there with the type of service Adelphia provided to the city residents over the yeazs Finance Director Copfer: 1) She received approval for the 2006 tax budget extension to September 9. It will be on the agenda for the first meeting in August to allow for the three readings. This timeline is consistent with prior years. 2) The audit work is complete and on target for the June 30 filing of the Comprehensive Annual Financial Report for 2004. 3) On June 16, she attended the Regional Council of Government annual meeting where three members were up for re-election for the RITA Board of Trustees, and they were re- elected plus one seat that was vacated was filled. Rick Cazbone, the Executive Director of RITA since the end of 2004, gave an update. One of the big complaints in prior years was the lack of communication with their member communities, so they started a newsletter which was distributed at the meeting. She will provide copies to Council. One important issue is that RITA has made a lot of progress with a technology update. They've settled with the consultant that steered them in the wrong direction on technology issues and implementation on a certain aspect of their system. They did successfully implement the a-tax filing, and they're working on improving that to allow for electronic wiring of filing of withholding for businesses. There is also the IRS data sharing initiative, which is very important for us to be able to match residents in North 7