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Council Minutes of 10/3/2006 the city. The City of Cleveland does have a very complex air pollution control code which is much too complex in its current form to just simply pull into North Olmsted, but it does have at least one section that deals with control of odor. He will craft something for the pending legislative request by Councilman Gazeau that will be amini-version that will provide for declarations of nuisance depending on objective findings by a device that is used by professionals to determine the amount of particulates that are causing odor. He continues to research that and hopes to bring out the legislation shortly. 6) He has conducted other contract reviews and revisions in the Law Department, particularly for the Service Director and Director of Community Life Services. Councilman Gazeau inquired of the Law Director whether there was a way to ensure that the city is contacted when the EPA schedules the 3Q-day public comment period for the issuance of a permit to Suburban. Law Director Dubelko said that would be Looked into, but Mr. Hearne was not too encouraging when making his comments. He recommends the administration contact Cleveland Air Quality about receiving notice. Councilman Orlowski said several members of Council had stressed that with Mr. Hearne at the committee meeting. Councilman Talton said Mr. Hearne had told him there is no notice to local communities as the notice comes from the State of Ohio. Councilman Miller suggested that City Council pass a resolution requesting notification and it be sent to Cleveland Air Quality and the Ohio EPA. Mayor O'Grady agreed that was a good idea and said the administration would continue to follow up. Finance Director Copfer: 1) Attended the State Treasurer's mandatory investment training last week. Assistant Finance Director Bruxvoart took the training class in July. 2) Attended the Central Dispatch tour last Friday, which was very interesting and enlightening. The supervisor was very knowledgeable. Thanks to Mr. Terbrack for setting it up. 3) The August year-to-date summaries were distributed to Council today, and the detail revenue and expense reports were e-mailed. The unencumbered balance for the General Fund is comparable through August to last yeaz's August unencumbered balance. But things don't happen pro-rata throughout the year, so that balance doesn't include fourth quarter expenses that will occur. The General Fund revenue is about a million dollars over the prior year, primarily from about $420,000 for the General Fund portion of municipal income taxes. Withholding is flat. Individual is down about $150,000. Net profits are up 86%, or about $8,000. This is primarily from one taxpayer and also Target. They have been making estimates for this year. The city gets the estimates on deposit, but the tax affect for them and their federal is that then they can claim them as deductions because of paid municipal income tax. It then pushes off that issue to the following year. Oftentimes, companies do pay income tax net profit estimates during the fourth quarter until the end of the year, and then they claim them when they file their return and they actually overpaid. Therefore, they are not a reliable source of income; however, because one is from a particular taxpayer, that number is fairly reliable. Building License fees are up approximately $60,000; apartment licenses are up $10,000; cable TV franchise fens are up approximately $17,000. The fines aze down from last year about $15,000, bath from the Rocky River Court and parking fines. Last year was the estimate that was used for the court fines, so we are down from the plan as well. Estate taxes are up by about $150,000. We had a revision to our first half payment, which was received earlier in the year, of $110,000. Interest is up about $137,000 from last year at this point as interest rates are about 5% as opposed to below 1% last year. We are able to utilize our money and make more money to provide services. The 4