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Council Minutes of 3/3/87 -4- Mr. Wilamosky, Chairman Finance Committee reported: 1) Committee met February 23rd with all members in attendance as well as Mayor Petrigac and Director Cunningham. Committee met with Police Chief Marsh, Fire Chief VanKuren, City Engineer Schaller and Director Becker. Met with department heads primarily to receive input with re- spect to appropriations recommended by the administration and how they viewed them based on what they preceived their needs to be. Committee's goal was to learn more about the needs of the respective departments and get some input. Chief Marsh also advised that his department has confiscated $12,000 in a recent drug arrest; city can use the money for law enforcement purposes. Chief Marsh progosed sharing the $12,000 with WEB who was actively involved with the North Olmsted Police Department in the investigation and arrest that resulted with the confiscation of the $12,000. Under the law, WEB cannot benef it through this money unless the City of North Olmsted offers to share it with them. Asked council to consider the proposal to share the money with WEB and give the Finance Committee some feedback. 2) In summary, committee met with Engineering, Building, Police and Fire Departments and will be meeting again. This was just one segment of the General Fund that was discussed and will be coming back to the General Fund for some further review next week. 3) Finance Committee met briefly with the Transportation Committee; Mr. O'Grady will be reporting out on a mutual concurrence between both committees regarding the pur- chase of some equipment for the Bus Line. 4) Committee met again on Marsh 3rd with all members present as well as Recreation Manager Fattler and Ralph Bohlman and a couple other members of the Recreation Commission who wanted to share dialogue regarding the appropriations for the Recrea- tion Fund. Committee also met with Mr. McKay, Law Director Gareau and Michael Gareau, Jr.; committee discussed the administration's recommendation for funding the Rec Center. Mr. Bohlman stated he had recently received a number of changes to the appropriation recommendation; committee has not received any proposals from the administration regarding those changes. Committee did receive some changes from Mr. Fattler dealing with wages, benef its and utilities. Many of these changes answered a number of questions the committee had because of its concern with these three areas. In addition, there was discussion regarding adjustments to revenue. Mr. Fattler advised the revenue projections reflect a decrease of approximately $6,500 from the original projections submitted to committee. Committee asked Mr. Fattler to prepare a list of potential operation changes that he believes would result in reducing costs with a minimal impact on overall operations. He did in- dicate that he would try to prepare a list for next week's meeting. 5) Finance Committee will meet next Monday and Wednesday; Recreation Commission will be meeting next week to rediscuss areas of the Recreation Fund and committee intends to meet with them again next week also. The Recreation Fund is still going to have to undergo some severe scrutiny. If there is some information the administra- tion could share about revenue and expenses, it would be appreciated. For the record, Mr. Logan asked: What is the difference between the recommendation of the Recreation Commission's revenues and expenditures versus the Administration's at this point. Mr. Wilamosky responded: It is in excess of $200,000; this is for 1987. For the record, Mr. Logan asked: Did that submitted Recreation Commission budget include anything that the Recreation Commission members considered to be capital improvements or improvements for the Center? Mr. Wilamosky responded: No, it did not. There were no major improvements there such as roof rehabilitation and no, it was just basically general maintenance and there was about a $200,000 variance.