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~'" Council Minutes of 8/19/2008 increasing $300,000 from the second half collection; and reducing estimated municipal income tax receipts by $200,000 - $140,000 General Fund, $30,000 Solid Waste & Recycling fund and $30,000 in the Permanent Improvement Fund. I am happy to report my department's persistence has paid off. It was noted that the fire station 2's CEI bills were twice the amount of station 1's, which is bigger than station 2. We hoped it was a billing error, but were concerned it may be a safety issue at station 2. After several attempts to get CEI to investigate, we caught the attention of Mr. Doug Hogan, our CEI representative. They reviewed it and determined that when the fire station 2 was initially analyzed by CEI, it was classified incorrectly as a medium size customer which caused the higher billing rate. He has recommended we receive a full refund back to the first day it was billed to us improperly, about 16 months ago, and expects it to be approved. With the last finance committee meeting being quite long, I handed out the second quarter financial review, though we did not discuss it or the engineering analysis. I suggest we schedule time at the next committee meeting since the new legislation coming forth looks like it won't take too long. Today I received July month end reports. While you are looking at them note this does include the fire retro wages and that unencumbered balance for the general fund appears to be about $500,000 greater than July 2007, however recall that $547,000 was transferred in from the NOMBL fund, so technically we are $47,000 behind the prior year. Donna sent the detail reports out today. I just received word today from our auditors that the State Auditor's office released our 12/31/07 report today with no review comments. We checked their web site and it has not been uploaded yet. Respectfully submitted, Carrie B. Copfer Director of Finance" Councilman Gareau, chairperson of the Finance Committee: 1) The Finance Committee met at 7:04 p.m. on August 11, 2008. Present were committee members Barker, Kearney and Gareau; Council President Kennedy, Council Members Jones, Orlowski, and Mahoney; the Mayor, Finance Director, Service Director, Safety Director, Human Resources Director, and Assistant Director of Law Bryan O'Malley. The committee meeting was immediately adjourned into executive session, with the motion made by Councilman Gareau, seconded by Councilman Barker, and passed unanimously. The executive session was held for the purpose of discussing the litigation concerning the fire fighters. The executive session ended at 7:26 p.m. The committee meeting was called back to order and the following items were discussed: • Ordinance 2008-92, an ordinance amending Section 745.02 of Chapter 745, Business Regulation Code (Hotel & Motel Tax), in order to expand the 5 .M,-~, .~ ,. a. ~ ~.- r ~~s~~m~,~n,?~r~a~raua~nr~s