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Council Minutes of 4/18/2006 Councilman Gareau continued the committee report: • Emerald Village. A request for a storm water variance. Councilman Gareau had abstained from this matter due to the fact that a member of his law firm had voluntarily represented the applicant before the BZA. It is not necessary for Mr. Miller to report on this issue as today the applicant submitted a letter to the city saying they were withdrawing in its entirety their request for a storm water variance. There will be no further action taken by committee or Council • Ordinance 2006-79, an ordinance amending, deleting and creating new sections in Chapters 1301, 1303, 1305, 1307 and 1309 of the North Olmsted Building Code for the purpose of adopting the 2004 residential code of Ohio for One-, Two-, and Three-family Dwellings and to eliminate the conflicts between the new state code and the city's local building code. Assistant Building Commissioner Rymarczyk explained to Council that from time to time it is necessary that the city update its code to bring it into conformity with changes that have been made in the state code. It's more or less a housekeeping matter. Every jurisdiction with a licensed Building Dept. which adopts its own code and enforces that essentially goes through the same procedure. The committee after brief discussion unanimously recommended approval of Ordinance 2006-79. Councilman Gareau commented that he was going to begin to digitally record the BZD Committee meeting. He has been working with the IT Dept. to create a link on the city's web page so anyone can listen to the meetings. Councilman Tallon, chairperson of the Finance Committee: 1) The Finance Committee met on April 11 following the BZD Committee meeting. In attendance were committee members Ryan, Miller and Tallon; Councilpersons Gareau, Dailey Jones, Barker and Orlowski; Directors Limpert, Copfer, Farver, Terbrack and Wenger. The Mayor was unavailable due to illness. Agenda items: • Ordinance 2006-80, an ordinance to create an economic development position. There were many questions asked and it was recommended to remain in committee for more input from Council and the administration. The committee unanimously voted to hold Ordinance 2006-80 in committee. • Ordinance 2006-82, a transfer ordinance. After much discussion and several votes, the committee recommended some of the transfers but did not recommend the entire ordinance. The transfer in the division of Police of $18,000 was recommended by a 2-1 vote. In the permanent improvement line item, the transfer of $27,506 was approved 3-0. In the Information Systems administration, after much discussion, no proposal or motion received a second and therefore no recommendation was made. After that, a simple straw vote was taken of Council to indicate whether the legislation could be relieved from committee and also to amend the ordinance to $41,000 annual salary for the Network Administrator and to increase the appropriate benefit line items. All of which would be in effect as of the passage of the ordinance. Councilman Tallon made a motion to relieve 8 gnv~;si nr4yfYS£CC~nXet