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council Minutes of 9/6/2005 5) Finalized the NOCOP executive director contract. NOCOP will be paying the six months and 2005 budget amount so we don't have to amend our budget for that purpose, but it will be a budgeting issue in 2006 for all the partners of NOCOP. 6) The appropriations transfer is Ordinance 2005-130. She is preparing to discuss the issues in committee which involve a combination of things-increases and decreases in estimated resources in certain areas. Some items were just not budgeted adequately. None of these are new expenditures, but with converting of the old accounting format to the new, some of them were missed or just weren't budgeted at an appropriate amount. Some project funding out of the solid waste recycling for the asphalt program that should have been reflected in the last appropriation as a transfer to fund those projects instead were appropriated in that fund to expend. 7) The department is adding users to MUNIS outside the Finance Dept. to have on-line access to their expenditure line items. The Police Chief's secretary has been a guinea pig for this purpose and been our test division. She gave the "thumbs-up" to let the Police Chief have access. She plans on rolling out to other departments and divisions over the next month, with informal training because it's just an inquiry only type format of vendors and purchases orders and budgets and thing like that they have budgeting responsibility for. The formal training, to be done by MiJNIS, will not occur until we begin implementing the on-line requisition process. Councilman Ryan has been reviewing the summaries of city income and expenses. It appears our income per year from 2000 to 2004 has increased at 6 %2% per year. The category of security of persons and property is increasing at 21 '/Z%. He has a deep concern about city finances. Finance Director Copfer agreed that revenues have been flat for several years, and these are issues that will be discussed during Finance Committee meetings. President Kennedy reported on the Committee-of-the-Whole: 1) The committee met on Tuesday, September 6. In attendance were Councilmen Nashar, Barker, Tallon, Miller and Gareau; Mayor O'Grady; directors Dubelko, Wenger and Limpert. Discussion centered around 2005-118, an ordinance providing for the submission to the electors of the City of North Olmsted of an amendment of Article VII, Section 2, of the Charter of the City of North Olmsted to change the name and composition of the City Planning Commission; further to change and extend the authority of the Planning Commission; further to change the Master Plan review and approval process, and declaring an emergency as amended. Mr. Miller brought up same paints with regard to the Mayor appointing someone as opposed to Council appointing someone. The committee had agreed on some of the different verbiage in the ordinance. That verbiage had been changed and is reflected in the title. Councilman Gareau made a motion to amend Ordinance 2005-118 consistent with the legislation as reviewed in committee this evening. There are four significant changes: one member would be a member of Council or its designee; language would be removed in the proposed Charter amendment which allowed the Planning Commission to initiate legislation; remove section concerning a repeal of the right of the residents to vote on multi-family zoning matters; Mayor would make the appointments to the new and revised Planning and Design Commission on a staggered basis as laid out in Article VII, Section 2 A. The motion was seconded by Councilman Miller and passed unanimously. Ordinance No. 2005-118 was amended. 10