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THURSDAY, APRIL 20, 1989 City's Seven-Year Improvement Program (or one-half of $298,172.00, "rounded" to $150,000) and a reduction by one-half of the street resurfacing program for 1989-90 now budgeted at $277,389. Upon motion, duly seconded and unanimously carried, Council directed that one-half of the seventh year of the Seven-Year Improvement Program (rounded to $150,000) be deferred to another fiscal year. By this action, the General Fund shortfall will be reduced to $774,282. Mr. McClain then suggested that Council imposethe City Manager's recommended 4% tax on "meals", estimated to yield $350,000.00, which would leave a shortfall of $424,282. With Vice-Mayor Willjams opposing such a tax, with Mayor Oakes expressing a preference for the imposition of a refuse collection/disposal fee, estimated to yield $553,000.00, and with Councilman Groden stating that, to avoid any semblance of a conflict of interest, he will abstain from voting on any question involving the meals tax, Councilman McClain inquired as to each member's individual position on his proposal that Council adopt a "zero contingency reserve" (or projected zero surplus balance) in the General Fund. This concept was objected to by both Mayor Oakes and City Manager Brown; however, when proposed in the form of a motion, which was duly seconded, said concept was adopted by Council by a vote of three-to-two (for: Messrs. Cole, McClain, and Williams; against: Messrs. Groden and Oakes). Upon motion, duly seconded and unanimously carried, Council adopted the rate schedule, as hereinbefore mentioned and presented, for the collection/disposal of refuse, estimated to produce $553,000 in 1989-90. Applying this estimate to the shortfall amount of $774,282.00, General Fund surplus at June 30, 1990, is now estimated to become $109,272 instead of the $330,554 projected in the City Manager's recommended 1989-90 City Budget.