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Council Minutes of 8/5/2008 training on August 28 for landlords on appropriate tenant selection policies. Also, a seminar for area residents on how to avoid predatory loans will be held on September 4. Fair Housing seminars for realtars for continuing education credits will be held on October 23. More information will be forthcoming. 6) Prosecutor Mike Gordillo's report: June, 256 cases, of which 123 were General Offenses and 233 were Traffic, and there were no trials; July, a total of 240 cases, of which 134 were General Offenses and 106 Traffic, and there were no trials. (Congratulations to the Gordillo family who welcomed twin girls on July 21.) Councilman Barker questioned the status of the water study which the city is doing jointly with Westlake. Mayor O'Grady said the water study should have concluded about two weeks ago but is still continuing. He will make sure that Council is notified once the results are received.. Finance Director Copfer: 1) Finance Dept. implemented, in conjunction with the Safety Dept., the fire false alarm billing. It was implemented through MUNIS and is going smoothly so far. 2) Had two mediations sessions with the ClericaUTech union and three mediation sessions with the Service union with one more scheduled for this Friday with Service. 3) The payroll bookkeeper computed the retro pay for the fire fighters, and they received retro pay on July 25. 4) Records Commission passed the Human Resources and Safety Directors' departments. City Council will be reviewed at the next meeting. 5) With the retirement of Joan Fletcher in Building and Engineering, the Finance Dept. has taken on the functions of accounting for Engineering deposits and charges against those deposits. 6) The audit was completed for the financial statements for December 31, 2007 and were sent to the Auditor of State's office before June 30. She has not received word if it has been released publicly yet. 7) Prepared the Engineering analysis which was distributed to Council and will be discussed in committee. 8) Prepared the tax budget for 2009. 9) Closed June, and the financial reports were placed in Council's mailboxes this evening. She expects to go over the June 30 review at the committee meeting next Monday. 10) The transfer ordinance was a relatively complicated balancing act. It will also be discussed in committee. Thanks to the Assistant Finance Director for working on the legislation while the Finance Director was on vacation. Councilman Gareau, chairperson of the Finance Committee: 1) Finance Committee met on June 25, 2008 at 8 p.m. and concluded at 8:5 p.m. Present were Council Members Barker, Orlowski, Gareau, Kearney and Mahoney; the Safety Director and Finance Director. Five pieces of legislation were on the agenda, and Ordinances 2008-92, 2008-93, 2008-94, and 200$-95 were held in committee and scheduled for further review. • Resolution 2008-91 authorizing the Mayor to enter into atwo-year contract with Thomson West for the purpose of providing Westlaw on-line legal research 6