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Council Minutes of 10/17/2006 indicates that fire fighters are entitled to overtime when they work more than 24 hours in a 72 hour shift. The word is "worked" which he believes means worked unless as otherwise defined in the agreement, and it is not. In addition to grieving the city for failing to pay overtime for people who had been on vacation or holiday and attempting to use that for their 24 hours to qualify for overtime if they were called in, the union also filed a motion to show cause against the city claiming that this violated the temporary restraining order in the civil action because the city agreed not to change the call-back policy while that was being litigated. Actually, Judge Sutula found the city in contempt without a hearing, so the Law Department filed a motion for reconsideration asking for due process and that the city is entitled to he heard by the court before it is found in contempt. The judge did in fact reconsider and has set the matter for hearing on October 25. 2) He and other members of the administration have met with the city's labor negotiator in preparing for the upcoming collective bargaining negotiations. Four of our collective bargaining agreements end this year. The other two end in the middle of next year. Very shortly, the administration will be proceeding to negotiate successor contracts with those four units. 3) He completed reviews of a number of city contracts including the city engineer's contract, the outside labor negotiator contract, flu vaccine contract, and the sale of a police dog to departing Officer Periandri. Under the collective bargaining agreement, an officer is entitled to purchase his dog for $1 when he leaves. 4) October 5, issued a legal opinion (memo) to the Safety Director providing the opinion that the minutes of the safe staffing committee meetings are not public records, and that they are exempted under the collective bargaining laws of the state. 5) Attended a Board of Control meeting today. 6) He is continuing to work on research for the proposed odor nuisance code. The department is still working on the single family rental registration legislation that was requested by Council Members Dailey Jones and Barker. 7) Two Charter amendment issues are on the ballot for the coming election. Issues 109 and 110 involve permitting the city to participate in the state purchase program and permitting the city to make emergency purchases in times of real and present emergencies rather than going through the bidding process during those emergencies. While the city cannot and should not expend funds on promoting those two issues, we all have our First Amendment rights and he would encourage members of Council who support those issues to talk about them to people. These are the last two Charter amendments that he has been lobbying for during the last two years, and they are important for the city to be able to function well. He considers them to be good government issues. Mayor O'Grady amended his report by noting the flag football game that occurred between the North Olmsted Police Department and Fire Department raised significant funds for the Special Olympics. Thanks to the fire fighters and police officers for what they did. Councilman Barker said he believed the amount raised was more than $7,000 and commended the departments for their efforts. 4