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. `~il- Council Minutes of 3/18/2008 General raises for most non-bargaining employees are scheduled for 2% and will be reviewed when collective bargaining sessions are concluded. A significant item to note in terms of last year's budget compared to this year's budget is the very significant increase in trash hauling costs. We now spend $1,883,176.40 per year to remove trash from the curb. Ina $22 million General Fund budget, that is a very significant amount of money. Council did make some recommended changes by appropriating an additional $50,000 from the Street Maintenance and Repair Fund to cover crack sealing outside services. This is consistent with the crack sealing outside contract from last year for about the same amount of money. Council felt that was a worthy program and will be beneficial to the community. The money was available but not appropriated, so Couneil discussed with the Director of Service the idea of appropriating $50,000 to cover streets. We do have in-house crack sealing for which $25,000 is expended toward equipment and materials, but this will help additionally with the overall program. The report for Recreation & Springvale is more or less maintaining the current level of service, with substantially flat revenue. The committee unanimously voted to recommend to City Council Ordinance 2008-34 as amended. In addition to the $50,000 for crack sealing, Council removed $5,000 from its travel allowance line item reducing it to zero and placed it into a furniture line item for the caucus room, which may or may not be expended. The pay for the Director of Law was adjusted because of an error by about $3.40. An adjustment of compensation for the Clerk of Council was also made. The appropriation for outside services for IT was reduced to $22,200 from $30,000. The IT computer replacement program, used to replace city computers after afour-year period to avoid the problem of using old computers, was reduced by $10,000 with some creative work through Director Farver in stretching out tax dollars to use the computers for another year with a little less expensive solution. Thank you to the directors and the administration for the preparation and thorough analysis. It was a very good and smooth process. There was an effort during the discussions to separate financing issues with other issues that can come up. Therefore, he has a list of issues which he will provide to Council Members to be discussed in the various committees. There were a number of technical amendments which needed to be made, including typos and oversights. These are not controversial and were presented throughout the process by the Finance Director. The expenditure changes by City Council were also detailed in a spreadsheet. Councilman Gareau made a motion to amend Ordinance 2008-34 as discussed and to include the technical corrections as detailed on the Appropriations 2008 Technical Corrections document as well as the Council corrections document. The motion was seconded by Councilman Barker and passed unanimously. Ordinance No. 2008-34 amended. Councilman Gareau requested that the following documents be appended to the minutes: "Appropriations 6