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Council Minutes of 5/6/2008 • In the Rocky River Municipal Court case of City of North Olmsted v. Suburban Collision Center, there was a motion hearing today before Magistrate Barb Valponi on the defendant's motion to dismiss for lack of jurisdiction. Asst. Law Director O'Malley attended that hearing today. The court denied that motion and insisted that the defendant enter a plea. The case now is being assigned to rule on a more typical motion to dismiss on issues that the defendant has raised in that case. • On April 24 in the case of City of North Olmsted v. Laser Wash, the court accepted the party's plea bargain which is based upon the defendant submitting a minor change that was acceptable to the city. The defendant was found guilty and fined $35. The fine was small, but the important point was to get some respect for the city's minor change process. • Afire fighter's grievance regarding a comp time issue has been set for arbitration on June 10, 2008 before arbitrator Harry Graham. 2) Prosecutor Gordillo's monthly report: 278 total cases handled in Rocky River Municipal Court this past month; 127 General Offenses; 151 Traffic. Two cases were tried and there were two convictions. Finance Director Copfer: 1) On April 28 at the request of the EPA's financing division, known as DEFA, she and the Service Director met with ATS Engineering Consultants, the EPA Enforcement Division and DEFA to bring the Enforcement Division up to speed with the plan to ensure that their concerns are adequately addressed in the plan that is being financed by DEFA. 2) April 28, met with the STC operations director regarding the potential for them taking over the operations of NOCOP. The purported savings to NOCOP could be $25,000. However, this needs to be evaluated and will be presented to the NOCOP Board of Trustees. 3) April 29, AFSCME ClericaUTech negotiations were cancelled by the union representative, but she participated in Dispatch negotiations in the afternoon. 4) April 30, attended a Records Commission meeting where the Planning Dept. and all the boards and commissions retention schedules were approved. Donna Rote did an excellent job taking and applying these public records laws and rules to each of the boards and commissions separately. It was a very good presentation by her. The Commission is now moving on to Human Resources and Service. 5) On May 2, she and Carole Heyward met with bond counsel to discuss contractual issues to be addressed in the YMCA agreement and the draft ballot language that will have to be prepared. 6) May 5, the Mayor and Directors met to discuss revenue enhancement potential to mitigate increasing costs. 7) May 6, attended FEMA Incident Command Training. She is the designated person to say yes or no if the money can be spent. 8) The Board of Elections has revised the charge-backs for the 2007 election. Originally, our cost was about a hundred and three thousand dollars. However, it has been revised to $88,300. This was a great savings, but previously costs for the city's share has never been more than $34,000. 9) The financial review of the first quarter is going to be discussed next week at the Finance Committee meting. Councilman Ryan, noting open government is good government, requested a copy of the minutes of the meeting with the EPA Enforcement Bureau. Finance Director Copfer explained that it was an administrative meeting and there were no minutes. Mayor O'Grady suggested that Mr. Ryan speak to any of the people who attended the meetings and they would be able to answer his questions. Councilman Ryan expressed the opinion that some type of minutes should