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attributed to the strong housing and commercial markets with building activities going on the past year. The Transient Occupancy Tax, or hotel tax, was up $391,000. or 24% and is now slightly above 2 million dollars a year. The Utility Users Tax was up 7% and the one major revenue that declined was building permit revenue. The building permit revenue had declined 22% or $442,000. On the expenditure side, expenditures were up 10% over the prior year and within budget. Employee costs continue to be the single largest functional category of expenditure with almost two thirds of the General Fund devoted to Salaries and Benefits. By activity, Public Safety continues to be the largest single source of expenditures with approximately 55% of the General Fund resources devoted to Public Safety and reflects little change from the prior year. The expenditures were up more so than prior years as a result of two large deliberate decisions by Council. One item being adoption of the Police Department staffing study several years ago along with implementation of the Paramedic program in the Fire Department. In summary, the Unreserved Fund Balance in the General Fund remained flat from 1998 to 1999, ending the year at 10.8 million dollars. Council comments included desire for discussion at the Priority Session Setting Session of various projects such as the Friendly Acre flooding. M/S Ira/Howard to approve the acceptance of the report. The motion passed by a unanimous voice vote. MINUTE ORDER 00 -177 E. Special Speed Control /Safety Enhancement Sign Program; (301) Dan Smith explained the program. He stated that traffic engineers' opinion and knowledge show that signs with unique or highly evocative messages have initial effects on people's driving behavior but that those effects attenuate considerably over time. The recommendation is to have signs that are friendly reminders or requests, some that are humorous or perhaps have shock effect, and possibly some that call attention to the City's traffic enforcement efforts. City Manager Everett stated, in discussion with Chief Bolanos, the second to last bullet item of Exhibit "A" should be removed from consideration. Council comments included praise for the concept and questions about evaluating and monitoring the speed data. Measuring devices should be used away from the area of arterial stop signs and re- evaluation of the list of signs should occur. Concern about the length of the signs was expressed along with a request to remove the second bullet item of Exhibit "A ". M/S Hartnett/Howard to adopt RESOLUTION 13810 APPROVING AND AUTHORIZING INSTALLATION OF SPECIAL SPEED CONTROL SIGNS; REGULAR COUNCIL MEETING JANUARY 10, 2000 MINUTES PAGE 8 MINUTES Book No.58 Page NO.8