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MINUTES OF THE MEETING OF THE COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF NORTH OLMSTED APRIL 4, 2017 Present: Council President Jones, Council Members Brossard, Hemann, Kearney, Limpert, Rahm, Schumann & Williamson Also Present: Mayor Kennedy, Director of Finance Copfer, Director of Human Resources Gallo, Director of Law Gareau, Director of Safety & Service Glauner, Clerk of Council Massarolo, and Director of Planning & Development Wenger Council President Jones called the meeting to order at 8:00 p.m. in Council Chambers, 5200 Dover Center Road, North Olmsted, Ohio. Members of the audience were invited to join Council in the recitation of the Pledge of Allegiance. The Special Council meeting minutes of March 15, 2017 were approved as written. The Council meeting minutes of March 21, 2017 were approved as written. REPORTS Mayor Kennedy: • The City Offices will close at Noon on Friday, April 14 in honor of Good Friday. • The Eggstravaganza is Saturday, April 15 from 10 to Noon. • The Fish Fry's are going really well. The MS Society made nearly $1,500.00 in tips and the Bretton Ridge Women's Club made almost $1,300.00 in tips. • Sponsorships are continuing to come in for the 2017 Boom. • The Recreation Center wanted to report March revenue numbers are looking good. We are currently $36,000 ahead of last year at this time. Director of Law Gareau: • A resident has communicated with me about Ordinance 2017-32, our Zoning Code Amendment. The question was raised if having the map and the actual amendment to the Code in the same piece of legislation was in violation of the Charter restriction on one subject. In Ohio, legislation is only supposed to deal with one topic. I looked at the issue, I do not believe it to be a concern. The Supreme Court of Ohio has reviewed this issue. The new Zoning Code is applied to a certain number of parcels. They are intertwined. The Court has taken the position of giving a great amount of latitude to the legislator. It is designed to prevent log rolling, when you take 25 different topics and give it one title and people do not even know what they are voting on. When the Court described it, they said it needs to be a manifestly gross and fraudulent violation of the one subject provision. As long as a common purpose or relationship exists between the topics then there will not be a disunity in subject matter rather than an aggregation of topics which will cause the bill to violate one subject. These are