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Saturday December 1St, we will have a longer discussion from 8:30 — 12:30. I will provide breakfast and coffee by the way. We'll have department budget overviews, health insurance /worker's compensation discussion and the salary ordinance. Also CAC recommendations for the Resolution that Director Sylvester will be introducing for this evening as well. On Monday December 3rd we will be meeting for an hour and a half. Judge Carroll will go over the Municipal Court budget as well as the new Clerk of Courts. And then our Police and Fire Chiefs will be present to discuss their budgets. On December 10th we will have a longer meeting to discuss the capital budget and Public Works Department. Finally, we will meet on December 17th to go over substitutions and finalization and I anticipate that we will be voting on adoption of the budget ordinances that evening. Again, a good discussion tonight to start it off. We had some good historical information and then dove into a number of very important topics, the minutes of which should be available soon. Motion by Council President O'Leary, seconded by Mr. Anderson to receive and file the Finance Committee report. Motion passed. All members voting in favor. 8. Health & Human Services Committee report regarding meeting held November 12, 2018; Councilmember Litten, Chair. (to be provided) The Health & Human Services Committee met on November 12th. Present were Committee members George and Anderson as well as Councilmembers Bullock and Rader, Clerk Bach, Director Gelsomino, Assistant Law Director Swallow, five members of the Cuyahoga County Board of Health, two representatives of the Planning Department, two members of Lakewood Alive and a few members of the public. We were there to discuss two items. One was Resolution 9029 -18 authorizing the City to renew its public health services contract with the Cuyahoga County Board of Health for a two year period. Commissioner Terry Alan attended the meeting with his staff to discuss the Board's work in Lakewood over the past 11 years. For 2019 and 2020, the Board is requesting a 15% increase in rates from all of its member communities (not just Lakewood). The Commissioner explained the main drivers of this proposed increase including the requirement for national accreditation, facility improvements, and coordination of community health assessments. The Committee and Director Gelsomino concluded that these proposed rate increases were reasonable considering that they have not been significantly increased in the 11 years since the City has partnered with the Board of Health. The Board's rates remain very competitive with those of other urban health districts in Ohio. The per capita cost in Lakewood is very low compared with other municipalities throughout the state and the Board offers comparable services with those municipalities. After further discussion of the services and programs provided by the County, the Committee moved to recommend adoption of Resolution 9029 -18. In 2008 our cost from the County was approximately $228,000 compared with the proposed increase to $265,000 for 2019 and 2020. Again, not significant as the Committee found. Also, compare this with $788,000 in 2007 when the City ran a health department on its own. While plenty of aspects of those days are things that we miss, the cost difference is relatively large.