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Regular Council Meeting August 22, 2016 Page 3 A Motion to approve the agreement subject to the opt -out provision being changed to 180 days was made by Mayor Hashmi and seconded by Council Member Trenado. Motion carried, 5 ayes —1 nay, with Council Member Drake casting the dissenting vote. 13. Receive presentations and act on the fiscal year 2016 -17 budgets for the Love Civic Center and the Visitors & Convention Council. Ken Higdon presented the Lamar County Chamber and Visitors and Convention Council budgets to the City Council. A Motion to approve the budgets was made by Mayor Hashmi and seconded by Council Member Drake. Motion carried, 6 ayes — 0 nays. 14. Receive presentation of budget requests from non -profit agencies. Finance Director Gene Anderson reported the City had received two new budget requests from non - profit agencies, those being the Paris Optimist Club and the Northeast Texas Trail Coalition. Mary Clark gave a presentation to the Council about the Northeast Texas Trail and said they were asking the City to commit to $10,000 on an annual basis for three years to help fund a director position. After hearing the presentation, Mayor Hashmi said it sounded like a good idea, but that the City could only commit to one year at a time. He inquired about the location of the proposed director's office and Ms. Clark said they wanted it to be in Paris. Ms. Clark informed the Council that funding was being requested from other cities, as well as private businesses and foundations. Council Member Frierson said the development of the trail has brought a lot of good things to a lot of people. Ms. Clark inquired of the next step. Mayor Hashmi said it would need to be placed on agenda, voted upon and if there was enough support, it would be put into the budget. 15. Discuss the 2016 -2017 budget for the City of Paris, and act on RESOLUTION NO. 2016- 027: A RESOLUTION OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF PARIS, TEXAS, CALLING A PUBLIC HEARING FOR SEPTEMBER 6, 2016 ON THE CITY MANAGER'S PROPOSED BUDGET FOR FISCAL YEAR 2016 -17; MAKING OTHER FINDINGS AND PROVISIONS RELATED TO THE SUBJECT; AND PROVIDING AN EFFECTIVE DATE. Mr. Anderson said Mr. Godwin had informed them in his memo that he had made a couple of changes in the budget, after receiving the certified tax roll. He also said he thought that the key points Mr. Godwin wanted to emphasize was the tax rate was recommended to remain the same, and they would be able to raise additional revenue at that same tax rate because of the reappraisal done this year. Mr. Anderson said the City had several large expenditures they would need to fund this year and referred Council to the tax rate notice. Specifically, he said the increase in revenue would be used for debt service on two new fire trucks, the new EMS station,