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Council Minutes of 2/7/2007 ~~ brought up previously during the budget process. The Streets & Transportation. Committee members voted 2-1, with NIr. Ryan being the dissen ing vote, to recommend approval of Ordinance 2007-9. Councilman Gareau asked to make a point of clarification to the report concerning his statement regarding assessments. He didn't necessarily state that we should be in the process of assessing people for street repairs. His comment was in the context of we never have had a dedicated funding source for street repair and that we are borrowing to repair the streets. Someday, if something doesn't change, we may ultimately be in a situation where we have to look at assessments, which is something he stated he is not in favor of at this point. On another issue in the report regarding in-house work, he is very concerned because two Service Dept. employees have retired and are not being replaced. There is too much work to be done by the Service employees, and. he would like the administration to consider using outside services for some of the work.. Mayor O'Grady said Councilman Gareau's comments are well taken. Doing more with less is what he promised, but it does raise concerns. With decreasing revenues, increased costs, change has to occur and has to be intelligent. One of things he is looking at across the board is what we might do differently. What are we doing in-house now that could more reasonably be done elsewhere`? That's all part of the reorganization being contemplated and planned. Councilman Talton, chairperson of the Finance Committee: 1) The committee met on Monday, January 29, 2007, immediately fo]lowing the joint meeting of the Streets and Transportation and Finance Committees. In attendance were committee members Talton and Miller, Council members Gareau, Orlowski, and Barker, Council President Kennedy, Service Director Limpert, Finance Director Copfer, Planning Director Wenger and guests. Agenda: • Ordinance 2007-2, a resolution authorizing the city of North Olmsted, Ohio, to become a member of, adopting the code of regulations of, and authorizing the Mayor to enter into the membership agreement, Master Services and Consulting Agreement, and the Master Products Agreement with the Northeast Ohio Sourcing Office. Mr. Limpert gave a presentation, noting that there would be a savings to the city of North Olmsted, to become a member of this organization. Mr. Robert W. Aber, membership manager for NEOSO, gave an overview of operations of the organization and the ways it can save the city dollars. The legal structure of NEOSO is a council of governments ("COG") organized under Sec. 167 of the Ohio Revised Code. By virtue of this designation, any county, city, township, school district, special district, and other public entity in the region may join NEOSO and utilize its product and service offerings. Offerings are created in accord with state bidding requirement, so that NEOSO members do not have to bid a product or service themselves. After a brief discussion and question and answer period, the committee voted unanimously to recommend approval to Council of Ordinance 2007-2. • Ordinance 2007-3, a resolution authorizing the Mayor on behalf of the City of North Olmsted as a member of the Northeast Ohio Sourcing Office to enter into a 15