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Council Minutes of 12/6/2005 prosecutor Dan Ryan. Several police officers who had been named as John Does in the first action have been specifically named in this action. This re-filed action will be defended by the same insurance defense counsel, Steve Moody of Mazanec, Raskin & Ryder, who handled the defense of the State court action. 11) Prosecutor's report: month of November, 386 cases handled, 76% were traffic. The remaining were General Offenses items. There were 179 pleas taken, 118 cases remained pending at month's end, 68 capiases or dismissals issued, 3 trials had, 3 convictions. 12) Attended directors' meetings on November 22, 29 and December 5. 13) Attended the Community Council installation dinner on November 29. 14) Attended computer training on November 30. Thanks to Mrs. Farver's IT division for providing this training to city personnel. 15) Attended a Board of Control meeting on December 6. 16) Will present a plan to City Council to fine-tune the reorganization of the Law Department. Finance Director Copfer: 1) Finance Dept. has successfully processed two payrolls on MUNIS, the new software program. Though no live is perfect, it did go quite well. Thanks to all the staff and special thanks to Danielle Fusco, who is the payroll bookkeeper. She kept her cool and got the job done extremely well. 2) The department was required to and did successfully transmit October's Ohio PERS in their new on-line reporting program. 3) She is testing the year-to-date accumulator file conversion from MUNIS from our employees' year-to-date payroll records, with expectations to have it on the next pay stub. 4) She and the Assistant Finance Director decided they didn't like MLINIS's response to providing our payroll general ledger expense conversion as it was getting near the end of the year and they didn't feel it was going to happen before the end of the year. The Assistant Finance Director developed a procedure of tying each pay and each month. With assistance from the entire department, 11 months of payroll expense was posted last week. The bad news is that there is also going to be some budget adjustments that are going to have to be added to the transfer ordinance that is on first reading tonight. Most of those were in the benefit category of payroll paid benefits and most were the types of things that were budgeted by funding in the past. People made their best efforts of budgeting those, but they do fluctuate. We are attempting to find those monies in the divisions that have and give them to the people who have not. In response to a request from Councilman Miller, Finance Director Copfer gave a carryover update. The General Fund carryover based on about $400,000 of increases in revenue over expected revenue and, if trend has its course and we do not expend 100% of our appropriations, she estimates the city will probably have between $650,000 and $850,000 at the end of the year in the General Fund. Councilman Miller, chairperson of the Public Safety, Health & Welfare Committee: 1) The committee met on November 22. Three issues were discussed: 4