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Council Minutes of 2/7/2006 • Michael Plute v. the City of North Olmsted, a case involving a former employee of Springvale who filed once and dismissed. He filed a second time, and it has been settled within the city's deductible. • Jay Staskus v. Devries was settled on January 9 by insurance company counsel. There were no city dollars involved. 10) Prosecutor's report for January: total of 266 cases handled; 136 pleas, 1 trial and 1 conviction; 79 cases pending; 38 dismissals. Out of the 266 cases, 67 were General Offenses, the balance were traffic matters. Finance Director Copfer: 1) Is continuing to work on the preliminary balances. Information on the General Fund and the detailed revenue and expenditure reports have been e-mailed to Council. The General Fund's ending balance is $1,748,000. It is up from the prior year. Approximately a million dollars of it is from revenue and about six hundred thousand is from unexpended appropriations. Four hundred twenty-nine thousand was from municipal income tax over the plan. We received $120,000 for housing grants that was not in the estimated resources. Local government funds were $84,000 over plan; estate taxes were $45,000; interest income was $77,000 over plan, which is the result of getting something over 1% on the monies we are investing. Rocky River Court fines are $49,000 over plan; EMS is $32,000 over plan. In unexpended appropriations, $30,000 was not transferred to the Recreation Fund. The Police Dept. did not expend $64,000; Fire Dept., $67,000; Finance Dept., $256,000, of which $188,000 was the tax abatement for Moen. There had been a question of the date on the 2004 application. It was kept as an encumbrance to the schools-what we would owe if Moen was a year later than expected. The county proved that Moen was getting taxed, and the schools were getting their share. Building Dept. did not expend $22,000; Service Dept., $32,000; Fleet, $54,000, which was mostly fuel and parts that were not expended. 2) An amendment of the temporary appropriations is on the agenda. 3) The auditors, Ciuni & Panichi began their field work yesterday. 4) The bond legislation, Ordinances 2046-18 through 2006-43 fall into three groups: 2006-18 through 2006-32 are refunding a portion of the old bonds for the new ones where possible and if it saves money over the remaining life of the debt; 2006-33 through 2006-38 take the bond anticipation notes done over the last few years to fund capital improvements and convert them into bonds; 2006-39 through 2006-43 is legislation for the new capital money for 2006, and these are being taken immediately to bonds because it is more efficient and makes more financial sense to go right to bonds. 5) She expects the budget to be done by February 15`h as required. Councilman Miller, chairperson of the Environmental Control Committee: 1) Committee met on January 24. Agenda items were as follows: • Ordinance 2006-2, a resolution authorizing the Director of Public Service to advertise for bids for a one year contract (with an additional automatic one year extension) for laboratory analytical services for the WWTP. It was explained this is a returning/revolving contract. The testing is required by the EPA. The chemicals involved in the testing process, the training for the people conducting ® the test and the equipment involved precludes the city from being able to afford to do this testing. A duly authorized and trained certified lab is required to 4