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MINUTES OF THE MEETING OF THE COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF NORTH OLMSTED MARCH 20, 1984 Present: President James Boehmer, Councilmen Bierman, O'Grady, Petrigac, Rademaker, Saringer, Tallon, Wilamosky. Also present: Mayor Robert Swietyniowski, Law Director Michael Gareau, Finance Director Edward Boyle, Safety Director Eugene Petre, Clerk of Council Florence Campbell. 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 Council Meeting of March 6 1984, were approved. President Boehmer announced that seven pieces of legislation were to be added to tonight's agenda. Ordinance No. 83-96, amending Section 165.03 of the Codified Ordinances entitled "Landmarks Commission; Creation, Composition and Terms"; Resolutions No. 84-22, 84-23, 84-24 and 84-25 which authorize the Service Directar to advertise for bids for concrete, highway paint, stone and asphalt; Resolutions No. 84-26 and 84-27 which commend the public service of Councilmen Woerpel and McKay. Finance Director Boyle reported: 1) House Bill 291, passed last year, grants a $10,000 exemption on assessed value of personal property tax beginning in 1984. Personal property tax is paid mostly on equipment and inventory, usually twice during a year, the end of April and on September ZOth. Assumes the first distri- bution, from the April 30th pay, would be the lowest and would hit hardest. Has received a letter from County Auditor, Tim McCormack, attempting to estimate what this will do to the City budget. It will probably cost the City approximately $28,000 in June. State will reimburse the City 82Y in 1984 and hopefully 100% every year thereafter but this will not occur until December or January. City may have a $28,000 short-fall in personal property taxes; more likely, no less than $5,000, the 18% difference between 82% and 100%. This will cause a slight cash flow shortage through December at least, 2) City received $44,000 today in auto registrations and $67,000 in local govern- ment. Local government was a little off last year because of some poor distributions for the prior year. City is back on schedule and this is a normal distribution. Law Director Gareau reported: 1) Tomorrow morning, a pre-trial has been scheduled in the Great Northern versus City of North Olmsted Case, even though the City has not received service of summons regarding the case. 2) Is preparing a motion to dismiss the King's Path/City of North Olmsted appeal. The court had ruled that the City was required to help abate what they considered to b e a private nuisance; City appealed from that because it has no authority to assist in abating a private nuisance. King's Path did not file a cross appeal but did file another appeal some thirty/forty days later. You cannot have two appeals from a final, appealable order. City's appeal was timely; King's Path appeal was an untimely appeal; Law Director will move to dismiss that appeal. f~;: