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F. .> MINUTES OF THE MEETING OF THE COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF NORTH OLMSTED DECEMBER 18, 1984 Present: President James Boehmer, Councilmen Bierman, O'Grady, Petri¢ac, Sarinper, Tallon, ?~Jilamosky. Also present: Mayor Robert Swietyniowski, Law Director Michael Gareau, Finance Director Edward Boyle, Clerk of Council Florence Campbell. Absent: Councilman Rademaker. Meeting was called to order by President Boehmer at 8:00 P.M. Members of the audience were invited to join Members of Council in reciting the Pledge of Allegiance. Minutes of the Council Meeting of December 4, 1984, were approved. President Boehmer announced that Ordinance No. 84-126, covering Police Department wages, was being added to tonight's agenda.. Law Director Gareau reported: 1) Brief has been submitted to the 7th District Court with respect to the Luwanna Cooper Case. Will have a copy for any Council Member who requests one. 2) The 8th District Court of Appeals has handed down a ruling with respect to the Jandecka Case dealing with the dog incident. The Court ruled in favor of Mr. Jandecka stating that he had not violated any City rules with respect to his con- duct; basically, because the Civil Service Commission had ruled that the first shot fired was justified, then any conduct thereafter was. ,justified. Law Director recommends the City not appeal the case any further. 3) Had a pretrial today on the Romp law suit dealing with the request to declare the Zoning Ordinance, as it applies to their property, unconstitutional. Iias met with Council as a Whole Committee and a number of the residents. Residents re- quest a 50 foot buffer; Romp is agreeable to 35 feet; because of the 15 foot differ- ence, no agreement was reached; trial date is set for May 20, 1985. Finance Director Boyle reported: 1) Extra monies coming in from State Highway and Street Maintenance have exceeded Mr. Boyle's anticipated revenues by $142,472. Income tax collections this year should be approximately $2,970,000; $500,000 greater than last year and almost $400,000 greater than budgeted for this year. This is due to business doing well in North Olmsted and agressive delinquency collections. 2) Met with National City Bank and McDonald and Company last week. National City Bank called today regarding financing and is agreeable, in principal, to doing the letter of credit. It will make North Olmsted the first public utility in Ohio to do all its financing locally, through an Ohio bank. Mr. Kuhn had previously advised Council that a lot of other City's utilities use out-of-state and out-of-country banks. The Step III renovation is coming along pretty well and Zimpro equipment should be arriving. January payment will be about $1,700,000. Payments have been about a half a million so this will be the biggest chunk so far. 3) ?aorkr~ns' Compensation rating came in. City is at 1.31% and is protesting part of this. If protest is successful, the rate will go down to 1.26,°~, still one of the safer cities in the state.