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Council Minutes of 2/19/2008 constructed. That is unacceptable, and he will not back down on this. He will continue to raise this issue if he has to at every meeting from here on until he leaves. Roll call continued: Kearney, yes; Ryan, yes, with comment. Somebody within the city should have the engineering expertise to look at something like this, maybe on a daily basis and maybe it wouldn't have happened. It would have been nice to have a City Engineer who would have taken the time and effort to go out there and look at it. Roll call continued: Mahoney, yes; Orlowski, yes, with comment. He would like information regarding the approval of work performed and who signed off for work performed, and the date when the work was accepted as satisfactory if in fact it has been accepted as work satisfactorily performed. The work he is referring to is the resurfacing of Lorain Road from Canterbury Road to the eastern city corporation line. He is requesting Council, after resolution of all inquiries, to consider a prompt repair of the roadway and subsurface to protect the integrity of the roadway against further future deterioration and increased future costs. Roll call continued: Jones, yes; Barker, yes, with comment. He suggested legal action in the committee meetings. He is suggesting that now. The motion passed unanimously. Resolution No. 2008-3 adopted. Resolution No. 2008-7 introduced by Mayor O'Grady was given its third reading. A resolution authorizing the Mayor to enter into various agreements with Great America Leasing Corporation for the placement and service of a new postage application machine for the various city departments' mail. Councilman Gareau moved for adoption. The motion was seconded by Councilman Barker and passed unanimously. Resolution No. 2008-7 adopted. Ordinance No. 2008-13 introduced by Mayor O'Grady was given its third reading. An ordinance providing for the issuance and sale of $1,270,000 of notes, in anticipation of the issuance of bonds, for the purpose of improving certain designated streets in the city, in cooperation with the Director of Transportation of the State of Ohio and Cuyahoga County and otherwise, by grading, draining, constructing, reconstructing and rehabilitating the pavement base, curbs a~ld sidewalks and adjusting, rehabilitating and reconstructing catch basins, manholes and water valve boxes, where necessary, preparing the surface and surfacing and resurfacing, in each case together with the necessary appurtenances and work incidental thereto, and declaring an emergency. Councilman Gareau moved for adoption, and the motion was seconded by Council Member Dailey Jones. Roll call: Gareau, no, with comment. He votes no on Ordinance 2008-13 for the following reason: In December of this year, during the discussion of the RFP process we were implementing, he specifically noted that he had concerns about taking our borrowing and including within our borrowing authorization to enter into contracts with bond counsel and our investment advisor. At that point, he commented he would prefer to see the ordinances handled in a separate way if possible. In other words, don't include the borrowing with the hiring of a law firm and the investment advisor. When the ordinances came forward, they did not do that. He knows for a fact that we've used the same counsel for probably the better part of forty years, and never once have we asked are we going to put that through the RFP process. The same thing goes with our investment advisor. He is not suggesting there is anything wrong with who we use for either of those services through Sduire, Sanders & Dempsey or through NatCity. But 9