08-27-12 Regular Meeting of La Porte City Council

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policy — Councilmembers Mosteit, Clausen, Martin, Moser, Kaminski, Zemanek, Leonard, Engelken, and Mayor Rigby. Councilmembers Martin, Moser and Kaminski thanked staff for the terrific presentations and expressed their appreciation. Councilmember Leonard commented staff does a great job every year and for the city to strive not to spend excessively. Councilmember Engelken thanked staff for a great job presented the proposed budget and commented the street evaluation process needs to be re-evaluated, he like the idea of a schedule for the Street Sweeper, the two employees impacted are communicated and given an opportunity to transfer to other positions. In addition Councilmember Engelken questioned if the city knew the difference between water line breaks last year versus this year and suggested future budgets show how the .71 cent tax is broken out for taxpayers. Mayor Rigby questioned if the titles (Emergency Management) were corrected on pages 3-11 and 3-59. Finance Director Michael Dolby responded the title on page 5-59 was not correct and would be corrected to reflect Administration for next year. Mayor Rigby commented the actual spending for the year and end of year estimates should be reviewed for funding in the next year budget and thanked staff, the Finance Department, City Manager Corby Alexander, Assistant City Manager and Interim City Manager Steve Gillett for a good job on preparing the budget. 9. EXECUTIVE SESSION There was no executive session during the two meeting nights. 10. RECONVENE into regular session and consider action, if any, on items discussed in executive session. 11. ADJOURN There being no further business, the meeting was adjourned at 8:32 p.m. Respectfully submitted, Patrice Fogarty, City Secretary Passed and approved on August 27, 2012. Mayor Louis R. Rigby Page 6 of 6 August 13-14, 2012 City Council Meeting Minutes