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Council Minutes of 9/18/2007 the courts or the executive branch of the government get a clear upper hand in this back and forth battle. 4) Litigation-a new replevin action was filed against the City of North Olmsted by a DVI defendant. Seventeen weapons were seized in the course of a DVI prosecution, and the defendant has asked for those back. The Police Dept., in conjunction with Assistant Law Director O'Malley, is reviewing the replevin action as to which ones there is legal entitlement to and which there is not. 5) Assistant Law Director Carole Heyward reports she is planning an education seminar for North Olmsted landlords regarding the city's fair housing ordinance and best practices and tenant screening to be held sometime in November of this year. She also reports on real property maintenance prosecutions that she recently reached a plea agreement with an area contractor for failing to comply with the city ordinances when replacing a commercial roof. The plea agreement resulted in a $2,500 fine against the contractor. She also reports that later this month she will be attending a conference in Pittsburgh entitled "Vacant Properties-Strategies for Rebuilding America's Neighborhoods." She will be moderating a panel at the conference entitled "Understanding Mortgage Foreclosure and Prevention Strategies." The panel will also include the Cuyahoga County Treasurer. She is in the concluding stages of putting together the real property maintenance initiative which she has discussed with the administration and some members of Council. Finance Director Copfer: 1) She is sorry to have missed the ATS presentation on the rate and operational study done for the WWTP and system as she heard it was very informative and well presented. She invited Council Members to contact her with questions ash she knows it was a lot of detailed information. 2) Attended the Government Finance Officers Association Ohio Conference last week in Columbus to earn some of her required continuing education hours. What she most enjoyed was the time spent with her peers-seeing what's going on in other communities and different areas of the state, and problems that are consistent and some that are very different based on the areas, and discussing common issues. 3) She is preparing the annual information filing along with Squire, Sanders & Dempsey, which is a requirement of our bond covenant. It is due on September 27. President Kennedy: 1) The Committee-of--the-Whole meeting was held at 7 p.m. on Wednesday, September 17. Present were Council members Barker, Tallon, Jones, Orlowski, Gareau and President Kennedy; members of the administration; alarge number of employees from the WWTP; concerned citizens. On the agenda, was the presentation of the study of the WWTP by ATS Engineering. Making the presentation for ATS Engineering was Scott Ankrom & Dan Miklos. The presentation lasted about 45 minutes and started with historical perspectives and qualifications of the engineers and ATS Engineering. There were three main areas of emphasis: plant operations study, sewer rate evaluation study, and staffing study. A summary of the findings of the plant operations study included that much of the equipment is past its useful life, the plant is far too labor intensive, existing processes actually promote odors, the plant is not capable of treating at peak flows, the plant and collection system need automation and improvement or operating and maintenance costs will continue to skyrocket. The 4