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Council Minutes of 3/19/02 about the subject of complying with public records and open meeting law issues, which is a very timely subject. 5} He has drafted legal opinion No. 2002-9 on the subject of whether or not the city could make seatbelt violations under its local ordinances a primary offense as opposed to being a secondary offense under State law. His opinion was the city co~ild do that if it chose to do so. 6) He has been working with the administration over the last week on trying to develop some standardized contract forms to be used by the Service Department. 7) A collective bargaining negotiation session was held with the fire fighters today. He will report to Council in more detail during the executive session. Finance Director Copfer: 1) As Council knows, a good deal of time was spent last week going over the appropriations. She has given the Clerk a copy of the amended appropriations based on her notes and Mr. McKay's notes. The legislation will be passed at the special Council meeting on Wednesday, March 27. 2) She also has been involved in the fire fighter negotiations. Councilman McKay, chairperson of the Finance Committee: 1) The Finance Committee met on Wednesday, March 13. Preseirt were the committee members Limpert, Kasler and McKay; Councilpersons Gareau, Nashar, Dailey, Miller and President of Council O'Grady; Mayor Musial, Finance Director Copfer, Law Director Dubelko, Service Director Thomas, City Engineer Deichmann, Safety Director Thomas and Human Resources Director Copeland. The following items were discussed: • Ordinance 2001-127, an ordinance establishing a special revenue fund for fines collected from the handicapped parking violations for the purpose of funding purchase of equipment for seniors, senior activities and subsidizing the senior hot lunch program as amended. Concerns expressed were limiting the funds to those in need, using funds for nor residents, dollar amoum for the funds, tickets written under the STOP program and funding of maimenance needs. The committee approved a motion to amend the ordinance directing the funds from the handicapped parking fines to be placed in the senior citizens emergency assistance fund. Tickets issued under the STOP program for the handicapped parking will be directed to the same fund. The majority of the committee recommended approval by a two to one vote. • Resoh~tion 2002-29, which would authorize the Service Director to advertise for bids for South Canterbury Road and authorise the Mayor to contract for the same. Discussion arose with regard to the total capital improvements budget and how the cost of doing South Canterbury would affect the total capital improvements budget. The Finance Director was requested to provide Council and the Mayor with a figure of borrowing that would be reasonable. The majority of the committee recommended approval of the South Cairterbury Road project by a vote of two to one. • Ordinance 2002-34, which is an ordinance to make and transfer appropriations for the current expenses and other expenditures for the city in the year ending December 31, 2002. Due to the fact that the appropriation ordinance is cxurently being reviewed, a recommendation was made to recommend approval at the final hearing on Saturday, March 16. 3