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Council Minutes of 10/3/2006 .~,, maintenance staff and to best of his knowledge have been improved. Also, coordination between _. the cleaning company and Recreation maintenance is better than in the past. This will be one of the main goals with the new contract to have a better relationship and more accountability on the duties described in exhibit A. Another suggestion was to split the bid into two options. Presently, the bid request is to clean the Recreation Center and the ~restrooms at two other locations. Perhaps in giving the option of Recreation Center and/or restroom facilities, there would be more bidders. With that suggestion, it was then suggested using the Recreation maintenance staff to clean the restroom facilities since they go out to the parks daily to collect trash. There was good debate and many offers of ways to get the jobs dyne and hopefully in the most efficient way. The possibility of hiring a person to do cleaning, either full or part time, after analyzing cost of outside contractors was discussed. The agreement among everyone was accountability and a checklist to be sure all is being done far what the city is paying for. The committee unanimously recommended approval of the legislation. 2) The Recreation Commission met on October 2. A financial report was given and everything is looking to be on track bearing no major surprises the rest of the year. Mr. Garrity from the North Olmsted Hockey Club was recognized and had some concerns regarding the story in the paper last week about a new business planning on building in Westlake that was going to have two ice rinks. He says the concerns are not only new ice in the area but also Recreation master plans showing the possibility of not having ice in North Olmsted if one of those plans are approved. He hopes that North Olmsted will still be keeping an ice area in the future. He also brought up that he has a group of volunteers willing to clean up and paint the bleachers in the rink area, but was told that it could possibly be a Recreation maintenance union problem. Hopefully, the administration would look into this. Anytime you have a group of people willing to donate time and money to help spruce up a facility it should be taken seriously. This brings community involvement and he for one would encourage it. In response to a question regarding use of volunteers, Human Resources Director Farver came forward and said that recently the Clerical Tech/Recreation Maintenance group filed a grievance, They were attempting to be compensated at overtime rate for work that was done by volunteers at the Bradley/Barton Park for restoration to the restroom. The union withdrew the grievance, and it was settled with the understanding that, when a volunteer organization steps forward, management would make every effort to communicate with the union prior to the work being done by the volunteers that the volunteers would be involved. Councilman Orlowski, chairperson of the Public Safety, Health & Welfare Committee: 1) The committee met on Tuesday, September 26. In attendance were members Tallon, Barker and Orlowski; Council members Miller, Dailey Jones, Gareau and Kennedy; Chamber of Commerce representative Mr. Burns; Safety Director Terbrack, Mayor O'Grady, Law .Director Dubelko; special guest Mr. David G. Hearne, the Chief of Engineering, Dept. of Public Health, Cleveland Division of Air Quality; guests and residents. The following items wire discussed: Council Member Miller had requested a representative from the EPA speak to Council on air quality, monitoring of odors, effective legislation regarding odors, the EPA permit process far facilities which paint in enclosed areas, which in burn, may affect neighboring residential. Mr. Hearne, from the Cleveland Division of Axr Quality, which represents the Ohio EPA in Cuyahoga County, spoke. A hotline complaint telephone number of 1- 10