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MINUTES OF THE MEETING OF THE COUNCIL ,~ OF THE CITY OF NORTH OLMSTED FEBRUARY 16, 1999 Present: Council President Saringer, Council Members Gareau, Limpert, McKay, Miller, Nashar, O'Grady Also Present: Mayor Musial, Law Director Gareau, Finance Director Copfer, Clerk of Council Seman Absent: Council Member Kasler Council President Saringer called the meeting to order at 8 p.m. in Council Chambers, 5200 Dover Center Road, North Olmsted, Ohio. Members of the audience were invited to join Council in reciting the Pledge of Allegiance to the Flag. REPORTS Mayor Musial: 1) Last Wednesday, a meeting was held with the County Board of Elections. In attendance were Mayor Musial; Ron Tallon, Democratic Ward Leader; Jack Eustace, Republican Ward Leader; William Wilkins, Director of the Board of Elections; Lois DeBrodt; Councilmen Thomas O'Grady, Paul Miller, Michael Gareau Jr. and Dean McKay. The committee agreed that Precinct 2A would be moved from Claque Road Church to St. Brendan's Church. Mr. Wilkins will explore the possibility of moving the precincts voting at Horizons to St. Clarence. There was some discussion regard 1H, but nothing conclusive was determined. The number of precincts in the city has been reduced to 40 from 48, which saves the city roughly $500 per precinct for each election. Mr. Miller noted that changes in precinct voting will occur in the November election. 2) This afternoon, a representative from First Energy Corporation made a presentation to the Y2K Task Force Committee. The committee was informed that from First Energy's point of view the electricity will be supplied without interruption. If the computer chips do cause the system to go down, a manual system is in place. There are a lot of Y2K "doomsayers" out there, and perhaps the city should be considering holding community meetings to inform residents about Y2K so that they can be apprised of the correct information. Law Director Gareau: 1) There has been an agreement in the Prest situation (the case was never filed) that Mr. Prest resigned rather than was discharged. The agreement is in the hands of Mr. Prest's attorney, and the Law Department is waiting for it to be returned. 2) An issue brought up at the February BZA meeting was that Sunnyside Toyota and three other Chamber of Commerce members have certain sign replacement requests. They would like to reface pole signs without removing the pole signs as required by city