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ADJOURNED CITY COUNCIL MEETING SEPTEMBER 27, 1994 In accordance with notice duly and legally given, an Adjourned Regular Meeting of the City Council of the City of Colton was held on the above given date at 4:08 P. M., in the Council Chambers of City Hall, Mayor Gonzales presiding. ROLL CALL: Councilmembers present were Bennett, Sandoval, Rios, Cisneros, Cook, Beltran and Mayor Gonzales. Also present were City Attorney Biggs, City Manager Martinez, and City Clerk Ramos. CITY MANAGER'S REPORTS AND RECOMMENDATIONS: Budget Review FY94-95 City Manager Martinez stated that after a hectic week where the 1994-95 budget was reviewed, there was a gap which staff had reduced. Time and attention was spent by every single department, line item by line item. He praised executive staff for being good team players who were able to provide the best forecast and submit expenditure cuts which were listed by Finance Director Paula Chamberlain and Assistant City Manager Daryl Parrish, for a 3.115 million dollar gap. They were able to identify additional cuts by departments - $900,000 in cuts plus an additional $50,000 to $100,000 in revenues. They identified a little more than 1 million dollars to go towards the deficit, leaving the sum of 2,059,859 million dollars, as a new deficit. City Manager Martinez said there are recommendations which need public hearing and which are not addressed in the 1993-94 budget. City Manager Martinez briefly described the budget hearing process whereby the department directors would make a brief presentation, introduce support personnel and identify their budget page number. Councilmember Beltran cautioned that this presentation will not reflect the 1993-94 deficit --which might still stand at 7 million dollars. City Manager agreed that Councilmember Beltran's observation was correct. He mentioned that he would be remiss if he gave a number for the 1993-94 budget at this time. Indeed, there is a deficit for 1993-94. Mayor Gonzales asked if it were not true that in 1993-94, City Council adopted a balanced budget with a contingency fund. Finance Director Chamberlain replied that when City Council adopted the budget for FY93- '� 94, it adopted it as a balanced budget and went under guise as balanced.