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Council Minutes of 8/7/2007 • City crews continue crack sealing on side streets. A contractor completed crack sealing on Lorain Road, Brookpark Road and Columbia Road. All three are state routes, therefore, that work can be paid for out of our state highway fund. • The asphalt overlay and asphalt recycling projects are under way. The Service crews are completing the necessary work to the south Michael Road overlay. • The third component of our rate and operational study finally was received Monday from ATS. Phase II of our sanitary system study is continuing with flow meters recording information for that study. • Fleet Maintenance has just refurbished our 12-year old CAT front-end loader. This fabrication work saved the city thousands of dollars on parts alone. The cost of a new loader currently would be in excess of $100,000. It is remarkable the work those folks can do. 6) Legislation: • Ordinance 2007-93, which was discussed during caucus, deals with the interim part-time Fire Administrator. As he has previously stated, this is a safety issue for our residents, which is a statement from the Fire Chief. He urges support of this legislation and asks that it be passed under suspension of the rules today. • Holding legislation in committee is not adding value to legislation. Two pieces of legislation being held in committee have an impact on the health and welfare of our residents. Ordinance 2007-68, which deals with the RFP process, is currently being held in the Finance Committee; Ordinance 2007-72, the "Do Not Knock" registry, is currently being held in the Safety Committee. Residents are calling complaining about solicitors knocking on their doors. Councilman Barker said that he did not receive any calls about flooding from his Ward. He thanked Bob Binggeli and his crew for the work they did during the heavy rainstorm and also Service Director Limpert and all his people. He noted that other cities, such as Westlake, got hit hard, so it is not just North Olmsted that has water problems. Councilman Ryan said he had sent a letter to Mr. Limpert on June 26 requesting a copy of the WWTP rate and operational study as he wanted to read it during his vacation. He expressed concern that the administration did not provide each Councilperson with a copy as was done with other reports. Mayor O'Grady answered that there was only one copy available which was provided to City Council. The third part of the study was received yesterday. (The Service Director came forward and provided a copy for the Council office.) The administration is not going to provide one to each Council Member until they go through it as there will be changes to the documents. They intend to have a briefing from ATS first to the administration and then to Council as quickly as they can after that. Councilman Ryan again expressed his dismay that each member of Council did not receive a copy of the documents to review because setting the sewer rates is the most important thing that Council is going to do next year. Councilman Tallon expressed concern about the contract for the Council Chambers audio system. The winning bidder was Paladin (Paladin Professional Sound), but he asked that the contract be set aside. He believes the City of North Olmsted is not being made available of the best and lowest cost to that project because Paladin was the designer of 3