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Council Minutes of 3/16/2004 ,,~,,, indicating that the recommendations should be referred to the Charter Review ~~ Commission Mr. Limpert answered that his understanding of the procedure, which is relatively new, is that, after being reviewed by the committee, the recommendations would potentially be forwarded on to the commission. Law Director Dubelko said that this year the Charter Review Commission can only formally consider legislation that has been forwarded to it by City Council. The recommendations would have to be introduced as legislation, and then it would be referred to Charter Review Commission. The commission considers it and reports back to City Council within 60 days. There is certainly nothing that precludes the Charter Review Commission from discussing anything they want to discuss. But the only matters they can take formal action on this year are ordinances that are referred to them by the City Council. Councilwoman Kasler, chairperson of the Finance Committee: 1) She will be providing a summary of the Finance Committee meeting that was held on March 9. With regard to the committee meetings that were held in relation to the appropriations ordinance, she will be giving those reports at the special meeting on March 24 so that it fits with the passage of the appropriations ordinance. A Finance Committee meeting was held on March 9. Present were committee members Kasler, Gareau, Limpert; Councilmen Nashar, Miller, Dailey, President O'Grady; the directors of Law, Service, Safety and Finance, the City Planner, Mayor and guests. The following items were discussed and recommended for approval by the committee: • Ordinance 2004-33, an ordinance providing for the issuance and sale of $1,370,000 of notes in the anticipation of the issuance of bonds to pay costs of improving certain designated streets in the city. This represents note renewals and a pay down. • Ordinance 2004-34, an ordinance providing for the issuance and sale of $550,000 of notes in anticipation of the issuance of bonds to pay costs of acquiring emergency rescue squad and other motor vehicles related to the Fire Department. This was also a renewal, but there was no pay down involved. • Ordinance 2004-35, an ordinance providing for the issuance and sale of notes in the aggregate principal amount of $400,000 in anticipation of the issuance of bonds to pay costs of acquiring and installing computers and related equipment and software for financial and administrative systems management. Ordinance 2004-35 represents a renewal of notes and a pay down of $100,000. • Ordinance 2004-36, an ordinance providing for the issuance and sale of $100,000 of notes in anticipation of the issuance of bonds to pay costs of acquiring a fire pumper and other related fire apparatus and equipment. Ordinance 2004-36 is a renewal, with a net pay down of $100,000. • Resolution 2004-40, which is a renewal of a resolution authorizing the Mayor to enter into a renewed service contract fora 10-month period for the remainder of this year to December 31, 2004 with ACS Government Systems in order to provide maintenance support for the current payroll budget and accounting software system in the Finance Department. The renewal service is with a vendor who has a proprietary interest in the program and the contract and equipment. The contract amount is approximately $4,000 for the remainder of the year with a vendor that we need to contract with because he has a proprietary interest in the issue. 5