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Council Minutes of 8/17/2004 Councilman Gareau, member of the Finance Committee, reported for Councilwoman Kasler, chairperson of the Finance Committee: 1) The Finance Committee met on August 9, 2004 and August 16, 2004. There were two items on the agenda for discussion: • Resolution 2004-117, a resolution adopting the alternative tax budget of the City of North Olmsted for the fiscal year beginning January 1, 2005 and submitting the same to the County Auditor and declaring an emergency. This is an annual required resolution setting forth to the county and the state a declaration of need to levy taxes. It also sets forth to the county information to insure the debt service is covered. It's not a new tax, it just sets forth an anticipated budget based upon estimated revenues, slightly increased from last year generally speaking. After discussion and explanation from the Director of Finance and the fact that it is an annual resolution which must be passed, the committee unanimously recommended approval with the amendment that the emergency purpose would be more clearly stated as a declaration of emergency in the actual whereas clause. • Ordinance 2004-118, 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. There are a number of transfers and one new appropriation that were suggested for the following needs: - Information systems, an additional $52,000 toward equipment and maintenance. Mrs. Farver explained the additional finances included retaining a consultant until February 1, 2005. Other issues that were on the radar for being addressed include network cabling to the work stations; network fiber cable connections between buildings; uninterrupted power supply; replacement of computer servers; software license renewal; identifying users of machines; addressing some Novell software issues; installing Microsoft security updates which may have lapsed. - The Law Department requested and received a new server after the old one crashed for the second time in the past few months. Replacement cost, $2,000. - The Fire Department requested allocation of $50,000 to meet on-going fire fighter overtime needs. This is an on-going issue that City Council has attempted to address. City Council played it conservative at the beginning of the year and cut back on what was anticipated for fire fighter overtime, and more money now needs to be allocated. - Recreation, a new appropriation for purposes of the maintenance (cleaning services) at the Recreation Center. Earlier in the year when maintenance was discussed, Council had requested the administration proceed with going out to bid for services to provide cleaning services to the Rec Center. As enticement to the Rec Center to do that, only half the money they would nonmally need for a year's worth of cleaning services was appropriated. The remainder of those funds is now being appropriated with the understanding that legislation has already been passed to get some bids on those services. - Sanitary sewer fund, a transfer of $23,000 which concerns an upgraded computer telemetry with LeBern and Clague Park. This hopefully will allow for more streamlined operations during storm situations at Clague Park by decreasing the