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Council Minutes of 8/19/2008 Councilman Kearney, chairperson of the Public Safety, Health. & Welfare Committee: 1) The committee met at 7:1.5 p.m. this evening. Present were committee members Kearney, Orlowski, and Mahoney; Council President Kennedy and Council Members Barker, Dailey Jones, Gareau; Mayor O'Grady, Service Director Limpert and CLS Director Dailey. On the agenda was a liquor license transfer at Nuevo Acapulco, 24409 Lorain Road. The is a corporation name change from Azteca lnc. to Agave Maya LLC. The committee voted 3-0 to not object, and the meeting adjourned at 7:19 p.m. Councilman Kearney .moved that Council not object to the liquor license transfer for Azteca Inc. DBA as Nuevo Acapulco, 24409 Lorain Road, to Agave Maya LLC, at 24409 Lorain Road. The motion was seconded by Councilman. Orlowski and passed unanimously. AUDIENCE PARTICIPt~-TIION 1) Dennis Lambert, 25057 Carey Lane, commented that Ordinance 2008-70 has good intentions. Council needs to upgrade the position of the President of Council and. to share its responsibility with the .President of Cauncil. The legislation also addresses political party affiliation. In 2001, the people of the city voted to be non-partisan. He can't believe that this legislation could even get to first reading with that type of language. He believes Councilman Mahoney who sponsored it did so at the request of the Law Director. But he is surprised that the Law Director would generate legislation, even if it mirrors an old ordinance that was on the books sometime before the city became non- partisan, addressing political parties in our Charter. He believes that Article IV of Charter needs to be strongly amended, to be simplified and cleaned up so it is not micro- managing the city with a Charter instead of through ordinance. He also believes the city needs codified rules of Council. The President should be addressed in the Charter and his duties and responsibilities should be done by code, meaning the President can be given powers to do the things that need to be done. If Council doesn't like it, they go back into committee and change it legally. As long as this city leans on either doing it with a sledge hammer or not doing it at all, this city will never move forward. Councilman Mahoney commented that, while 1Vlr. Dubelko as our experienced Law Director made recommendations in terms of good government in his annual report, he conducted an independent review. He wants to remove any notion. that he sponsored. legislation at the request of or on behalf of the Law Director. He sponsored legislation as a member of Council after he did his own independent review. That goes for both Ordinance Nos. 2008-70 and 2008-69. He wants the record to be clear and. the people who are here in attendance to know exactly why this was sponsored. Law Director Dubelko explained the reason that he left the language in regarding minority representation on Council was because that is current Charter language. It was not the proposal from Councilman Mahoney to remove that issue. This was just simply about the President of Council and. the powers. He believes that issue was looked at ire 2005 by the Charter Review Commission, and the question. was presented to him whether or not this was obsolete language that could be removed pursuant to the provision of Charter that we have that allows removal of obsolete language. He asked. to leave it in. It 14