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Council Minutes of 8/21/2007 9) Assistant Law Director Carole Heyward has spent some time preparing two important pieces of legislation: the Job Creation Grant Program legislation, and the corrections facilities legislation that has been sponsored by several members of Council. She did a lot of good work on both of those. She is still working on putting together her real property maintenance initiative to present to the administration and, if necessary for Council action, to City Council. She is also working with Council Member Jones on fair housing matters preparing for Homecoming. 10) Civil litigation-Elm Street litigation continues on. We did have some meetings earlier in the year in an effort to attempt to settle the litigation by having the developer submit a new proposal that would meet the city's new cluster development code, but we never did hear back from the developer. A pre-trial was held the other day, and the court has set some discovery and other deadlines. We are marching forward on the litigation, and he feels pretty comfortable in that litigation. 11) He has taken back into the administration the "Do Not Knock" pending legislation. He sent it off to the Safety Director on the input of administrative costs. He prepared changes in the legislation in his department and hopes to get that back to Council shortly. Councilman Gareau asked if the city has received feedback on the right-of--way telecommunications box issue that was sent over to Walter & Haverfield. Law Director Dubelko answered that the box location issue was part of the negotiations if we were going to enter into a franchise agreement with AT&T. In the meantime, S$17 was passed and then AT&T withdrew from the negotiations. Finance Director Copfer: She participated in a police union negotiation session on August 9, 2007. 2) Two of the finance staff attended a Munis Ohio users meeting in Strongsville on August 9, 2007. There are some large potential Ohio government agencies looking at bringing Munis on as their financial system. All the cities that were there had an opportunity to complain that they need more support, upgrade and hardware staff at Munis before Munis should grow any more. This is an acknowledged issue by the Munis representative. On the bright side, the additional clients in Ohio may make us more powerful when attempting to affect change. The budget preparation module was also previewed at this meeting. 3) She attended a meeting with the Mayor, Service Director, ATS consultants and WWTP management to discuss the rate and operations plan and the presentation the consultants are to prepare for Council. This is different than the EPA Phase II study that was mentioned previously that is by CT Consultants. 4) She participated in a negotiation session with the AFSCME service union on August 16, 2007. 5) She participated in the fifth and final day of fact finding with the fire union on August 20, 2007. Both attorneys are going to submit briefs by September 24, 2007 and then the fact finder will begin writing his report. 6) She attended a Recreation Plan meeting today to discuss various issues and a potential timetable to bring this to fruition. 7) On a personal note, her parents, Bruce and Rita Weir celebrated their 50`" wedding anniversary on August 10, 2007. She has been blessed with great parents; and, as she 6