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Council Minutes of 11-17-2015 Education Foundation was held this past Friday, November 15, 2015. This was also a successful event. • On November 7, 2015 a Civil Service exam was administered to establish an entry level police officer eligible list. Forty-four candidates participated and forty-two passed the test. At their meeting last night, the Civil Service Commission certified the fire lieutenant final scores. He congratulated the number-one ranked employee, Dan Coyle Director of Law Gareau: • He updated Council in the matter of James Connell vs. The City of North Olmsted, the class action flooding case. This case is still in its early stages because it was dismissed and refiled. There has been an incredible about of discovery involved over the past three years. Depositions have been taken and still continue. He feels it will be a matter of years before the city has a meaningful indication of where this case will go. He will keep Council updated as the case develops. Director of Finance Copfer: • On Thursday, November 5, 2015 she, the Mayor, the city's banker Tim Reidy and the city's Bond counsel John Larson travelled to Chicago to meet with Moody's Investor Service to present a picture of the city including what has been accomplished over the last few years identifying obstacles and solutions. Financial results were a large part of the presentation. She sent to Council this evening a copy of the rating presentation book that has a lot of good information about the city and a copy of the published Moody's Investor Service Report where they attached a Aa2 rating, which is the current rating, to the new debt and reaffirmed it on the outstanding debt. This is a good result, and in the report they cite in several areas strong financial management. This is a team effort from employees, the Mayor's Administration, and Council of which we can all be proud. She intends to sell the bonds tomorrow barring any market calamity. • She and the Law Director worked on the municipal income tax ordinance which is on first reading tonight. RITA provided a model ordinance framework to incorporate all of the state law requirements that will go into effect January 1, 2016. There were 13 areas where local law was incorporated, unique to each municipality, into the model ordinance framework. • The Administration has begun the budget process for 2016 and Finance is creating the salary and benefit projections. They have created the non-wage and benefit budget detail for divisions to begin entering. • The September year-to-date detail and summary reports are done, and she will have that and the analysis out by the end of this week. • She thanked Council for raising awareness and supporting the fight against pancreatic cancer. Seventy-two percent of patients die within one year of diagnosis and ninety-three percent in five years. It is so deadly because it is a silent disease and by the time a person exhibits symptoms, they are often already in stage 4 of the disease. This is personal to her as her mother, Rita, died in June 2014 of this terrible disease after a 17 month battle. Councilman Schumann, Vice-Chairman of the Finance Committee: 2