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contracts, so that should take care of that. Second, as for how the language was missed in the contracts to begin with, it appears that over time one misunderstanding, an oversight, changes in personnel and simple time of the grant receipt led to the current situation. I will not be able to recount prior to Monday the chain of events, but with the discussion and recollections from the group on Thursday,it appears to be a string of events that led to the omission of the prevailing wage language. I will be putting together a more complete report next week. Finally, the group addressed the points that Jerry Linke brought up last Tuesday. Mike has put together a memo addressing each one. We made it clear that some crispness in reporting and filing needs to be standard operating procedures on the project. I called Jerry and invited him to meet with the weekly construction oversight group next Thursday to review the records, files and procedural documents, and then tour the site. He expressed interest in doing so. All in all I feel we are on track with this, but we will need to pay some attention to related matters. I have asked Mike to help me with setting up a spreadsheet that tabulates all construction expenses to date, marks anticipated change orders and identifies final project amenities that will still need funding, specifically,the furniture. I don't think we will have this by Monday night, but it needs to be complete soon so we can wrap the project up in time for opening. As with the staffing option, final operating budgets are being reviewed as well so this effort can open in good fashion. Item 7-Edgewood Drive Realignment: Mike and I met with SEH today and Steve Campbell will be present Monday to review a project option for moving Edgewood and dealing with the City Hall parking lot. Item 8 - Everest's Building N: They're back and they have changed some of the items we had a concern with. Rick's memo reviews that and we can discuss it more fully Monday. Item 9 - Cable Equipment Requests: Pat Toth's memo outlines some equipment purchases he would like. He will be present Monday to review. Item 10-Setting of Second Council Retreat: I have not had a lot of time to work on this,however a June 15 meeting would be possible. One problem with that date is four of you are going to the LMC conference the rest of that week. Is that too much for one week? Second,perhaps rather than leaving town,we meet at City Hall just so we don't come across as doing too much work away from the community. As for subject matter, we can either pick up where we left off May 18, or begin work on a subject. Perhaps some discussion Monday can clarify. Item 11 - Future Work Session Formats: Believe it or not, I shortened this agenda to keep the evenings a little more crisp. Council mentioned no long televising work sessions. With Pat Toth leaving for Europe in June for a few weeks, maybe that is the time to make that switch. Item 12 - Labor Agreements: Cari and I will review the latest on our three collective bargaining agreements in closed session with the Council. That's it for now. Have a good weekend.