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Regular City Council Meeting <br />July 28 , 2003 <br />Page 3 <br />City Manager Malone said that one item that he would like to ask the City <br />Council about at this early date is the fact that the city has not received any <br />requests from other organizations for contributions. There is a line item in the <br />City Council's budget for contributions to the various service organizations <br />such as NETCADA, Children's Advocacy Center, Lamar County Human <br />Resource Council, and Keep Paris Beautiful. The total for the line item for <br />these contributions and the contribution to the Health Department will be <br />$157,049.00. Since other organizations might come forward during the budget <br />process, the City Manager requested guidance from the City Council as to this <br />amount. <br />City Manager Malone advised that they need to be making reservations for the <br />TML trip if the City Council desires to attend that conference and participate <br />in that event. They normally send all of the Council Members who want to <br />participate. Also, out of the same budget, there is funding for the Think Child <br />Safety booth and the employees to go to that as a separate line item outside of <br />the EMS budget. That group is normally comprised of employees from the <br />EMS, Police, and Fire Departments. This is public relations that the city does <br />each year at TML. City Manager Malone asked the City Council to let them <br />know if it is their wish to attend this conference because they have to make <br />reservations in advance. He said part of that is paid out of the present budget, <br />and part is paid out of next year's budget. That entire trip cost is <br />approximately $11,000.00. The City Manager advised that the dates were <br />November 21 through the 22, 2003. <br />Mayor Fendley told the City Council that they have the tax rate deadlines that <br />were provided to everyone, but that does not address any workshops they <br />would want to have. Heretofore, the Council has met weekly and gone over the <br />department's budgets, or just the summaries. City Manager Malone advised <br />that different councils have done this in several different ways. He said they <br />have been going through the budget, in recent years, line item by line item and <br />scheduling meetings every night at least four nights a week for about two to <br />three hours a meeting. There has been as many as 9 to 11 meetings on the <br />