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Following the presentation Mayor Guerrero opened the Public Hearing at approximately 7:46 p.m. Lisa Spencer, 100 E. Mimosa Circle, is glad to see the cuts that have been made but provided her a list of things she would like to see: instruct the utilities department to cut $778,000, find another level of $1 million to cut somewhere else and put a hiring freeze in place for 1 year. She spoke against the water and wastewater rate increase. Dianne Wassenich, 11 Tanglewood, asked Council to increase impact fees on developers. She also cautioned the Council to not wait on increasing the water and wastewater rates and not do what Kyle did and wait too long to raise the rates to where we are forced to have a huge 30% increase down the road. Bill Barnes, 1419 Old Ranch Rd 12, spoke against the rate increase. Margaret Thompson, 204 W Mimosa Circle, addressed Council and asked them not to raise the water and wastewater rates. There being no comments, the Public Hearing was closed at 7:52 p.m. MOTION: Upon a motion made by Council Member Terry and a second by Council Member Porterfield, MOTION TO AMEND: Upon a motion made by Council Member Prather and a second by Council Member Scott, the City Council voted (2) for and (5) opposed, Council Members Terry, Thomason, Porterfield, Jones, and Mayor Guerrero to increase the water rate by 3% and the wastewater rate by 2.5% one year instead over a period of two years. The motion failed. MOTION TO AMEND: Upon a motion made by Council Member Scott and a second by Council Member Prather, the City Council voted (3) for and (4) opposed, Council Members Prather, Thomason, Porterfield, and Mayor Guerrero to increase the block rate on the water rate schedule to 3000 instead of the current 2000. The motion failed. MAIN MOTION: the City Council voted (5) for and (2) opposed, Council Members Scott and Jones, to approve Ordinance 2011 -45, as previously captioned. The motion carried. Council provided direction to staff to include garbage rates in next year's budget process instead of it being considered separately. 16.7:OOPMReceive a Staff presentation and hold a Public Hearing to receive comments for or against Ordinance 2011 -46 increasing the rates for drainage utility services; and including procedural provisions; and consider approval of Ordinance 2011 -46, on the first of two readings. Steve Parker, Finance Director provided Council with a brief presentation over the proposed Budget for Fiscal Year 2011 -2012. Following the presentation Mayor Guerrero opened the Public Hearing at approximately 9:02 p.m.