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Council Minutes of 10/7/2008 13) As mentioned during caucus meeting by North Olmsted Library Manager Dianne Discenzo, the ribbon cutting and opening reception for the North Olmsted Branch Library will be Friday, October 10, at 4 p.m. and all are certainly welcome to attend. A community open house will be held on Saturday, October 11, from 1 to 4. 14) Our division of Youth Services will host afund-raiser Sunday, December 14, at the Beck Center featuring the play Peter Pan. Tickets are available by calling Youth Services. 15) Red Ribbon events have been scheduled at the high school and middle school over the coming weeks. Special programs and anall-school assembly have been designed by the Division of Youth Services in cooperation with the North Olmsted City Schools to discuss the effects of alcohol and drugs. Football players and cheerleaders will wear red ribbons at the final home game of the season this coming Friday. 16) It is expected that the Crocker/Stearns project in North Olmsted will be completed by the end of this month, which is well ahead of schedule. We aze optimistic that the entire roadway will be open through Westlake by the end of the year. By the end of this month, all the cones will be removed, striping will be in place, and traffic signalization will be in place, and we'll be moving. The Lorain/Stearns intersection and all the roadway in North. Olmsted will be complete. The Westlake connection at Center Ridge is not yet done. 17) The I-480 sound walls are slated for completion by the end of this month. Again, congratulations to the members of the administration and Councilwoman Nicole Dailey Jones who signed off with him on letters urging the rapid reconstruction of these walls. Due to those efforts, the walls were installed two years eazler than projected by ODOT. 18) I & I work has begun in the Deerfield development, and Council will soon receive an update, not only on the results of that study but on the overall plan for I & I. Law Director Dubelko: 1) Pending litigation: • City of North Olmsted v. Cleveland Hockey Supply, a collection action. The city alleged that Cleveland Hockey Supply owed it $17,000. A consent judgment entry has been agreed to and filed in Rocky River Municipal Court. A partial amount had already been paid an the debt, so the judgment was taken for $10,100 with an agreement not to execute on it so long as weekly payments in a certain amount are made. This case is almost complete, subject to going back into court if the defendant doesn't honor its word and keep up with the payments. In Rocky River Municipal Court, the case of North Olmsted v. Suburban Collision, apre-trial was held today and it was continued. As an update, apparently one of the new paint booths has already been installed and the second one is under work but not yet installed. Progress is being made at that location, and the criminal case continues to pend in Rocky River Court. • Anew action was filed against the City of North Olmsted, Howard Baker v. Jackie Frolo, et a1, with the city as part of the et al. It's essentially a malicious prosecution action that was brought against the city and several of its police officers and an individual who was involved in an altercation with Mr. Baker. This falls within the scope of our liability insurance coverage, and it has been ~.