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Council Minutes of 1/18/2405 ® 4) Michael Gordillo is the new City Prosecutor. He is a fine young attorney who has acquired a lot of valuable prosecutor experience in the last four years serving as a supervising attorney in the County Prosecutor's office. He will do an excellent job for the City of North Olmsted and for the cause of justice in the City of North Olmsted. 5) January 10, he prepared and made a contract process presentation to city employees. The session was held at Springvale and was well attended. 6) Januaryl0, he received afully-executed copy of the city's interim referral agreement with HUD for review of fair housing complaints filed in the city. This agreement was authorized by Council legislation last summer, but it took a little while far it to wind its way through federal channels to get signatures. He expects to be contacted shortly by HUD regarding implementation of this joint project with issues like staffing and training. He will keep the Fair Housing Review Board and the Council representative up-to-date. 7) January 13, the Law Dept. collected $7,500 from an insurance company in the North Olmsted vs. Sandra Wheeler case, which involved damage to a police cruiser. There is still a balance of approximately five thousand dollars due. The city entered into an agreed judgment entry that we would refrain from attempting to collect on that balance because the defendant may be going into bankruptcy. We wanted to make sure we got the money available from the insurance company, and then we'll see whether or not the defendant does in fact go forward with bankruptcy. 8) January 13, he attended a Law Directors' Association meeting. A speaker at the meeting discussed the 2004 Jaylin Investment vs. Village of Moreland Hills zoning decision out of the Eighth District. It's an interesting zoning case. The Supreme Court has taken it in for review. It may be another opportunity for the court to look at Shemo- like issues. 9) January 14, he attended the first meeting of the Safe Staffing Committee with Fire Dept. representatives in conjunction with the new collective bargaining agreement. The group decided to attempt to schedule meetings in the evening so the Council representatives have an opportunity to be present. In answer to an inquiry by Councilman Dailey, Law Director Dubelko explained that the Law Dept. had devoted about 63 hours from February to mid-May defending the Musial vs. North Olmsted case. From that point until the end of August, it was handled by the outside firm of Walter & Haverfield. He estimates his department spent approximately 60 more hours on the case during the following three months. Outside counsel has been paid or is in the process of being paid slightly over $27,000 for fees and costs. He is satisfied with the result and will not recommend further appeal by Council as he feels the city's interests have been protected. Finance Director Copfer: 1) The preliminary unencumbered balances for each fund were reported to the county at the end of yesterday. Council has a copy of the reports and the greenbars. Other than a cursory review, she hasn't had an opportunity to analyze them. 2) She met with the administration regarding the budgeting process. She is working on gathering information for the estimated resources for 2005. In response to an inquiry from Councilman Miller, Finance Director Copfer said that the carryover from 2004 was $1.1 million 4