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Regular Council Minutes 3-15-04 Page 2 them because they do offer transportation. There is a program County-wide and I will provide Council with a memo about it; it could meet our needs and the needs of our residents. Council President Buckholtz thanked everyone (in the audience) for attending this evening. CONSIDERATION OF MINUTES Regular Council Meeting - Februarv 16, 2003 - Mrs. Mills, seconded by Dr. Parker, made a motion to approve the minutes. Roll Call: AYES: All NAYS: None Motion Carried Minutes Approved COMMENTS FROM MAYOR RINKER Mayor Rinker said Chief Dearden's father passed away so Chief Dearden is not here this evening; they have our prayers. This Thursday there will be a combined meeting for Architectural Review Board, Planning & Zoning, the Board of Appeals and anyone who wants to attend: 2020 Vision is going to give its presentation for the formal commencement in front of the Planning & Zoning Commission of its review of the 2020 Vision Report. I think that is something we can all support. Stay tuned. COMNdENTS FROM COUNCIL PRESIDENT SUCKHOLTZ Council President Buckholtz had no comments. DEPAIaTMENT HEAD REPORTS: Fire: Chief Mohr said we talked at Caucus a week ago about the telephone system. I recommend that we look at this with the Information and Technology Committee and put this into a specification so we can all play fairly on the same playing field. Finance: Mr. Brett distributed a document charting the budget to Mayor Rinker and members of Council. In preparation for next week's session of the budget, I wanted to bring you up to speed to where we are this year so far. What I have for you are the overall expenses to date. The most important line for comparison is to go to the beginning year balance at the very bottom where we had about 3.8 million to start the year with and so far this year you go over to the 3'd last column and we are at about 5.3 million to date. So we have managed to increase the overall funds significantly in the first quarter so far. The next page might be something you will want to keep for your references. This is basically where I have been tracking for the last 14 years, now in the 15th year, all of the income tax revenues that the Village receives. The top group of nuinbers is by month, the distribution that we've received overall for income taxes. The second group of numbers is what we have received from our largest employer. The third group of numbers at the bottom is what we've received from everyone else. As you can see this year, we are at about 3.1 million dollars thus far this year, we are up 27% over this time last year. Part of that is due to the fact that our largest employer mailed their December payment in and it was not received until January which is perfectly acceptable; but unfortunately we did not receive those dollars until