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Council Minutes of 8/19/2008 suspension of the rules requiring three readings for the purpose Safety Director Dr. Thomas has requested this because we have expenditures that need to be made on this fund. The motion was seconded by Councilman Kearney. Roll call: Gateau, yes; Kearney, yes; Orlowski, yes; Barker, yes; Jones, yes; Ryan, yes, with comment. He thinks this should have gone farther and the money should have been put into the General Fund and accounted for it at the end of the year. He votes yes. Roll call continued: Mahoney, yes. The motion passed unanimously. Dennis Lambert, 25057 Carey Lane, said he would make general comments on Ordinances 2008-92, 2008-93, and 2008-94. He believes, has always believed, the General Fund is a black hole. As much money as we can earmark to special things, we should. And what's been going on along the way is these funds have been expanded use, expanded use, expanded use. If you expand the use of the HotellMotel Tax what's going to happen is that what it was earmarked for, equipment, the money won't be there for equipment. What the city notoriously does in North Olmsted then is, if it wants to buy a fire truck or other safety equipment, the money is borrowed. That puts us mare in debt. It's bad practice. Somebody has got to hold the line on expenditures or raise more capital and come up with creative ways to get more capital. But he thinks the old Harry Truman adage stands true at this time-"The buck stops here." And it's time to put the foot down. He can't go along with any of these three ordinances. Councilman Gateau commented the buck does stop here, and the €oot has landed because the money is not going to the General Fund. It is staying within the Hotel/Motei Fund. As he reported out, the money would be for the general needs of the police and fire divisions, including emergency dispatch, with the exception of wages and benefits. It's going to purchase equipment, which is exactly what the original purpose of Hotel/Motel was. It does expand it out to include emergency dispatch. Councilman Gateau moved for adoption. The motion was seconded by Councilman Kearney and passed unanimously. Ordinance No. 2008-92 adopted. Ordinance No. 2008-93 introduced by Mayor O'Grady was given its second reading. An ordinance amending Section 1 of Ordinance No. 97-34, which established the HoteUMotel Tax Fund, as previously amended by Ordinance No. 2006-113, in order to further expand the purposes for which monies in the said fund may be expended, as amended. Councilman Gateau moved for suspension of the rules requiring three readings for the same reason as stated for Ordinance 2008-92. The motion was seconded by Councilman Barker and passed unanimously. Councilman Gateau moved for adoption. The motion was seconded by Councilman Barker and passed unanimously. Ordinance No. 2008-93 adopted. Ordinance No. 2008-94 introduced by Mayor O'Grady was given its second reading. An ordinance amending Section 2 of Ordinance No. 99-107, which established the Safe Traffic Oriented Policing ("STOP") program in the North Olmsted Police Department, as previously amended by Ordinance No. 2004-42, in order to further expand the purposes for which monies paid into the STOP Fund maybe expended, as amended. Councilman Barker moved for suspension of the rule requiring three readings noting the legislation had been discussed in committee, and the motion was seconded by Councilman Kearney. Roll call: Barker, yes; Kearney, yes; Orlowski, yes; Jones, yes; Ryan, yes; Gateau, no; Mahoney, yes. The motion passed with six yes votes and one no vote. Don DeBrodt, 18