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Council Minutes of 8/1/2006 Planning • The consultant team for the recreation master plan has been working with the advisory committee to create scenarios for the city recreation facilities. These scenarios will be presented to the public at an open house on Thursday, August 17, at 7 p.m. at the high school cafetorium. • The Planning Director held a kick-off meeting for the Crocker/Steams corridor project on July 13. Since then, Urban Design Center has been gathering data and doing mapping for the project. First meeting of the steering committee is scheduled for August 21. • The Planning Director has begun to meet with the CDBG Advisory Committee, which will be reviewing possible grants for the coming year. Safety • Beginning on July 21, an amendment to the traffic code occurred for Clague Road where south Clague Road between Esther and Lorain was designated as two- directional local traffic only. The remainder of the road from Esther south to I-480 remains southbound only local traffic. Service • The 2006 asphalt paving program resurfacing is almost complete. Joints, gutters, manholes, catch basins will be sealed once the weather cools down. • Storm water work has been completed on south Clague Road. Tree lawn restoration on that project has begun. The east side of Clague from Esther south to I-480 will be paved in the coming week. Law Director Dubelko: 1) Welcome back to Council. 2) Hired Carole Heyward as the new Assistant Law Director. She has already become involved in housing issues and Council is encouraged to use her as a resource on any subject dealing with housing. Ms. Heyward is a 1993 graduate of Cleveland Marshall Law School and has been in private practice, including time with Nesserrnan Nesserman. She is a former staff attorney for Housing Advocates, a private fair housing group, and also worked for the Metropolitan Strategy Group, a private fair housing group. Most recently, she is serving at Cleveland Marshall as a staff attorney in the Urban Development Law Clinic. She is very well schooled and has a background in just about every conceivable housing issue that a local government could face. Ms. Heyward will make an excellent addition to the Law Dept. and already had a lot of good ideas and is helping to get our fair housing program moving more quickly in its capacity building stage. 3) City Prosecutor report: total of 291 cases in June with four trials and four convictions; 185 cases handled in July, two trials and two convictions. 4) Civil litigation: • Elm Street Property v. City of North Olmsted is set for a case a management conference on August 29. Through insurance defense counsel, the city has prepared and filed an answer on behalf of the sitting members of Council. • Vale v. City of North Olmsted Police Department involved an issue of an auto that was seized by police during a drug related prosecution. A case management 3