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Council Minutes of 3/21/2006 • Additional signage has been added to Claque Road on I-480 to inform motorists of the restriction to local traffic. • Service Director, Safety Director and Building Commissioner met and moved stop signs at the intersection of Burns Road and the N. Olmsted High School driveway. The signs moved are well within compliance of our codes. • The NOMBL 1951 GMC motor coach served as a goodwill ambassador for the city in Cleveland's annual St. Patrick's Day pazade. • City Engineer Mike Raig has finished the RFP's for the WWTP rate and operational study, and they were mailed out today. • Service Dept. has completed the move to the new offices. Councilman Barker thanked the Mayor and Safety Dept. for the enforcement at Claque and Esther roads as it has been a great help. He requested that the city give specific direction to the officers as to what motorists are allowed to travel on those roads. Mayor O'Grady said the administration, working through the Safety Director, did emphasize that we need to draw a line. The line is that it is local traffic only for those residents who live on Claque Road south of the culvert and North Olmsted residents who live on Esther Road. Anyone else can go around. That policy will again be emphasized within our police forces to make sure it is more clearly understood. Council Member Dailey Jones thanked the Mayor and the Safety and Service directors and their staffs, for meeting and quickly resolving the situation on Burns Road at the high school driveway. The residents in the area had great concerns with the visibility problem. Law Director: 1) In response to a request for a legal opinion from Councilman Gazeau, researched state law regarding licensing of nursing homes and residential care facilities and federal law, specifically the Federal Fair Housing Amendments Act of 1988, regarding in particular the elderly disabled as these laws relate to issues raised in Ordinance 2005-95, which would make certain amendments to the Senior Residence District code. He would encourage the BZD Committee to take the ordinance back into committee and review it again in Light of the legal opinion. 2) Spent significant time during several days reviewing and researching various labor law issues involving the Police and Fire Departments. 3) March 14, attended a Board of Control meeting. The Board of Control awarded a contract for laboratory analytical services at the WWTP and approved a change order for surveyor services at the new fire station construction project. Today, attended a directors' meeting. 4) Contract reviews: reviewed and approved contracts for the laboratory analytical services for WWTP; approved contract for Fire Dept. involving a software licensing agreement. 5) Civil litigation: • Issued request for discovery to the plaintiff in Shelley Co. v. City of North Olmsted case. • Hearing that had been set before an administrative law judge at SERB for March 14 in the city's unfair labor practice case against Local 1267 was cancelled by the SERB judge. With her encouragement, the city has agreed to submit the case to 3 ,~