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Council Minutes of 11/7/2007 18) Road repairs continue on Great Northern Blvd. just north of Brookpark due to a water line break. Six cubic yards of reinforcing slurry were placed in the hole on the east side of the street to fill the eroded base between ground and pavement. Work is continuing on the west side of the street. 19) The duct work was cleaned in City Hall, which is an important safety issue for employees and residents who visit. 20) Service Director Limpert and City Engineer Dan Collins attended akick-off meeting with engineering firm HNTB dealing with the water feasibility study. The complete study is expected to take about 17 weeks. Law Director Dubelko: 1) Update on Suburban Collision: He is continuing to correspond and communicate with the city's expert, Auburn Environmental, and also with the attorney for Suburban regarding the cause of odors continuing to be experienced by neighbors living near Suburban. The experts from both sides have been meeting in an effort to fashion a mare comprehensive approach to determining the source of odors at the facility and in the vicinity of the facility. Given that the experts are working together to find a more comprehensive solution, he does not recommend that Council revisit the conditional use permit issue so as to allow more time for a comprehensive look at the entire facility. 2) He is currently evaluating the RFP's for outside counsel, and by the end of the month, he will report to the Board of Control and ask for an award for outside counsel in the various areas. 3) Prosecutor's report for October: Total of 224 cases; 86 were General Offenses violations; 138 Traffic Code violations; 107 pleas were taken; no trials. 4) He has been receiving good feedback on Carole Heyward's real property initiative proposal which was circulated to the administration. It's a truism that good neighbors make for good neighborhoods. Real property maintenance is one of those things that the city can do a lot to build and protect good neighborhoods by protecting the housing stock. There are excellent ideas in the report, and some of the proposals will be factored into the budget process. There will be other initiatives coming out of the Mayor's office and Building and Safety which are going to do a lot to keep North Olmsted a healthy, middle class community, with a good solid housing stock. 5) Congratulations to all the participants in yesterday's Council-at-Large election. Mayor O'Grady congratulated Asst. Law Director Heyward and the Law Dept. on the property maintenance initiative. This is a proactive approach to protecting the value of the properties of our neighborhoods and protecting the largest investment that we will probably ever make, our homes. He believes the initiative will be trend setting in the region. Finance Director Copfer: 1) Todd Cooper, a Squire, Sanders & Dempsey attorney who specializes in arbitrage rebate calculations, has been requested in conjunction with our bond counsel to compile the amounts we may owe to date for the library bond issue portion that did not meet the spend down requirement rules. The fee will be $10,000 and that, along with any arbitrage owed, may be paid out of the construction fund remaining proceeds or the library bond retirement fund. He has provided no estimate for what the 3 ~~