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Council Minutes of 2/15/2005 half to a two year renewal to effectively do the study and to be able to take action based upon the study results. Finance Director Copfer: 1) She also has been spending time preparing and in negotiations with RTA. 2) Attended a meeting with FIRST, a consortium of cities providing senior and disabled transportation, of which NOCOP is a part, regarding utilizing the Butternut Ridge property as a dispatch center for that group. They are looking for funding but do have some funding from the county to sei up the dispatch center. They are getting dispatch software from RTA that will help gain efficiencies for all the agencies who will utilize it. Butternut Ridge is being considered as a potential site for the dispatch, which will house one dispatcher from the other cities, and NOCOP dispatchers will be moved over there as well. 3) Attended a Minimum Staffing Committee meeting this past Saturday with the Fire Dept., administration, labor and two Council members. The committee members discussed background statistics they felt would be required to allow administration and Council to make informed decisions regarding appropriate staffing levels. Six month short-term goals were set and the long-term goal timeframe is yet to be decided. The committee will meet once a month on Monday evenings in the future. 4) She and her staff have worked diligently to assist the Mayor in completing the budget process. She has provided Council with the estimated resources this evening and expects that she and the Mayor will provide the appropriations within the next week. The Mayor's office is compiling binders for Council so all budget papers can be kept together. President O'Grady, chairperson of the Ethics Commission: 1) The Ethics Commission met on February 8 at 6:35 p.m. Present were all the members of the commission: chair O'Grady; members Gareau, Dubelko, Limpert and Copfer. Primary discussion dealt with the membership of the organization. It has been discussed that the better position for the Law Director, rather than being a member of the commission, would be a legal advisor to the commission. Discussion followed with regard to the need to replace a fifth member on the commission, possible positions to be considered were Mayor and Personnel Director. As the committee ended the meeting, recommendations were to get copies of the 1981 ordinance that has last changed the commission composition, to get the procedures and organization that are used by the state Board of Ethics and then to consider all the discussed changes to include membership and the possible replacement issue. The next meeting of the Ethics Commission, which is open to the public, will be Monday, March 7 at 6:30 p.m. Councilman Miller, chairperson of the Public Safety, Health & Welfare Committee: 1) This evening, the Safety Committee met to discuss Ordinance 2005-13, which is an ordinance authorizing the Mayor of the City of North Olmsted to enter into a renewed service contract for aone-year term of January 2005 through December 2005 with TAC Computer Inc. in order to provide maintenance and repair services for the Police Dept. server, digital data backup system, Sonicwall, CAD software, MDT interface and CRIS Upload System, and declaring an emergency. It was explained that this was a proprietary contract. It is funded through the police general operating fund and is in the amount of 4