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,~" Council Minutes of OS-OS-2010 Finance Director Copfer: • No report. Mayor Kennedy thanked all of the people that worked on Issue 34, the Council that supported it and the voters that voted for it. Councilman Barker, Chairman of the Finance Committee: The Finance Committee met on Tuesday, April 27, 2010 at 7:00 p.m. Present were Committee members Barker, Kearney and Jones; Council members Brossard, Mahoney, Orlowski, and Williamson; Council President Limpert; Mayor Kennedy; Law Director Gareau. • Resolution 2010-45 is an Ordinance amending Section 111.01 of the Administrative Code for the purposes of exempting advertising contracts from its application and to grant authority to the Mayor or his designee to issue park concession permits. This gives the Mayor the ability to sell advertising space at the Recreation Center and parks throughout the city. The money will be used for improvements at the Rec Center and parks. Concerned people from the Rec Center asked if significant money is raised, will less money be budgeted for the Rec Dept. The answer was no. A motion was made to recommend approval by Councilman Barker. The motion was seconded by Councilman Kearney, and the vote was 3-0 for approval. The meeting was adjourned at 7:52 p.m. Councilwoman Jones, Chairwoman of the Building, Zoning and Development Committee: The BZD Committee met on Tuesday, April 27, 2010 at 6:30 p.m. Present were Committee members Jones, Mahoney and Barker; Council members Kearney, Orlowski and Williamson; Council President Limpert; Mayor Kennedy; Planning Director Wenger; Law Director Gareau; representatives from Westfield Great Northern and Elevate North Congregation; and guests. • The committee met to discuss CMS 10-06, a conditional use permit for Elevate North - a church to locate in Great Northern Mall. The proposal before Council was for atwo-year permit to operate a church which would open earlier than the mail posted hours on Sundays at 9 a.m. It would offer two services on that day from 10 a.m. to 11:45 a.m. Council members asked questions to learn more about the current proposal and the mall's long-term plan to relocate the food court to a different section of the mall and use the current food court space for another use. The representative from the mall said there is no change to the long-term plan. The representative from Elevate North said their group has looked into free standing buildings within the city, but found the leases to be too expensive. The 4