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MINUTES OF THE MEETING OF THE COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF NO1~PH OLMSTED MARCH 4, 1975 Present: President Francis J. O'Neill, Councilmen Giesser, Goggin, Limpert, Beringer, West, Wilamosky. Also present: Law Director Michael Gareau, Finance Director Wflliam Gerlach, Safety Director Raymond Carnahan, Service Director Henry Caster, City Engineer J, Howard Childs, Clerk of Council Nora Hill. Absent: Councilwoman Dolores Sharpe. Meeting was called to order by President Pro Tem Beringer at 8:05 P.M. Minutes of Council Meeting of February 18, 1975, were approved as read; minutes of Special Council Meeting of February 20, 1975, were approved as read. President Pro Tem 3aringer explained the Mayer is attending a conference in Washington; President of Council O'Neill is taking the Mayor's chair as Acting Mayor and Mrs. Saringer, President Pro Tem of Council will preside over meeting. Service Director Caster reported following: 1} have submitted pxeliminary appli- cation through NOACA for Section 5 Funds (operating subsidy) Wider the Urban Mesa Transportation Act of 1954 and as revised to include operating subsidy funds November 26, 1974. Have requested federal participation in amount of X8,961. far the last 35 days of 1974, and $41,933. for the first six earths of 1975. Deadline for final application for these periods is May 1, 1975 to ~oeae eligible for these funds. One of the requirements which we do not coeeply ~: at this time is that in order to receive Section 5 assistance, an operator of Mass Transpoxtatiaa services must provide for charging no more than one-half of the peak hour fare to the elderly ar the handicapped persons during non-peak hours. Therefore Ord. No. 75-17 will have to be revised to include the handcapped and to provide for the half fare schedule. Recommends that Ord. No. 75-17 be referred back to Comiaittee; 2)Official Dedication of North Olmsted, a Bicentennial City, was held on March 2, 1975, at the Coeeenmity Cabin. Over two hundred people in attesndance. Congressman Ronald Mottl presented to the Mayor and to the City the official bicentennial framed Certification from the Federal Bicentennial Commission; also booklet con- taining proceedings of the Commemoration Ceremony in honor of the two hundredth anniversary of the First Continental Congress held in the J.S. House of Represen- tatives September 2S, 1974. Mr. Del Black, Six State Area Regional Chairmen of the Federal Bicenten~etial Coea~zissian out of Chicago, I1liacis, presented the official Federal Bicentennial Flag. ~Ir. Al Tomarie of Tomaric Cleaners, in response to the Federal governt's request that business eatablisiuaenta become involved locally in the Bicentennial Celebraticua:s, presented to the Mayeer and to the City the tapestry titled "Aeaerican Legend Rug". North Opted is the third City in the County to be chosen as a Bicentennial City and 76th chosen in the State. Should consider ourselves the True Spirit of '76. Law Director Gareau reported following with respect to progress of Coe~srehensive Plan: ran into a few snags sa, canaequently, had to go back to both Planning Commission and the B.Z.4 D. Came~ttee of Council, as well as Regional Planning