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Council Minutes of 2/15/25 • The case of former Fire Chief Ed Bak vs. City of North Olmsted. The plaintiff dismissed the Mayor out of the lawsuit, both in his individual and official capacities. The city, consistent with the court order, has filed a motion for summary judgment. The motion was researched and prepared by Assistant Law Director Bryan O'Malley on February 14. • Ganley litigation. There have been a lot of settlement discussions, but only one court appearance. Discussions were held between the experts hired on each side and the attorneys on each side. Hopefully by Mazch 1, there will be a potential settlement to discuss in executive session. • Erin McCoy, an insurance defense counsel case, involved a claim of assault and false arrest arising out of an incident at Great Northern Mall. The city's motion for summary judgment has been denied. That case will move toward trial or possibly settlement. 3) At the time he prepared his 2004 annual report, he did not have statistics from the Rocky River Court. There have been significant changes in numbers coming out of the court. In 2002, the city had 13,836 traffic cases, 2003 it was up to 15,316, in 2004 it dropped to 11,221. That's approximately a 4,000 case drop over the last year. On the other hand, the total revenues of the city, $508,000 approximately in 2003, only dropped to $474,000, which doesn't seem to be quite in line with the drop in the number of cases. 4) February 8, he attended a meeting along with Don Copeland and Kim Wenger dealing with the proposed future uses of the Butternut Ridge Road property. 5) February 8, he attended a meeting of the city Ethics Commission which was chaired by the President of Council. At that meeting, the commission had a good, healthy discussion of issues relating to reform of the commission membership as well as reform of substantive code provisions. 6) February 10, he was a scheduled speaker at the Charter Review Commission meeting, which is the reason he was not able to attend the NOMBL meeting at the Middle School. He made a presentation to the commission of 10 recommendations of the Law Dept. to improve City Charter procedures. 7) February 11, he attended the Cuyahoga County Law Directors' Association annual municipal workshop which he has been attending for over 20 years. As usual, it was a good educational experience. 8) February 14, he attended a directors' meeting. Councilman Nashaz inquired whether the fact finding from Congressman Kucinich's office has turned up anything of interest with regard to finances. Law Director Dubelko said the Congressman has made several public records requests. He is awaze of the results of one of them that involved correspondence between the General Manager's office and the Board of Trustees. He thinks there was a second public records request, but is not sure whether or not that related to financial issues and not sure whether that has been responded to. He knows the Congressman has requested a study and federal funding, and the study would look at total county-wide transit operations and certainly would delve into all the financial issues. Realistically, however, that funding at the earliest wouldn't be available probably for six to seven months and then it would take some significant time to conduct the study. It would require a minimum of a year and a 3