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City Council Minutes of 3/17/2009 5) Pleased to announce that health care costs for January and Februazy aze down by $225,000 compared to 2008. Congratulations and thanks to Human Resources Director Cheryl Farver and her staff for the outstanding efforts they have made in this regard. 6) On Thursday, Landmarks Commission members Paul Schumann and Dale Thomas will be featured speakers at the Chamber of Commerce luncheon. They will be speaking about North Olmsted history and about the preservation efforts underway at the Frostville Museum. 7) A public meeting for the Great Northern Multi-modal Transportation Plan will be held this Thursday, March 19, at 6:30 p.m. at the library. Following a presentation regarding potential transit, bicycle, pedestrian and streetscape enhancements, there will be an opportunity for community input. 8) Police Chief Wayne Wozniak is working with the Cuyahoga County Police Chief's Association on the distribution plan for federal stimulus funds targeted for law enforcement agencies. Under the current plan, Cuyahoga County's Department of Justice Affairs will act as fiscal agent and distribute the dollazs to selected cities. Discussions are underway. If we stay with the current plan, it is anticipated North Olmsted would realize something on the order of $25,000. An alternative being discussed now would have the city of Cleveland act as fiscal agent. In this case, potentially the city of Cleveland could recognize as much as $100,000 in revenue. Negotiations are proceeding, and we hope to have some determination by the end of this month. 9) Westshore Council of Governments will continue with efforts to establish a regional fire district. Four different consulting firms will be interviewed: Emergency Services Consulting of Oregon, Cazroll Buracker & Associates of Virginia, Matrix Consulting of Massachusetts, and Systems Planning Corporation of Virginia. These interviews will begin on Tuesday, April 28, and will held at the Westlake Recreation Center. Any and all are welcome to attend. 10) Select staff will be participating in a conference call at 1 p.m. on Thursday, Mazch 19, to learn how to access additional federal stimulus funding. The conference call will take place in the Council caucus room. The International City Manager's Association is the host of this call. He commends that association and others who aze working in these difficult times to promote further understandings of this stimulus effort. This is the time where we must work with every association that is available to find and draw additional funding to the city of North Olmsted. In answer to a question from Councilman Gareau, Planning Director Wenger came forward to speak about the status of the grant for the Barton-Bradley soccer fields. She noted funds are shown in the transfer ordinance in the Recreation Fund which will go towards the city's matching contribution. The grant received was for about half what we applied for and anticipated. We are still paring down the scope of the project. In order to still have a quality project, we have had to shuffle some money around to make sure that we had adequate funds to cover the city portion. Once the transfer ordinance is approved, we are going to be moving forward with the design of the project. Councilman Orlowski addressed the Mayor about a situation on Plumwood Drive and Bentley Drive with surface storm water drainage. He asked whether he could get a firm date as to when the Service Dept. will be able to take care of the problem as it has been 2 a... • .~~,.n,~,.:9,,,~,~..~r,