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Council Minutes of 2/3/2009 • Ordinance 2009-11, an ordinance amending Section 137.01 Composition of Chapter 137 of the Administrative Code entitled Department of Law in order to eliminate certain duties of the Assistant Director of Law part-time and declaring an emergency. Law Director Dubelko advised City Council that, consistent with the request of the administration to achieve a balanced budget for the appropriation ordinance, the Law Director and Law Dept. went through its provided services and made a determination it would reduce the services being provided by Asst. Director of Law Cazole Heyward. She was previously prosecuting things such as the property maintenance cases, and she will now only provide services to the Fair Housing Review Board. The Law Director did report that those areas that Ms. Heyward used to work in would be covered by current staff. This is not the best way to do it. Carole Heyward was doing an excellent job in keeping our property maintenance department up and running and vigilant in prosecutions to ensure residential and commercial compliance. In this tight financial time, we are going to have to do things a different way. In that capacity, we will miss her. But he understands the Law Director taking the initiative to try to realize a savings to try to balance the budget. The committee, motion made by Councilman Barker and seconded by Councilman Kearney, voted 3-0 to recommend approval. • Ordinance 2008-6, an ordinance amending Section 1501.1901 of the City Taxation Code in order to temporarily reduce the City Income Tax Credit, and declaring an emergency. This was a newer version of legislation that was brought forward previously by the administration. The proposal was to reduce the tax credit for residents from 100% to 50% in the yeaz 2010, and to 75% in the year 2011, and thereafter the credit would return to 100%. The committee, with motion by Councilman Gazeau and second by Councilman Kearney, voted to hold that matter in committee. A full report will be given when and if the legislation is removed from committee. 2) A request was subsequently brought up by the Director of Law to suspend Ordinance 2009-11. That matter will be given consideration tonight in order to put the new responsibilities in effect to have it ready for the appropriation ordinance. Councilman Ryan, chairperson of the Intra-Governmental Relations Committee: 1) The committee met last Tuesday to discuss Resolution 2009-4, a resolution creating a new Citizens' Committee for the purpose of gathering and presenting to City Council projects for consideration for the city's Community Development Block Grant (CDBG) applications for fiscal years 2010 through 2012. All committee members were present. Planning Director Wenger felt very strongly we needed to go forward with this. The committee, motion by Councilman Ryan and second by Councilman Orlowski, voted 3-0 to recommend approval. Councilman Orlowski, chairperson of the Environmental Control Committee: 1) the committee met at 7 p.m. on January 27, 2009. Present were committee members Barker, Ryan, and Orlowski; Council Members Jones, Gazeau, Kearney, Mahoney, and Council President Kennedy; the Mayor, Law Director, Service Director, Planning Director, Jared Bartley of the Soil & Water Conservation District of Cuyahoga County, WWTP Supt. 4