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Council Minutes of 8-6-2019 • Some time ago, the Department of Law asked Council to allow the department to get assistance from Thompson Hine with a problem the City had at Springvale. At the time, the dispute was potentially in the several hundred thousand dollar range, the City was able to successfully get the situation under control. Mr. Haymond's bill was $11,600. As an expert in construction law, he brought great value to the table. When one is sitting across from a room of lawyers that just does construction law, it was good to have the tools the City needed on its side to get a good conclusion. The City is working on just a couple of small issues still, but the case resolved for basically the contract price. There were no extras, other than a few dollars. With the assistance of Director Lieber and Attorney Haymond the project is back on track. • The settlement in the class action flooding case of State Ex Rel James Connell et al v. the City of North Olmsted et al., was approved by the judge and has officially concluded. • Last Wednesday, agents from the Ohio Investigative Unit and United States Secret Service Northern District of Ohio Task Force arrested several people in the greater Cleveland area including 13 massage parlors. Jia Yue Dong was indicted on three counts of promoting prostitution. In 2016, he was found guilty of operating a massage parlor without a permit in North Olmsted. The year after the City proceeded with a civil action temporary restraining order to get him out of North Olmsted. He attempted to circumvent our efforts, but ultimately he left. He took his alleged enterprise to another community and he has now been indicted on three felony counts of promoting prostitution. Most of this Council was here when the Council decided to change our Code on regulating recreational massage vs medical massage. There is now talk at the State House about creating regulations on a statewide basis for what is called nonmedical massage. The City had one, the State of Ohio did not, and the City used it and got him out of North Olmsted. That's something the administration was able to do thanks to the tools Council gave it. The City was able to get rid of a problem, sadly it moved on to another community, but there were issues of trafficking, prostitution and who knows what else. It has to stop, it was stopped in North Olmsted, hopefully with these indictments it will stop in other communities as well. Director of Finance Copfer: • The financial audit for 2018 was completed and the Comprehensive Annual Financial Report was issued around the time Council went on vacation. The Popular Annual Financial Report, which goes out to each resident was completed and filed at the end of July. The City is getting prices now to print and mail it. Councilwoman Williamson Chairwoman of the Building, Zoning & Development Committee: The Building, Zoning & Development Committee met on Tuesday, August 6, 2019 at 7:00 p.m. Present were committee members Williamson, Limpert and Schumann; Council members Brossard, Glassburn, Hemann and Kearney; Mayor Kennedy, Director of Human Resources Gallo, Director of Safety & Service Glauner, Director of Planning & Development Lieber and guests.