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Council Minutes of 2/7/2006 provide assistance to the Engineering Dept. At the next Council meeting, legislation will be brought forward for Council's consideration. Law Director Dubelko: 1) In addition to losing Carolyn Kasler, J. J. Calvitti and Joan Bush, the community also recently lost Gemma Szabo. Gemma served her community by being of service to those individuals who serve the public directly. She will be very much missed. 2) Law Dept. moved into City Hall on January 18. Thanks to Mayor O'Grady; Service Director Limpert; members of the Service Dept. Tim Szabo, David Demaline and Shaun Solomon; Human Resources Director Cheryl Farver and Sasa Stokic for help in setting up the computers. 3) Attended Mayor's State of the City address on January 19. Good address pointing out the positive things happening in the city these days. 4) Attended a meeting of the Fair Housing Review Board where the capacity building goals for 2006 were discussed. The board is scheduled to do training on February 16 to learn how to use the software program for input of complaints. 5) Has reviewed and conditionally approved the Megen Construction Mgt. contract. Councilman Talton has received the Mayor's memo on the preference of the administration to bid it out to multiple primes as opposed to general contractor or general contractor/multiple primes. He supports the administration's direction on that. 6) Attended a Charter Review Commission meeting. The commission had before it five ordinances that had been referred to it by City Hall. Three of these were amendment proposals that failed at the ballot last November. Hopefully, we will have a better informational campaign this time as these three pieces of legislation are very worthy and very necessary. The Charter amendments must be passed by Council in time to be presented to the Board of Elections by March 3. 7) On January 28, he attended and participated in a training seminar put on by the city's Planning Director. It was done well, and Ms. Wenger is making a real positive difference in how the city's boards and commissions operate. Thanks to the members of Council who attended. By participating, they sent a good message to the boards and commissions that Council will make every effort to work with them, respect their jurisdiction, and have a good functioning development plan review process. 8) Attended several directors meetings and a Board of Control meeting. Over the last two weeks, spent considerable time doing research, attending meetings, fielding phone calls, responding to a-mail regarding issues relating to Krobar. 9) Civil litigation update: • Amy Knappe v. the City of North Olmsted, the slip and fall at Springvale. The city filed an answer on January 24, and the case management conference is set for February 6. • C&C Realty case, an appeal from a variance denial over the Halleen dealership. The appellant's brief was filed on February 5, and our appellee's brief is due March 5. • Board of County Commissions v. BP Corporation. An appropriations case in Probate Court, scheduled for pre-trial on June 6. • Board of County Commissions v. Dennis Drellishak set for trial on April 27. 3