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REGULAR MEETING October 8, 2018 suggestion moving forward but what I really wanted to say is that while I appreciate my colleagues and their trust that my wife's employment with the City would not affect my opinions on this, I am going to recuse myself on this vote. Councilmember Jo M. Broden stated, I just want to comment, it seems we are back in the same position we were last year when we were considering this ordinance in that we had voiced these concerns about the compression but we are at a place that is nowhere different. So if our concern is high and it goes back multiple years, how can we move this in a direction, if we all feel it is strongly needed, where we get a different proposal? Councilmember Tim Scott asked, Councilmember White,you did send out an email in early spring that did ask to look at the parameters and to give any input on doing the salaries differently. I believe you didn't receive any comments from Council. So if it is truly what we want to do, then we have to take that ball and run with it. We are not in the eleventh(11th)hour,we are in the tenth (10th) hour. I'm fine with having those discussions. If we want to do, let's do it. It's up to us to do that. Councilmember Jo M. Broden interjected, I disagree. When this is an issue two (2)years in a row, yeah we should comment, hit us over the head, but, let's be purposeful. Let's meet. It has been a priority. We have articulated it in the past and we are here again doing the same thing. I will respond to a proposal that gets us somewhere differently in the future. If it is a priority then let's calendar it and let's get it done in the context of our Personnel and Finance Committee. We can help drive that discussion and invite those proposals. Councilmember Oliver Davis stated, I don't mind leading out a resolution to start that and the contents of that resolution,I will work with our attorney and everyone else. But I will tell you what the contents will be, I think we need to go back to those notes and start from there. Let's take those notes. I will put that on my list of things to do and for those who would like to work with me on that, we will send it over to Personnel and Finance and we'll roll. I'm good with that this year. Councilmember Gavin Ferlic made a motion to adopt Substitute Bill No. 51-18. Councilmember Oliver Davis seconded this motion which carried by a roll call vote of eight (8) ayes (Councilmember Jake Teshka recused himself from the vote). Councilmember Karen White stated, I will put in writing a summary of the budget process but I first (1St) want to acknowledge every individual from the Administration, Jennifer, the Council Members, the City Clerk's Office and our Attorney for all the hard work to ensure we go to this point. As it was stated earlier on, the budget is an ongoing process and as we continue to discuss, debate and make adjustments,the end result will be that we have a stronger budget. So I appreciate each and every one of you. Secondly, if you have any feedback, concerns or recommendations, please get those to me. That will be part of the final report I will be submitting to the Council as well as share with the Administration. I would like to acknowledge our citizens. Not all are here but some have been with us from day one (1). I appreciate their questions and their love for the budget process and their level of making sure that we have members from the public as part of the public hearing process. Again, my goal is to try to expand the level of citizen engagement and education. As we begin to look at public process, that is why they call it public. I know Sue isn't here, I don't see Jim Bognar, I know that we've had Jesse and Sharon Banicki and maybe one (1) or two (2) others. I think we have to recognize their commitment to being here and for staying the course. I wish them well and some of them have indicated that they thought we weren't listening, but we were. If you look at this budget, you will see that we did respond and again, the goal is to make it better. BILLS ON FIRST READING BILL NO. 54-18 FIRST READING ON AN ORDINANCE TO VACATE THE FOLLOWING DESCRIBED PROPERTY: ALLEY 14' IN WIDTH RUNNING 132' FROM W OR S RIGHT OF WAY OF W. MADISON STREET TO NW/SE ALLEY 27