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November 25, 2019 - City Council Meeting

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*** We experienced technical difficulties with the primary audio source during this meeting. A manual recording was started after the issue was identified. That audio was merged with this video and begins approximately 12 minutes into the meeting.

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Your family members and.

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I've seen cars literally dodge each other because leaves are supposed to be on the Parkway and people insist on making them Canada Street. Now you know there is absolutely no definitely have a huge wind and tens are unregistered sleeves all over. Why.

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Because they're, not in bags they're.

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Right to the street, why not put.

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Them in garbage cans.

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Least, if we have a big wind.

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Is not going to redistribute them I, don't think you'd be real happy with you if it would plus the fact the roads and the drains are absolutely in that condition. You think the sidewalks out by City Hall, the Government Center, the library they're, all ata, accessible I've, seen people in walkers trying to go and navigate the sidewalks from my house and 3593 center I'll go back. There goes. The streets are absolutes that is Cyclops now hi I'm, absolutely appalled that this city finds me money to do everything they want, but not put in lousy infrastructure.

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You know, maybe this is why they run things: let's not weigh their monthly.

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I recommend that any new tax revenue from.

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Taxes to cover that expense or anything.

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The neighborhood, you should put up the sign what you do when you're going to rezone the property, but property owners have some input on how that location is going to be used. The.

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City has to use money.

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Liabilities and pensions and water improvements.

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Fortunately, that will be served with normal, even if my mom's an increase that which increases that 160 million dollar liability, but it over the years we're still paying over 160 million.

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This community, that's why we need to get control of our city spending and expenses. Taxpayers are maxed out with tax and fee increases at state and local levels. We don't have more to give. We have to live within our means. It's time the city starts doing it living within our means. Any plans for city transit centers should be functional, not extravagant any non-essential industry.

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Our expenses over 1.2 million dollars should be put on a referendum for approval, because in the past our expenses have exceeded our tax base and our taxes and fees keep going up and up. City officials have a poor track record with their spending habits of taxpayer money, all automatic early fees and taxes should be eliminated. All tax and fee increases should be justified and voted on and not hidden. We should be spent. We should not be spending millions on Sports Complex period and hopefully end the story which I've heard from some people it is.

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We should replace the Emil pool with another pool and I feel completely designed region regeneration of the park and put in an aqua Sun. We shouldn't be competing with normal and saying we need an aqua center because they get one and I presented with requiring more staff. In the run, we part marketing expenses and probably had more full-time employees with pensions that cover somebody.

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Should look at recycling contamination and if something can be done to reduce the expenses because of contamination, somebody.

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Should be doing a better job of educating people on how to recycle so the expenses of recycling don't continue to rise. We need to take a serious look at recycling and what it's costing I'm awful recycling, but it needs to be cost justifiable as much as it can be. Ecpa in the arena should have a yearly in the county of all income and expenses not spread out all over different accounts. This should list all expenses like marketing, city, employees, time doing water companies or working for the facility meals paid for suffering the import expenses.

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This means all expenses and income in one easy-to-read document. So we can see the true loss statement. The.

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Needs to get a handle on maybe not paper, things like the heels for staff parties and guests, as well as flowers for funerals, are sweet experiences for lots of food I'm using PA activities. The city needs to run things like a business and justify these services players.

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Other items remember: city council would like to have acceleration.

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There's no audio we're trying to fight.

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And ties into the ecology of action for.

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House number.

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Motion carries 70.

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And now we move to item 7f that was vampire councilman cradle.

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Thank you, so this is.

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Just one that the ultimately contracted that selective's whisper but I really appreciate the staff I'm adding in the local preference adjustment in this. So we could take a look at that and determine that you know even giving that preference. It wasn't so I really appreciate that.

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There, a second second by councilmember black discussion, see if everyone can vote motion, carries a 2-0 footer. No mr. Nance, madam clerk, okay, move right along to our agenda and our first consideration in action on awarding the request for proposing are a p20 20-21 for the year 2019 lease to JPMorgan 4629 I speak for million six hundred twenty nine thousand twenty three dollars request by this over.

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2.0 this costed state was a little bit more than if you also recall we're currently in my twenty and last year is we were proposing the my twenty budget. We talked about trying to shift our practice to make purchases instead of leasing or borrow money for the various type of that's going to be a long. That is emotional, so we are. Actually. This list is a little bit smaller than what it might have been this year and we hope to shrink that well, of course, the next years. We need this more balanced. Other questions. I'll.

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Take those questions, comments anymore alone,.

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Just briefly explain how.

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Do we purchase.

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Correct so all the purchases were Ardath wide 19 budget purchases are curved or in the air, and they trail into the next year's things such as fire. Trucks, sometimes take a year to build out, but we do the financing in arrears early on when this practice was put into place. The financing was done ahead of time. We didn't disagree, I understand and I'm, not purchasing all the equipment's when we were paying that debt financing that.

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All the debt service is already incorporated.

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To motivate that councilmember Nancy for a second second by councilmember, villalopolis editor-in-chief any further discussion vote for.

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Consideration in action on an ordinance with a development agreement by in the city, Bloomington and Malin held OCLC, and it's also known as pizza, a no to East Washington, as requested by the Economic Development, Department and I believe there's a brief presentation. I turn it over to mr. Gleason and then council discussion quo, and this is also.

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Really very common to this agency, it would typically would be. The census was publicly discussed in the request of counsel, to go back to the developer and change.

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Melissa I'm, the economic development director is available if there's additional questions or comments after I'm done, but this was an opportunity for us, a part of our community with substantial investment. It's also going to the corner liquor license with the liquor license. Is a video gaming license and the development agreement after the last meeting melissa worked. Hopefully it struck a deal that you know the developers satisfied that, hopefully, council is satisfied with, and there is zero impact.

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We've got a moratorium on our video game of caramel licenses, but this developer wanted assurance that they received and make this substantial investment they've got similar establishments in other communities so that we catch bacteria operating something that's similar, but they wanted assurance that they were going to receive a video gaming terminal license after they maybe have requested changes with the name, so it would make profit. This is approved. It would make application eventually for a video game terminal license if none of the remaining seven are left.

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The stipulation and the development agreement is that the council would lift the moratorium. One additional can speed necessary to how many applications are in process. But this is zero in on those that are in play currently.

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Divided most of it once we just give us a quick overview. What is read off with reading means.

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Making that improvement and providing a new restaurant for all of us to visit and.

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And return, then, with the.

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Just on that, it did for some reason as I understand it. Mr. disken clarify that with respect to liquor, if.

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For some reason, their.

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Gain some of their means of the five games that they might have, because the tuition is right where, if one or two of them are profitable, they the owners actually pull them. Is that correct, certainly I think from the.

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City standpoint.

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That we have not on state the city can have up to six. We've said five, but they're not.

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Cosmically, thank you thank Melissa, entertainment and everything. He has worked with the developer over over the last month.

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And in terms of the copy or.

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Process as part of our process, they have to get the site.

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Yes, so that was kind of unethical in moving through the process was they can't get state approval and come back.

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Thank you so this.

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Corner everybody misses mister quicks. That was there for forever, but he's been gone now for 20.

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Surgeon, mrs. Carbury shapes from that location and the decor had been empty for a very long time. So there are a lot of folks who want to say something.

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There are just as many people who are afraid that the design strays we can close to a guinea murmur. It's not the same in a lot of people's minds when you see, for instance, in our neighborhood on scooters, for spinners has been there forever and there's three machines in the corner up against the wall, whereas this location has a dedicated room, that's gameful specifically for games.

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So there's no there's a significant amount of concern in the community in the demonstrate area about the way this building is constructed in the old format is hint of the building I have.

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To friends from Decatur, don't say that booze is good, so you know it's one of those things that aren't going back and forth and giving you know what you said and we do have rules in place with the revenue being.

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Yes to this today and.

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Watching very closely see how things shake out. I would not be in favor of making rules and saying this is a special situation, because then, why are all ten of the people that we know are trying to work their way through the state pipeline rely on alternative special situations and I've got a lot of older than that or two now, where is 64 licenses or whatever we're back in balance on water, we were trying to set the line and contain so I will.

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Be voting against this I think.

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It varies me, a lot of people who are going to be watching very closely and I just hope. Everything goes tools.

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Shipping thank you for all.

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For those moms is that coming Technical College so.

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We would be replicating their current business model was how they would be applying for the license. Some.

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Kind of clarification on this and then the other thing I guess is we are going to.

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If, if by the time they get the building note- and they don't read the state process to get the state approval and then go back to the city to apply, should all of the licenses all of the spots filled, then, yes, then the ordinance would have to be amended to add one.

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Along was almond that these common, what we do, what another company.

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There's no consistency.

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Before one good question isn't something that was Melissa T, you said that they compromised and/or Mary, said they're compromising the can't start serving liquor till 10:00 a.m. and.

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Guess PETA never actually talked about this or the.

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There's one big strength at best: I thought that was a little but I want to make sure that I was yes.

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I mean that is what we made absolutely clear. Any.

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Disrespect to oliver black smoke, a second by all-metal omelet for the discussion. Okay, go.

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The motion carries seven wonders London announcement.

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Thank you their time on ESPN, two monthly report staff.

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I'll turn it over to you right now. Typically, I comment.

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First I'd like to comment as to the accessibility in this reform. A request was presented last month about an available online prior to council meetings and so for this meeting we have made that reality.

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On next take them to the finance, publish one.

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Copy, after that,.

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A lot of times done.

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By the numbers, many words.

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Once again, we're cautiously optimistic of the trend this month again, comparisons.

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To budget in prior year.

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All positive numbers other than the ability to ex line.

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This year,.

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Telecom is really bringing that down we're seeing.

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Some really sound.

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Results in the food and beverage line items $158,000 ahead prior budget under $7,000 and prior.

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To here, I kind of you.

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Know this is similar almost the same money Montes. It's easy to talk about this, so I thought this time, I'm, throwing a little fun with numbers for the finance guy, so I'm, proponent members. The tax rate is 2%, so just using some simple algebra, you know the budget is four point: three million, so dividing two percent four point: three million results in 215 million dollars per year in food and beverage sales around the city, so I think that's a pretty standing number.

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The gross sales, so, along that same line, let me just warn overall detach 2.5%- is every one.

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Those at twenty three point: two million dollars of revenues. It equals about nine hundred twenty nine million dollars versus annual sales state sales, tax 1%, the city received from the state tax. So we did the breakdown of sales tax to the cities. It's 5% Stinky's, 1% city, a quarter goes to the county and our two and a half percent for homeworlds I thought that that was 175 percent, total sales tax for the city.

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So the one percent that comes in from the state with a budget of fourteen point, three million divided by 1 percent, there's one point: four billion dollars, and so.

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The difference in home world estate.

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Sale is a lot deeper familiar with Evan the biggest component registered.

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Vehicles subject.

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Sales tax, so there differs there one one line out and that's not very specific attitude: the city, anything that.

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Are bad package.

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Liquor, we have 1.2 million dollars and liquor in me or top 11.

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Bags look there's four percent, so 1.2 million vital importance $10 be right back any questions for that questions that mr. Ratner.

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And I did find this online, so I'm looking.

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At all by yourself, just on a local boat fuel, it's a hundred six percent, that's because we double the fuel tax and so appears like we're getting the motor fuel tax revenue and that we expected.

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With regard to the Amazon tax on quality, that's under the rule says tax I mean that's where you see the effect not yet.

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So the Amazon, you know, they're considered a facilitator, so the online retail sales tax right now is a use tax for the city. So it's coming in under global use, so the 2.3 million dollars in annual budget or $85,000- and you can see that the tip of last year's.

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Under the general fund.

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Revenue expenditures this.

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Is the one that's long.

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So my apologies about that. We started up to updating the projection column this this projection adjustments is going to be an addition onto the revised budget to give the projected here so.

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To the original budget right.

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Running a little higher than 750 thousand, we want to be cautious when it comes to projecting revenues, so we're discounting that some 150,000 dollars in potential additional revenue is over budget for taxes, investment.

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Incomes going higher wait.

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Really cautious.

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On that one, so that just wanted to recognize the.

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Big line anywhere.

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To do a little discussion on is the benefits so work to recurse with the final I think that employees and one distinct advantage the by that program. So the fact and we're getting some estimates on that now they're talking about that line item, you know we're going to see the ramifications of those retirements. This is for teaching booth sitting in the council is made to acknowledge that issue, but for 2020 we're going we're going to see that over budget and that line right now our estimates are out of million dollars.

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I am this last time the rates don't have starting January first, their calendar year. Our rate is going up due to some changes to changes by reference using in the return it reasons the 79 percent have 74. So a million to 54 right now and the early projections days is as far as again.

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That's the strategic moves.

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Yes, there should be no residual effects.

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Just wrote enterprise funds several times with the council stepping actions to really solidify enterprise funds. Superstorms always.

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Just mean you saw police water has bouncers a lot of products be done. You can see capital projects line ten point: five million dollars budgeted for a year using fund balance for that sort. We've taken some of the savings kind of in this last time of the year. You know water is gonna, show up long. So there's a plenty of Lawsons monies in funda. It's been accumulating savings for capital projects, the revenue trend, everything's on trend, except for sewer e is aviation.

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There is a timing issue Golf year-over-year and put it in the Gulf because their friend through the year in order fifty percent through the year right now, six months of the year, they're very, very seasonal fun, so that isn't really had an impact on them. But here's the prior year indicator.

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And then finally, arena once again, a year today's budget I have a bottom right-hand corner.

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Yes, divinity works new year to date, budget and you can see the.

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News report that link is going to be available on every council meeting and making this presentation.

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Noon as our practice, here's.

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Banners up in the downtown currently they might already be far they molest. Oh.

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Then for the holiday season.

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We've had years past trying to make an investment in the downtown also.

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With the community and council we're talking about 2020 and what does it look like and I? Think one thing that's coming is fire away? It's not probably not exciting, but clean is a thing.

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And engage their state governments, in particular things over setting public comment this evening on this issue of cannabis.

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Although her decision coming up here soon- and these are folks who are coming making thoughtful comments, asking good questions for which we need to give consideration on this campus issues, I look forward to entering into conversations that are significant and substances with my colleagues here on the City Council and working in a collaborative manner to learn about the best solution for our city, that used to gather all perspectives in a positive way and whether we can grow together and continue to maintain our quality of life in this little coffee Newton.

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So thank you for those came out tonight and just spread word. There's continuing a conversation.

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Tax laws and Department that we're building programs we're restoring and building new playgrounds in the city of Bloomington, and we have a great joy to launch Highland Park.

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And the update on that I do.

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Not and yes, you are correct at the home being.

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This recording will be okay.

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And finally, to the question of recycling that I met me. Somebody was a director of sustainability and was good read who works at Illinois State, and he had a very good conversation about how the city might be able to be a leader in terms of modeling best recycling practices at public events, for example, and we agreed that we would continue that conversation.

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You know what they are supposed to.

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To begin to you.

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Varinia, the intergovernmental agreement, because a lot of the recommendations that are coming forward should be included.

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Thank You councilman and less than these counseling many I'll.

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Just put in a plug for the JC's Christmas great, it's always one of my favorite defense of the early part of the season, and you know hopefully the weather cooperates. But then this year, because this is Illinois that doesn't always happen and are going to see squad cars sliding back down the hill by the post office before so. But that is, if you can.

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