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Council Minutes of 5/20/2008 12) Majority of pavement on Stearns Road is down on the west side of the road. Pavement on the south side of Lorain has been removed and is expected to be replaced and ready for traffic within 30 days. Reconstruction of the north side of Lorain Road will follow soon after. 13) With Service Director Limpert, he attended apre-construction meeting with the County Engineer's office for the Lewis Road bridge replacement project. The tear down and construction for the bridge is to begin this June. 14) Bids for the 2008 asphalt recycling project and asphalt overlay projects were opened on April 30. City Engineer Collins reviewed the bids and his recommendations were brought to the Board of Control where asphalt overlay was awazded to Kokosing and asphalt recycling to Crossroads. 15) Legislation currently before Council, 2008-67 and 2008-68, were reviewed in the Intra-Governmental Relations Committee this past week and were not recommended for approval. He regrets he was unable to attend and speak to issues. Would ask that all of Council reconsider and consider passage of both of these ordinances because they bath represent good government. Both are designed to either correct swell-intentioned law that may be misdirected or to rollback perhaps something that was excessive. Regarding 2008-67, it is understandable that Council appreciates the presence of directors at City Council meetings. He has a policy in place which requires all directors to attend Council meetings. Ordinance 2008-68 put legislative controls on the administrative vehicle fleet. Having a pool of automobiles is a great idea, but having that control in the City Council is not good government. Councilman Ryan suggested that the flag presented by the 82°d Airborne be flown during the Memorial Day ceremonies, and Mayor O'Grady thanked him for the recommendation and said he would do so. Law Director Dubelko: 1) Litigation report: • City of North Olmsted and IAFF Local 1267 case. The motion to vacate an arbitration award in the case before Judge John D. Sutula, an adverse judgment was entered against the city. It has been appealed into the Court of Appeals. In the interim, the city filed a motion to vacate the awazd because of events that occurred after the judgment which made, in the city's judgment, the perspective application of the judgment inequitable. The city had filed a motion to remand in the Court of Appeals to have the 60B motion heard by Judge Sutula so we could take the whole thing back up on appeal assuming that the 60B motion didn't go in our favor. In connection with that, the pazties have agreed to a joint stipulation that has been filed. The Court of Appeals had ordered Judge Sutula to rule on the 60B motion by May 16, but the judge asked for an additional 30 days and the court gave it to him. We would anticipate that sometime in mid-June we should get a ruling from Judge Sutula on our motion to vacate 60B and perhaps also on the motion for sanctions that was presented against him, the city, and Asst. Law Director O'Malley. • Companion case involving the fire fighters, another motion to vacate an arbitration award, is before Judge Villanueva. The parties have filed a joint stipulation in that case too. It's essentially the same facts that were filed in the 3 ~~