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Council Minutes of 6-7-2005 at the site called for drinking fountains to be included along the path of the four-inch pipe that was put in for the purpose of watering the fields. The pipe has never been used for that purpose, and Brad Friedel went elsewhere with his program. The important thing to note is that it is a four-inch pipe. The unfortunate thing for drinking fountains is that afour-inch pipe is far too large of a capacity for that purpose. It is meant to provide sufficient water at sufficient pressure to water lawns. When water sits in that pipe, as it has for months, it will be become stagnant. Also, it is interacted upon by the chemicals that are used for the lawn fertilizer, etc. Therefore, that water should not be used for drinking purposes. Since we do have the two drinking fountains, the Service Director is going to look at the current hook-ups of the water main coming in near the restroom facilities which would be the correct size pipe to support drinking fountains. It is hoped that these can be working before the NOSO Cup, but by no means is that definite. Councilman Barker asked the Mayor if service on the west end of town was discussed during his meeting with CEI. The west end of the city is experiencing frequent power outages, and he does not believe the company has been as responsive as in the past. Mayor O'Grady said a number of issues were discussed-the need for CEI to accelerate the plan for their review of where trees are interacting improperly with power lines and causing outages and brownouts. He has been pleased to see their crews have been out and about in the city. They are addressing an issue they know is a concern to us. During a recent major storm, CEI was responsive when the city called upon them to restore power to the west end of the city where numerous residents rely on sump pumps in order to keep the water away from their homes. This would have caused a sigtuficant financial impact upon the residents, but CEI had power restored sooner than they promised. Law Director Dubelko: 1) Prosecutor's report: In the month of May, the Prosecutor handled 231 cases, about 75% were traffic cases. Only one case actually went to trial and it resulted in a conviction. 2) At the special meeting of May 23, Council authorized the Director of Law to file motions to vacate two arbitration awards that came back in the fire fighter union's favor. The first of those motions was filed on May 26. We have received a response from the union. What happens typically in these type of cases, the party who didn't prevail files a motion to vacate it. They believe strongly that an error was done. The apposing party attempts to confirm the award by filing a motion to confirm. The union has filed a motion to confirm. A hearing has been set before Jude Sutula for tomorrow morning. 3) Along with other members of the administration, he attended two meetings with AFSCME representatives to discuss and reach agreement on incorporating certain part- time employees into the AFSCME Clerical-Tech bargaining unit. 4) Attended alabor-management committee meeting with the city's fire fighters. Although the parties maybe in court battling on the very difficult arbitration awards, they are sitting down together and to try to find a way to go forward and improve labor- management relations. From his part and from everyone on the administration's side, they are going to continue that process to try to improve relations. 5) On May 24 and today, he provided a-mail advice to the Mayor, directors and members ® of Council on the new U. S. Supreme Court decision in Chevron vs. Lingle. It's a very 5