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_~ .. <br />~. Because Mayor Linke has made a public statement in my absence <br />at the December 9, 1992 council meeting in which he blatantly <br />misrepresented statements by me and because those <br />misrepresentations have been recorded in the minutes, I find it <br />necessary to correct those misrepresentations at this time and <br />submit those corrections for the minutes of this meeting. <br />At the December 9 hearing Mayor Linke stated falsely that my <br />letter to the editor stated "that the information given to the <br />Council was not correct and, therefore, the Council did not have <br />correct information when setting the levy." A copy of that letter <br />to the editor is attached. Any reader can plainly see that no such <br />statement was made nor is there any statement in that letter to the <br />editor that could be reasonably interpreted as such. The entire <br />letter to the editor was clearly in the context of discussions at <br />the October 13, 1992 council meeting concerning the franchise fee. <br />There was no reference whatsoever to information given to council <br />at the time of setting the levy. It only talks about information <br />given out to the public at the October 13 council meeting. <br />In addition, Mr. Linke made another misrepresentation of my <br />statements when he stated that I asked at the December 7, 1992 <br />worksession where the cuts were that had been made by staff. I <br />asked no such question. I did ask for the proposals or <br />recommendations concerning cuts that Don Brager told the council on <br />November 2, 1992 that he would bring to the council on December 7, <br />1992. At that November 2, 1992 meeting, the night before the <br />election, Mr. Brager told the council that all budget projections <br />were made considering the LGA amounts that were promised by the <br />state. However, since we had experienced cuts in those LGA amounts <br />in the past, he thought the council might consider cuts in the <br />budget. The council was asked at that meeting to suggest areas for <br />proposed cuts. I recommended that Mr. Brager include the cuts <br />supported by residents who answered the survey when asked to make <br />a 10~ cut in a budget. Mr. Linke responded that the entire survey <br />should be considered, not just that portion. I also recommended <br />that the goal setting session be cut. With that, Mr. Brager <br />promised to bring recommendations for possible cuts to the December <br />7, 1992 worksession. It was those recommendations that I was <br />asking about at the December 7, 1992 worksession., <br />Mr. Linke also falsely states that I stated at several <br />meetings that I had cuts but had none at this meeting. The fact is <br />that up to the point I walked out of the meeting, I had proposed <br />cutting the $3,000 fee for an outside facilitator to the goal <br />setting session. Instead of making that cut, the rest of the <br />council added another $2,000 to the budget to again have that <br />goalsetting session off site. In addition, I proposed deleting the <br />budgeted monies for raises in salary for the mayor and city <br />councilmembers since the charter did not allow any such raises to <br />go into effect until after the next election. The council <br />announced that they had always done it this way. It was concluded <br />that the city attorney would be consulted on the morning of <br />December 8, 1992, whether the raises could go into effect for 1993 <br />and if so they would stay in the budget. Therefore, the statement <br />that I came up with no cuts at that meeting was blatantly false. <br />