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August 7, 2018 Page 2 of 4 relationships and site selector relationships. The Contract Services — Legal Fees is increasing to $5,000.00. Last year the City Council wanted the amount to be zero, but this year we will suggest the increase due to our need for a real estate attorney. Ms. Harris Who is both the City Attorney and our attorney requested that we have a real estate attorney for our dealings with American Spiral Weld.. The Auditing Services expense, which is a portion of the overall. City audit, increases a little every year. Gene Anderson, City Finance Director, suggested that we increase the amount by at least 3% each year. The Machinery, Tools and Equipment expense is lower this coming year since we will have purchased a new copier. Turning to the second page, Mr. Paris pointed to Marketing & Promotion. The first item is Secure Jobs and Retention which is an emergency fund to visit C -level executives. The $5,000.00 is set aside every year in case it is needed. Lamar County Days takes place every two years, so you do not see an amount in last year's budget. In the 2016-2017 fiscal year, $7,000.00 was budgeted for the event. This year's budget shows the amount increased to $ 10,000.00, which. would be used for the hamburger cook -off and other activities to showcase Lamar County. Marketing the Airport is in the budget and had not been used from last year. We suggest that the money be used to promote the Airport during the annual Fly -In. The IndustrA Attracti year. We would like to see the $75,000.00 in the travel portion of Marketing and Promotion increased to $115,000.00. This increase would allow us to create marketing materials and videos to promote Paris to industries through the travel that is done and through mail campaigns. Mr. Paris asked. if there were any questions about Marketing and Promotion. Dr. Hashmi pointed to a 53% increase in the travel part of Marketing and Promotion as too much of an increase. He suggested that if more money was needed later for marketing that the Board could increase it at that time. Mr. Manning stated he agreed as long as it could be increased later if needed. Mr. Hernandez said that amending the budget later would be more appropriate since there are no line iterns that show how the extra $40,000.00 would be spent. The Board discussed that $90,000.00 would be an appropriate amount. Job Training is the next budget item. Mr. Paris stated that the expense item ACT WorkKeys tests for Campbell's and Kimberly Clark has not been used as often as in the past. He would like to see the budget amount dropped to $500.00. The High Demand Job Training and Recruiting Match Grant done by the Work Force Commission will match their funds and ours to purchase training equipment for Paris Junior College. We set aside the money in anticipation of the match grant.