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Council Minutes of 12/18/2007 we will have to purchase excess insurance. With that, there is a greater savings of dollars expended by the city on premiums. It's a definite balance act-you just hope that your claims are down and your premiums will stay that way. After the overview, a discussion was held, and a motion was made to recommend to the Council passage of Resolution 2007-146. There was no second; therefore, the legislation remained in committee. The chairman announced that he would ask the Council as a whole to relieve it from committee. Councilman Tallon made a motion to remove Resolution 2007-146 from committee and place it on the agenda for second reading. The motion was seconded by Councilman Barker. Roll call: Tallon, yes; Barker, yes; Gareau, yes; Ryan, no; Orlowski, yes; Jones, yes. The motion passed with five yes votes and one no vote. Resolution No. 2007-146 is added to the agenda on second reading. ~ Ordinance 2007-140, a transfer ordinance. Director Copfer gave an overview of the changes along with a written copy. These are year-end changes to clean up the line items in the budget. Director Copfer said there would be more changes before the Council meeting on Tuesday, those changes would be heard in caucus, and a motion would be made to accept those recommendations. The committee unanimously recommended approval to Council under suspension of the rule. Tonight in caucus, Director Copfer presented the changes and the written document, Ordinance 2007-140 as amended. Councilman Tallon moved to amend Ordinance 2007-140 to reflect the changes as accepted by committee. The motion was seconded by Councilman Barker and passed unanimously. Ordinance No. 2007-140 amended. • Ordinance 2007-139, an ordinance establishing rates of compensation for various administrative and legislative personnel for the year 2008. The Mayor stated that it was a 2% increase in the ranges throughout the ordinance. After discussion, the committee recommended an amendment that the column marked 2008 shall have the ranges changed to the same ranges as the 2007 column in Ordinance 2007-29. The committee vote 2-0 to recommend the amended version of Ordinance 2007- 139 for approval to Council and to recommend passage on suspension of the rule. The chairman made some recommendations for changes in Ordinance 2007-139 in 2008. Since the committee meeting, an emergency clause has been added and is on the amended version. Councilman Tallon moved that Ordinance 2007-139 be amended as recommended by committee and the addition of the emergency clause, and the motion was seconded by Councilman Ryan. Councilman Gareau asked for a point of clarification with respect to changing 2008 to 2007 as to what column was being changed. Councilman Tallon answered the 2008 range column will be the same as the previous ordinance. As there was confusion as to what the motion to amend included, Councilman Tallon restated that the amendments were as recommended by the committee and the emergency clause which was added after the committee meeting. Roll call: Tallon, yes; Ryan, yes; Orlowski, yes; Jones, no; Gareau, yes; Barker, yes. The motion passed with five yes votes and one no vote. Ordinance No. 2007-139 amended. 6