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Minutes of the Regular Meeting of Council Monday, November 16, 2015 Page 3 the future for our first responder memorial that we have been trying to put together for some time now. FINANCE -Ron Wynne ~'• Wynne reported, Mr. Marne commented about the committee assi me. Mary Beth, you and I should probably talk about it this week, but Igremeind Coun it that we have to have in place by January l St a Board of Tax Review to be in compliance with the new income tax law passed this year and goes into effect January 1St We had some infrastructure projects that have been recently completed. I just wanted to give you a quick update on them. - The 2014 Road Program -Council approved an additional $83,000 this year for that program to do some paving on 'I'hornapple as well as Beta Drive crosswalk trail connector. Even after that additional $83,000, that project came in $34,000 under the bid amount. - The traffic signal mast arms at the two intersections out here was quoted at $437,000 and that came in around $50,000 below what the bid amount was. Mr. Jerome stated, we got the new mast arms up at SOM and Wilson Mills. They look great. Coming east on Wilson Mills we still have the old galvanized steel-style traffic indicator. Is there a plan to replace that to match the four poles that are now at that intersection? Chief Edelman replied, do we have a plan, no. We contracted with a traffic engineer two years ago to do a study to update all the Wilson Mills traffic signals. We have that study completed. That was the first step we needed to do to apply for Federal funding. It's a five year project. We can't even apply for it for a period of time, but that study had to be done first. Do we have a significant plan? No. We are working toward that plan. . Mayor Rinker stated, I would recommend that all the mast arms we have we gradually transition. I know that's not cheap but it's nice to get them all consistent. POLICE -Chief Richard Edelman Chief Edelman reported, the work on the dispatch center is underway. They set up the temporary work station today and expect to have all the old furniture and equipment out by the end of the week. The only thing they are really waiting for are connectivity issues which Ted and Diane and I are working on. We will have that done fairly soon. I will keep you posted as I get more information about it. The other thing I wanted to mention and I brought this up for discussion at Safet and Se but I want to talk about it again to keep it on everyone's radar. I was contacted by a blind resident who lives on SOM a short time ago with concerns that she walks to Heinen's and various other places in the Village and she has had some issues crossing SOM. She asked if we