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Special Council Minutes of 12-16-2019 were committee members Schumann, Brossard and Kearney; Council members Glassburn, Hemann, Limpert and Williamson; Council President Jones; Mayor Kennedy, Director of Finance Copfer, Director of Human Resources Gallo, Director of Law Gareau, Director of Safety & Service Glauner, Director of Planning & Development Lieber, Councilman elect Kelly, various department heads and their assistants and guests. Not everyone was present every day, but the Committee and Council were well represented. The Directors and Department heads were able to come and go as their parts of the budget were presented. • Discussed first on Tuesday was Ordinance 2019-103. 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, 2019 and declaring an emergency. This wraps up the 2019 budget with some minor changes and a few bigger ones. The first change is $6,000 moving from civil service to IT for an emergency server. Police salaries see $10,400 moving to corrections for a part- time corrections officer that moved from auxiliary. Two big moves are $153,000 in the General Fund and $230,000 in Parks and Recreation for various projects including the roof and rink plans. These monies will eventually be financed as part of the bonds for the rink. Lastly, $27,000 was added to law enforcement that is owed to the State Forfeiture Program. Some of these changes were made after first reading so the legislation needs to be amended. The committee voted 3-0 to recommend to Council as amended. Councilman Schumann moved to amend Ordinance 2019-103. The motion was seconded by Councilman Brossard and passed unanimously. Roll Call: Yes: Schumann, Brossard, Hemann, Kearney, Glassburn, Limpert, Williamson No: None Motion carried. Ordinance 2019-103 amended 7-0. • Discussed next was Ordinance 2019-107. An Ordinance to make temporary appropriations for current expenses and other expenditures for the City of North Olmsted for the year ending December 31, 2020 and declaring an emergency. This is the temporary budget for 2020. In estimating revenue the Finance Department uses historical trends and usually the Director tends to be conservative. Anticipated property tax and personal property tax total $11.5 million. This total includes all the bonds issues, recreation, fire, fire station number two, police, the library and general obligations. The general fund is about $7.2 million. The library bond will be retired next year. Regional income tax for 2020 is about $15 million which is about $1.4 million less than 2019. Mayor's Court fines are up and the Police Chief expects to maintain the same level in 2020. EMS estimated revenue is slightly lower than 2019 at $385,000 and $385,000 will go into the EMS fund. Hotel/Motel tax is estimated at about $400,000 based on a three year average. Springvale is estimating $1.1 million in golf and $600,000 for the ballroom. Recreation is estimating $2.7 million based on the temporary rink closure. Gross revenue for Sewer is expected to be $10,300,000 and the rates will remain steady. Total debt service next year will be 2