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City Council Minutes of 3/17/2009 Director and Safety Director. The committee discussed Resolution 2009-30, a resolution authorizing the Director of Public Safety to request Statements of Qualifications (SOQ's) for a plans examiner and back-up plans examiner; further authorizing the Mayor, subject to approval of the Board of Control, to enter into atwo-year agreement with the examiner selected and declaring an emergency. This is a boiler-plate resolution that comes through about every two to three years. We do not have a plans examiner in the Building Department, so we have to go on the outside to make sure the plans are studied for compliance to state codes for structures larger than three-family and any related accessory structures. The plan for the future would be for the Assistant Building Commissioner to become licensed as a Class I to help with plans examination. After a brief discussion, a committee motion was made by Mr. Gareau and seconded by Ms. Dailey Jones, and the vote was 3-0 to recommend approval. The meeting was adjourned at 7:50 p.m. Councilman Orlowski, chairperson of the Environmental Control Committee: 1) The Environmental Committee was called to order at 8:47 p.m. on March 10, 2009. In attendance were committee members Barker, Brossard and Orlowski; Council Members Gareau, Jones, Kearney, Mahoney and Council President Kennedy; the Law Director, Service Director and WWTP Superintendent, and guests. A review of the annual sewage sludge report to the Ohio EPA for year 2008 was presented. The refurbishing and new construction at the WWTP was briefly discussed. The Service Director stated the rendering of the sludge to a Class A state has not been ruled out. The design of the WWTP processes are still under consideration. The report states that the moisture content of the sludge is 7S% with the centrifuge removing 24-25% of the moisture. We are shipping mostly water to an Ottawa County landfill, which is west of Port Clinton. This is a sanctioned landfill for the deposit of raw sludge. The cost of our current system versus processing the sludge to a Class A product needs to be reviewed. It was not so long ago that diesel fuel was well above $4 a gallon. The Service Director stated that finding a user for the Class A sludge may not be readily available and landfilling the sludge may be necessary. The city of Lakewood has found a recipient farmer in Lorain County. Even if the treated sludge has to be landfilled, the Allied Waste Russia Township landfill is considerably closer than Ottawa County. The meeting was adjourned at 8:58 p.m. Councilman Kearney, chairperson of the Public Safety, Health & Welfare Committee: 1) The Public Safety Committee met at 8:1 S p.m. on March 10, 2009. Present were committee members Kearney, Orlowski and Mahoney; Council Members Gareau, Barker, Jones and President Kennedy; the Safety Director, Law Director, Service Director, and guests. Discussed was Resolution 2009-28, a resolution authorizing the Mayor to enter into an agreement with the University Hospitals of Cleveland that will provide for the North Olmsted Police Department to participate in the Ohio Department of Public Safety "Click it or Ticket" overtime project and declaring an emergency. The ordinance will allow the city money to pay officers 27 hours in overtime to target the area surrounding the mall where a study was done that observed many drivers without seatbelts. These monies will allow the police to target this area. The offenders must be pulled over for a primary infraction first, and a seatbelt violation will be a secandary S