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Council Minutes of 10/16/2007 and therefore defendant has no objection to their removal if deemed necessary by the city or neighboring property owner. 8) On October 11, Asst. Law Director O'Malley made a presentation to the Cuyahoga County Law Directors Association on the ongoing Tic-Tac-Fruit controversy in Ohio. The meeting was well attended by Law Directors throughout Cuyahoga County. Finance Director Copfer: I) The estate tax collections for the second half of 2007, which closed the end of August, totaled $340,342 and is not included in the estimated resources of the General Fund. This amount is very similar to the 2006 b collections. We usually receive it in October or November. 2) Our IT Consultant and Munis OSDBA support copied our database to a new database to operate in the newest version of Munis for testing purposes. Once we test transactions and are satisfied, we will go live on this version. 3) The tax rate resolution is before Council this evening. The county felt the city maybe short in the GO Bond Retirement Fund and recommended moving .l mills from the General Fund to it. This equates to about a $90,000 decrease in the General Fund. Additionally, based on their early estimates of property values, they reduced our assessed valuation by nearly 3%. This comes primarily from the decline in the taxable personal property that is being phased out. Theoretically, we are going to be made whole by the increase in the CAT tax receipts for that portion. As was discussed in caucus, this needs to be to the county by November 1, so it should be passed on suspension. Council President Kennedy: 1) The Committee-of--the-Whole met on Tuesday, October 9, to discuss a water feasibility study. Present were Council Members Gareau, Jones, Barker, Tallon, Miller and Orlowski; Mayor O'Grady, Finance Director Copfer and Service Director Limpert; Bob Kelly, the Director of Engineering for the City of Westlake. Discussed was Phase I of the water systems study to be done by HNTB Corp. at a cost to North Olmsted of $24,900. The first phase will include the development and evaluation of the preliminary alternatives for water distribution system upgrades in the cities of Westlake, Bay Village and North Olmsted required by the changing of water supply from Cleveland to the City of Avon Lake. The goal for Phase I is to provide feedback on the feasibility of changing our water supplier. After Phase I of the study, it should be clear whether the City of North Olmsted should move forward or not. The study will be started soon in the City of Westlake. At this time, the City of Bay Village is not going to participate. Mayor O'Grady made a friendly amendment to the report by saying in no way does this signal any effort on the part of the City of North Olmsted to make any moves towards going away from Cleveland Water. This is just our interest in participating in a water feasibility study. President Kennedy agreed. Councilman Gareau, chairperson of the Building, Zoning & Development Committee: 1) The BZD Committee met on Tuesday, October 9, 2007. Present were committee members Gareau, Miller and Orlowski; Council Members Dailey Jones, Barker, and Tallon; Mayor O'Grady, Law Director Dubelko, Finance Director Copfer, Community Life Services Director Dailey, and Planning Director Wenger. Agenda items included: • Ordinance 2007-103, an ordinance sponsored by Council Members Gareau, Jones and Barker, amending Sections 1115.06 and 1139.01 of the North Olmsted Zoning Code in order to limit the location of correctional facilities to the city's General Retail Business District as originally written. There was a group of residents in attendance that evening, 3