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Council Minutes of 8/6/2002 ~~ 3) He does have a number of ordinance research issues within the Law Department that ~~., he had hoped to complete in the month of July. However, as a result of the budgetary crisis, a lot of time was devoted instead to that subject. Hopefully, he will be able to return to these important legislative issues and get those done in short order. Finance Director Copfer: 1) The 2001 Comprehensive Annual Financial Report was submitted to the Governmental Finance Officers Association on June 28 and was recently released after the mandatory review by the Auditor of State's office. Council received copies last week. 2) As promised before Council went on vacation, June was reconciled and Council received the revenue and expenditure reports on July 29. 3) She spent the majority of July involved in the budget revision process. 4) The Regional Income Tax Agency (RITA) executive director, met with the finance directors of the participating communities on improvements that have been made to their collection system and processes and how they are going to be utilizing their new information systems with other governmental agencies to insure that the cities are getting all the tax dollars that are due and owing from workers in the city and residents. 5) The format of the county tax project is being revised as it has been in many counties. The Cuyahoga County Budget Commission had an open forum for all finance directors at the end of July. The commissioners were to actually vote on the change this week, and the change would take place for the budget year 2004. 6) The public hearing for the 2003 tax budget, which is provided to the county to show the need to levy taxes, will be held at 7 p.m. on Monday, August 26. The legislation will be on first reading on Tuesday, August 20. President O'Grady reported on two meetings of the Committee-of-the-Whole: 1) The Committee-of--the-Whole met on June 19. Present were the President of Council, all the members of Council, the Mayor and the Director of Finance. The Director of Law could not attend; however, he did submit his statemerrts and his comments in the form of a memorandum. At issue was a proposed amendment to the Rules of Council, Rule No. 40. Specifically, these proposed changes would provide additional time for both the Director of Law's office and the Clerk's office to prepare the legislation. It ensures that the legislation has the opportunity and the time to be reviewed properly by the Law Department. It requires that all exhibits and other attachments be attached to the legislation at the time that it is requested. And it stipulates that, should a piece of legislation be submitted later than what is called for in the rule, this legislation can only come forward with the concurrence of the Director of Law. The members of Council discussed this proposal and unanimously recommended approval based upon the fact that there is now a clearly defined path for ordinances and resolutions and it specifies the time that would be allotted for the Clerk and the Director of Law to review proposed legislation. Councilman Gareau made a motion to adopt the proposed amendment to Rule 40 of the Rules of Council. The motion was seconded by Councilwoman Kasler and passed unanimously. 2) A second Committee-of--the-Whole meeting was conducted on July 29. Present were the President of Council and all members of Council, the Mayor, Director of Law, Finance Director, Human Resources Director, Personnel & Administrative Director, 4