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property maintenance violation, but you have to understand and put yourself in the shoes of the people who have to live behind it and next to it, and sometimes across the street from it. Everything from odors to the unsightliness of it, it's really intolerable. So I wanted to let you know that it did take a very long time, but I think that you can be sure that when it comes up again, we'll push just as hard for that. He's out, he's been released, but now the question is, is he going to clean it up, because there's another charge pending. So we've got a civil action pending as well to try to force compliance. It's probably one of the worst properties in North Olmsted, in a residential district, and we're going to keep working on it to make sure that it gets cleaned up one way or the other. If this wasn't motivation enough, we will find more ways to motivate. If that includes another jail sentence, then we'll ask for that; but I just want to bring it up to date. If you recall that situation, it was a while ago, but there was a result that I think is appropriate. Now we just got to get him to get moving and clean the place up. That concludes my report. Council President Pro Tempore Glassburn: Thank you, Director. Director of Finance Copier, do you have a report this evening? Finance Director Copier: I do, Mr. Chair. • It is with great sadness for the City that I tell you that our Assistant Finance Director has taken another job with the City of Cleveland to further his career. He will be at the Cleveland Airport as the Comptroller. He was here nearly for 10 years, and his daily impact will be missed in finance and also across all departments as he worked well with our internal customers. I thanked him on behalf of all of us for his service to our community. • While there are big shoes to fill, I am also excited to tell you about his replacement who will be providing his experience, which he's a CPA. He has worked with the Auditor of State's office for 22 years, and brings all his experience working up to a Senior Audit Manager to our City. He was even on our actual audit when we had the Auditor of State as our auditors, and he still wants to come here, isn't that great? He will be starting at the end of the month. • I also, for legislation 2024-91, the tax rate resolution. I do feel very strongly that I need to read into the record my comments, and I'm not going to take as long as I did at the Committee meeting, that was held last week. But I feel it's really important to remember that we're asking even if you think it's nominal, and I understand no one wants to raise people's property taxes because their house values went up. • However, the impact potentially to the City, because a lot of there are a lot of unknowns and uncertainties that still that exist and are plaguing us over these next few years. We've talked about them throughout the last couple of years, some of our issues, many uncertainties. The General Fund, and remember, we're not like other cities, that have extra levies for police and fire to cover their operating and capital costs. They come out of our general fund, for our safety services as well as all the other government general government operations, they come out of our general fund. So, we're a little different than other communities. Many uncertainties that could collectively impact our city services are as follows. The City General Fund balance was down one and a half million at the end of 2023, and is consistently down so far through June of 2024. 09-17-24 Council Meeting Minutes - Page 3