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Council Minutes of 5/17/2(105 contract for same and declaring an emergency. The committee recommended approval and passage under suspension of the rule • The committee discussed the issue of newsrack boxes that are on the city streets. This issue is being addressed as the boxes are unsightly. Implementation of a fee may help address the clutter. The boxes sometimes get knocked over for various reasons, and the Service Department has had to remove them. As there were a number of questions, this was held in committee for review by the Law Department. Councilman Limpert, chairperson of the Intra-Governmental Relations Committee: 1) The committee met on May 10. Present were committee members Miller and Limpert, along with other members of Council who were there to discuss an appointment to the Cultural Activities Commission. Mr. Bogdan Biliboaca was interviewed, a young man who is going to be an excellent addition to that group. Councilman Limpert made a motion that Council approve the appointment of Bogdan Biliboaca to the Cultural Activities Commission for the term of 1/1/OS to 12/31/05. The motion was seconded by Councilman Nashar and passed unanimously. Councilman Gareau, member of the Finance Committee: 1) The committee met on Tuesday, May 10. Present were Council members Limpert, Gareau, Dailey, Nashar; Council President Kennedy, Personnel Director Farver, Human Resources Director Copeland and guest Nick Schrader from F.I.R.S.T. Agenda items were as follows: • Ordinance 2005-75, an ordinance amending Ordinance 97-74 in order to differently designate revenues derived from leases and subleases of city owned property for telecommunications facilities and declaring an emergency. The point of this legislation will be to change the current disposition of funds received by way of cell towers on city property so that after June 7 all revenues received by the city would be divided between two funds: 75% would go to the Recreation Fund; 25% to the Economic Development Fund. A number of questions that arose were: what is the current balance in the Economic Development Fund; current annual funds generated from various sources from the various cell towers; various uses on the cell towers, what was the amount generated? The committee questioned whether or not there should be a new fund created, and are there any current fund restrictions within economic development which would make it difficult to use it for a variety of planning purposes. The committee is also interested in the opinion of the Recreation Department as there were no representatives in attendance. The committee unanimously voted to hold the legislation in committee. • Ordinance 2005-78, an ordinance creating new Section 167.021 of Chapter 167 of the Administrative Code entitled "Department of Personnel & Administrative Services" for the purpose of creating a new position of employment specialist, eliminating one secretary position and otherwise clarifying the staff positions within the department's organizational chart; and further amending Section 153.01 of Chapter 153 of the Administrative Code entitled "Civil Service Commission" to render said section consistent with the foregoing reorganization of the Department of Personnel & Administrative Services. This had been discussed previously during the budget process when Ms. Farver requested to reorganize her department based upon the job responsibilities of Lisa Kidd. In an effort to follow through on that, this legislation comes following the budget. There is a change in funding of about $1,500 for labor 6