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Council Minutes of 06-21-2016 Director of Law Gareau: • He thanked Jim Myers for his service to the community. • He mentioned that Marty Hayes was Volunteer of the Year in 2015. He is an asset to the community. Although the City has lost him on the Civil Service Commission, he's sure he will be active in the community. • Regarding the Pine School situation and negotiations with the school district, he has been in discussions to allow the city to go ahead with construction although no agreement is in place outlining price terms. There is an agreement that is sufficient in form to bring before Council after summer recess regarding the start of the project. Director of Finance Copfer: • She and Pete DiFranco, City Engineer, met with County officials regarding a change of four parcels that were previously Regional Sewer District; two years ago they asked the City to put them into this district which the City did. Now they are being requested to go back into the Regional Sewer District because once they determined the cost of going underneath the railroad tracks to connect to North Olmsted's system, it was too cost prohibitive. These parcels were not considered in any of North Olmsted's rate studies, and the City Engineer did not feel that this was a problem. So, the City will comply with the request. Additionally during the meeting, they discussed the Bradley Road Lift Station project, which serves Olmsted Township a percentage of the project cost. The City's Engineer Consultant determined the cost ratio based on usage at the lift station, and they agreed with the findings of the percentages. This will be a shared project with Olmsted Township, but their customers will be paying through their user charge. • She and Greg Myers, Economic Development Consultant, attended the Tax Incentive Review Council meeting on June 14, 2016 at the County Administration Building. They approved a compliance and continuance of the TIF and the CRA which one project—the Aloft Hotel — was just approved through the CRA. They approved the report compliance and to continue the CRA. Councilwoman Williamson, Vice-Chairwoman of the Public Safety, Health & Welfare Committee: The Public Safety Committee met Tuesday, June 14, 2016 at 7:30 p.m. Present were committee members Barker and Williamson; Council members Hemann, Kearney, Limpert and Schumann; Mayor Kennedy, Finance Director Copfer, Law Director Gareau, Safety & Service Director Glauner and Planning & Development Director Wenger. • Discussed was Ordinance 2016-69 which is an Ordinance repealing Chapter 751 of the North Olmsted Codified Ordinances entitled "Game Rooms" which established to license and regulate amusement arcades. Chapter 751 was established many years ago (late 80's or early 90's) when places of business opened up with arcade games. This was to regulate those businesses. Currently, there are more games on personal phones, and the Safety Director and Law Director feel that this Chapter is no longer needed and would like it repealed. There was brief discussion and a motion was made by Councilman Barker to 2