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Council Minutes of 9/1/98 would be, at a minimum, approximately $39,000. The committee unanimously ~,. recommended approval of Ordinance 98-91 and recommended suspension of the rules. b. Ordinance 98-93, which amends Ordinance 98-16 dealing with city appropriations. This legislation will allow the use of funds which are available within the Police Department budget but not yet allocated. The committee recommended approval. c. Ordinance 98-95, which authorizes payment of $3,625 to Novak Concrete for water line opening work in the city. Only one of two requisitions for Novak were initially approved because Novak had exceeded the $10,000 limit that had been placed upon them. However, later it was learned that the Service Department had indeed requested the additional work. The committee has unanimously recommended approval and suspension of the rules. d. An additional appropriation for the Law Department needed in light of claims against the city by the Chamber of Commerce. The Finance Director has stated that $132,000 is available due to the worker's compensation rebate and that $25,000 as requested by the Law Director can be moved to the Other Legal line item of the Law Director to cover his expenses. e. An additional meeting of the Finance Committee was scheduled for 7:15 p.m. on September 1 to discuss the need for a computer upgrade in the Clerk of Council's office. 2) A meeting was held today, September 1, at 7:15 p.m. Present were all members of Council, the directors of Finance, Service and Safety. The needed upgrade for the Clerk of Council's office was discussed by Council. The upgrade will allow the Clerk to deal directly with the Law Department. The committee and members of Council present recommended approval. Mr. O'Grady moved that Council approve moving approximately $1,900 from the Recodification Line item in City Council's budget to the Equipment line item in the budget. The motion was seconded by Mr. Limpert and unanimously approved. The computer upgrade includes a 17 inch monitor and both the software and the hardware of the new system are year 2000 compliant. During the committee meeting, the status of the city's computers being year 2000 compliant was discussed. The Finance Department computer, the AS400 IBM, is now hardware compliant with regard to year 2000 and will soon be software compliant. The phone system at Police and Fire 91 I dispatch, North Olmsted Police Department phones and City Hall phones, are aII year 2000 compliant. The phone systems at the Rec Center and the North Olmsted Fire Department are not yet compliant; however, in no way will anything that happens in the year 2000 affect the functioning of the phones. What may happen is the phones may display the incorrect day of the week. That is the limit of the danger to those phone systems. Finance Director Copfer clarified the source of the increased funds for the Law Department line item. The entire worker's camp 1998 budget for the General Fund was appropriated at $132,000. Although the city received a $432,000 rebate for previous years, that will not be the source of the transfer. The 1998 worker's comp filing included a current year credit for all filers which allowed us to have excess funds appropriated in that tine item. And that is where the transfer is being made from. 4