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Council Minutes of 5-19-2020 from the General Fund that will not be happening are $50,000 to the Sidewalk Program and $145,000 in Separation Pay Fund. The Senior Center has $1,000 in programs being cut. Park and Recreation is cutting the budget by about $28,000 for programs, $18,600 for contractual services and $30,000 for capital outlay. The hotel tax fund is having $20,000 for police radios and $38,000 for the life heart monitor, $5,800 for voice amplifiers and $25,000 for a gear washing machine are being cut. The police are cutting $25,000 for new rifles and $15,000 for new Tasers. The Police Department is also cutting $17,684 for new computer upgrades. EMS is not purchasing the squad for $430,000. Streets was able to cut $50,000 in salt purchases due to the mild winter and another $25,000 in contractual services. The City is also not going to purchase the salt truck for $196,500. Springvale is cutting $98,000 in materials and supplies. Most of this is because all of the weddings have been canceled. An additional $18,400 for contractual services at Springvale have been cut, along with $14,800 in capital outlay. The City is also not going to transfer $264,900 to pay down the debt at Springvale. Instead that money is going to be used to pay the interest rather than the bond retirement. The projected loss of income for the General Fund is $1,788,000. The total loss in all of the funds is a projected $3.7 million. COVID related cuts for the General Fund are $1.6 million and all budget cuts total $3,281,854 in the Ordinance. The committee voted 3-0 to recommend to Council as amended with suspension. Councilman Schumann moved to amend Ordinance 2020-53. The motion was seconded by Councilman Brossard and passed unanimously. Roll Call: Yes: Schumann, Brossard, Kelly, Williamson, Glassbum, Limpert, Hemann No: None Motion carried. Ordinance 2020-53 amended 7-0. Councilman Schumann asked for a moment of personal privilege. I know you are all aware of the flooding that took place over the weekend. It was particularly violent in my ward. I cannot tell you how broken hearted I am for the people who have been affected by this. I don't know if this was hubris on my part, but I am incredibly disappointed that in spite of all the work we did over the past nine years that I have been involved we had a system wide failure in Ward III. Obviously, this shows we need to keep digging, keep creating retention and I believe we have a couple projects on paper that we even have the money for and we need to get that EQ basin in and retention in. I understand we have locations spotted for them and we are ready to go and we are just waiting on ODOT. Maybe this event will help us get ODOT to move a little faster. I am not criticizing them, I am just saying in general. I also want to make you aware of just how tense people are right now. We had a really awful event, a really great guy, with a young family. He is a volunteer and home owner's association president. He was attacked by an irate resident. The gentleman was arrested. This happened in front of the Home Owner's Association President's children on Friday night. I feel so sad for them. I also feel sorry for the resident who attacked him. People are at the end of their nerve with this. After being locked down for months and having to go through this, I can't tell you how awful it feels. Lastly, this was a truly impossible situation and I think Greg, Don and the crews acted 5