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Because Mayor Linke has made a public statement in my absence at the December 9, 1992 council meeting in which he blatantly411 misrepresented statements by me and because those misrepresentations have been recorded in the minutes, I find it necessary to correct those misrepresentations at this time and submit those corrections for the minutes of this meeting. At the December 9 hearing Mayor Linke stated falsely that my letter to the editor stated "that the information given to the Council was not correct and, therefore, the Council did not have correct information when setting the levy. " A copy of that letter to the editor is attached. Any reader can plainly see that no such statement was made nor is there any statement in that letter to the editor that could be reasonably interpreted as such. The entire letter to the editor was clearly in the context of discussions at the October 13, 1992 council meeting concerning the franchise fee. There was no reference whatsoever to information given to council at the time of setting the levy. It only talks about information given out to the public at the October 13 council meeting. In addition, Mr. Linke made another misrepresentation of my statements when he stated that I asked at the December 7, 1992 worksession where the cuts were that had been made by staff. I asked no such question. I did ask for the proposals or recommendations concerning cuts that Don Brager told the council on November 2, 1992 that he would bring to the council on December 7, 1992 . At that November 2, 1992 meeting, the night before the election, Mr. Brager told the council that all budget projections were made considering the LGA amounts that were promised by the 411 state. However, since we had experienced cuts in those LGA amounts in the past, he thought the council might consider cuts in the budget. The council was asked at that meeting to suggest areas for proposed cuts. I recommended that Mr. Brager include the cuts supported by residents who answered the survey when asked to make a 10% cut in a budget. Mr. Linke responded that the entire survey should be considered, not just that portion. I also recommended that the goal setting session be cut. With that, Mr. Brager promised to bring recommendations for possible cuts to the December 7, 1992 worksession. It was those recommendations that I was asking about at the December 7, 1992 worksession. Mr. Linke also falsely states that I �i- at several .. _ _ • _ _ •- . . . - - that up to the point I walked out of the meeting, I had proposed cutting the $3,000 fee for an outside facilitator to the goal setting session. Instead of making that cut, the rest of the • council added another $2,000 to the budget to again have that goalsetting session off site. In addition, I proposed deleting the budgeted monies for raises in salary for the mayor and city councilmembers since the charter did not allow any such raises to go intoeffectuntil ---after-- the -next- election._- The council announced that they had always done it this way. It was concluded that the city attorney would be consulted on the morning of December 8, 1992, whether the raises could go into effect for 1993 and if so they would stay in the budget. Therefore, the statement that I came up with no cuts at that meeting was blatantly false. 0