City Administrators Report 3-13-2008

CITY ADMINISTRATOR’S REPORT

Meeting of March 13, 2008

MOTION REQUESTS:

1. No motion requests at this time.


MEETINGS ATTENDED:

1. I attended the D.A.R.E. Graduation on February 27, 2008 at Northwood Middle School. This was Sgt. Hubaker’s first D.A.R.E. graduation class and he taught a total of 62 5th graders receive certificates of completion. The guest speaker was Judge S. Dwight Osterud of the Perrysburg Municipal Court. The Northwood Police Color Guard gave the colors presentation.

2. I attended the Transportation Planning Certification Review public meeting at TMACOG on February 28, 2008. Representatives of the Federal Highway and Transit Administration were present to seek comments from those in attendance on whether TMACOG should be recertified as our metropolitan transportation planning organization. There was positive participation for this event.

3. Sandy Welch and I attended a workshop on FMLA revisions and the upcoming Healthy Families Act sponsored by the Employers Association on March 5, 2008. Employers must review and amend their leave policies to acknowledge these substantial changes to the FMLA.

4. I attended the Stormwater Coalition meeting at TMACOG on March 6, 2008. The new FEMA maps for Lucas County will be released on June 28th. These maps include only Lucas County. We had discussion on the MS4 mapping and Ohio EPA is requiring that the entire storm system be mapped but there was much discussion on the fact that portions of storm system are on private property and again this is a task that is another financial burden to the MS4 communities.

5. I met with the Northwood Housing Council on March 6, 2008 to review the 2007 CRA Status Report for CRA #1 and #2. The committee members found the applicants to be in compliance and voted to approve the 2007 report and submit it to the Tax Incentive Review Committee (TIRC) at Wood County on March 12, 2008.

6. I met with Tim Wisecup of Claus Temporaries of America, Inc. on March 10, 2008 and with Becky Fondessy of Cardinal Staffing Services on March 11, 2008 to discuss part-time seasonal help in the parks department during the upcoming spring/summer season.

7. I met with Sally Waterman of the King Agency on March 11, 2008 to discuss information that we can provide Medical Mutual that may help to reduce our premium quote that would become effective May 1, 2008. Sally will be working with various health care providers to receive other quotes as well.


INFORMATION:

1. I spoke with Martin Liles, Vice President of Redevelopment with Centro Properties Group on March 3, 2008 to discuss the status of the Great Eastern Shopping Center redevelopment. He indicated that he is still negotiating to acquire a national tenant but that work is still being done behind the scenes. Nothing moves quickly with our current economy situation with commercial growth. Mr. Liles said they are in the crawling stage but things are still proceeding.

2. I spoke with Sally Waterman of the King Agency on March 10, 2008. We are looking at renewal rates for our health insurance. Medical Mutual has come back with a substantial increase in our premiums so we’ll be going back to them with additional information and looking at other carriers for quotes. We’ll discuss this briefly at finance committee.

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