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Motion by President O'Malley, seconded by Councilmember Litten to adopt Resolution 2021- 25. Discussion: Director Ducu clarified that the proposed project is a complete renovation of Foster Pool. Becks Pool has no immediate needs and was improved seven years ago. On the motion: All members voted in favor. Motion passed. Resolution 2021-25 adopted. 5. Committee report regarding Finance meeting held June 21, 2021. (to be provided) Chairman Bullock issued the following report: The Finance Committee met tonight, a little earlier this evening with all members of the committee and several additional members of Council present. We discussed Ordinance 17- 2021 authorizing the advance and transfer of certain funds. This is our second quarter ordinance for doing this, which we do four times a year.It is ministerial in nature. The transfers and advances are consistent with the annual budget that we have adopted and been following since the beginning of the year. In this case, the transfers are to support hospitalization costs for certain employees to support our Office on Aging programs and to support the debt transfer from the Waste Water Treatment Fund to fund and pay for the debt service on debt we already have. It is part of the financial strategy that we've been following for some years now. The Committee voted to recommend that legislation for approval tonight. Secondly, we discussed several budget process communications regarding the potential use ofAmerican Rescue Plan Funds, the beginning ofour recent tradition ofhaving a council budget priorities process for the future for the coming year, and an additional proposal that Councilman Rader made, and I certainly welcome and support, to hold a participatory budgeting process. This was the first chance that we had to discuss together as elected officials (as in respect to open meeting requirements, sunshine laws, and disclosure we were not able to talk outside of a public meeting). So, it was a helpful frame-up on several counts. First, we got some information from the administration about the timeline and the categories of use for the American Rescue Plan Act Funds. Second, we got the beginning of some deliberation from council members and the mayor on what we might want to use it for. The quick summary is that were at the very beginning of this. We're going to need to continue talking together between now and September. The mayor envisions a briefing with council in September with the understanding at that future time of the potential uses for ARPA funds because we will know later in July and it may take a good month to work through the legal detail, the federal government instructions on the full range of potential. We know today that some uses are for sure allowed but there's plenty of question marks -probably more question marks than firm answers. So, I appreciate the administration's information and sense of dialogue and deliberation with council. Also, council members began to spotlight some potential uses of the funds that they envision. It is going to be a moving a conversation with many moving parts because we're putting forward ideas now before we know which funds may be eligible to fund those ideas so we're going to keep working on this. I stated that it may make sense for City Council to articulate some policy goals in a resolution (maybe it's not in a resolution it could be just a working memo) that continually gets updated for potential uses of