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N/ ~A, Council Minutes of 6/17/2008 16) Mr. Barry Boehnlein has retired from our WWTP. We thank him for his 30 years of service to our community, and we wish him well. 17) The county will soon be closing the Lewis Road bridge in the Metropazks for a reconstruction which is expected to last about a year. 18) Construction of existing Stearns Road is expected to conclude by the end of July. The south side of Lorain Road will have concrete poured this Thursday, during which time traffic will be limited to one lane. The north side of Lorain Road should be completed by late August with all landscaping and other wrap-up completed by the end of September. Law Director Dubelko: 1) Law Dept. has hired a new law clerk, Danja Therecka, who will work with him and Assistant Law Director O'Malley on civil law reseazch. Prosecutor Gordillo is interviewing for a law clerk to assist him in his work at Rocky River Municipal Court. 3) Prepared a memo for the Charter Review Commission and attended its last meeting to advocate for two proposed amendments to the City Charter that were sponsored by Councilman Mahoney. He looks forwazd to the opportunity to address the issue again when it is heard by Council's Intra-Governmental Relations Committee. 4) On June 10, received a public records request from the Westlife regarding the proposal to construct a new Rec facility in the city. He is in the process of gathering records and reviewing records to provide a response. 5) Litigation items: • City of North Olmsted v. International Association of Fire Fighters, a case sometimes before Judge Sutula and also the Court of Appeals, has had another ruling. Last Council meeting, he had reported that the Court of Appeals had sent the matter back to Judge Sutula to rule on a couple of post judgment motions and then had given him additional time to complete that task. The judge has ruled, and he did formally deny the city's motion to vacate. He also in part granted the union's combined motion for sanctions and for pre judgment interest. We received another ruling yesterday containing a revised final order in which the judge revised the judgment entry from which we had initially filed our motion to vacate, which he had denied. In his revised order, he granted the city the relief sought by changing some of the language in the order that the city felt could be confusing and could interfere with the parties contractual rights under the new collective bargaining agreement for 2007-2008. He is happy about that most recent order and thinks everything will be clarified as our appeal continues now back to the Eighth District Court of Appeals. • Pending labor arbitration before arbitrator Harry Graham involving a comp time issue in the city's Fire Dept., the grievance has been withdrawn by the union with the understanding the city would pay the arbitrator's cancellation fee. That has been done, and the matter has been resolved with no award against the city. Councilman Ryan requested from the Law Director a copy of a memorandum he wrote several years ago regarding a proposed Charter amendment to eliminate the position of Council President. The Law Director will provide a copy to Mr. Ryan. 3