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Council Minutes of 4/19/2005 claimed injury in a quick stop by a bus on January 20, 2004. Since the operating agreement between the city and RTA was in effect when the accident occurred, RTA will continue to defend the city in this action. • Garson v. City of North Olmsted, a civil action for damages brought by a motorist involved in an accident with a city vehicle. This action has been filed in Common Pleas Court and assigned to Judge Michael Russo. City insurance defense counsel filed an answer on April 11. 2) On April 7, he prepared a new contract for the city's art consultant, Sally Julian. It was agreed to by Ms. Julian and signed by both her and the Mayor. The art selection committee is working with Ms. Julian on procuring art for the North Olmsted Library. 3) April 7 through April 11, prepared a series of responses to the final several memoranda that were issued by former Mayor Musial in his last several days in office. Most of the responses were provided under the cover of attorney-client privilege b~ause of the sensitivity of the matters involved as well as the fact that the former mayor still has litigation pending against the city. 4) April 8, provided written legal advice to the Clerk of Council regarding the legally permissible methods by which the city may publicly advertise proposed Charter amendments. 5) April 12 and 19, attended directors' meetings. 6) April 12, attended a meeting of the city's Ethics Commission. Reported out to the Ethics Commission on a communication he had with an employee of the Ohio Ethics Commission regarding the benefits of having a local ethics code to resolve "minor" ethics matters in cities throughout the state. It definitely is the opinion of the Ohio Ethics Commission that the state is just not sufficiently staffed or funded to handle every ethics complaint in the state. They see great benefit in having local codes in place to deal with minor ethical violations. Also discussed with the OEC representative the benefits of having a local citizens ethics conunission rather than one whose members are public officials. 7) April 13 through 15, spent considerable time preparing an ordinance long-ago requested first by Council Member Kasler and then by both Councilmen Gareau and Miller to regulate news boxes in the public right-of--way. There are some new orange news boxes springing up in the right-of--way around the city. It is a subject that has First Amendment concerns, but there is plenty of case law that gives directions to cities to properly regulate the placement of those boxes in the public right-of--way. 8} April 14, attended a meeting of the Cuyahoga County Law Directors' Association. The speaker, long-time law director Margaret Cannon from the cities of Beachwood and Shaker Hts., spoke on the subject of collective bargaining. 9) April 14, attended the Charter Review Commission meeting. 10) On April 18, attended a meeting of the Fire Dept. Safe Staffing Committee. The committee passed a motion providing that all comments regarding the status of the work of the committee until completed will come from the chairperson, Assistant Fire Chief Robertson. 11) On April 18 and 19, received phone complaints from two consumers who wished to file complaints against Kronheim's regarding purchases recently made at the North Olmsted store. He will refer their matters to the City Prosecutor with the request that the ® Prosecutor work with the Police Dept. to determine whether or not any of the complaint 5