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Council Minutes of 4/21/2009 4) On Wednesday, April 29, from 11 a.m. until 9 p.m., the North Olmsted Senior Center will be participating in a "Dining for Dollars" event at our local Applebee's. You must present the flyer when you pay your bill, and the flyers are available at the Senior Center or from our Department of Community Life Services. 5) The COPS grant, requesting financial assistance to prevent additional layoffs within the Police Department, has been successfully submitted to the Department of Justice. An answer is expected this summer. 6) The Department of Homeland Security has published the guidelines for an Assistance of Fire Fighters Grant. The Department .of Public Safety will apply for funds to replace aging fire apparatus and will request funds to be used for training purposes as that budget was slashed earlier this year. 7) The Division of Youth Services recorded its 51St case of the year, which is a significant increase over 2008. 8) Stearns Phase II will have the areas around the I-480 bridge stoned in and steel grid work done to prepare for the paving at that location. 9) Hot patch is now available, and our street crews will be out doing proper patches to city streets. 10) Today the .Board of Control awarded asphalt overlay projects for 2009 to Kokosing and the asphalt recycling to Specialized Construction. 11) The bids for Dover Center Road should go out at the beginning of May. The 2009 funding becomes available from the state in July, which is when that project will begin. Finance Director Copfer: 1) She closed the month of March today, but she still has to perform her review of the financials. She plans on providing the financial detail and summary reports to Council by the end of this week along with the statistical report she hopes Council will find informative. 2) She prepared for and participated in the police union arbitration grieving the layoffs due to the lack of funds. 3) The RITA subpoena program which was done in February resulted in $24,000 in payments including taxes due, penalties and interest; also, $60,000 in additional filed tax return liability that is still due for tax years 2003 through 2007. Councilman Gareau, chairperson of the Finance Committee: 1) The committee met on April 20, 2009 from 7:04 to 7:23. Present were Council President Kennedy, committee member Barker, Councilwoman Jones, Councilman Orlowski, committee member and chairman Gareau, committee member Kearney, Councilman Mahoney; the Finance Director and Service Director. Agenda items included: • Resolution 2009-49, a resolution authorizing the Mayor to enter into a contract with Mercury Payment Systems providing for the latter to serve as payment processor for Springvale Golf Course and Ballroom. The Finance Department analyzed the fees paid for processing various credit cards to determine the value the city was receiving from its provider. Had the city been using Mercury Payment Systems through 2008, the total cost would have been $7,208.66. The cost for using First Data, would have been $8,949.75. The cost for using Electronic Merchant Systems would have been $9,094.08. The Finance 2