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Regular Council Meeting August 25, 2014 Page 10 that the judiciary responsibility was with the person who spent the money. He also said the audit report prepared by McClanahan and Holmes clearly states that expense accounts were not based on the American Standards of Accounting and there was a problem. Council Member Plata said he found discrepancies in the report and he would prefer to speak with Mr. Defenbaugh before he made up his mind to send it to the Attorney General. He also said if they were not going to meet with Mr. Defenbaugh, then he was going to vote to send it to the Attorney General. Mayor Frierson said the invitation would be extended and asked the Council if they wanted to take action on this item. A Motion to approve this item was made by Council Member Hashmi and seconded by Council Member Lancaster. Mayor Frierson clarified the motion was to send the information to the Attorney General. Council Member Plata inquired if that would be right away. Council Member Hashmi said he could amend his motion to send it after meeting with Mr. Defenbaugh. Council Member Plata said he would appreciate it. Council Member Hashmi amended his motion. Council Member Pickle said he needed clarification in that if they listen to Defenbaugh and pass a motion to send it to the AG, but Council Member Plata was satisfied after he talks to Defenbaugh and then Council Member Pickle inquired if they weren't trying to approve to send it to the Attorney General's office regardless. Council Member Hashmi said he was not sure what Council Member Pickle meant. Council Member Pickle said the motion was sending it to the AG after they meet with Defenbaugh regardless of how the meeting went. Council Member Hashmi said his motion was to wait until they met with Defenbaugh and then decide. He said he needed a second on his amended motion. Council Member Lancaster seconded the amended motion. Mayor Frierson said were they saying send it based on a contingency when they did not know what the outcome would be. Council Member Hashmi asked if there was something wrong in making a motion based on contingency. City Attorney Kent McIlyar said he could wait until they meet with Defenbaugh and then decide rather than making it contingent. Mr. McIlyar said it was a little bit confusing. Mr. McIlyar asked if Council Member Hashmi wanted to hear from Defenbaugh or did it depend on what Defenbaugh had to say. Council Member Hashmi said it depended on what Defenbaugh told them. Mr. McIlyar said he would wait on the decision until after they hear from Defenbaugh. Council Member Hashmi withdrew his amended motion and made a motion to send the information to the Attorney General's Office and the State Comptroller. Council Member Lancaster seconded the motion. Motion failed, 3 ayes — 4 nays, with Mayor Frierson, Council Member Grossnickle, Council Member Plata and Council Member Pickle casting the dissenting votes. 19. Discuss and possibly act on construction of airport utilities. Mr. Godwin gave an update stating in February the City Council hired an engineering firm Neel- Shaffer to extend water and sewer lines to the airport itself and also to the general area around the airport. In addition, he said they reviewed ways to try to get sewer service to the Margraves Addition. He said there was relative low usage both of water and sewer in that area and because there was so much flow both in a water line and a sewer line it just simply would