ORDER-2020-47 : An Appropriation in the amount of $65,000 from Free cash (account 01-324001) to various accounts as set forth herein to cover the costs related to upcoming elections in February and March.

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▶ 1:17 Kate Lipper-Garabedian: comment made by councillor Gara pay and seconded by councillor Thomas all in favor any opposed public comment is now closed so we'll move on to the orders Our first order tonight is order 2020-47, an appropriation of the amount of $65,000 from free cash, account 01-324-001, to various accounts as set forth herein, to cover the costs related to the upcoming elections in February and March.

▶ 1:47 Shawn M. MacMaster: Motion to suspend the rules, Madam Chair, so that we may hear from the City Clerk.

▶ 1:51 Speaker 2: Second.

▶ 1:51 Kate Lipper-Garabedian: second we have a motion to suspend the rules made by councillor McMaster and seconded by councillor Garipay to suspend the rules all in favor any opposed excellent thank you so much for being with us tonight miss Camosa and I don't know if you wanted to share a little bit about this order and then we

▶ 2:08 Speaker 3: can see if there any questions sure so when we budget when we do the annual budget we budget specifically for elections that we know we're going to have so in this past fiscal year we knew we would have a November election and actually this coming March presidential primary but at the time the budget was set we did not know whether we'd have a preliminary mayoral election and we didn't know about the February election that's coming up in a couple weeks so this is to cover the cost of those two elections thank you any questions okay

▶ 2:40 Kate Lipper-Garabedian: so we haven't any what is will the committee motion to recommend for

▶ 2:46 Kate Lipper-Garabedian: passage we have a motion to recommend this order for passage made by councillor mcmaster and seconded by councillor Garipay all in favor all right any opposed okay we'll make that recommendation to the full board tonight thank you so much thank you the next order on our agenda is order 2020-48 in appropriation from free cash account zero one dash three two four zero zero one in the amount of seven thousand dollars to fire emergency service vehicle 012212-534700 and we are still under suspension of the rule so I see the fire chief here and thank you so much for joining us and maybe you can just explain what this appropriation would be for. Good evening everybody pleasure to come before the council