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MINUTES OF THE MEETING OF THE COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF NORTH OLMSTED JULY 7, 1987 Present: President Janet Saringer, Councilmen Bohlmann, Lackey, McKay, O'Grady, Tallon, Wilamosky. Also present: Mayor Yvonne Petrigac, Law Director Michael Gareau, Finance Director Edward Boyle,. Acting Clerk of Council Linda Spencer. Absent: Councilman Rademaker. Meeting was called to order by President Saringer at 8:00 P.M., in Council Chambers, 5200 Dover Center Road. Members of the audience were invited to join Members of Council in the Pledge of Allegiance to the Flag. Minutes of the Council Meeting of June 16, 1987, were approved. President Saringer announced that legislation Nos. 87-66, 87-67, 87-68, 87-69 and 87-74 would be passed under suspension of rule requiring three readings. Mayor Petrigac reported: 1) Read a letter from City Engineer Joseph Schaller submitting his formal resignation, effective July 31, 1987. 2) Transportation Team Meeting was held on June 20th; felt more information was needed with respect to the tax plan before they could determine their involvement. 3) President Saringer will be scheduling a meeting to discuss the Columbia Road relocation and the Bassett/Stearns Project; Westlake has already met on this issue and will be presenting a proposal to ODOT; would urge an early meeting date. 4) Met with representatives from the auditing firm of Arthur Young, who does the financial audit, under contract, for North Olmsted. Mayor requested an internal audit; Arthur Young could do it but it would require a different type contract; Mayor feels an internal audit is needed. 5) Had the privilege recently of swearing in William J. Schenkelberg as a member of the North Olmsted Police Department; Officer Schenkelberg was previously a member of the North Olmsted Fire Department. 6) Expressed congratulations to everyone responsible for making Independence Weekend so successful; praised Councilman Lackey for his role in the "1776 " production. 7) Recent NOSO International Soccer Tournament was well attended and successful. 8) Ceremony honoring Martin Supple was held at Bretton Ridge Park on July 4th; Independence Day celebration ended with a fireworks display on July 5th. 9) Copy of the Performance Audit and Program for Improvement in Service Report is on file in the Mayor's office and available for study. 10) Law Director, Service Director, Bus Manager and Assistant Manager and Mayor attended an all-day meeting with Maple Heights, RTA representatives and represent- ative from ODOT. Have come to a consensus on methodology and will await the out- come of this; next meeting will be held the middle of September. 11) Last year, the City had twelve full-time summer help and ten from the county; this year, there are two full-time summer help and three part-time people from the county. There are not twenty-four full-time summer help people; this is a mis- conception by some members of council. 12) Has requested Representative Petro to furnish estimated income figures from the gas tax effective July 1st. North Olmsted should receive approximately $401,000 in