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three year term beginning January 1, 2019 and ending December 31, 2021. (Referred to COW 11/5/18) (pg.5) Motion by Council President O'Leary, seconded by Mr. Anderson to defer Resolution 9034- 18. All members voting yea. Motion passed. Resolution 9034 -18 deferred. 6. Committee of the Whole report regarding meeting held 12/1/18 (To be provided) It was clarified that the report is intended to be from the 12/3/18 Committee of the 'Whole meeting. Motion by Council President O'Leary, seconded by Mr. Anderson to defer. All members voting yea. Motion passed. 7. Finance Committee report regarding meetings held 11/26/18, 12/1/18 & 12/3/18 (to be provided) Finance Committee has met three times. We are in the throes of our budget hearing process. Council is considering the 2019 budget currently. We met on 11/26 for a presentation on water and sewer rates as well as capital improvements to that infrastructure. We were joined by Lou McMahon from McMahon DeGulis who has been advising us on those matters from a legal standpoint, as well as Joe Crea from Raftelis, who has been advising us on the financial implications of our water and sewer rates. It was a very informative presentation that is available in video. We met this past Saturday December 1St to discuss department budgets including Law, the Mayor's Office, HR, Human Services, Planning & Development, and Building & Housing. The Planning discussion included a discussion on Resolution 9041 -18 which is the grant application for Wagar Park improvements. The Finance Committee voted unanimously to recommend passage of that on second reading this evening. The Human Resources discussion also involved discussion of worker's comp and insurance and the salary ordinance. We also had a discussion related to the one -year action plan of our Community Development Block Grant and Emergency Solution Grant funding from the Federal government. For that, we were joined by the Co- chairs of the Citizens Advisory Committee. Finally, this evening we met to discuss the Court budget as well as the budgets for the Fire and Police Departments. That is the manner in which so far we have been considering the following great many ordinances.