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Mayor Fendley said the food item line could be taken out, which was proposed for $2000.00. On a question by Councilman Wilson, media and books wassaid to include CD's for the computers, the videos and tapes of the council meetings. It was agreed to cut media and books $2000.00 making the proposed amount $5,000.00. After discussion concerning the $3500.00 allocation for telephone, it was the consensus to remove it because eveyone one on the Council paid for their own cell phone and there were no phones for the City Council at the City of Paris. Mayor Fendley said, since they had all agreed not to do any travel this next year, the travel expenses should be eliminated, which was $5,000.00. Councilman Bell indicated that he had asked last year why there wasn't a central contingency fund to put these deleted and reduced amounts in there, to use when needed. Councilman Wilson suggested that training and travel be cut from all departments and the department head of each department would come to the City Manager if they needed to traveL Mayor Fendley indicated that would put a burden on the City Manager to administer that and felt it was up to the department head to control that. Councilman Poston asked what kind of mandatory training for certification was there. Councilman Wilson said for this year, let's do travel only for mandatory re-certification. Councilman Wilson asked how utilities were calculated for the City Council. Mr. Anderson said on square footage. Year to date on electrical was $1133.00 and Councilman Wilson wanted to know why $3000.00 was budgeted for next year. City Attorney Schenk said because of de-regulation. Councilman Guest asked what was in miscellaneous. Mr. Anderson said he would have to look that up. YTD was $3,978.00 and it was the consensus of the Council to cut it $7000, reducing it to $8000. Finance Director Anderson said associations included TML, Chamber of