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Budget Committee August 7, 1999 Page 8 rates. The adjustment was made for that year, but it penalized the General Fund. Mr. Anderson discussed Licenses and Permits fees, Fines Forfeits and Penalties, Use of Money and Property with the Committee explaining those fees. Under Use of Money and Property, Mr. Anderson pointed out the Interest, and explained that is earned and the last section of that is where the grants that the City has been able to get are set up as separate funds from those that are connected to the General Fund activities, the Pal Grant, the Police Athletic League, Auto Theft Grant, COPS Fast Grant, Computer Aided Dispatch, Depot Renovation Grant, the Violent Crimes Against Women, Mobil Cluster Grant and the AS400- Radar Grant. Mr. Anderson explained that there are other fees that are collected such as the Recording Fees, Tax Certificates, and Highways Street, and Sanitation Fees which is trash pickup fees. The next section is Health, and under that section, you have Health Department Fee, Health Department ORAS, and fees that are generated through the Health Department, and also the EMS Fees are shown in this section. The EMS service fees of $1,075,000.00 are those fees that are billed out to patients, Medicare - Medicaid and other insurance, and that is the net amount that is actually expected to be collected. Mr. Wilson questioned the Lamar County Emergency Medical Service Fee of $188,156.00. Mr. Anderson explained that is the Lamar County's contribution towards the EMS Services because the City goes outside the City and the County contributes a certain amount under their contract. Mr. Anderson said this amount will vary from year to year depending on whether we purchase capital improvements and other type expenditures. A portion of the dispatch cost, a portion of the cost of responding by the rescue vehicles are also figured into that calculation. Mr. Anderson said the Intergovernmental Revenues are shown, and on the next page is miscellaneous fees such as birth and death certificates. The Paris Housing Authority Law Enforcement line item is a grant that is actually a Paris Housing Authority Grant, and what is anticipated is for them to contract with the Police Department to