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Council Minutes of 1/20/2009 inconvenience this may have caused when people were looking at municipal income tax or recreation revenues, which are the two revenue areas that were affected. It probably took three years off her life expectancy! S) Many may be wondering how the budget was balanced from the $483,000 projected def cit to a balanced budget before Council this evening. This is a result of an increase in the actual unencumbered balance over the projected by $287,000; a $213,000 decrease in revenue estimates of local government by the State, interest income and building related fees; and a net reduction of the appropriated expenditures by $409,000. About half of the reductions came from finalizing estimated workers compensation costs and healthcare costs to the actual costs based on what plans individuals had accepted, and with the final schedule A from the county that allowed more funds to go into the two Charter pension funds so that another $19,000 could be moved from the General Fund. The remaining came from materials and supplies and contractual services reductions in all departments. She prepared and distributed to Council two spreadsheets. 6) The RITA subpoena program will be running in Council Chambers February 9 through February 11 for tax filings from 2007 and prior. The RITA representatives are also willing to help calculate .and collect 2008 returns so that people don't just avoid filing because they are uncertain and then eventually become delinquent taxpayers. Councilman Gareau, chairperson of the Finance Committee: 1) The committee met on January 13, 2009 at 7:30 p.m. Present were committee members Gareau, Barker and Kearney; Council President Kennedy and Council Members Ryan, Jones, Orlowski, and Mahoney; Mayor O'Grady, Finance Director Copfer, Service Director Limpert, Safety Director Thomas, WWTP Superintendent Schlemmer. On the agenda was Resolution 2009-3, a resolution authorizing the Mayor to enter into a contract with Cintas Corporation to provide uniform rental services to the city's Waste Water Treatmen~ employees and declaring an emergency. The contract which we currently have is set to expire. The WWTP set about collecting data to figure out which would be a best possible price for the rental of uniforms over the next. couple of years, and they found that Cintas Corporation was the cheapest. They did things a little bit different than we would normally do with our bidding process or even our RFP process from the standpoint of, once numbers came in, they had further dialogue and the numbers came down, which is a good thing. Pursuant to our collective bargaining agreement, we have to have uniforms for our employees, so we need to get that contract in place. The committee did discuss the idea of perhaps considering in the future bringing all of our municipal uniform contracts under one provider with one contract period. It does not seem.to make a lot of sense to have different providers. The idea is to look towards that in the future with the Service Dept. and the WWTP using the same provider. In committee, Councilman Gareau made a motion to recommend approval of the legislation and place it on second reading. The motion was seconded by Councilman Barker and passed 3-0. This evening, there was a request for consideration of passage under suspension of the rule for the reason that the current contract is set to expire and the uniforms are needed. Councilman Ryan, chairperson of the Intra-Governmental Relations Committee, made a motion to re-appoint Mr. Tom Dubowski as Council's representative to the Landmarks Commission for the term of January 1, 2009 to December 31, 2010 commenting that Mr. 4