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TUESDAY, APRIL 26, 1988 the present Council can not obligate the City beyond each succeeding fiscal year, Mrs. Cobbe expressed hope that the City will continue to contribute to the YMCA in future years. In response to Councilmen Groden's and McClain's expressed reservations about contributing taxpayer's monies to organizations which are not public in that purchased memberships are required, Mrs. Cobbe explained that, with scholarships available, no needy child is turned away from the YMCA. CoUncil then discussed other reductions suggested by City Manager Brown, particularly the total reduction of $47,960.00 in employee's health insurance costs spread among the several fund budgets in that this represents and now parallels an approach taken by the School Board for its personnel and, therefore, does not necessarily represent a reduction. Council then returned its attention to the School Budget for 1988-89 which Councilman Groden moved be approved as first presented to Council and as incorporated by City Manager Brown in his recommended 1988-89 City Budget, to which motion Councilman Cole offered his "second". After some discussion in which Vice-Mayor Willjams informed Council of the telephone calls and other contacts he has received requesting that Council not increase taxes or impose new taxes or fees, and in which Councilman McClain informed Council that he was not ready to vote on the motion inasmuch as he believes that adoption of the total recommended budget, should Council vote to do, will require increases in taxes, a direction to which he is opposed, Council approved the originally-presented School Budget for 1988-89 by a vote of four-to-one (Councilman McClain voting against the motion). In voting for the motion, Vice-Mayor Williams noted that he is not going to vote to increase property taxes or service fees or to impose new fees, should these be put to a vote.