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Regular City Council Meeting <br />August 14, 2003 <br />Page 13 <br /> <br />is sponsoring a Think Child Safety Booth. There are employees from the Fire, <br />EMS, and Police Department that go and man this booth. He said this account <br />includes expenses for the awards banquet, flowers and books for illness and <br />funerals, rentals for special meetings, retirement plaques, and gifts. He said that <br />it also has included in it a monthly fee for assistance in interviewing personnel <br />and the cost of taping council meetings, which will be moved to another account. <br /> <br />City Manager Malone said the account Associations includes annual membership <br />fees that are paid to Ark-Tex COG, Texas Municipal League, Texas Coalition of <br />Cities, TCCFUO, TXU-Oncor Standing Committee, Red River Valley <br />Association, General Services Commission, and Texas Economic Development <br />Commission, etc. Mr. Anderson explained that the Texas Economic <br />Development Commission is the sales tax that is collected. He said the city does <br />not actually budget for that but he had to place it somewhere in order to account <br />for it. <br /> <br />Mr. Bell asked about the court cost. City Manager Malone advised that is <br />associated with any general law suits against the city. The City Attorney said <br />these are the type of lawsuits that have been approved by Council that do not <br />involve TML insurance coverage such as the litigation with the City of Reno over <br />the annexation. <br /> <br />City Manager Malone said in the Contribution Account he placed the same <br />amount that what was in the previous year. He said the City elected to contribute <br />to charitable organizations and presently what is in there is $10,000.00 for the <br />Lamar County Human Resource Council; $10,000.00 for the Children's <br />Advocacy Center; $5,000.00 for Keep Paris Beautiful; $10,000.00 for the North <br />East Texas Council on Alcohol and Drug Abuse for a total of $35,000.00. The <br />City Manager said the balance of $160,157.00 is the city's 50% contribution to <br />the projected shortfall of the funding for the Paris/Lamar County Health <br />Department. <br /> <br />City Manager Malone explained that most of the funding for the Paris/Lamar <br />County Health Department is paid by various grants from the state. He said the <br /> <br /> <br />