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Council Minutes of 3/1/2005 3) He attended meetings of the Fair Housing Review Board, two meetings of the Board of Control and a meeting of the Health Care Committee. Finance Director: 1) Thanked the Mayor for his comments about the new accounting system, and she is glad he does see the importance of this system. This has been a difficult process for her as a director, her staff, and everybody who is utilizing the system. Change is always difficult, but she feels very strongly that it will be a benefit down the road in evaluating and managing the services provided to the community. She thanked her staff for the indispensable help they provided. She could not have done it without them. 2) Last November, the Cleveland Division of Water incorrectly deleted the city's billing fee for sewer assessment and did not charge the customers. In the most recent bills, they included a letter explaining the fee had been inadvertently deleted and that the current bills include the charge for two billing cycles. However, the sewer assessment fee on the bill is not broken down into its various parts. To determine if the amount is correct, multiply $36.26 (our fee per MCF) times the consumption. Then add the $4.36 billing fee for the current quarter and again for the last quarter. Calls from residents can be referred to the Finance Department. Councilman McKay, chairperson of the Environmental Control Committee: 1) The committee met on Tuesday, February 22. In attendance were Council members Dailey, Nashar and McKay; Council members Limpert and Gareau; Council President O'Grady, Service Director Driscoll, Finance Director Copfer, Law Director Dubelko, WWTP Superintendent Nichols, NOMBL Mgr. Terbrack, RTA General Mgr. Calabrese and guests. The following items were discussed: • Resolution 2005-10, a resolution authorizing the Mayor of the City of North Olmsted to enter into cone-year agreement with the City of North Royalton for stabilization and disposal of biosolids generated by the North Olmsted Wastewater Treatment Plant and declaring an emergency. This resolution was returned to the committee because North Royalton is having some financial problems and at this time they wish to review their position and their operating procedure. At the present time, North Olmsted will transport sludge to the Ottawa County landfill, using North Olmsted drivers and vehicles. It is possible that North Royalton will be able to process sludge in the future. If that comes to pass, we shall look at the contract again. In the meantime, the committee recommended Resolution 2005-10 be held in committee. • Resolution 2005-14, a resolution authorizing the Mayor to enter into a renewed memorandum of understanding with the Cuyahoga Soil and Water Conservation District to provide assistance to the City of North Olmsted with public education and public participation measures for its EPA Phase II Storm Water Program, and declaring an emergency. We are entering into our third year with the permit that allows us to discharge our storm water into the state waters. Our past agreement with the district has been that they provide assistance to us in educating the public regarding preventing polluting the storm water which is returned to the Rocky River. ® They also provide assistance with school programs and Earth Day programs. They give us the opportunity to submit to the EPA all the projects in which they provide 3