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Council Minutes of 12/4/2007 for the seat in the Tenth Congressional District. He will be announcing his campaign on Thursday, December 6, at 2 p.m. at Maple Intermediate School. Everyone is welcome to attend. After some significant successes over these last three years as Mayor, seeing major construction projects being completed-the new Fire Station No. 2, the new entryway to City Hall, the ADA access improvements and more on the way, seeing road contracts completed on time and under budget, it's become clear that there's much more work to be done. As a city mayor, he cannot fix the issues of jobs, education, and health care. That was his motivation to pursue this office. As the Congressman of the Tenth Congressional District, he looks forward to continuing to serve the citizens of North Olmsted. He knows he would leave North Olmsted in good hands as President of Council Kennedy has excelled in his position and would make an outstanding mayor. Law Director Dubelko: 1) Wished the Mayor well in his campaign. 2) The Law Dept. has spent considerable time over the last two-week period reviewing proposals submitted for outside counsel in six areas of practice. Four of those have been completed, and it is expected they will be presented to the Board of Control for the award of contracts next week. The other two perhaps before the end of the year. 3) Litigation update: Elm Street Properties v. City of North Olmsted, which is pending in Common Pleas Court, we have received notice of plaintiff's service of notice of dismissal without prejudice. The case of City of North Olmsted v. Laser Wash, has been set for initial appearance on December 11 at 9 a.m. in Rocky River Municipal Court. The case of County Commissioners v. Tommy J. Fitch, the Board of County Commissioners filed an appropriations petition to take some 10 feet of additional right-of--way for future construction of storm sewers along Stearns Road south of I-480. The city has been named as a defendant. We will file an answer and cross claims if appropriate on or before December 12. 4) Asst. Law Director Carole Heyward reports that on Saturday, December 1, on behalf of the Fair Housing Review Board, she held a seminar for North Olmsted landlords. It was attended by 8 persons who are landlords in the City of North Olmsted or interested in landlord issues. This is part of the job of the Fair Housing Review Board-to get information out to landlords with respect to appropriate landlordltenant policies in the City of North Olmsted. 5) Carole Heyward has provided information on real property maintenance in the city for this year. The numbers are down because the Building Dept. has had a tough year with a lot of staff changes and vacancies in positions. As of December 1, there have been 26 property maintenance violations referred to the Law Dept. for action, which is down from 37 last year. We hope next year, with the Building Dept. getting up to full staff and with the real property maintenance initiatives that Carole Heyward has recommended to the administration, to get those numbers up. Real property maintenance is key for how the City of North Olmsted does in the future. 6) City Prosecutor's report for the month of November: 186 total cases, which compares pretty similar with November of 2006 when there were 200; 100 pleas; no trials. Finance Director Copfer: 1) The October financial reports, including the summaries and detailed revenue and expenditure reports, were either put in Council's mailboxes or e- mailed yesterday. The Financial Review through October was distributed this evening. 3