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Council Minutes of 10/2/2007 ~; L'' District in order to participate in the district's program to collect and sell recyclables in the marketplace. In this matter, Mr. Limpert indicated the concept of this was brought to him by Shaun Solomon. Right now, we pay roughly thirty- six hundred dollars a year to haul cardboard from our city site. At times, we can't get it hauled away quick enough when we need more space. Under this program, instead of paying to have the cardboard hauled away by a trash hauler, we will be hauling it ourselves and then receive funds for the value of those recycled cardboards. It may result in a positive swing to as high as perhaps three thousand dollars. The committee unanimously recommended it. 2) Councilman Miller moved to amend Ordinance 2006-179 consistent with the version before Council at this time. The motion was seconded by Councilman Gareau and passed unanimously. Councilman Gareau, chairperson of the BZD Committee, noted Walters Advanced Dentistry was still in committee. He has not received any communication from them by way of additional information requesting Council proceed with that. The record should reflect the burden was put upon Dr. Walters to bring forward his response to the last meeting. Councilman Tallon, chairperson of the Finance Committee: 1) The committee met on Wednesday, September 25. In attendance were all of Council; Finance Director Copfer, Service Director Limpert, Ms. Tracy Strobel the Deputy Director of the Cuyahoga County Library, and guests. Agenda items included: • Ordinance 2007-99, an ordinance dispensing with the formal RFP process and authorizing the Mayor to enter into an agreement with R.C.U. Architects, Inc. to provide architectural design services for the North Olmsted Library Branch improvement project. In the discussion, the chairman asked two questions: Why wasn't Council made aware of the upcoming levy issue to be voted on in 2008? Could the levy money be used for the proposed changes to the library? Ms. Strobel answered the first by saying the issue is no secret because it had been written up in magazines. But Council was never told of it. It was never brought out at the meeting. The second answer was that the money from this issue could be used for the library. The allocations would be based on a county-wide priority. Assuming that our library is only three years old, we may not get any funds. A committee motion was made and seconded to recommend to Council passage of Ordinance 2007-99. In the motion, a recommendation for adrive-through window was included. However, a cost estimate was needed for that, and that was given today. (Councilman Gareau requested that he make the motion to amend the ordinance, and Councilman Tallon agreed.) Councilman Tallon felt there was a mistake in the information as it lists the construction cost estimate at $85,000, and the architectural cost at $15,000. He felt that should be $8,500 instead of $15,000 as the agreement is 10% proposed professional fee. The total cost of the project would be $665,000, and the total architectural fees would be 6