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Council Minutes of 11/7/2007 arbitrage amount may be, but Council will be updated as soon as that information becomes available. 2) AFSCME service negotiations occurred on October 18`h. Dispatch negotiations were scheduled for October 22~d, but due to a family emergency with our labor negotiator, they were cancelled and will be re-scheduled. 3) She and John Dailey met with Nick Shrader and Janice Dzigiel of STC to discuss the possibility of the city assisting with the maintenance of vehicles from other communities if the STC becomes the DSC, which is the direct provider of the services for those certain cities. This would be a one to two year commitment until they bring up their own garage. These were initial talks which raised a lot of questions regarding potential risk issues, opportunity costs given up by the city, etc. that we are examining. 4) The Finance Dept. assisted the administration with an analysis of engineering costs from 1999 annually forward. This was to assist with the restructuring of the engineering department evaluation. 5) On first reading is the RFP for consulting services of a CPA to do GAAP conversion assistance work. We have over the last several years kept this cost low as the Asst. Finance Director performs most of the preliminary analysis and journal preparation work and compilation of the schedules. But it is the conversion of this to financial statements including footnotes and a review to insure compliance with all GAAP requirements that we still require which then keeps our audit costs to a minimum because they are ready to go and meet all the requirements when the auditors come in. 6) The transfer ordinance on first reading tonight, Ordinance 2007-127, attempts to fix a plethora of problems. A work paper was distributed to Council today. None of these problems are major problems, but it is getting towards the end of the year. Hopefully, this spreadsheet will help navigate through that ordinance during the committee meeting. 7) The September month-end financial reports have been distributed to Council. The e- mailed detail will go out soon. 8) She has no updated year-end projections as she has not had an opportunity to review the results in any detailed way. She will prepare a quarterly review for the administration and Council before the next meeting. Councilman Gareau, chairperson of the BZD Committee: 1) Tonight the Building, Zoning & Development Committee met to discuss the situation with Gareau Drive. This issue is related to the legislation concerning correctional facilities which has been reported out of committee. But he had promised the residents one more meeting to discuss the situation and the legislation. Present were committee members; Council Members Barker, Jones, Tallon, and Council President Kennedy; Law Director Dubelko, Mayor O'Grady, Planning Director Wenger. It was agive-and-take talk session, and the residents did express concerns they have with a particular parcel of property and ongoing activities there. The administration did pledge that it is an ongoing process and will continue to review the situation, and they believe there has been compliance with the cease and desist order. However, residents were advised that, if they have specific observations or concerns regarding activities that may be taking place at that property or any property where somebody might be running an inappropriate business out of their Home, they should forward those concerns to the Building Department. If there is 4