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Council <br />Council President Derek Dieter presented the Council's budget. He noted the elimination of the <br />paralegal position and a 2.5% increase in salary for the Council Attorney. <br />Miscellaneous <br />Councilmember David Varner, Chairperson, Information & Technology Committee, introduced <br />Susan Mahoney, President, Public Access Michiana (PAM) to present a request for dollars to <br />help PAM get started. Susan presented astart-up budget totaling $176,080 for the 1St year <br />expenses. Of that total PAM hoped the city could fund as much as $150,000 or perhaps a lower <br />request of $118,000 pending studio space costs. While a considerable request Susan said PAM <br />did not see it as inappropriate given the fact that the city receives upwards of $822,000 annually <br />from Comcast and AT&T cable fees. In the meantime PAM was attempting to get free or low cost <br />studio space from Century Center and help from WNIT. Their requests from other local <br />governments have proved unsuccessful. Councilmember Oliver Davis urged PAM to pursue <br />WNIT's help. Councilmember Rouse pointed out the inequity of South Bend footing the lion's <br />share while others contributed nothing. To date the Council was willing to show support in the <br />$65,000 range. It was conceded more analysis and discussion was needed. <br />There being no further business to come before the committee at this time, Chairperson <br />LaFountain adjourned the meeting at 6:47 p.m. <br />mountain, Chairperson <br />nel and Finance Committee <br />Attachments <br />