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Council Minutes of 12-21-2004 ,~ when doing road work. It's not fair to leave non-bargaining people without compensating them somewhat for the sacrifice. Roll call continued: McKay, no, with comment that the other employees that receive a boot allowance in the city do not have to bring in receipts. All employees should be treated equally. Roll call continued: Miller, yes. The motion passed with 4 yes votes and 3 no votes. Section 23 of Ordinance 2004-164 is amended. • Ordinance 2004-186, which is an ordinance to make appropriations for current expenses and other expenditures for the City of North Olmsted for the year ending December 31, 2005. Generally, what occurs is the temporary appropriation is for a third of the budget of 2004 in order to keep the city in operation until budget approval has taken place for 2005. Such things as gas and oil, service and police overtime, salt, equipment parts and replacement and possibly police cars are the exception to the one third and extra money will be placed in those funds because those expenditures will be done earlier in the year as opposed to later. A change from other years is that we will also be funding in for the first part of the year for any items related to the computer conversion process, and also $38,000 for the FEMA grant and funds for Civil Service testing. Those are the three issues that require more money that are normally on the budget increase but are unique to this year. The committee unanimously recommended approval of Ordinance 2004-186. • Ordinance 2004-187, an ordinance to make and transfer appropriations for current expenses and other expenditures for the City of North Olmsted for the year ending December 31, 2004. Amendments to this ordinance were discussed prior to this meeting. There are various amendments which reflect changes that have occurred since the last time this was introduced. The only remarkable change since that time is that there is a $34,000 expenditure for taxes to be paid on public property where we either purchased property or made changes to property. We are required to pay the taxes ahead of time, then get our exemption and request reimbursement. The properties included in this were Clague Road intersection at Lorain, North Olmsted Park, McKenzie Road, the pump station at Moen, Bridgeport landscaping and the Recreation Center. Also noted by the Finance Director was the Senior Center ADA building improvement money was removed from the ordinance since there has been no contract and we will not have a contract by the end of the year. In order to encumber the money, there has to either be a contract or a purchase order. Ordinance 2004-187 was recommended unanimously by the committee. • Ordinances 2004-188, 189 and 190 were taken jointly. These are ordinances which establish and fix compensation for the Mayor, Director of Law and Director of Finance for the term of office commencing January 1, 2006 and ending December 31, 2009. This legislation was also previously discussed. The decision was to have a 2.25% pay increase each year for the four years. That was agreed upon by the committee and the ordinances were recommended unanimously by the committee. • Ordinance 2004-194, an ordinance authorizing the Mayor to enter into contracts for the deposit of public monies with the institutions designated by Council as depositories for the active and interim account of the city. This is basically authorizing the Mayor to enter into contracts with several North Olmsted banking institutions in order for the potential deposit of public monies. There has to be a contract in effect, and we are authorizing the ability to contract with those institutions 6 ,,,.,u,»~~,:... .