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Community center debate, city audit deficiencies push Marco Island City Council meeting past 9:30 p.m.
MARCO ISLAND - On the agenda for discussion, a proposed community center for Mackle Park quickly escalated into a debate Monday over approving the new facility.
Community Affairs Director Bryan Milk presented a two phase plan for complementing concrete structures that when built side-by-side will total just over 16,000 square feet and cost $2.25 million. The existing Mackle Parking building would be demolished between the two construction periods. With Milk were two representatives of Royal Concrete Concepts, the vendor that would complete the project.
Four motions were made to move the community center from discussion to preparing a contract and seeking funding. The flurry of reworded attempts sputtered to a halt when two motions failed on 3-3 votes, and two failed for lack of a second. Councilor Larry Sacher was not present during voting.
The hubbub began when Councilor Larry Magel placed his motion before council, asking for approval to authorize a contract with the vendor for the two phase center.
Councilor Larry Honig seconded the motion but questioned how funding would be obtained in the short term. Council had received information that the vendor could be available to start the project as early as June. Magel informed Honig the project was a capital expense, not operational.
"We have sufficient funds in reserve to pay for this tomorrow," Magel said. "If we pay for this with reserves there is no debt service."
Councilor Ken Honecker asked council to step back and reconsider.
"The budget subcommittee needs to look at this," he said. "If work starts in August that would modify this year's budget."
When the votes were tallied, Magel's motion failed 3-3 with Councilors Amadeo Petricca and Honecker and Chairman Joe Batte opposed.
Honecker made a second stab with a motion to get the contract in hand so Burt Saunders, city attorney, could review it. His motion included discussing funding at council's next meeting. No councilor seconded the motion.
Honig made the third attempt asking councilors to agree they wished to proceed with the project but not until council could determine how to pay for it and examine the contract. Magel seconded the motion. It, too, failed.
Honecker came back with a fourth try asking council to direct staff to get a copy of the contract from the vendor for the city attorney to review. No second was forthcoming.
Throughout debate, Batte insisted the purpose of the agenda item was discussion and not a vote. He felt the public was not aware a decision could be made that night. The item will return on the July 15 agenda.
Audit report
Council also learned Monday the city's Fiscal Year 2012 financial audit fell short of yielding a perfect report. Councilors heard the results from Laura Brock of Mayer, Hoffman, McCann, the financial firm completing the audit, and Tom Kirstein, chairman of the city's Audit Advisory Committee.
Auditors marked the city down by assigning a "significant deficiency" for allowing terminated employees to continue accessing city IT programs. The same problem was noted on the FY2011 audit and returned in 2012 as a second-year criticism.
A "material weakness" was assigned for the number of journal entries auditors were required to handle before the city's financials were finalized for auditing. The weakness pointed to problems with the city's yearend closing procedures.
The FY2010 audit was cited for the same problem; however, in 2011 the problem appeared to be corrected.
"We fell back on our work and getting it completed," Kirstein said.
Batte expressed disappointment with repeated problems. He asked Brock if any progress on the IT issue was detected between the 2011 and 2012 audits.
Brock replied that IT technology found the item has not been corrected. Employees who were terminated still had access rights. A policy may have been adopted by the city but had not been properly executed or followed up by staff, she said.
"It's so basic that it difficult to swallow," Batte said.
"There should be a second set of eyes to ensure the proper steps are taken when an employee exits," said Petricca. He suggested checks and balances be executed on the same day an employee departs.
On the late ledger entries, Brock said the city should consider updated software.
"Your needs are greater because of the utilities and sub-ledgers (you have)," she said. She also suggested the city implement a variety of steps to overcome the problem including reassessing staffing needs, realigning deadlines and assigning responsibilities.
Neither issue should affect the city's ability to earn the Government Finance Officers Association (GFOA) 2012 certificate of achievement, Brock said.
Councilors appointed six residents to serve on the Audit Advisory Committee until June 1, 2015, including: Laura Gelman, William Schroeder, Jim Conway, Jr., Ray Rosenberg, Randall Dunham and Paul Arena. Petricca passed on an appointment.
In other business, council appointed all seven positions to serve until June 1, 2015, on the Code Compliance Board. Reappointed to the board were Phil Kostelnik, Lou Prigge, Debra Shanahan, Dick Adams and Rony Joel. Ray McChesney and Paul Kampmeyer were named new members to the board.


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Hi, I'm trying to find out if my 2003 z4 roadster has a limited-slip differential. I also has an "04 325i and would like to find out as well. I want to change the diff oil and want to put the correct oil in. Thanks
Doubtful either has a LSD. If you can peek underneath you will see a metal tab hanging from the diff. S435 would mean a 3.45 LSD. I think an open diff will just have a number. http://media.photobucket.com/image/bmw diff tag/gizmo316i/Differential/SDC10824.jpg Other methods require jacking up the rear and spinning the tires. http://www.bimmerhaus.com/tech/diff.html
My 2006 Si does. Because I've changed the fluid in it. (I think) the Z3 does as well - there was an issue with the rear assembly being too heavy for the bolt of something as I recall which I've seen the fix for. I think if you look over on bimmeforums there's even a ratio listing of the hardtop v. roadster - the roadster is slightly lower b/c it's slightly heavier. The easiest way to figure out if the box in the middle is a diff on any car is to jack the rear of the car and see what happens when you turn the rear wheel - does the other one lock and begin to move? Not all factory cars are exactly the same, and unfortunately these blanket statements don't work. Especially now the cars are made all over the world. BMW is no longer 'the sausage factory'.
not sure if I read this correctly [perhaps you were referring to the e36/7 z3 (?)] but... regarding the e85/86 z4 generation: 1. only the Ms have the LSD 2. the 'vert is lighter than the coupe.
Missed the LSD part of the diff question... http://forums.bimmerforums.com/forum/showthread.php?t=876946&highlight=lsd For ratios, etc. If you're thinking about one have you considered the Quaife, instead?


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