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Council Minutes of 1/2/2008 • Fair housing complaints were also down a little bit from 2006. We are only entering into the third year of our active program, and those numbers are not significant yet since we are still building our program and reaching out to the community. • Legislation is down a little bit, which is not necessarily a bad thing. • The Law Dept. collected $11,000 for the city in 2007. Those were collection matters that were turned over to the Law Dept. primarily from the Building Dept. and from Recreation. • Good government recommendations. Three have been added for this year for Council and the administration's consideration: First, to consider a Charter amendment that would provide for the appointment of the Fire Chief as opposed to promotion through the Civil Service process. Second, provide additional authority for the position of President of Council. The report mentions giving more authority to President of Council for committee assignments and to provide that the President of Council would be the supervisor for the Clerk of Council. Third, a general recommendation to urge Council be open-minded about any proposal that comes out of the administration dealing with changes in the way we have done business for a lot of years because it is sort of the nature of government that change is always difficult. Would urge Council to keep an open mind on legislation like Ordinance 2007-156, which provides for the reorganization of the Building and Engineering divisions, and any other proposals that come out of the administration that might be tough on individual employees but show promise to show more efficiencies in the operation of those divisions or departments and hopefully some savings of tax dollars. 2) Welcome to the new members of City Council. The Law Dept. will provide for all legal needs relating to official business as Council Members. He looks forward to working with them. President Kennedy: Committee-of--the-Whole met today, January 2, at 7 p.m. to discuss committee assignments. The committee assignments are as follows: • Building, Zoning & Development: Chairperson Mr. Barker, Vice Chairperson Mr. Gareau, Mrs. Jones. • Environmental Control: Chairperson Mr. Orlowski, Vice Chairperson Mr. Ryan, Mr. Barker. • Finance: Chairperson Mr. Gareau, Vice Chairperson Mr. Barker, Mr. Kearney • Intra-Governmental Relations: Chairperson Mr. Ryan, Vice Chairperson Mr. Orlowski, Mr. Gareau. • Public Safety, Health & Welfare: Chairperson Mr. Kearney, Vice Chairperson Mr. Orlowski, Mr. Mahoney. • Recreation, Public Parks & Buildings: Chairperson Mr. Mahoney, Vice Chairperson Mrs. Jones, Mr. Ryan. • Streets & Transportation: Chairperson Mr. Jones, Vice Chairperson Mr. Kearney, Mr. Mahoney • President Pro Tem 2006: Mrs. Jones 3