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~~~ Bruce Bultman, AEGIS, requested a street cut permit to move into the right-of-way at 400 South Indiana Street to excavate same contaminated soil. IDEM had approved this removal where the old Marathon Station was located on South Indiana Street. On the other side of South Indiana Street the soil is clean. IDEM will test the soil, but the excavation site will close before the lab tests come back. Mr. Bultman told the council they would not be in the road, but in the grass strip and the excavation would last two days. He also told the council he would need specifications for the back-fill from the Town. He said maximum depth should be sixteen feet and the proper trench equipment would be used. Attorney Tim Currens told Mr. Hultman he needed a contact person for the release agreement. Mr. Bultman said the contact person is the same as was on the monitoring well agreement in June 2003. Joe Beikman asked if Valley View Development owned the property or Marathon. Mr. Bultman was not quite sure, but said their client was Marathon Ashland Petroleum and they were the responsible party for the clean up. Councilman Mathis said the letter from IDEM was addressed to Marathon. A motion was made by Councilman Bryant, second by Councilman Clark to approve request to excavate subject to agreements and releases. Motion carried 5-0. Next was the advertised public hearing for final adoption of 2004 Budget. Councilman President Dalen said they would start with Park and Recreation budget. Councilman Worthen said Councilman Bryant was going to present that budget and he wanted to hear some other budgets first since this was his fast year, so he could get a feel for presenting. President Dolen said he would go first with the Town Court budget. He told the audience the court budget had been reduced by $947.00. `The estimated salaries were cut from $83,022.00 to $82,075.00 and health insurance from $32,000.00 to $24,848.00. Final budget total is $135,923.00. Their budget went down 4%. President Dolen said the health insurance was advertised high, but didn't need to go that high when final figures came in. President Dolen asked if there were any questions or comments. Councilman Worthen said the court's budget was already down to begin with, it looked like all of her line items were starting to drop. Councilman Worthen presented the Utility Department budget and asked for some suggestions on this budget. He explained that when the budgets were advertised a storm water budget had been advertised for the first time because of Rule 13. This is in regard to the maintenance, upkeep, and documentation of the surface water drainage throughout the civil Town of Mooresville. He said this was just a close guess on what it would take to meet all the requirements, but looking thru the documentation that was received acid seeing all the items the Town will be required to do, hopefully, he doesn't think it is going to be as overwhelming as they had thought. Councilman Worthen said he thought they could take the higher storm water budget as it was advertised and by adding some but not all of this budget back into the Utility Department that is currently in place and funding it to a degree in which equipment can be added, money for marking of catch basins, money far public awareness and education, and adding more iin the part-time help, he said he thought they could fund this department to do two jobs. Also, by giving this department additional help, without hiring new full-time people, this department could get more aggressive on beautifying the civil Town of Mooresville. Councilman Worthen said the downside tv this as they look at line items is they were going to add to the advertised Utility Budget. He said he would like to adjust the advertised salaries and add $20,000 to Lane 112 and adjust the benefits to accommodate the salaries. This would bring the total for 100 numbers from $97,600 to $126,700. 211 supplies will be $250, but will also be creating 212_brochures and 213-catch basin markers at $5,000 each will bring this section total up from $250 to $10,250. Councilman Mathis asked if this wasn't for what the Town was required to do. Councilman Worthen said `yes' this is part of Phase II Storm Water requirements. Gas and Oil is raised from $3000 to $4040 and uniforms from $1000 to $1500, the total for 200 numbers will be at $21,250.00. In the 300 numbers, trash removal of $10,000 is added which includes the removal and separation of any debris found throughout the storm water drainage system. The addition of a physicals and vaccinations line item because employees may need to be CDL required to operate the equipment. The addition of postage in the amount of $3000. to allow the mailing of educational materials as required. Health insurance amount would