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Council Minutes of 12-15-2009 beginning of the yeaz 2010. Finance Director Copfer presented to Council the general idea that the budget would be one quarter of the general fund budget for 2009, so for whatever amount of money was appropriated for 2009 they would use the one quarter rule in order to be able to appropriate that much for 2010. That would allow the city time to prepare an appropriation ordinance which would establish the total appropriations for the yeaz 2010. There was a motion made by Councilman Gazeau, seconded by Councilman Barker to recommend approval of 2009-139 under suspension. There was a vote of 3-0 to recommend approval with suspension. 4) 2009-140 is a Resolution authorizing the Mayor to enter into a contract with the State Auditor and Ciuni & Panichi, Inc., Certified Public Accountants, providing for the latter to serve as independent public accountants for the State Auditor's annual audits of the City of North Olmsted for the years 2009 through 2013, and declaring an emergency. The Finance Director presented to city Council that this is the standard proposal that would come forward from the State Auditor's office which requires the city to have auditors in place. The auditor was selected competitively with a recommendation from the State Auditor that they city enter into an agreement with this particular individual to serve as an independent public accountant on behalf. of the State of Ohio. It was publicly chosen through an RFP process, evaluated and recommended. Gateau made a motion to recommend approval, and the motion was seconded by Councilman Barker and passed 3- 0. There was a Finance Committee meeting this evening, December I5, 2009 at 7:15 p.m. to discuss 2009-135 which is an Ordinance to make and transfer appropriations for current expenses and other expenditures for the City of North Olmsted for the year ending December 31, 2009, as amended. He is going to include the work paper as an amendment to the Ordinance because there aze a number of issues that need to be addressed. The committee recommended approval by a vote of 2-0. Councilman Barker was not yet in attendance. Councilman Gateau made a motion to amend 2009-135 to include those amendments which were set forth in the work paper. The motion was seconded by Councilman Kearney and passed unanimously. 2009-135 amended. Councilman Barker, Chairman of the Building, Zoning and Development Committee wished Mayor O'Grady and Law Director Dubelko the best of luck in their future endeavors. It was a pleasure serving with both of them. He apologized for not being at the Finance Committee meeting this evening. There was a BZD meeting December 2, 2009 at 7:00 p.m. in Council Chambers. The meeting will be rescheduled because same residents who were told they were going to be notified were not. There will be a BZD meeting on December 22, 2009 at 7 p.m. in Council Chambers. The Clerk has located the list of residents, and notices will be sent as a courtesy. Councilwoman Jones, Chairwoman of the Streets and Transportation Committee: 'The Streets and Transportation Committee met on Tuesday, December 8, 2009 at 8:00 p.m. Present were committee members Jones and Kearney, Council President Kennedy, Council members Brossard, Orlowski, Barker and Gazeau. The committee met to have an informal discussion regazding the street survey which is done every yeaz. Service 9