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MINUTES CITY COUNCIL NOVEMBER 9, 2015 they will have to look at the list of reduction options. He noted this does not include a reallocation of water and sewer expenses allowable with the in-house planner position affecting a current employee. This is about $29,000. City Administrator stated the list is essentially the same as before with one addition. He reported that staff found out last week that the Lillie Suburban newspaper moved up their publication deadline by one day which would require modifications to the agenda preparation if the Council wanted to continue publishing the agenda before meetings. He feels that we could handle the agenda availability like we do with the minutes by placing them on the website and mailing to whoever would like a copy. He noted that if the publication of the agenda was discontinued, it would save the city about $1,300 per year. City Administrator stated that the options don't need to be finalized tonight since there is one more meeting in November. He noted that the main focus tonight was for the capital improvement budgets. He stated that a salary survey was looked at and he has budgeted for a 2.5% wage increase across the board which is right about average. City Administrator stated that included in the Council memo was the revised Capital Improvement Fund budgets. They include the General Capital Improvement Fund #400, the Infrastructure Improvement Fund #450, which is essentially the street improvement fiends, and the Water & Sewer Capital Replacement Fund #604. Keis noted that he had walked by Thunder Bay Court and questioned if the planned resurfacing was really needed since he thought it looked pretty good. City Administrator responded that staff had looked at it and felt it needed to be done but they can look at it again. Torkelson reported that there was a depression on Thunder Bay that was causing water to pool and was beginning to undermine the pavement at least in this area. City Administrator noted that it usually makes more sense to do several court areas at the same time for better pricing and less contracting over multiple years. City Administrator discussed the proposed security cameras at the parks due to several instances of vandalism. McGraw asked what we were trying to accomplish with the cameras and would they be good enough for face recognition and identification. City Administrator responded that the system would be the same as what was done at the new public works building and the cameras would be good quality where person identification could be possible. Keis asked if the cameras would be reactive versus proactive since he assumed there was not going to be