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Council Minutes of 4/19/2005 of conduct violated city or state criminal laws. The consumers are in the process of filing complaints with the Ohio Attorney General's office for possible consumer fraud. He encouraged them to continue that direction as it is possible, if not likely, that the conduct complaint was civil in nature rather than criminal. Finance Director Copfer: 1) Congratulations to Mr. Kennedy. 2) The first accounts payable check run on the MUMS system was last weekend, April 13, more importantly the second check run also worked. That is a good sign. 3) She and the Assistant Director of Finance attended the mandatory annual treasurers' institute on Thursday, April 14, in Independence. 4) The auditors began their field work on Monday for the 2004 audit. They are using the Council Chambers room this year because the training room is being used. 5) She attended a Fire Minimum Staffing Committee meeting last evening. 6) This week she, P&A Director Farver, IS Administrator Stokic, Assistant Finance Director Bruxvoort and Donna Murphy are being trained on crystal reports. Though MUMS has hundreds and hundreds of reports, at some point there will be a need for a custom report. Even crystal reports have a lot of reports that have been developed by other customers and are out on the website for utilization. It's been very a informative training session, and they are learning how to do custom reports. Councilman Nashar, chairperson of the Streets & Transportation Committee: 1) The committee met on April 12. Present were committee members McKay, Dailey and Nashar; Council members Limpert, Gareau, Kasler, Miller; Mayor O'Grady, Law Director Dubelko, Service Director Driscoll, City Engineer Durbin, Personnel Director Farver and guests. Agenda items were as follows: • Ordinance 2005-39, an ordinance amending Ordinance No. 2004-138, entitled "Preliminary Legislation," in order to revise the project description far an improvement to Great Northern Boulevard within the City of North Olmsted, and declaring an emergency. The improvement of Great Northern Blvd. from Butternut Ridge Road to Country Club Blvd., a distance of % mile or more, is part of a large ODOT project involving the resurfacing of Columbia Road in North Olmsted. Resolution 2005-40 is a companion ordinance to 2005-39. Ordinance 2005-39 describes the work, Resolution 2005-40 will describe the cost to the city. Resolution 2005-40 is a final resolution approving the estimate by the Director of the Ohio Department of Transportation of the city's share of the cost of the pavement surface treatment improvement to Great Northern Boulevard from Al Moen Drive to the south corporation line, in the amount of $89,082 for the project, and requesting that the Director of ODOT proceed with the improvement; and further authorizing the Mayor to enter into an escrow agreement for highway improvement and contract with the State of Ohio providing for the payment of the city's share of the cost of the improvement, and declaring an emergency. The committee recommended approval of Ordinance 2005-39 and Resolution 2005-40 which will be passed this evening under suspension of the rules. • Capital improvement borrowing for street repair for 2005. The Service Dept. proposed a capital improvement plan for 2005 which includes concrete replacement 6