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Council Minutes of 8/15/2006 4) Departments: Community Life Services • For second year in a row, Senior and Adult Services has been able to identify low income senior and disabled homeowners who wish to receive a free furnace check. If interested, please contact Director Dailey for information. • Senior Center will be the location of the city's Homecoming display. • Recreation Center has advertised for bids for concessions at the center and for events to be held in the parks. • Canned food/non-perishable food collection for Homecoming is being coordinated by the department. Items may be dropped off at the Communi#y Council booth or in the Senior Center. Human Resources • The HR Director and Law Director represented the city on behalf of the Westshore Couneil of Governments at a meeting to discuss insurance coverage for COG and the Westshore Enforcement Bureau. As president of COG this year, the group has identified areas that need work. This has included a successful effort to put together a document retention schedule and currently the group is working to ensure that insurance coverage needed by COG and WEB is provided. • Civil Service Commission met on August 11 and recommended Ramsey Associates for the police chief testing through Civil Service. Planning • In addition to work on the recreation master plan, the CDBG public hearing for the 2007 grant cycle will be held on Thursday, August 31, in Council Chambers at 7 p.m., and the public is encouraged to attend to provide input and ideas. Service • Pending passage of tonight's transfer ordinance, as discussed in committee, the Board of Control has approved ATS to do the WWTP rate and operation study. It is the position of the Board of Control that ATS offers the best opportunity to determine if additional efficiencies can be found to further forestall or to reduce any tax rate increase. As a reminder, the current rates for the WWTP were instituted in 1996 and were projec#ed to last through the year 2000. Through new processes and greater efficiencies that have been discovered, they will last through the end of 2006. The rate and operational study will tell us two things: the rate we need to charge our residents to continue this operation; if we are acting in a way that is as efficient as it can possibly be. • Seventeen proposals were received for the City Engineer, and we interviewed six of those firms. The Service Director is making final background checks, and a recommendation on a new City Engineer will be made to the Board of Control next Tuesday. • Asphalt overlays for Carriage Lane, North and South Court, Canterbury Woods are now complete. The ground out and first coat of asphalt is complete on Lorain Road. 5) The city was very proud to display our 1951 GMC Coach in the recent fire fighters car show. Once again, it was very well received. 6) The foundations are now in and block work began yesterday orl Fire Station No. 2. 2