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Minutes of the Regular Meeting of Council Monday, October 17, 2011 Page 3 FINANCE - Ron Wvnne Mr. Wynne reported that we have been informed by the Auditor of State's office that we will not be audited by them for the next four years. Their focus, along with deductions in manning, is on the larger municipalities and municipalities that are in financial distress. They are going to put our audit for the next four years out to bid to independent public accounting firms. I will have my initial meeting with the State this Wednesday, along with the five firms selected to bid who are Apple Growth Partners, Ciuni & Panichi; Cohen and Company, Skoda Minotti and Sal Chamis which are all firms that I am familiar with from dealings throughout my career. We will have our initial meeting on Wednesday just to go over the requirements of the audit and then present them with bid packages that we will evaluate and select who our auditor will be for the next four years. Also, I am sure you have all heard in the media about the State starting to discuss wanting to collect income taxes through their office as opposed to having municipalities collect them on their own or use services like we use, RITA, or CCA. In your packets this week you will receive information on what they are talking about as well as a cover memo from myself with my thoughts on as to why it's not a good thing. Many municipalities right now are passing resolutions as to why they would like to keep things the way they are versus going to one central collection point. That might be something you would want to consider doing for next month. Council President Buckholtz would like this on Caucus for discussion. POLICE - Chief Edelman There was nothing to report. PARKS & RECREATION - Bill Thomas Mr. Thomas reported that we have our 13t' Annual Halloween Painting Contest going on right now. We have 31 merchant windows and 40 students from 6-8th grade participating from both St. Paschal's and the Middle School. This is the most participation we have had in years. The remarkable thing about it is we lost 7 prime windows because of the facades across the street with Yours Truly and Aladdin's and so on. I was very pleased to be able to pick up 7 new windows. The judging will take place this Thursday. We will announce the winners on Friday. The last item is our Winter brochure will be mailed to all of the residents next week. ARCHITECT - Ron Dinardo There was no report. HUMAN SERVICES - Eunice Kalina Mrs. Kalina reported that we are continuing to get snow removal applications. We received one today. We will continue taking them. We have about 225 people signed up. Council President