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Minutes of the Regular Meeting of Council December 19, 2022 Page 7 Daniel Russell (Building) — Thank you, Council President. I will be reporting on the Planning and Zoning and ARB meetings in the past month. The first meeting was P&Z on December 5th. That was for the new fence ordinance which will be recommended to Council for review. The second meeting was on December 8th for ARB. There was only one proposal for a new house at the Montebello Subdivision. It was approved. The third meeting on December 13th was for a P&Z Workshop to review the expired Conditional Use Permits. This will be voted on at the next P&Z meeting. That concludes my report. If you have any questions, I would be happy to answer them. Council President Schutt stated, thank you, Mr. Russell. Ron Wynne (Finance) — I just wanted to comment on a couple of items. I think most of you know, but in case you don't, Laurie Hughes, who is currently our Payroll and Benefits Administrator in the Finance Department is retiring on February 10th. Over the past few weeks, we held interviews for her replacement and extended an offer which was accepted by Alyssa Fikaris. She will be starting as Laurie's replacement on January 91h which will give us a month. The two of them will work close together on a couple of payrolls and all of the year-end report processing and W-2 processing and all that so she is ready to take over once Laurie retires. The second item, and this is just to go on the record, no one has been asking me about it, but our 2021 audit by the State Auditor's office is still not completed. There is nothing wrong with the numbers. They are just extremely understaffed and we are not a priority on their list. They were supposed to have the audit done by June 30th. They finally got back in touch with me in the past couple of weeks. Hopefully they will have everything all wrapped up, if not before the end of the year, then right after the first of the year, just in time to start the 2022 audit. Mr. Murphy asked, Ron, that audit is being conducted by the State, not a third -party, correct? Mr. Wynne replied, correct. We used an Independent Accounting Firm over the past 8 years. The audit would start in March and would be done by June 30th. By law, the State can only allow an independent to do it for 8 years and then they have to pull us back into their rotation, so we are back into the State's rotation. Council President Schutt asked, any other questions for Mr. Wynne? There were none. Council President Schutt stated, thank you, Mr. Wynne. Shane McAvinew (Parks and Recreation) — Thank you, Council President. First I wanted to commend Sean Supler. He has done a phenomenal job. When I came in in 2017 he and Danielle were uncertain to what to expect. There were a lot of changes. He has done a great job for me and the Village. I am very proud of him. I'm going on my 30th year in Recreation. I find it ILI really enjoyable to watch employees grow and get the opportunity to move on in their career. I