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1.. Council Minutes 4/5/2005 convictions. A number of cases remain pending. If any member of Council is interested in the specific statistics, it's available in the Law Dept. Also, he has been working with the new city Prosecutor in fashioning a new victim's rights policy for the City of North Ohnsted's Prosecutor's office. Hopefully that will be in place in the very near future. 4) During the last part of March, he spent significant time on the phone and reviewing documents with and from HUD relating to the city's receipt of a $120,000 grant from HUD to implement the city's local fair housing program. Council has before it legislation relating to that grant tonight. S) On March 17, he participated in the sad closing of the RTA/NOMBL transaction. It was successfully closed. Complete copies of the fully executed agreements between the city, RTA and AFSCME Ohio Council 8 Local 3517 are in the Law Dept. Any questions regarding RTA's continuing obligations to the city, particularly with respect to quality and quantity of bus services within the city should be directed to the administration or to the Law Department. 6) On March 21, he attended a meeting of the Safe Staffing Committee, which is charged with the responsibility of reviewing the staffing levels in the Fire Dept. and making recommendations ultimately to the city. The meeting was very productive. At this meeting, Assistant Fire Chief Ed Robertson was selected as chairperson. 7) Mazch 21, he attended a meeting of the Charter Review Commission. The commission under the leadership of retired Law Director Michael R. Gareau is making great progress in reviewing the city's Charter and preparing to make recommendations to City Council. He has no doubt that the commission will complete the assigned task on time and that Council will have the opportunity to review and act upon a solid set of recommendations for amendments to the Charter by the end of June. Council's window to adopt legislation placing Charter amendments on the ballot this year is between July 11 and September 9, which is the 60 to 120 day window before the date of the General Election. 8) On March 22, he issued legal opinion, 2005-01 providing an opinion to the Clerk of Council, as custodian of Ethics Commission records, that the Mayor does not have supervisory authority over either the Clerk of Council or the Ethics Commission, and that absent demonstration of a need to access confidential records of the Ethics Commission in order to perform the duties of his office, and a need that outweighs the need to preserve the confidentiality of such records, the Mayor should not be provided access to confidential records of the Ethics Commission. This inquiry from the Clerk of Council came as a result of a request by former Mayor Musial. 9} March 29 and April S, he attended directors' meetings at City Hall. 10) March 31, he provided the Board of Elections with a letter containing legal advice previously provided to the Mayor and Council that, under the North Olmsted Charter, write-in candidacies are permitted in accordance with general law. That is state law that permits such write-ins at both primary and general elections. 11) From April 1 and on, he has provided written advice and counsel to various members of the city government in response to a bevy of memos and directives issued by Mayor Musial on or near his final day in office. He still has a few more to provide, 12) April S, he attended a Board of Control meeting at City Hall. 4 ~.~..,~