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City Council Meeting August 16, 2000 Page 9 and the increasing number of children's programs. Ms. Lewis said the final personnel request is for a reclassification of a clerk to a paraprofessional in a cataloging position. Ms. Lewis pointed out that the operational accounts reflect a$3,400.00 decrease; however, there were a couple of increases, the cost of gasoline for the mobile library has escalated this account with an increase from $250.00 to $650.00. Ms. Lewis said that telecommunication cost will increase as the Library becomes more connected and the change in that account is $5,500.00 to $7,250.00. She said the cost of maintaining the automated circulation system has increased. Ms. Lewis said the library has only three line items under capital expenditures, the first being a request is for $3,500.00 to cover the expense in replacing some of the chairs and to add shelves. The second request is for $8,000.00 to purchase a new collection protection system. The last item requested is a materials request. Ms. Lewis said this account just says books, but this account actually includes all of the formats which they have in their collection including, but not limited to, books, audio books, music cassettes, videos, puppet book sets, audio cassette book sets and CD ROM reference titles. Ms. Lewis advised that the request is for $165,000.00, which reflects a$30,00.00 increase over the previous year; however, they requested and received last year a$22,000.00 reduction because they needed to spend more time in evaluating and weeding the collection and not as much time on processing new items. Ms. Lewis pointed out that there has been an increase in the cost of materials along with an increase in processing them, which means that the funds available will not purchase as many new titles as before, but the $165,000.00 will enable them to meet their collection development goals. Tommy Haynes, Project Coordinator, said he would like to talk to the City Council about Cox Field Airport, and to invite the City Council to take a tour of the airport as recently a major renovation has been completed costing approximately two million dollars that the City received as a grant from the Texas Department of Transportation Aviation Division. Mr. Haynes asked the City Council to look at the handout that he has furnished and they will see that this is the request for the proposed budget. Mr. Haynes noted that there is less than a 4% increase from the past year. He pointed out those items that were