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Council Minutes of 4/1/2008 supplemental authority in that action. A supplemental authority is Judge Sutula's judgment. We will be participating in that case also. • Szarka v. City of North Olmsted, which is pending in the Cuyahoga County Court of Appeals. The city prevailed at the Common Pleas Court level in that case. A conference hearing has been scheduled for April 16. The purpose of the conference hearing is for the parties to talk and see whether or not it can be resolved without going forward and briefs being filed, arguments being made, and the court ruling on the merits. • Hearing date on an arbitration involving a fire fighter grievance relating to the subject of use of comp time is set for 3une 10 before arbitrator Harry Graham. • Laser Wash case is scheduled for trial on April 17. A proposed new minor change has been submitted. If that is approved by the city, it will probably result in a plea being taken and the case being resolved. • City of North Olmsted v. Suburban Collision Center, the nuisance odor citation that is pending in Rocky River Court. A motion to dismiss has been filed. New counsel has entered an appearance in the case. The new attorney's name is Richard Panza from the law firm of Wickens & Panza. He has filed a motion to dismiss, and the city will be obviously opposing that motion at the appropriate time. 3) Prosecutor's report: Traffic and General Offenses prosecutions were down in March with a total of 210 cases. Ninety-seven were General Offenses cases, the remainder were traffic, and there were no trials. 4) Carole Heyward has reported that HUD has completed its audit of the city's fair housing program for this year and that she believes the audit went well. There are no apparent problems with the city's capacity building program. Finance Director Copfer: 1) On March 19, the Finance, Building and Engineering divisions met to coordinate the workload of engineering paperwork and documentation of the deposits and permits they manage to ensure we are maintaining the records we require as we consolidate. It was a good healthy discussion and more exploration is required before we have another meeting to resolve the final issues. 2) Last week, Nat City Investments sold the $2,370,000 in bond anticipation notes which shall mature on April 2, 2009. The interest rate is 2.35% which will be $55,695 in interest costs that will be due in 2009. The broker fees and other costs of issuance, such as OMAC, Cusip numbers, etc totaled $4,621.50 and were paid for through the issuance rate. The bond counsel fee is $7,000 and will be paid out of the applicable funds, not within the issuance proceeds. 3) The Police union employees received their raises March 21 and their retro-pay for 2007 and 2008 is in this Friday, April 4, pay. We are still awaiting the fire union officials to sign the final labor contract. Councilman Gareau made a motion to amend the agenda to include on first reading Resolutions 2008-50 and 2008-51. The motion was seconded by Councilman Barker and passed unanimously. Councilman Ryan, chairperson of the Intra-Governmental Relations Committee: 1) Councilman Ryan made a motion to amend Resolution Nos. 2008-23, 2008-41 and 2008-42, which have been previously posted by the Clerk of Council pursuant to rule and also were distributed to all members of Council. The amendment to Resolution 2008-23 consists of a change in the heading, and the amendments to Resolutions 2008-41 and 2008-42 are to the distribution of the legislation. The motion was seconded by Councilman Gareau and passed unanimously. 3 ,p;,..b i