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Minutes of the Regular Meeting of Council Monday, June 15, 2020 Page 13 our Department Heads and their staffs very well. So too ube ave ataid tracted our Fire high Department members and our Police Department members and as a relt we people to those positions An increase in the Mayor's salary under the ordinancewhich-is-$24,000 represents approximately 1/10`" of 1% of an $18 million budget. If you add in the cost of health insurance, assuming that's for a husband and wife or two people, it comes to a little over 2/1Or"s of 1% of the budget. No matter how you shake it, it's not even 3/1 ON of a percent of the budget. Neither the increase in the Mayor's compensation nor the increase in Council's salary will have any significant impact on our budget.. Taxpayer's services will not decrease. Taypayers will not have to pay any additional money to support these increases. The ordinance will simply give the voters a chance to decide from a fair compensation package. So, Steve, I will kick it back to you. Council President Schutt stated, thank you Mayor Bodnar. Any other comments or discussion? Mr. Coyne stated, there was one follow up update on the memo I gave you just for the record. The compensation for the Mayor of Pepper Pike is actually $55,000 plus an additional $27,500 for the additional responsibility as Safety Director of the City. So, his total compensation is $82,000 and he does receive full benefits. Interestingly enough, Pepper Pike's budget is about $7 million lower than Mayfield Village's. Council President Schutt stated, thank you Mr. Coyne. Any other comments or discussion? Mr. Murphy stated, thank you Council President. These past three months have been incredibly difficult for a lot of different people, businesses staying afloat, trying to keep a job. It's just been verydifficult. Challenging time for a lot of different people. As we stand here now, there is a ton of uncertainty of where we are going or where we will be. There's a lot of unknown. They are talking maybe having a second wave of the COV ID in the Fall. The biggest thing that I see coming forward and how it impacts Mayfield Village is the municipal income taxes. State legislators, I would say, threw us a lifeline with doing emergency legislation to continue to let us collect those municipal income taxes for those people working from home. If this working from home trend continues, I don't know where it lends itself. Will we still be able to collect those taxes? I don't know. The employees that work here in the Village is a big part of our revenue source. The timing isn't great. I have talked to a decent amount of residents so far, but I would urge Village residents, as this is read over the next two meetings, the next two months, I would urge you to get comments in, questions in and reach out to members of Council. Reach out to me. My information is on the Mayfield Village website. I would be happy to talk to you. I love your comments. But ultimately, I think Council has to consider nominal or not, is this a good time for an ordinance like this? That's all I have. Thank you. Mayor Bodnar stated, if I could respond. Denny, I appreciate your concern tonight. Maybe Ron can address this better, but we are very conservative in our budgeting and in our forecasting and certainly if there came a time when we were looking forward and it was time to cut budgets and cut whatever we need to cut, we would have to do that. We are not unaware that that could happen down the line, but we have been very conservative and we have always paid people fairly. I think if you look at the numbers, these are very conservative numbers. There are Mayors in similar communities who are making much much more money. But Ron, maybe you could address this a little bit from a budgeting and spending and income standpoint.