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Council Minutes of 6/3/2008 to extend the temporary conditional use permit. The alternative to this is litigation, and he would have significant concerns with going the route of litigation rather than to attempt to pursue an extension of a temporary conditional use process as a means of moving toward improving the situation at Suburban. It's particularly worthy to move in the direction of an extension of a temporary conditional use permit when you have a property owner who is willing to commit to spend so much money in an effort to resolve a problem at his place of business. 2) Prosecutor Mike Gordillo's report for May: A total of 246 prosecutions; 117 General Offenses cases; 129 Traffic; 0 trials in May; 141 pleas taken. 3) Civil litigation report: • Fire fighter litigation regarding some management grievances, on May 27, 2008 the Court of Appeals issued an order extending the jurisdiction of the trial court on the remand issue until June 16, at which time the Court of Common Pleas is to report to Court of Appeals conference attorney Ellen Ashwell regarding status of the case. The pre-hearing conference set for June 3 was canceled and not yet rescheduled. Outside counsel in this matter, Walter & Haverfield, filed a brief on May 23 in opposition to the union's motion for sanctions. • A grievance matter involving the fire fighters in an issue relating to comp time is going to arbitration. Hearing is scheduled for June 10. On May 30, the city's Law Dept. filed a motion to dismiss and bifurcate the hearing before arbitrator Harry Graham. • In Rocky River Municipal Court, city of North Olmsted v. Don Patel involved a building code violations nuisance matter at the Knight's Inn on Lorain Road involving a dilapidated metal staircase. The defendant was found guilty. The matter has been set for sentencing on August 20 with the understanding that the Building Code violation will be corrected prior to that date or the penalties will reflect accordingly. 4) Asst. Law Director Carole Heyward reports there is a fair housing accessibility training seminar set for June 11. She will be one of the speakers at the seminar which is being held at the Visiting Nurse Association, 2500 East 22°d Street, Cleveland, Ohio. The seminar is being hosted by bath the North Olmsted Fair Housing Review Board and the Shaker Hts. Fair Housing Review Board along with the Housing Research and Advocacy Center. The city of North Olmsted gets so much value from Asst. Law Director Carole Heyward in her expertise in fair housing matters as well as her work in real property maintenance. Finance Director Copfer: 1) Attended a Records Commission meeting on May 21 where the Mayor's department record retention schedule was approved. 2) The Finance Dept., Safety Dept., including the Fire Division, have had several meetings to develop the fire false alarm billing as provided for in the code. Finance will be receiving notice from the Fire Chief and will handle the billing and collections utilizing MLTNIS's miscellaneous billing module. 3) The unaudited general purpose financial statements were transmitted to the Auditor of State last week as required. The auditors were on-site today to complete their field work over the next two weeks. 5