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Council Minutes of 4/15/2008 16) Crocker/Stearns construction is continuing along the west side of Stearns Road. A temporary lane will be constructed on the north side of Lorain at that intersection to help pass traffic during the intersection reconstruction. 17) Replacement of I-480 sound walls that were removed last year will begin soon. ODOT will be using the interchange infield area along I-480 as a staging ground. 18) Asphalt plants are scheduled to be opened on Apri121 for hot patch, and repair of our city streets will begin soon. 19) Bid books for the 2008 asphalt recycling and overlay projects are available in the Service Dept. Bid opening is at noon on Apri130. 20) Regarding the Recreation Plan that was submitted by the administration and heard in Council's Recreation Committee, he dots not feel that hearing individual elements of the plan in various committees rather than keeping the discussion in one place is good government. It is his belief this will only confi~.se the issue and confuse our populace. Neither he nor the Finance Director will attend that meeting. If Council Members have any question with regard to taxation or anything else, please feel free to contact the administration. Law Director Dubelko: 1) Would echo somewhat the Mayor's final comments and approach it a little bit differently. This is one of the reasons why he believes that North Olmsted should move in the direction of giving more authority to the President of Council to control which committees discuss which city business. Under the current rules, Councilman Ryan is entirely within his power to schedule a meeting and link the subject matter of the proposed tax increase and the Rec Center to infra-governmental matters. Possibly other committees could find a connection too, and there's a potential for seven separate committee meetings on different pieces of this issue. He thinks good government in North Olmsted requires that the President of Council have more authority to deal with issues like this. 2) On April 2, met with attorney Panza on the Suburban Auto matter regarding the temporary conditional use permit. It has been a temporary conditional use permit since early 2006. They had a fiuitful discussion with our expert present. Since that time, our expert has made a proposal for the city which he plans on discussing with the Safety Director regarding what our expert believes. should be done at that facility to start us on the path to finding a resolution to the nwisance odor complaints and to encouraging the owner to implant certain changes and then retest. Hopefully, everything goes well and we eventually lead to the conditional use permit that none of us expected would take this long to get to when Council voted on it actually two and a half years ago. 3) Legislative items before Council tonight: Ordinance 2008-44, the real property maintenance code. He has made the final change in that legislation that he brought up at the committee meeting and the Law Dept. is satisfied that the legislation is in a form that is ready for Council's final action. Ordinance 2008-49, the salary range ordinance, he worked with the Finance Director in tailoring the longevity language, that which will change longevity for all non-bargaining unit employees and eliminate it for full-time elected officials effective next term. 4) Litigation: The fire fighter arbitration awards were discussed in executive session at the caucus meeting. There have been a couple of motions filed in court and some action being taken by the city in response to those motions. With respect to Suburban Auto, on 3