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Council Minutes of 9/1/2009 5) The mobile farmer's market at North Olmsted Park will continue on Tuesdays throughout the month of September from 12:30 to 2 p.m. All citizens who are interested in purchasing locally grown fresh produce can partake of this effort at the Senior Center. 6) Fire Chief Tom Klecan will join representatives of the Department of Homeland Security and Department of Defense to participate in a seminar hosted by the Cuyahoga County Emergency Management Agency regarding the urban area security initiative. 7) The Department of Public Safety does receive daily updates with regard to H1N1 from the Center for Disease Control and from the Cuyahoga County Board of Health. The priority target populations to receive immunizations for H1N1 include pregnant women, parents or childcare workers with infants under the age of 6, emergency medical providers with front-line direct care practices, and children with compromised health systems. Once this priority population receives the two-dose vaccine, the target population then moves to school aged children. Healthy adults are not included in priority populations for H 1 N 1. 8) The Department of Public Safety is working with the North Olmsted school district on a public education campaign regarding preventive measures and the flu. All are encouraged to practice health hygiene habits such as washing your hands, covering your mouth when sneezing or coughing, and staying home from work when ill. Symptoms associated with H1N1 include headache, fever, and nausea as do symptoms of other strains of the flu. 9) The Service Department has now taken responsibility for the traffic signal maintenance, which has resulted in greater efficiency in the correction of any traffic signal .mishap and a reduced cost to our taxpayers. 10) The fall brush roundup is scheduled to begin September 14. Brush should be placed out next week, and there will be one pass only. Fox all other times, we already pay for brush pick up. Please cut brush into 4 foot lengths, bundle it, and put it out with the weekly trash pick up. 11) Resolution 2009-85 is going to be considered today. It encourages our federal lawmakers to reform the health care industry in the United States. There are many residents in our city who are suffering today due to inept and unregulated system of health care delivery. We have the finest health care providers in the world, but the delivery of that health care, and the funding of that health care, is an absolute disaster. In Ohio alone, 30% of our citizens are denied health care due to pre-existing conditions. Our city tax base is undermined by non-payment of health care costs associated with emergency medical service that we provide to uninsured citizens. In Ohio, this amounts to a cost of $2.2 billion annually to hospitals, doctors, and municipal EMS services. He asks each member of Council to keep those residents in mind as they consider their vote on this needed legislation. Law Director Dubelko: 1) Regarding the case of city of North Olmsted v. Suburban Collision, the nuisance odor case pending in Rocky River Court, on August 25, the defendant consented to an extension of the diversion program. The department would like to see that diversion program extended to June 3 or thereabouts, to coincide with the term of the temporary conditional use permit, which Council granted a year and a half ago. We are making progress in it as the number of complaints coming out of the neighborhood have been reduced. 2