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Council Minutes of 4/18/2006 Councilman Tallon made a motion to place Ordinance 2006-82 as amended on the agenda for second reading. The motion was seconded by Councilman Gareau and passed unanimously. The agenda was amended to add Ordinance 2006-82 as amended on second reading. AUDIENCE PARTICIl'ATION Joseph Bouman, 25701 Butternut Ridge Road, lives across the street from new library. When the library was to be built, it was promoted as a place where junior high and senior high students would have ready access. And he has observed the students do use the library every day. His concern is that the new school plan will move the students to another site on Dover Center Road, and they will not have easy access to the library. They deserve the library and deserve for it to be a part of their education. On the topic of the new fire station site, he is very concerned that the Stearns home, which he considers the most historic building in the city, is being destroyed. He said that a number of people, including the Metroparks director and the Cleveland Restoration Society, believe it is not a good idea to destroy the structure. Mr. Bournan does not believe the city needs a new fire station as most cities are going to consolidation of fire services. He believes there are fire stations in neighboring communities which could service that part of our city. We are wasting money on a fire station we don't need to destroy a building that is the heart of North Olmsted. Dennis Lambert, 25057 Carey Lane, registered a complaint formally with Council. Normally he is a strong believer under all conditions of free speech. As a private citizen, several weeks ago he wrote a letter to the editor about a situation that occurred in Fairview Park. It was his personal opinion. There was a letter on April 5 responding.. The content of the letter is a personal opinion from Mr. John Dailey. But Mr. Dailey was identified as the Director of Community Life Services. Mr. Lambert spoke at length about his disappointment that the letter was written by a city employee. He believes the city needs a code of ethics stating (1) no employee shall convert anything that belongs to the city to personal use; (2) no employee shall speak on behalf of the city or the dept. it represents without first having appropriate authorization to do so. He is not criticizing Mr. bailey's right to speak, but he is criticizing how it was done. John Dailey, 24277 Vincent Drive, said he did not sign the letter as Director of Community Life Services. He sent the letter from his home computer, and his title was added by the Westlife. He suggested Mr. Lambert take up the issue with the Westlife. Otto Holm, 14918 Triskett, Cleveland, staff representative for the FOP, represents the North Olmsted Police Department. Mr. Holm wished to address Charter amendment No. 31. State of Ohio Civil Service laws found in Chapter 124 of the ORC establish rules for hiring, promoting, laying off, recall, assignment, discipline and termination of public employees. Laws were created and promulgated to ensure the most highly qualified individuals would be selected for public employment. Civil Service laws are a necessity and a tool to ensure professionalism, service in local government and are a safety guard against discrimination, nepotism, favoritism, and retaliation. Civil Service makes the public hiring process fair, impartial and apolitical. By by-passing these protections, this 15