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Council Minutes of 4/18/2006 issuer, which would be us. Therefore, we maybe able to borrow at a lower rate. Thanks for all the support in those efforts. 2) We will be selling those issues this week, and though the market has moved substantially reducing the estimated savings which we received back in February, she is setting our options on the refunding issues, which has been changing daily. We anticipate selling the bonds that are the new money issues on Thursday. We will determine at that time if any or all of the refundings still make economical sense, or if we may have another opportunity to do so and refund these later this year or down the road within the next several years. 3) Her department acted as Clerk of Council most of last week, and it was relatively quiet. 4) The Finance Directors who are part of the Rocky River Municipal Court are meeting on May 4 to review the operations. If Council has any specific questions with regard to court operations they would like her to ask, please send them to her in writing. 5) She tries to walk a careful line of full-time administrator and advisor to Council. Today, she must put on her administrator's hat on the issue of the network administrator. She has listened attentively to all sides of the compelling presentations of the debate. The director made good presentations and compelling presentations to Council, and Council had a very healthy debate on this issue. The fallowing is a letter from her to City Council: "To City Council: Sasa Stokic, the Network Administrator, is a dedicated hard- working employee who has led the city's conversion from a 1980s IT infrastructure to present day technology. He came here with little directly related experience, but had an eager willingness to learn and a great attitude. He has succeeded at every task: • Migration from Novell to Windows, • Significant infrastructure requirements, • Changed out over 100 desktop computers, • Creation of an on-site server farm, • Installation of new financial accounting and payroll system, • Installation of new fire house software, • Upgrades to Ices, our building software, • Upgrades to payroll time clock systems, • Installed and maintains security software that protects our data and equipment. In addition he implemented various handheld portable devices, maintained our telephone system, converted our email system, organized training for all staffing levels, and redesigned and maintained the web page and is integral in the a-gov web access initiative as well as in the upgrading of the recording and sound system in Council chambers and caucus. Finance has many upcoming improvements we envisioned with Munis and Sasa has been here from the beginning of this project and we trust his ability and judgment in his area of expertise, information technology. He has approached and completed each of these projects, over and above his daily network administrative duties, with a positive mental attitude, good problem solving abilities and a strong work ethic. He completed tasks on time and on budget. The cost of replacing a proven employee considering tlxe responsibility of this position is critical to the efficiency of all divisions and departments. The network administrator keeps our server up and operating, protects it from being harmed by 5