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CounciC Minutes of 8/18/2009 Council Member Dailey Jones, chairperson of the Streets & Transportation Committee: 1) The Streets & Transportation Committee met on August 11, Present were committee members Jones, Mahoney, and Kearney; Council Members Gareau, Barker, Brossard and Orlowski; Mayor O'Grady and Directors Copfer, Limpert, Wenger, Thomas, and Dailey. The meeting started at 7:17 p.m., and discussed was Resolution 2009-92, a resolution authorizing the Mayor on behalf of the city of North Olmsted to enter into an agreement with M 1 Transportation, Inc., DBA North Olmsted Auto Mile, granting the latter permission to place banners on poles located in the city right-of--way on Lorain Road between Stearns Road and Great Northern Blvd. and declaring an emergency. The banners are being put up to enhance Lorain Road and bring attention to the consortium of auto dealers in North Olmsted, which was known as the auto mile for a while, and is now going to be known at the motor mile. The North Olmsted City Schools participated in an art contest to design the different banners that are being hung, and the auto dealership consortium then approached the city about this .project, working hand-in-hand with the schools. The motor mile dealerships will maintain the banners. They will install and remove the banners and will store them. CEI who owns all of the utility poles only allows the banners to go up for 6 to 8 week segments, and no banners can be put up from October through the winter months. CEI enforces the rules regarding these banners, and the motor mile assumes all responsibilities for the banners should one fall or damage the poles owned by CEI, etc. In committee, Mr. Mahoney moved to recommend approval of Ordinance 2009-92, and Mr. Kearney seconded the motion. The committee rec~:~~imended approval 3-0. The committee meeting ended at 7:30 p.m. Council Member Dailey Jones moved to amend 2009-92 to change all the areas of the legislation that currently read "cute mile" to "motor mile." The motion was seconded by Councilman Mahoney and passed unanimously. Ordinance No. 2009-92 amended. Councilman Kearney, chairperson of the Public Safety, Health & Welfare Committee: 1) The committee met on August 11 at 7:48; the meeting ended at 8:30. Present were committee members Orlowski, Kearney and Mahoney; Council Members Brossard, Barker, Jones and Gareau; the Mayor, Law Director, Finance Director, Service Director, Safety Director, Planning Director, and Chris Allegra the Youth Services Administrator. Agenda items included the following: • Ordinance 2009-89, introduced by the Mayor, an ordinance amending Section 1 of Ordinance No. 2002-103 in order to authorize the Mayor or his designee to utilize the services of collection agencies to more timely and effectively collect delinquent EMS accounts and declaring an emergency. This ordinance will help ` the city retrieve funds from non-residents who needed aid from the North Olmsted EMS. This gives the Mayor the authority to use a collection agency to recoup money owed the city by non-residents. Pros and cons were discussed, and the committee voted ?-0 in favor of the ordinance. • Ordinance 2009-91, which is being held in committee. • Ordinances 2009-93 and 2009-94, introduced by the Mayor. Ordinance 2009-93 is an ordinance amending Ordinance No. 98-149, so as to expand the authority of the city's Community Diversion Program (CDP), in order to increase the opportunity for program participation by diversion of certain traffic violations in 7