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Bill No. 75-17- October 2017 Transfer Ordinance Jen Hockenhull, City Controller with offices on the 12th floor of the County-City Building, stated,Bill No. 75-17, 76-17, 77-17 are all the quarterly transfers and appropriation requests. There weren't any too exciting this quarter. For the Police Department, we are moving various underspent funds to cover some costs. Some of these are in anticipation of the end of the year to cover costs. We have some for the Street Department as they allocated for a trailer purchase that they labeled under Supply but really it is under Capital. Committee Chair White opened the floor to questions from the Committee and Councilmembers. There were none. She 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 turned the floor back to the Committee for further comments or main motions. Committeemember Ferlic made a motion to send Bill No. 75-17 to the full Council with a favorable recommendation. Committeemember Voorde seconded this motion which carried unanimously by a voice vote of four(4) ayes. Bill No. 76-17- October 2017 Civil City Appropriation Ms. Hockenhull stated, This is for the Civil City Funds we are asking for additional appropriations for. There is $40,000 for Engineering for a study on the downstream impacts of the South Field Lake Basin. There is one (1) on there for motorcycle trade-ins. We are trading in four(4)motorcycles and getting four (4) additional ones. There also some Smart Street Capital Lease payments that we did not include on the original budget because we set up a new fund at the end of last y for this year and that part makes its way into the initial budget. Committee Chair White opened the floor to questions from the Committee and Councilmembers. Councilmember Broden asked, What is going on with the Releaf program regarding the bump up on the hourly wage? Eric Horvath, Director of Public Works with offices on the 13th floor of the County-City Building,replied, We had trouble keeping the part-time folks, particularly when the economy is good. So in order to keep staff,we raised the wage to eleven dollars an hour($11/hr). In addition to that, if they stay for the full seven(7) weeks,there is a bonus at the end of it. We were hiring a number of folks and they would drop off after a week or two (2). Councilmember Broden then followed up,And what was going on with the purchase order for the Lincoln Safe Routes to School contract? Mr. Horvath replied, That was money that was budgeted in the previous year and was not carried over in a PO so we are appropriating the money. That is part of the Federal matching funding. Councilmember Broden then asked, Were the trade-ins for the motorcycles actually purchases? 5