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Council Minutes of 3/3/2009 violations. They are summarized as 5 complaints recently filed, 1 case was already pending, 1 case ruled a no prosecution on Elm Road, 3 files pending on a promise of compliance to law and subject to verification in the Building Dept., and 4 files were cleared by compliance and returned to the Building Dept. for monitoring of vacant premises. 3) City Prosecutor's report for February: a total of 237 cases handled; 140 Traffic, 97 General Offenses. There were no trials in February. 4) Law Dept. received a public records request on or about February 18. It was very broadly worded to essentially request all records of a communicative nature in the Law Dept., either coming in or going out involving three of the four lawyers in the department. After some attempt to negotiate a reasonable request, he was compelled to deny the public records request because he could not get it to a reasonable level. He certainly does not think it was appropriate to request every record in department. 5) Received requests from members of Council to review the animal control ordinances. He is in the process of looking at some of the ordinances in other communities and will provide advice to Council on whether or not changes should be made. Finance Director Copfer: 1) The January financial statement summary and detailed reports were e-mailed to Council today. The General Fund revenue is 9.4% down from the prior year. It's hard to compare to the budget since real estate taxes are advanced heavily in January and February, so we do not get 1/12 of the projected income each month. 2) As previously mentioned, municipal income tax is down. That did contribute to the decline from the prior year. Expenditures are down 3.66% from the prior year, but one month does not constitute a trend. Also in the a-mail is a new benchmark report that the administration has created to try and track key General Fund indicators. It was broken down into three categories: income sources, expenditure issues, and quality of life. The charts have General Fund income tax collections, building permits and fine receipts and also the number of permits and tickets issued. Those are only General Fund tickets issued on regular duty and do not include STOP tickets. It includes fire runs, and there is also a repair dollars to buildings and equipment that have been required this month. All information is compared to January of the prior year. Included axe overtime hours for various departments and also criminal activity and fire incidents and dollar loss. There are many more statistics that could be compiled, but the information was whittled down to those indicators; but the administration reserves the right to pick different indicators in the future if they find that these are not providing the proper information. A, UDIENCE PARTICIPATION 1) Dennis Lambert, 25057 Carey Lane, welcomed Mr. Brossard, whom he felt would be an excellent Councilman. Previously, he spoke about the inflow and infiltration issue and promised to provide a DVD made from a videotape of sewers in Fairview Park that dates back to 1989. It is very informative and will give an overview of the concepts and where some of the problems may lie and will be helpful when dealing with the experts who will be providing advice. He suggested Mr. Orlowski might want to use the DVD in an 4