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City Council Minutes September 13, 2000 Page 7 that. City Attorney Schenk also advised that the next item is setting a public hearing to consider any additional amendments to the budget. He said that if the City Council did not have additional amendments, there will be no action on these two items. City Manager Malone said with regard to the public hearing that has been held tonight, there was a comment about tax abatements, and only one request for additional funding and that was from Charles Neeley and Skipper Steeley for funding for the Paris Band. City Manager Malone said in reading the information on the election that was held, it was clear that the city may expend up to .003. He said the Paris Band has not been removed from the budget and what he would propose to do in the near future is to expand the Band Commission to five members so that any two members that happened to have conversation would not be violation of the Open Meetings Act, and to ask the Band to have at least an annual meeting and to propose a budget and bring it forward into the budgeting process to the City Manager for submission to he City Council. City Manager Malone advised the City Council that the Municipal Band falls into two qualifications for funding through the V&CC. He said the hotel/motel taxes are to be expended for things that relate to the arts and things that affect tourism, and he felt that the Municipal Band can be promoted in both those areas. City Manager Malone said the city can ask the V&CC to fund more than $10,000.00 in the renegotiation of their new contract. City Manager Malone advised that we have a resolution that we will have a new contract with the V&CC, but what is in that contract, he thinks, will be determined by the City Council. Another alternative is if the Band Commission comes forward with proposals to spend money to promote the Band or proposals on what they wish to pay the director and members of the Band, if that is not an extreme increase, the city has the ability to over expend the fund and make it up at the final quarter of the year from unexpended funds from other sources until we get a handle on what the budget needs to be. City Manager Malone said another alternative would be to make a budget amendment, which is what this line is for.