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Council Minutes of 3/5/2008 Law Director Dubelko: 1) Litigation-the Law Dept. received a notice from the IAFF to arbitrate a grievance involving the use of comp time in the city's Fire Dept. 2) Prosecutor Mike Gordillo's report: 247 cases in February; 103 were General Offenses cases, and 144 traffic cases. One trial and one conviction. 3) Carole Heyward has been working on the real property maintenance initiative. On first reading tonight is Ordinance 2008-44 which is part of the efforts she has been making in this area to reform our Real Property Maintenance Code to expedite procedures, elevate some penalties, and update the code. 4) The Law Dept. webpage is up again. In this effort, the department had a lot of good help from Mark Urbanowicz and Human Resources Director Cheryl Farver. 5) Reviewed, made revisions, and approved three significant contracts involving the Service Department: the Bowen outside engineer's contract; the ATS Engineers contract for the work to be done at the WWTP; the HNTB contract for the water study. All three have been fully executed. 6) Regarding Council's questions about the resurfacing of the east end of Lorain Road and the issues that were discussed in committee, those issues have gone back into the Law Dept. for review. The department has worked on review of the law, but there is still some additional information needed from the Service and Engineering departments in order to complete the analysis. Once the information is completed, the administration will be advised as to whether or not there is a claim and whether or not it should be pursued. Councilman Barker noted, with regard to property maintenance, he had recently attended a court proceeding for a residence that he had initiated a complaint for back in July. The case has been continued for another 30 days. After speaking with Asst. Law Director Heyward, he understands the continuance and is looking forward to seeing this through to conclusion. Law Director Dubelko said the next hearing would be March 11, and he appreciates Mr. Barker's support in attending the hearings and backing up the complaints in his neighborhood. Councilman Gareau asked the Mayor if ODOT or the County Engineer had responded to the request for review of the work on Lorain Road. Mayor O'Grady said he had not received any notification, and Service Director Limpert said the City Engineer has had some conversations but there was nothing to report. Finance Director Copfer: 1) She presented the "Finance 101" class to Council on Monday, February 25. Hopefully, everyone found it helpful and will continue to use the book as a reference, especially during the appropriations meetings. 2) She and Cheryl Farver negotiated with AFSCME Service on February 27. AFSCME Clerical/Tech was scheduled on February 20, but the session was canceled due to the illness of a member of the union bargaining team. 3} She has participated in several Rec plan meetings in the last two weeks as well with the Mayor, the Law Director, John Dailey and Kim Wenger. 4) She is working on getting all the infornation needed to be placed in the budget books for Council's use during the budget hearings. 3