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Regular City Council Meeting September 9 , 2003 Page 5 $10,000. 00. Mayor Fendley said that Family Haven had not called him today, but just to clarify, she wanted the City Council to realize that she is seeing 750 cases a month of battered children and women that they are trying to get back in the home or make other arrangements for. After discussion, a motion was made by Mayor Pro Tem McCarthy, seconded by Councilman Weekly, to add $3,000.00 to the budget for Family Haven to the budget. The motion carried 7 ayes, 0 nays. Councilman Bell questioned that last year the Council raised the contribution for NETCADA from $5,000.00 to $10,000.00 and said he thought they should take them back to $5,000.00. Councilwoman Neeley stated that is in order to get the funding from the State they needed 10% matching funds. Mike Alexander, Code Enforcement Officer, came forward, stating that he was on the board for NETCADA and the reason for asking for additional money last year was, they were not remodeling, but they were moving from the old Paris Junior College building to the First National Bank Building. He said this is a very good program and it helps recovering people and they have a very good success rate and help a lot of people. Councilman Guest asked why couldn't they establish a budget amount from year to year, let them make their recommendations to the staff and then the staff make a recommendation to the Council. Mayor Fendley said they need to adjust how they handle it next year. He did not see the need for them to have to come and go through this procedure if they could take staff recommendations and they can make their recommendations to the staff. City Manager Malone said he did not feel that it would be the responsibility of the staff to make recommendations for charitable organizations. He also advised that the City Council had placed those in the budget and he has removed them in the