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• I'm pleased to announce that Mr. Bryce Moyer has joined the Law Department as our
<br />law clerk. Remember last year, we talked about how difficult it was to find law clerks.
<br />We increased the compensation, and we were able to secure him on staff. He's being
<br />trained, but we're very much looking forward to having him with us, hopefully for a
<br />couple years, because he's just a 1L. He's in his first year, and we like to keep him until
<br />they take the bar, so hopefully we can keep him for a couple years. So glad to have him
<br />on board.
<br />• We were named as a defendant in a lawsuit, New Rez LLC v. Leonard Miller Jr. It's kind
<br />of a routine, we get them, they come in with their foreclosure matters. The city has an
<br />interest probably for cutting grass and hitting them with a lien or something. But we'll
<br />go ahead and file an answer on behalf of the city of North Olmsted for that.
<br />• Lastly, I don't know if you saw the video from over the weekend of a wrestling
<br />tournament taking place at North Olmsted High School, and in that video, you don't see
<br />the whole thing, but you see what is either a parent or a parent coach, enter onto the
<br />mat and confront a young official officiating the wrestling tournament, take a swing at
<br />him, at least it appeared that way, and then a bit of a brawl began between the referee,
<br />the official defending himself, and the person who had gone out onto the mat. And, you
<br />know, I see that, and I actually experienced that once as a parent in North Olmsted over
<br />on Barton Bradley Fields where somebody was chirping at the referee, the referee asked
<br />him to stop. Somebody said, you're not talking that way to my wife, went out and hit
<br />the referee. I've actually seen that happen. I've seen parents go at it. One of them was
<br />thrown down and landed on top of a stroller. Thank God there wasn't a child in it. Six -
<br />year -old girls are all crying. Everybody runs off the team. The police get called. I think it's
<br />ridiculous, and it might be in the interest of the community for the administration and
<br />you, to look into this as to what, if anything, we can do. We could put a call out to our
<br />partners in the community. You have Hot Stove, you have NOSO, the hockey club, and
<br />going beyond that, our own people at the recreation center and even the sportsplex to
<br />talk about what types of problems we're having to see if there's something that we
<br />could do legislatively or administratively to try to get out ahead of this because it's gone
<br />on too long. It's outrageous behavior. It needs to stop. So maybe there's a legislative fix.
<br />We do have crimes that can be charged. The individual here will face prosecution. But
<br />I'm left thinking that it didn't seem like there's not enough available to us to be able to
<br />charge him with. Maybe there's an opportunity for it, and the victim didn't want to
<br />press charges, okay, as I understand it, he's entitled to his due process. He can go to
<br />trial. He's entitled to presumption of innocence, but it's hard to beat the video, right?
<br />But nevertheless, maybe there's something you could do here in the next 30 days. We
<br />could invite our partners from the other community organizations, have a conversation,
<br />and say, how are you seeing this? What's taking place? What are your policies for how
<br />you deal with it, and how can we help? And I think I was just thinking about that
<br />yesterday, and I would like to encourage you, in combination with the Mayor and the
<br />Administration and my office, to take a closer look at this. It's embarrassing to the
<br />people involved, and it's shameful, and this type of stuff needs to come to an end, and it
<br />should start now, if not a years ago. So something to think about as you're kind of in the
<br />course of the next week to ten days, if you're looking at committee meetings or things
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