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City Council Minutes of 4/3/2007 4) Civil litigation: • An award in a disciplinary grievance in the Police Dept. The arbitrator upheld cause for discipline, but reduced the number of days suspended • In the case of North Olmsted Fire Fighters v. City of North Olmsted, case assigned to Judge Villanueva involving azbitration award of Carne Donald. The procedural skirmishes have been resolved. The pazties have agreed to dismiss the motions and get the court on track with deciding the merits of the motion to vacate. • In a case before Judge Sutula involving a motion to vacate Fire Dept. arbitration awards, another procedural skirmish was resolved. The parties were able to agree to dismiss some procedural motions and encouraged court to get back to merits of the issue. • Elm Street Properties case, is tentatively scheduled for trial in June. Judge William Coyne has been assigned to the case. There have been some settlement discussions; at the appropriate time, he may bring something to City Council for consideration. 5) Asst. Law Director O'Malley asked he report to Council on non-conforming signs. Two signs, King Auto and Lampshader were resolved through voluntary compliance. Finance Director Copfer: 1) A meeting was held with the copy machine representative to obtain the options available to address the Clerk's copying needs in the most efficient and cost effective manner as her office moves upstairs. Since we have a number of copiers under lease that we felt we needed, we don't want to add another lease if possible. After discussion with other directors and the Mayor, it was felt best to satisfy all the copying needs of the city by switching the copier in Finance with the mailroom black and white copier and putting the mailroom copier in vacant space in Finance approximately where it will be located after renovations. In this way, the electrical and network hook-ups will be in the correct spot. They have tested Finance's ability to print purchase orders on the mailroom copier and also the scanning capability that is needed. Since it's a network copier, if anyone needs it for a large print job, it can be sent from their desktop and scheduled in. The copier will be moved as soon as the cabling is complete. 2) She and Asst. Finance Director Leslie Bruxvoort met with Great Lakes Billing about the age of our outstanding non-resident EMS receivables that go back several years. The president and co-owner of Great Lakes Billing agreed to review a sampling of those outstanding and ascertain if there are any extenuating circumstances that would apply to a group of these claims outstanding. In the meantime, she has researched existing legislation to find out who's authority and who has responsibility for writing these off to collection or off completely if applicable. The contract is from 2000, but a completely signed copy with Great Lake Billing's signature could not be located. The contract was written to automatically renew each year. It doesn't specify a procedure for uncollectible accounts or who is responsible and at what point in time those occur. She will be reviewing any administrative procedure changes that would enhance the collection process of those and legislatively with the Law Director what needs to be done to support any of the above issues. 3