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Council Minutes of 5/4/2005 ,;~, various locations in the city as detailed in the specifications on file in the Engineering Department, and authorizing the Mayor, fallowing approval of the Board of Control, if necessary, to contract for the same with the lowest and best bidder, and declaring an emergency. The estimated cost for pavement markings this year is approximately $68,000. This will include the major intersections and school zones. The committee unanimously recommended approval. • Ordinance 2005-60 creating new Chapter 906 of the Streets, Utilities and Public Services Code, entitled "Newsrack Regulations," in order to set standards and regulate the location of newsracks in the public right-of--way and elsewhere within the City of North Olmsted. The newsracks on Lorain Road are often an unsightly situation-sometimes they have fallen over and often there are clusters of them. Council would like to improve on this situation and set standards. Planning Director Wenger has been asked for help, and Law Director Dubelko will review this issue. It was recommended to be held in committee for further review by the Law Dept. and also input from the Chamber of Commerce. • Tonight all of Council received a report on Springvale which shows year to date revenue for golf and Springvale is $181,368, which is $6,136 above the projected revenue which was estimated at $175,000. Councilman Limpert, chairperson of the Infra-Governmental Relations Committee: 1) The committee met on April 2S. Present were committee members Limpert, Kasler, Miller; all Council members; Mayor O'Grady and other members of the administration. Discussed was Resolution 2005-58, a resolution calling on the Congress of the United States to stop plans to privatize any part of Social Security. The debate went along more of the lines of philosophies as opposed to changing minds. After some time, it was recommended by Mrs. Kasler that minds were not going to be changed and so she made a motion to approve. At that point, Mr. Miller had already had to leave. The motion was seconded and it was a split vote 1-1 by the committee Councilman Gareau, member of the Finance Committee, reported on behalf of former Council Member Kasler who had presented the first portion of the report at the special Council meeting of April 2S: 1) The Finance meeting of April ZS was continued after the Special Council meeting to discuss the following legislation: 2005-54, legislation which proposal to increase the Mayor's limited authority to execute contracts for expenditures from $2,000 to $ 5,000 or less. The rationale for the legislation was the lower limit causes more legislation to be before Council and is less expedient. One objection to this legislation was the timing. It was questioned whether it is prudent to make this change at this particular time, with an interim Mayor, instead of waiting until after the November elections. Mayor O'Grady disputed this theory by stating that he was not interim, but in fact is the Mayor. He is less interested in the timing, stating that this is good legislation that would help move the city forward. Councilman Miller suggested that initial contracts that are more than $2,000 should come before Council, but that perhaps renewals of contracts could be set at a higher figure of $5,000. Some concern was expressed by the Finance Director and Mayor that this might r 5