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Council Minutes of 11-04-2020 Councilwoman Hemann voted yes with comment. I would like to add my agreement to Mr. Glassburn's comment that we change our sign a lot. Four times a day is really not a lot for a business such as a restaurant to offer a change for what their daily special is at breakfast or at dinner time, which would be two changes perhaps. A school might want to advertise that they have a PTU meeting on a particular evening and also some other student activity such as a sporting event or some other thing that might be an activity at the school or with the parent organizations. Churches might want to, in residential neighborhoods, offer their worship schedule and/or other meetings that might be for youth group attendance or certain other events. So I think four times a day is not burdensome to any of those things. It has previously been suggested by some of our Councilmembers that maybe perhaps later we could look at our usage as a city for our own sign. Unfortunately, none of that was suggested by those Councilmembers and I'd like to see this once a day thing move to four times a day. I think it is a very good convenience for those businesses. Thank you. Councilman Schumann voted no with comment. I would like to see us move slow with this, you just can't put the worms back in the can when you open it. Thank you. Councilman Schumann Chairman of the Finance Committee: The Finance Committee met on Tuesday, October 27, 2020 at 7:00 p.m. Present were committee members Schumann, Brossard and Kelly; Council members Glassburn, Limpert and Williamson; Council President Jones; Mayor Kennedy, Director of Finance Copfer, Director of Human Resources Gallo, Director of Planning & Development Lieber and guests. • Discussed was Ordinance 2020-112. An Ordinance authorizing the Director of Finance to request proposals from certified public accountants to provide GAAP conversion assistance services for the preparation of the 2020 Comprehensive Annual Financial Report (CAFR); and further authorizing the Mayor, subject to approval of the Board of Control, to enter into a five (5) year agreement (with a two (2) year option) with the professional selected in the RFP process, and declaring an emergency. The GAAP refers to the Generally Acceptable Accounting Principles. This report needs to be prepared each year. Our previous contract has ended so the City is shopping around. Last year the City spent $29,275.00 for this service, which was about the same as the previous year. The Director expects the cost to be consistent with this in the future. The committee voted 3-0 to recommend to Council. Councilman Limpert Chairman of the Streets & Transportation Committee: The Streets & Transportation Committee met on Tuesday, October 27, 2020 at 7:06 p.m. Present were committee members Limpert, Kelly and Glassburn; Council members Brossard, Schumann and Williamson; Director of Finance Copfer, Director of Human Resources Gallo, Director of Law Gareau, Director of Planning & Development Lieber, consultants from Mott MacDonald and guests. 4