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Council Minutes of 5/16/2006 meet with him or the Planning Director so they can give him more details. Councilman Miller said, as long as progress is being made and we are coming up with a good product for the city and the residents of that area, that is what is important. Finance Director Copfer: 1) Attended a Finance Director's meeting of the Rocky River Court on Thursday, May 4. Both judges and the Clerk of Courts were in attendance along with their assistants. Mr. Ryan's questions were not answered at the meeting. The Assistant Clerk of Courts promised to issue a report to her and all the cities with the same information relative to their cities. Rocky River Court operated in the black this past year. It is interesting to note that by law all costs of the host city are not allocated tv court operations. Also, by law the court is in the city of Rocky River's general fund and not a separate fund. Personally, she thinks that is flawed because the true cost of the court cannot be determined. Judge Gravers explained that legislation about municipal courts did this on purpose as the Ohio Legislature does not consider them arevenue- generating department intended to cover its costs as most municipal courts do not operate and cover their own costs. 2) Met with Mayor, the Executive Director of the library, and the Law Director to discuss possible legitimate uses of the remaining funds from the library construction, which were approximately $910,000. Now that the library has been in existence for more than a year, they have different ideas of where monies can be better spent on improvements. The Mayor and Executive Director will develop a plan that is pleasing to both their board and our City Council. 3) Has worked with. the Safety Director and the Fire Chief to provide a report to the minimum safe staffing committee which met last evening. 4) Reviewed and ranked all the RFP's received from engineering firms on the WWTP rate and operational review. The Service Director is tallying up the results of all those people who were required to review the plans. The top few candidates will be interviewed before a recommendation is made to the Board of Control. 5) On agenda are fourteen ordinances amending the bond refunding legislation passed earlier this year. She is asking far suspension and passage so there is no break in the allowable time to refund. This legislation does three things that are required to grant the flexibility to sell the refunding bonds if the market becomes favorable: changes the possible issuance dates from May to June 1 through December 1; adjusts the first interest payment and any interest accretion date from June 1 to December 1; adjusts the required escrow amount by removing the June 1 interest payment, which was already made, and commencing the escrow December 1. Councilman Ryan expressed his concerns about the lack of financial information being provided by the Rocky River Court. Finance Director Copfer explained that the city does receive its share of the fine money from tickets that are written, but we do not get the court costs. She has asked the court to provide information on how the court costs and other fees are allocated. Councilman Miller made a motion to amend Ordinance 2006-93 to remove the emergency clause. The motion was seconded by Councilman Gareau and passed unanimously. Ordinance No. 2006-93 amended. 4 3 n,