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Regular Council Meeting Minutes 3-15-10 Page 21 Mr. Saponaro asked, what would you use them for? Mr. Marquardt said, you could sign up to be alerted when things were posted on the website. People are not going to go in and look at the Mayfield Village website daily or weekly, but if you have something that says, alert me to changes on the website, for example for the Homeowner's Association or something that's being posted, •you can sign up for those and they would send you an alert. Mayor Rinker asked if this is doable. Mr. Jeff Thomas replied, he thinks so. He will check on that. Council President Buckholtz agreed this was a good idea. It could go right to their e-mail so that you are alerted of something. It could be a brief link that could take you to the website. Excellent. Mr. Marquardt stated, the other item is, if he reads it right, if we do pass the tax levy, we will be pulling in approximately $2 million more than what we want to cover annually with the surplus. He would like to see a plan of how the $2 million will be allocated to projects over the next years. Council President Buckholtz asked if it would be too aggressive to suggest something like that for Caucus or is it too soon? Mayor Rinker stated it's timely. We have already roughed out the idea. Mr. Marquardt thinks it would be a good idea to have at these presentations. Mayor Rinker stated, it's basically a five-way split right now. It's more broadly brushed in the way it's presented. Mr. Marrie asked if a rainy day fund would be included in there. Mayor Rinker replied, yes. Mr. Marquardt stated he can see a big interest in infrastructure and repairs. Mayor Rinker stated, the point's well taken. One of the things we have talked about is that for as much as we have invested and can show new infrastructure, we have existing infrastructure that clearly is at a point where we can't let it go much longer. We have done a few things that is fair to say are bandaids with some streets and in some instances that works okay, but a number of our streets, especially the concrete slabs are a bear in this climate. We have a number of streets that we have seen issues with and with sidewalks. A lot of the kind of prosaic things. We have tried through the years to be proactive, when you consider how much of the community was on septic systems, with virtually no stormwater. We took an extra hit of $600,000 on Metro when we discovered an occult stormwater system that didn't quite exactly work. We had to repair it. Just about any time we have dug up the ground we have done that. The infrastructure we have installed has been both new and rehabilitating. That being said, we have streets, Doug has probably been champing at the bit as much as anyone. It's roughly a 20/20/20/20 percent. 20% we look at may be strictly as a reserve. The rest we have to look at operations and -