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Minutes of a Meeting of the North Olmsted Parks and Recreation Commission June 2, 2008 will get the legislation but they won’t necessarily get the financial breakdown of what is generated by the tax increase itself. If we can get it through Council earlier, and they always try to with something of this magnitude, asking people for a tax increase, needs to get to Council so they can get a good look at it before they make a decision because Council wants the most information they can get before they put it before the voters. Mr. Groden said that the subsequent Committee meeting would be June th 10? Mr. Dailey said that would be the earliest, wouldn’t you, Mr. Mahoney? Mr. Mahoney said that rd he would estimate that if the first meeting was June 3, the Committee meeting would be the week to th follow; there would be a second reading of Council on June 17, and this body could consider it in a meeting in July, so this Commission would have the benefit of two readings of Council and at least one Committee meeting. The answer is yes, but it depends on which Committee it goes to, and what dates are set. Mr. Dailey said that he understood what Mr. Scarl was questioning is reasonable. Mr. Scarl asked if there would be more meetings with the public: would they be advertised as before? Mr. Mahoney said he didn’t know if they would have to do that. Again, it depends upon what Committee it goes to. Mr. Dailey said that there is a meeting tomorrow with the schools at City Hall at 11:00 a.m. to discuss this matter. Mr. Baxter saw in the paper about doing away with the Y, but there was also a letter to the editor by Councilman Ryan which basically said that it would do away with the credit that it allows for people who work outside the City but reside in the City. For many people, this would be costly. Mr. Baxter had not heard this before, but Mr. Ryan is a Councilman, putting it out as if it were being worked. Mr. Dailey said that he did not want to get into Mr. Ryan’s head, but he believed he took a Doomsday scenario that if Council decides to change the income tax credit, which only they can, the numbers were fairly accurate but could have been misinterpreted by the way they were presented. Mr. Scarl said that, in talking with Mr. Ryan and some of the other Council Members, that was discussed at prior Council meetings. Mr. Dailey said that perhaps four or five years ago that it was discussed but it went away. It may have actually been Council Member Ryan who requested what the information was, but that was the only time it came up. It has never been proposed by any administration or finance committee to do that, but evidently Mr. Ryan latched on to that. Mr. Baxter said that it could be something less than whole, but his article implied no credit at all. Mr. Scarl said that the City is going to be in a deficit. They have taken away as much as they can take away in the Unions of this town and all the other administration people have taken hospitalization cuts and all that, and if the City still runs at a deficit like they say they are going to, and Carrie is pretty scared about having a deficit, it’s got to come from somewhere – taxes. Mr. Dailey said that the City had the meeting as an administrative body to tweak any kind of increased revenue, meeting two or three times in the last month or month and a half, and the City is hoping to minimize the deficit for next year, if that’s what you mean. Page 9