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Council Minutes of 12/6/94 5) The city has prevailed in the case regarding a tree that had been cut down by a city crew and fell onto a neigh ring properiy smashing a jeep top. Mrs. Bahas asked Mr. Gareau whether the senior housing agreement would contain restrictions conforming to apartmeatt square footage requirements. Mr. Gareau commented that those square foc~age requirements are part of the coning ordinances which can and do change. A restrictive deed covenant would lad forever, and he does not recommend it be used for this purpose. Finance Director Burns reported: 1) One of the financial concerns this year has been the collection of estimated revenues. Income taxes are running somewhat behind what was anticipated, but intere~ income is above estimates. Estate tax revenues had been projected at $400,000. Through October, the city had received $179,000; however, the November distn'bution was $251,000. 2) At the request of Mayor Boyle, the 1995 temporary budget has been prepared and presented to the Mayor for his consideration. 3) With regard to the audit, asrangc~n~tents have been made with Gary Fink and Associates to review the work papers for the problem of 1989 and 1990. Our ultimate goal is that both those years will be finalised with unqualified opinions. A representative from the State Auditor's office has been given copies of completed work papers. The Auditor's office is currently working at the North Olmsted Board of Education. Upon completion of that work, they may either go to another site in the county or come back to the city. The Mayor's point about non-communication in the office of the State Auditor is quite true. Indeed, the letter stating that a response to the MAS Department had not been provided was incorrect since the response had never been requested. In response to a question from Mr. Nashar as to when the audit problems would be cleared up, Mr. Burns stated that the 1989 and 1990 issues should be wrapped up around the end of the year. As to 1991 and 1992, it depends on staffing by the Audhor's office; it is possible that those years could be completed by the end of January and work on 1993 and 1994 could begin. Mr. Lind asked Mayor Boyle when the temporary appropriation would be ready for review by Council. The Mayor said that he would give it to Council this week and there were no changes from what Mr. Burns had proposed. Also, the Finance I~rector has been working with the directors and division leaders in order to have an end-of--the-year transfer ordinance ready for review by Council. Mayor Boyle reiterated his feelings that various state offices were not communicating and this had caused problems for our city. He said that Council had received a letter stating that the city was not doing somethingpnor to the deadline for committing on the method of completion. This is why he feels it is essential that one person be a point of contact and disseminate the information. Mr. Burns agreed and said that, after a meeting with the MAS representative and the senior member of the audit team, the MAS representative had remarked that he didn't know why he had been asked to come to North Olm~ed. 3