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Council Minutes of 10/2/2007 3) Participated in the Police and Service union negotiations on September 24th and 26th, respectively. 4) Along with the Mayor, Councilman Barker, and NOCOP executive director John Dailey, participated at the NOCOP Board meeting. A financial update was given. The operational costs are similar, but because of the MRDD contract that we have of transporting those individuals, even though the additional resources are about the same in total, because they're higher, the cities' contribution is less, which is good for us and all the other communities. 5) Annual information filing has been completed and filed with the NEURM servers on Thursday, September 27th per our bond covenants. 6) Worked with Scott Ankrom of ATS Engineering on changes discussed with bond counsel in the documentation supporting the sewer rate increase. Bond counsel is performing its final review and expects to have legislation for the next meeting. 7) August financials have been distributed today. The detail reports were e-mailed. After review of the General Fund, it does not appear so far that there are any outrageous shortfalls that have surfaced, except for fire overtime potentially. Before consideration of any adjustments for that or the union contract settlements, she believes, based on the assumptions this budget was based on and historical trends, we should be able to reasonably expect similar carryovers as in the prior years in the mid million mark of $1.1 to $1.5 million. However, since 100% essentially of the carryover from this year is lawfully appropriated, if divisions expend all of their appropriation in the last few months of 2007, then the carryover will be as it is stated in the original plan or something substantially lower, such as $500,000 which is about what the revenues are in excess of the budget. There will be a bigger constraint on revenues in 2008, and the bigger the carryover the better. It spends in future years just as easily as it does now. Council President Kennedy: 1) The Committee-of--the-Whole met on Thursday, September 27. Present were Council Members Orlowski, Gareau, Jones, Miller, Barker, Tallon; Mayor O'Grady and directors Dubelko and Wenger. On the agenda was the presentation to Council of the Crocker-Stearns corridor plan as created by Urban Design Center of Northeast Ohio. The three main focus areas were Stearns Road, the Stearns- Lorain intersection, and the corridor sound walls. The Stearns Road discussion centered around redevelopment of that area. Discussion of short-term issues included helping residents with landscaping and potential turn-arounds because of the intense amount of traffic, the noise, and the difficulty of getting out of a driveway on a four-lane highway. This will be a drastic change for the residents. The committee looked at many different options for redevelopment, and the city has been very proactive in helping the residents with potentially what might be a future move. The next step is to get with developers and see what the best plan is for North Olmsted and also what is feasible for developers. At the Stearns-Lorain intersection, the biggest opportunity that presents itself is the southeast corner of the intersection. The northeast corner already has a Rite Aid, and the southwest is owned by BP. The northwest corner presents some challenges because of the size of the area. The Planning Director has been in contact with the owner of the southeast corner, and they will continue to talk once the Crocker-Stearns plan is approved. Regarding the corridor sound walls north of Lorain, the goal is to minimize the impact of 4