11/15/2010 Meeting Minutes - Laserfiche WebLink

Home Browse Search

Regular Council Meeting Minutes 11-15-10 Page 13 Council President Buckholtz explained, these are the monthly itemized statements from the Finance Department. Do we have any questions? There were none. Roll Call: AYES: All Motion Carried NAYS: None Financial Reports for October 2010 Acknowledged and Approved ' As Submitted • First Reading of Ordinance No. 2010-40, entitled, "An emergency ordinance amending the 2010 budget for Mayfield Village, Ohio." Introduced by Mayor Rinker and Council as a Whole. Mr. Saponaro, seconded by Mr. Marrie, made a motion to suspend the rules of Council requiring an Ordinance to be read on three separate occasions. ROLL CALL: AYES: Mr. Saponaro, Mr. Marrie, Mrs. Mills, Mrs. Cinco, Motion Carried Mr. Marquardt, Rules Suspended Mr. Buckholtz NAYS: Dr. Parker Mrs. Mills, seconded by Mr. Saponaro, made a motion to enact Ordinance No. 2010-40. Council President Buckholtz asked_if there was any.discussion. I was just going to make it simple and make a brief statement kind of on behalf of everyone on Council I have talked to about the conversation in the Finance Committee meeting. I think so the audience understands, the purpose of this legislation is to finalize the budget for this year. It's a living working document. We always talk about that throughout the year. These are expenditures that have been approved and funds and so forth that, like the final changes, I don't anticipate any further changes in December. Mr. Wynne replied, there will be year-end transfers that will have to be approved by Council next month. Council President Buckholtz stated, right. But as far as actual, what's being spent for what, this is what's already taken place throughout the year and you sort of have to catch up to budget to what has been approved on the floor of Council. It is the opinion of at least several members if not, I'm not defining a majority or a minority here, that next year we revisit the budget and look at some hard facts on it in terms of infrastructure, debt reduction and some of the less sexy but very important items that we talked to. the community about in terms of passing the increased tax and things that we discussed and got tremendous cooperation from our Department Heads and all of the people that work in Mayfield Village. So, predicated on that, it was my recomrriendation that we moved afiead with the budget now seeing how it's retroactive pretty much but we will be meeting. If it takes Special Meetings or we will, Mary Beth, please, let's make sure that each Caucus you