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MINUTES OF THE SPECIAL MEETING OF THE COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF NORTH OLMSTED JANUARY 29, 2008 Present: President of Council Kennedy, Council Members Barker, Gareau, Dailey Jones, Kearney, Mahoney, Orlowski Also Present: Mayor O'Grady, Law Director Dubelko, Finance Director Copfer, Clerk of Council Seman Absent: Councilman Ryan President Kennedy called the special City Council meeting to order at 7:35 p.m. in Council Chambers, 5200 Dover Center Road, North Olmsted, Ohio. The Pledge of Allegiance was recited by all present. REPORTS Councilman Gareau, chairperson of the Finance Committee: 1}The Finance Committee met concerning legislation 2007-156 and 2007-157 on two occasions. The first was on January 22, 2008, and this evening, January 29, 2008. This evening's meeting was called to order at 6:15 p.m. Present were Council President Kennedy, Council Members Barker, Jones, Orlowski, Gareau, Kearney, Mahoney; the Mayor, Finance Director, Service Director, Safety Director. Both pieces of legislation were discussed. Ordinance 2007- 156 is an ordinance amending the organizational charts of the Engineering and Building divisions of the city in order to deliver services from each division in a more efficient and economical manner. This piece of legislation is the proposal by the administration to reorganize Engineering and Building. Specifically, when one goes through the organization chart within the city, you see there are several positions that exist within the Division of Engineering which actually have not been filled or occupied. Also, the Assistant City Engineer is no longer serving in that capacity. The proposal would be to reduce the division of Engineering to a City Engineer and an Assistant City Engineer, who would be listed as employees of the City of North Olmsted and division members within the division of Engineering. Additionally, there was a proposed amendment to restructure the Building Dept. to have three full-time equivalent property maintenance inspectors as opposed to currently one full-time property maintenance inspector and one seasonal part-time property maintenance inspector. There would be an increase to 3 clerical workers from 2, with the expectation that one of the clerical workers would be working with the full-time equivalent property maintenance inspectors. There were amendments that had to be brought forward on 2007-156. First, B on page 2, the word "equivalent" would be added to say three full-time equivalent property maintenance inspectors. The second amendment would be to remove "and one seasonal part-time property maintenance inspector." The administration indicated it was not their intent to