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MINUTES OF THE MEETING OF THE COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF NORTH OLMSTED MARCH 5, 2019 Present: Council President Jones, Council Members Brossard, Glassburn, Hemann, Kearney, Limpert, Schumann & Williamson Also Present: Mayor Kennedy, Director of Finance Copfer, Director of Human Resources Gallo, Director of Law Gareau, Director of Safety & Service Glauner, Director of Planning & Development Lieber and Clerk of Council Massarolo Council President Jones called the meeting to order at 8:00 p.m. in Council Chambers, 5200 Dover Center Road, North Olmsted, Ohio. Members of the audience were invited to join Council in the recitation of the Pledge of Allegiance. The Council meeting minutes of February 19, 2019 were approved as written. The following legislation will be considered for passage under suspension of the rules this evening: Second Reading: Resolution 2019-31 and Resolution 2019-35. REPORTS Mayor Kennedy: • The Recreation Center is filling part-time positions for summer camp counselors and overnight maintenance staff. • Fish Fry's at Springvale start this Friday and go through April 12. • The City is in the process of making a New Resident Packet that will be accessible on-line. It should be available by the end of the week. • Captain Tim Gut from the Fire Department will be retiring on March 12. Director of Law Gareau: • For those of you have driven by the Westbury, you've noticed there is scaffolding there and they have been working on it for some time. There is a quite a bit of history on this that goes back probably about a decade with issues from the City engineers and their own engineers because bricks were coming off the building. Without getting into the long history, there is a case that has proceeded with a criminal charge for property maintenance violations that carry with them a $1,000 a day penalty. They started doing something last year and it started slowing down, so we went back to court to encourage them to get busy again. The City was in court at the end of the year and the court issued an order that could impose a total fine of up to $350,000 on these particular criminal charges. The work was supposed to be finished by the end of December 2018 and they did not make the deadline and were found guilty. The new deadline is next December to get the work done. The Westbury has paid a total of $15,000, if they get the work done it's all they will pay. If not, they will pay another $335,000. This will be used as a