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Council Minutes of 10/3/2006 Councilman Barker said he was glad to hear the Claque Road project will be completed early and under budget. He would like to thank the residents on Claque, Esther, Mac$eth, Virginia and Summerland for putting up with the construction all summer Long. He is hopeful they will be very pleased after it's done. Councilman Orlowski commented on three Safety Department issues. First, he has been contacted by several residents about the Golf Homes area off of Canterbury Road where they recently experienced some break-ins and vandalism. Today he spoke with Police Chief Wozzuak and Lt. Gallagher who assured him this is and has been their top priority, and they would like to bring closure to this problem. They would appreciate any information residents can present to the Police Dept. which may help them to solve this problem. He has informed the Safety Director that he spoke to the Police Chief Second, the traffic light at Lorain Road and David Drive, when traveling in a westerly direction from Claque Road to David Drive, the left hand turn signal, when turning from Lorain Road southerly onto David Drive, is not working. He has repeatedly received concerns from residents about this problem, and he did bring it to the attention of the Safety Director by speaking to his secretary about a month ago. Thirdly, he would like to receive a chronological report on the red storage trailer behind Camp USA. The Safety Director has informed him that this trailer belongs to Comp USA, and the city was going to cite them over the issue. He would like to have an update. Mayor O'Grady suggested these issues be provided to the Safety Director who will respond and asked that directors be contacted instead of division heads. Law Director Dubelko: 1) Assistant Law Director Heywazd is working on fair housing. and real property maintenance items. We have four pending fair housing complaints. Three are currently being investigated, and one of them is near resolution through a negotiated settlement mediated by the city Law Department. HUD has awarded the city a second year capacity building grant of $117,000 to build the local fair housing program. Assistant Law Director Heyward has prepared budgets for the remainder of 2006 and 2007, and those have been approved by the Fair Housing Board and submitted to HUD for approval. Assistant Law Director I~eywazd has been assisting the Building Department with real property maintenance matters. Since September 1, she has assisted in obtaining voluntary compliance in five real property maintenance complaints and there are three that are currently pending in municipal court. 3) Report of City Prosecutor for the month of September: a total of 233 cases were handled in Rocky River Municipal Court. Of those, approximately 2/3 were traffic and 1/3 general offenses cases. There was one trial and one conviction. 4) On September 21, he attended the State of the Schools speech by Supt. Stanic which was hosted by the Chamber of Commerce. 5) Administration has completed the RFP process for retaining the services of a labor negotiator and labor attorney. He and the Finance and Human Resources Directors interviewed the top three candidates and recommended to the Board of Control the selection of Gary Johnson of the Johnson and Colaluca law firm. Mr. Johnson has represented the city in the past as an outside labor attorney. The Board of Control awarded a contract to Mr. Johnson on September 27, subject to negotiating fair and reasonable compensation. He has discussed the matter with the Director of Finance, and they have prepared and submitted a proposed contract to Mr. Johnson.. 5) From September 27 to present and following the presentation made by David Hearne from Cleveland Air Quality, he has conducted additional research looking at nuisance odor codes for