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Council Minutes of 8/15/2006 taxpayers' dollars to this project, and he will not throw away that money and start over. He should have been asked to split the project on August 30, 2005 when Council approved an expanded scope of project that included ADA access with a large second floor caucus room. The reorganization of our city government is moving forward. His intent was to move the Law Director into the executive wing by his offices. That has been completed. In order to do that, the Clerk of Council and the Director of Community Life Services were moved to the other end of the building. It was not a slight, nor was it meant to cause interference. It was the administration trying to operate as efficiently as possible. Councilman Gareau inquired whether a sign had been ordered for placement in front of the fire station construction site:- Mayor O'Grady answered that the Service Director had been presented with a drawing of the sign today. It has been approved and is moving forward. Mayor O'Grady amended his report by stating citizens should be very proud of the North Olmsted City Schools. Of the 25 indicators used by the State to assess performance of schools, the North Olmsted City Schools have accomplished 23 and have received a rating of Excellent. Regarding the test for a new Police Chief, Councilman Ryan asked the Mayor who would be taking the test. Mayor O'Grady replied that it would be the two current Police Captains. Law Director Dubelko: 1) Attended the Westshore Council of Governments meeting in the last week and has spent some significant time the last month on COG matters. COG is purchasing a hazmat vehicle, and he spent some time providing legal advice on the contract itself. 2) Assistant Law Director Heyward is in Washington, D.C. this week attending the first week of fair housing investigator training. 3) Research projects the Law Dept. is working on include the Mayor's request regarding what the city has to look at in considering a reorganization of various city departments. It is rather complicated as it involves the administration's authority, Council's authority, Civil Service considerations with respect to some departments, and the rights of unions to protect their employees. Other issues in the Law Dept. are the ADA questions that were brought to the forefront at last Council meeting. Those are being worked on by Assistant Law Director Heyward while she is in Washington, D. C. He is reviewing the city's organizational chart as it has been his desire for a long time to get the city's current organizational chart in complete form from a legal perspective. The department is also working with outside counsel, Walter &Haverfield, on AT&T's project Lightspeed proposal. 4) The Board of Control approved outside counsel for five different areas of law: civil litigation was awarded to the law firm of Weston Hurd; criminal and traffic prosecutions as needed awarded to attorney Donna Vozar, who is an Assistant Law Director in North Royalton; telecommunications and utilities law was awarded to Walter & Haverfield; workers' compensation law was awarded to Rademaker, Matty, McClelland and Greve; environmental law was awarded to the Calfee law firm. There is still one left to award 4