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Council Minutes of 9/4/2007 Finance Director Copfer, Law Director Dubelko, Service Director Limpert, Planning Director Wenger; guests. Agenda items: • Resolution 2007-80, a resolution adopting the alternative tax budget of the City of North Olmsted for the fiscal year beginning January 1, 2008, and submitting the same to the County Auditor, and declaring an emergency. After a brief discussion and the reports by the Finance Director and the chairman of the Finance Committee, the committee unanimously recommended passage by Council. • Ordinance 2007-99, an ordinance dispensing with a 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 branch library improvement project. Opening remarks by the committee chairman explained that there were two options that the committee would review. One was using approximately $954,000 to pay down part of the debt service. The other was to provide funding to hire an architect for an improvement project for the North Olmsted branch library with the total funding of the project to come at a later date in ordinance form. The total funding of the project was estimated at $580,000. The Planning Director gave a brief overview of the improvement project, and the representative of R.C.U. Architects, Inc. made a presentation. After the presentation, a lengthy discussion took place with input from the local library administration, the county library administration, the North Olmsted Preschool P.T.A., and the North Olmsted City Schools. Councilman Tallon recommended inserting the number $58,000 in paragraph 2.1.1 in Exhibit 2 of Exhibit A, and also in Section 2.3 of the same exhibit. The committee unanimously recommended passage of Ordinance 2007-99 to Council. • Ordinance 2007-101, an ordinance authorizing the Director of Law to request proposals from attorneys and law firms to provide outside legal services for the years 2008-2009; and further authorizing the Mayor subject to approval of the Board of Control, to enter into an agreement with the attorneys and/or law firms selected in the RFP process. This ordinance is a repeat of an ordinance that was passed about a year and a half ago. After a brief presentation by the Law Director, the committee unanimously recommended passage by Council under suspension of the rule. • Due to the lateness of the hour, the committee unanimously voted to hold Ordinance 2007-68 in committee. Councilman Ryan, chairperson of the Intra-Governmental Relations Committee: 1) The committee met on August 30 at 7 p.m. Present were committee members and Mayor O'Grady. Agenda items: • Ordinance 2007-96. There was a long discussion on the legislation, and Mayor O'Grady provided input on the legislation and gave some good, careful consideration on it. (Council voted this evening to return the legislation to committee for further review.) • Ordinance 2007-102, which creates new Chapter 174 regarding a Job Creation Grant Program. After discussion, Mr. Ryan felt he would like it to be held in 5