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Council Minutes of 2/6/96 ,; these improvements, and these upgrades have become priority for 1996. The George S. °4~ Rider Company was not the low bidder but was judged to be the better qualified. The Finance Committee recommended approval. 2) The Finance Committee met on January 1S. In attendance were committee members Lmd, Musial and McKay; Council Members Nashaz and Limpert; Finance Director Burns; Service Director Bohlmann; City Engineer Deichmann. The following items were discussed: a. Ordinance 96-1, which is a 3 5 % tax abatement request. The amount of the tax abatement is approximately $9,000 per year. The city will share income tax revenues with the school system in order to mitigate the loss of property taxes. The committee recommended approval. b. Ordinance 96-10, which authorizes the expenditure of $1.2 million over two years for slab repair. Two of the areas which will benefit from this program are Forest Ridge and Danberry Drive. The committee recommended approval. c. Ordinance 96-22, which authorizes a contract with Malcolm Pirnie to provide services necessary to prepare a sludge disposal activities report for 1996. In addition, the $12,000 contract price will provide the software and training required to prepaze this report in- house for the next four years. The committee recommended approval, and the legislation was passed at the last Council meeting. Mr. Lind, Chairperson of the Finance Committee: 1) The committee met jointly with the Streets & Drainage committee on January 22. The following items were discussed: a. Ordinance 96-12, which authorizes the payment for the removal of the bike path from the Crocker-Stearns extension. Although the city never formally requested the bike path be removed, Howard, Needles, Tammen and Bergendoff did remove the path. The company is now asking for payment for services rendered but not authorized by the city. In 1992, and currently, the homeowners of Pheasant's Walk-Quail Run and Forest Ridge strongly expressed their feelings that the path be removed. The city honored this request in 1992 and asked for a proposal from the County Engineer to remove the bike path. Even though the city did not formally authorize the work, it has been done. The Finance Committee recommended approval of Ordinance 96-12. b. Ordinances 96-11 dealing with sanitary sewer rehab and Ordinance 96-13 dealing with the Brookpark drainage system. The committee recommended approval of both ordinances. 2. The Finance Committee met on January 22 to discuss Ordinance 96-21. This legislation establishes the organization and composition of the non-uniform part-time personnel of the Police Department. The wage increase is the same as established for other employees. The committee recommended approval. ,. 4