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Council Minutes of 8/1/2006 conference was held on July 25. The motion to stay the replevin proceedings filed by the city has been granted by the court pending the felony prosecution. • Midwest Claims v. Cruxton, a subrogation case, a case management conference is set for August 3. • C & C Realty case, the appeal of Halleen Chevrolet from a decision of the Board of Zoning Appeals which was affirmed by the Common Pleas Court, is now in the Court of Appeals. The briefing has been completed. There was a conference hearing in the Court of Appeals at which the appellant was offered an opportunity to propose a plan tv settle the case. No plan has been received, so it stands fully briefed ready for decision. • Shelley Company v. the City of North Olmsted is scheduled for mediation on August 10. • Nancy Kovacic v. the city and others, discovery cut-off is at the end of this month and there is a status conference set for August 24. • SERB v. Local IAFF 1267, the city's unfair labor practice against the local fire fighters union, has been transferred to the board for decision. • Krobar liquor transfer objection. The application to transfer ownership of the permit has been withdrawn, which moots our objection to that transfer. 5) Attended the HUD Policy Conference in Anaheim, CA the last week of June, the cost of which was paid for with HUD funds. Also attending were the Mayor and Council Member Nicole Dailey Jones, the chair of the Fair Housing Review Board. HUD designated the positions within the city government that it wanted in attendance. It was a very good policy conference. He attended the legal seminar portions of the conference and got a big picture view of how HtID operates its fair housing program and some of the hot issues in fair housing across the country. 6) Law Dept. offices have been relocated to what was formerly the Clerk of Council's office and the Community Life Services offices. 7) On July 19, attended a meeting at Walter & Haverfield regarding the case assigned to them to negotiate with AT&T on Project Lightspeed. 8) On July 20, attended a Fair Housing Review Board, but there was no quorum. 9) On July 26, attended a Records Commission meeting. 10) Spending time reviewing all the RFP's that have come back for outside counsel in the various areas-telecommunications Iaw, environmental taw, civil litigation, criminal and traffic defense, workers' comp and labor law. He is prepared to make a presentation to Board of Control next week on all except for labor, which he will hold back tv wait for the Mayor's labor negotiator proposal to catch up so both issues can be handled together. Councilman Tallon, chairperson of the Finance Committee, reported for Finance Director Copfer: 1) For the year 2005, RITA calculated our cost of collections at 2.41%, which is a decrease from 2004's 2.73%. RITA withholds an estimated 3% retainer from receipts collected each month and calculates the actual cast of collection by participating member once a year. Therefore, the city received $75,315 at the end of June: 70% general fund, 15% Permanent Improvement Fund and 15% Solid Waste and Recycling. This goes as a credit to collection expenses. It was not considered in the appropriations as we had received very little the last two years. 4