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Committeemember Williams-Preston made a motion to send Bill No. 17-36 to the full Council with a favorable recommendation. This motion was seconded by Committeemember John Voorde which carried unanimously by a voice vote of three (3) ayes. Bill No. 36-17-June Transfer Ordinance John Murphy, City Controller with offices on the 12th floor of the County-City Building stated, We've done these before and we do them quarterly so we keep on top of things. This is a transfer ordinance. This is just transferring accounts within a fund, it is sort of an accounting exercise. For example, we are transferring three hundred dollars ($300) from a supply account to a repair account. For the Building Department, we are transferring money to a temporary account because they hired a temporary worker to work on the scanning of some documents. The last one (1) is the Parks Bond Account, and we are keeping track of that very closely. These are all transfers within the same fund,they are not additional appropriations at all. Committee Chair White opened the floor to questions from the Committee of Council members. Councilmember Broden asked, What is the information technology line item? Mr. Murphy replied, That is for the EnFocus group. I am not sure which project it is but they do a variety of different things for the City. There is a salary vacancy in that account so that is what it is used for. Councilmember Broden asked to receive specific information regarding what the project is by the 7:00 p.m. Council meeting. Committee Chair White then opened the floor to members of the public wishing to speak in favor of or in opposition to the legislation. There were none. She then turned the floor back to the Committee for further comments or main motions. Committeemember Voorde made a motion to send Bill No. 36-17 to the full Council with a favorable recommendation. Committeemember Williams-Preston seconded this motion which carried by a voice vote of three (3) ayes. Bill No. 37-17-June Civil City Ordinance Mr. Murphy stated, This is the additional appropriation of the Civil City Funds, which are your property tax and COIT type funds. We have some of our Department Heads here to answer any questions you may have. Going down the list we have a$40,000 additional appropriation in the Parks and Recreation Fund for water utility cost. We started charging all the City Venues in 2017. The second is a$200,000 appropriation for the repaving of Mayflower Road. It is in conjunction with what St. Joseph County is doing and we are trying to do it at the same time. The third is a housing market study done by our Department of Community Investment.Next, we are using some interest from the Gift/Donation Fund for some conceptual design work. We wanted to use the interest on the Donation Fund so it's not taxpayer money in any way, shape or form. We are doing some public work projects, which is the Local Road and Street Fund. We've 4