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1. Finance Committee report regarding meeting held June 1, 2020. (to be provided) Councilmember Bullock read the following oral report into the record: The Finance Committee met tonight immediately prior to this Council meeting and all members of the committee along with many other councilmembers and directors from the administration were present. We had a good discussion and I want to start by thanking the administration for a lot of analytic work that went into preparing for it and keeping Council informed. We're meeting with high frequency due to the COVID crisis in an attempt to understand what impact it has had on the city and to idents what steps should be taken to respond to the crisis. On the agenda were 3 items: 1) Ordinance 09-2020, our quarterly transfers ordinance for the second quarter of the year 2) update on the use of CDBG COVID emergency relief dollars 3) update on the shared work Ohio voluntary furlough program. Director Dillinger and Director Rancatore gave the update on the furlough program. This is an innovative program to take advantage of the state unemployment and the federal emergency COVID relief funds. It is a voluntary furlough that the city has offered to employees. The city has done a good job communicating with representatives of the city's bargaining units. 180 employees have participated and the time period will go from June Is' to July 31s" with a projected savings of$350,000 to the city. The goal of the program is to mitigate some of the losses that we're experiencing during the COVID downturn. The furloughs will occur evenly over the period of time, which should cause minimal disruption to work and service delivery. The lion's share of employees are taking 8 hours or 20% of their work week and some are doing more. The administration is giving attention to ensure that it does not impact public safety or increase overtime. The other impact is to stagger shifts to still provide coverage. Dan Wyman presented proposed uses of CDBG funds. The major uses would be for relief to businesses (emergency rent and utility assistance) and for food assistance. There is complexity in administering this and we partner with the county and HUD to make sure we are compliant. More to describe there and we are in the early stages to determine use of those funds. That is an important source of relief to our residents and businesses during this COVID downturn. Councilmember Bullock made a motion, seconded by President O'Malley to receive and file the oral report. A roll call vote was taken as follows: Yeas —Bullock, Kepple, Litten, Neff, O'Malley, Rader, Shachner Nays —None Motion passed. The report was received and filed.