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Council Minutes of 12/2/2008 11) The Civil Service Commission certified that Al Herman was the top scorer for the position of Road Foreman, and he has accepted the position. 12) He would encourage Council not to suspend the rules for passage of Ordinances 2008-142 through 2008-146 and instead take an additional two weeks to consider the legislation. He will be sending out a memo that details some of the ideas the administration brought forwazd as the administration doesn't see a substantive basis for what's occurring. They don't see an effort at good government. A resident commented on this that it was the 5 P's: politics, personality, punitive, power struggles, posturing. Regarding leaf removal, Councilman Orlowski commented that he had received numerous calls from Ward IV residents who feel, as do Ward I residents, the early October pick-up is before the leaves have fallen. The second round pick-up on certain streets occurred four days early, so residents were unprepared and leaves have been on the tree lawn for a long time. Residents are also concerned that a large snowfall before the final pick-up will bury their leaves until spring. Other concerns are the number of leaves which aze matted down on the streets and in the street gutters. He believes the street sweeper truck is needed to clean the streets of the leaves to prevent the storm sewers from becoming the depository and blocking the flow of storm water. He hopes that can be addressed. Service Director Limpert came forward and commented that, as far as some of the pick-ups being early, that's being done as an additional service and is not part of the three passes. He has given the contractor the go-ahead to do that if he is ahead of schedule, but those do not count as a required pass. There should not be leaves sitting for weeks past due. He has received no real complaints this year, and it has been one o2' the smoothest leaf pick-ups we have had. We always get some phone calls from people who have trees that drop early wanting to know why the service hasn't begun. Then there are others who call asking why the service started so early. This year's leaf pick-up is going very well. If there are specifics, please share them with him and he will get it taken care of. Mr. Orlowski asked Mr. Limpert to address the street sweeping in order to get the leaves which are matted down at the curbs. Mr. Limpert said it would be best to wait until the final round is off the streets. When we get some temperatures above freezing, he will try to run the sweeper through the city. Law Director Dubelko: 1) Regarding an issue that Councilman Orlowski had brought to the Law Department about the care, control, and potential transfers of historical documents, the department has completed research and provided advice to the Landmarks Commission with copies to the Records Commission and Council. 2) Regarding the case of the city of North Olmsted v. Donald Patel. On November 19, a Rocky River Municipal Court magistrate conducted a time to pay review and granted the defendant additional time until January 14, 2009 in which to complete repairs or face a $15,000 fine and potential time in jail. It's been reported to him that there's been good progress in the repair work; hopefully, it gets done because we are trying to get the maintenance done as opposed to collecting fines. 3) Prosecutions for month of November: Prosecutor Gordillo reports a total of 193 cases handled-77 General Offenses and 116 Traffic; two trials and two convictions. 3