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She occasionally has students who come and sit with her during the Council meetings. Clerk Fowler expressed her opinion that the Council and Clerk's Office should come together and do our own intern program. Councilmember Broden stated this is a bit off topic but neighborhood meetings should have the ability to display information like we do at the meeting in the County -City Building. The Clerk's Office has the ability to get that information to the public in a positive way. Clerk Fowler stated she agrees and the only thing we would really need to buy is the projectors because everyone has a white wall and the office all have laptops now. One (1) thing that would also be helpful is a handhold recorder. Committee Chair White thanked Clerk Fowler for her presentation. Common Council Council President Tim Scott gave the Council budget presentation which is on file in the City Clerk's Office. The Council budget really should just be at the minimum it possibly can be to do our operations. The budget for 2017 is a one point one percent (1.1 %) increase over 2016. It looks like the LOIT projections are up ten percent (10 %) and so the City is looking at a . minimum two percent (2 %) pay raise. This budget includes a two percent (2 %) raise for the councilmembers which is what the average City employee is getting. Council President Scott stated personally he is against the pay raise and will vote against it but it is in the budget for Councilmembers to talk about. In 2017 we do have all nine (9) members taking salary. In 2016 we only had seven (7). That was an initial financial challenge. In 2017, seven (7) members are taking insurance and in 2016 there was only four (4). IT services increased as well. This is proper allocation but looking at the total sum it leads to the question of does the Council need all of this technology. It was at one (1) point $63,000 which takes a big bite out of our budget and we have got it down to close to $43,000. Professional Services includes a two percent (2 %) raise in line with what we are doing with the Council. We also have money set aside for outside legal negotiations which are pretty much in line. Committee Chair White stated next year they should just be in negotiations with the Fire Department not the other two (2). Council President Scott responded that we don't actually know that. We are budgeting a little higher because we don't know how long of a contract we will get with Teamsters and Police. Council President Scott continued with his presentation and stated so far this year the Council has had a ninety -four percent (94 %) attendance rate which is excellent. We have had seventy - four (74) Committee meetings with a ninety -four (94 %) attendance rate as well. So far this year we had one - hundred and ninety -four (194) bills come before the Council. To date there was seven (7) public meetings on the budget with a few more to go. We added the electronic displays outside and almost all of our data is going out online and a good portion of it is going out in WN