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Council Minutes of 1/3/2006 Human Resources • Open enrollment for medical coverage concluded on December 21, 2005. For 2006, 201 of our employees are enrolled in Option I, 46 in Option II and 8 employees opted out. Planning He and the Planning Director will meet again with the Metroparks representatives this week to discuss the proposed joint access point for Fire Station No. 2 and the Metroparks trailhead. The Metroparks commissioners are expected to vote on this question later this month. Website improvements-a new section called Business and Development has been added to the city's website. This section provides improved information to existing and potential new businesses regarding the city's development process, forms and applications, city statistics, business resources and more. Safety • The Recreation Center welcomes a new aquatic supervisor, Mrs. Susan Skuza. Service • The leaf pick-up program resumed last week and will continue until all the work is completed. This program was suspended during the snows. • Floyd Browne has finished their work on Phase I of the project which will enable us to comply with the requirements imposed on our city by the Ohio EPA. Our WWTP personnel met last week to review their findings, and the report will be provided to the EPA this week. • Anew smaller plow, a (Ford) F550 XL Superduty (dump truck) is set up and ready for duty. Although smaller than the 1 %i ton (GMC)Top-kicks, it is expected to have more push and will probably be the vehicle of choice for the future. Council Members requested copies of the Floyd Browne report, and the Mayor said the copies would be supplied. Councilman Tallon questioned whether the city's bond counsel had any problem with the joint access drive proposed for the new fire station. Mayor O'Grady said the Planning Director had reviewed potential liability, and there is none. We must use the funds for the purchase of property and the development of the station and for the equipment in the station. That still fits within the parameters of this project even if we move our driveway onto the Metroparks property and make it a joint access drive. The question has not been presented to bond counsel, but that can easily be done. We will ask the question. Law Director Dubelko: 1) Welcome to the new City Council, particularly Nicole Dailey Jones, the newest member of Council. He looks forward to working with everyone. 2) He prepared a written annual report for the department which contains information on the department's budget and appropriations, members of the department and functions, 2