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Independent School District for the City to assign four Police Officers to the School District to serve as School Resource Officers; authorizing the City Manager to execute this agreement on behalf of the City, and declaring an effective date MOTION: Upon a motion made by Council Member Thomaides and a second by Council Member Thomason, the City Council voted seven (7) for and none (0) opposed, to approve the consent agenda. The motion carried unanimously. Public Hearings 11.7:OOP.M. Receive a Staff presentation and hold a Public Hearing to receive comments for or against Ordinance 2012 -40 adopting a budget in the sum of $160,788,609 for the Fiscal Year beginning on October 1, 2012 and ending on September 30, 2013, authorizing certain adjustments to the budget with the approval of the City Manager; approving Fiscal Year 2012 -2013 Capital Improvements Program Projects; including Procedural provisions; and providing an effective date; and consider approval of Ordinance 2012 -40, on the first of two readin s Mayor Guerrero opened the public hearing at 7:36 p.m. Lisa Spencer, 100 East Mimosa Circle, provided council with an update and handout on the Scheib Center Schedule. Ms. Spencer expressed her appreciation to Council for their support. Rob Roark, 1804A Hunter Road, complimented the transparency on work done has greatly improved. Agrees the work on the Scheib Center is great, however cross walks are not being created to walk to the Center, please consider money that needs to be included. Suggested council allow kids to review our budget, we would learn something. Lastly Mr. Roark disapproves of the wayfinding project; he feels this is complete waste of money. Sherwood Bishop, 124 Elm Hill Court, congratulated everyone for the accomplishments in this budget process. Diane McCabe, 1315 Alamo Street, expressed her appreciation to Council and asked for their support of the art funding request. Calvon Hanson, 213 Scott Street, asked that Council support the art funding request. There being no further comments, the Public Hearing was closed at 7:46 p.m. MOTION: Upon a motion made by Council Member Thomaides and a second by Council Member Porterfield, the City Council voted seven (7) for and none (0) opposed, to approve Ordinance 2012 -40 on the first of two readings, to include an additional $19,434 for additional Arts funding, $50,000 to fund the Youth Master Plan, $25,000 for Downtown Cooperative Advertising; adopting the new sum of $160,883,043. The motion carried unanimously. Council also provided direction to hold off on moving the Way- Finding Project up on the CIP list. Council also reached a consensus regarding the addition of a community service component to