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City Council Minutes of 1/16/2007 With regard to the delays on the front entrance, Councilman Tallon asked the Mayor if there have been any warnings or fines implemented. Mayor O'Grady answered that he had a discussion with the Law Director about this last week. At this time, there have been no fines. However, the administration has communicated in a direct way concern and dissatisfaction with the way things have been going. Law Director Dubelko: 1) Thanked members of Council, the administration, and the Mayor who responded to his request to move forward on some of the good government initiatives proposed in annual report. Nothing gets done without the administration and Council cooperating and supporting each other. He is hopeful this year a number of those initiatives will be acted upon. 2) In response to Councilman Ryan's questions last week regarding membership on the Tax Incentive Review Council, the Law Dept. did conduct areview-the results of which can be seen in Ordinance 2007-8. In the past, mayors have placed members of Council on the TIRC, and it is his opinion that is not correct. The State statute calls for appointing two members of the public. Finance Director Copfer: 1) The labor negotiating team had two sessions with the Fire union and had two management preparation meetings. 2) She received Rocky River's month end report, and the Rocky River finance director stated they had a $14,580.81 surplus for the court for the year. She discussed volume issues at the court and adjusting for that through their operating budgets as they determined tickets written were down. She informed them to plan on the same or less volume from North Olmsted and verified that with the Police Chief. 3) The city met its reporting to the county by this afternoon. Based on all the server and bank reporting issues during the last two weeks, it is a miracle and a true testament to Assistant Director Leslie Bruxvoort's coping ability. The executive summary reports will be distributed to Council tomorrow, and the monthly detail revenue and expenditure reports will be e-mailed. 4) Although she has not yet analyzed the year-end numbers, the General Fund unencumbered balance grew slightly to $1,813,330, which is about $90,000 over what it was last year. She will be reviewing the city results in depth and providing a report to the administration and Council to precede the budget hearings. Councilman Tallon, member of the Environmental Control Committee reported on behalf of Chairperson Miller: 1) The committee met on January 10, 2007. In attendance were committee members Tallon and Gareau; Council Members Orlowski, Jones, Barker; Service Director Limpert, WWTP Superintendent Nichols, and Sanitary Sewer Systems Supervisor Binggeli; guests. The purpose of the meeting was to discuss the latest letter sent to the EPA with regard to work to be done to improve the city's sanitary sewer system. An update and overview of this letter was given by Director Limpert. After that, there was a more detailed explanation and question period by the WWTP superintendents. The meeting was very informative and helped keep Council abreast of our on-going situation. As this was an informational meeting, there was no need for any motions. 4