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Minutes of the Regular Meeting of Council Monday, July 20, 2020 Page 6 .appropriate. Our mayor already has a full time job and I do not believe we. should J be providing her with the proposed salary and medical benefits. In a conversation with the -Mayor she told -me -how -hard and long she was -working -now because of - - the, pandemic. All citizens are working harder and longer during this pandemic and this unstable time in our country's history. No one should be getting pay raises!. Families and businesses are struggling. The timing of the votes by council to make these changes is very interesting. I recall during 2017 when another council member, also an attorney, wanted to get medical benefits paid for by the citizens of the village. If you recall many members of the community arrived upset and it was dismissed. Here we are again, but because the council. meetings are all online citizens can not truly show their disapproval and must wait until November. I will be voting against these pay raises in. November and it is my hope that the citizens of Mayfield Village will do the same. Respectfully, Council President Schutt stated, thank you, Mrs. Betsa. DEPARTMENT HEAD REPORTS: Finance Department Ron Wynne: Yes, a couple of items. Regarding the CARES Act Coronavirus Relief Fund, we received funds of $41,564.59. There are three pieces of legislation on the agenda tonight that need to be passed. One resolution actually creates the Fund to have the accounting records on our books. The second resolution is to adjust the amended certificate of official resources with the County and the third is an ordinance appropriating funds so that we can go ahead and expend that money. So those will all need to be passed this evening. The second item is the Finance report. I think the Mayor hit on all the key points that I was going to hit on so I won't repeat that, but I just wanted to mention that through our July collection of income tax, we are $213,000 ahead of last year at this time with last year being a record year so our taxes are still tracking very very strongly as well as our General Fund revenue. And again, our taxes represent 86% of our General Fund receipts at any point in time. Council President Schutt stated, thank you, Mr. Wynne. Law Department — Mr. Coyne: Thank you Council President. I wanted to take a moment and address two pieces of legislation before you for Second Read. One is the repeal of the Drainage and Infrastructure Committee, it's legislation that's been in place since 2000, so 20 years, and the introduction of the Moral Claims Commission. At the end of the day, part of this was raised because the Drainage and Infrastructure Committee was established for one purpose and that was to create a Drainage and Infrastructure Committee