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City and County, primarily regarding Batesville's contribution to jail costs and District Court expenses. Councilmember Poole gave a little background regarding the jail costs, District Court expenses and fine money. Mr. Poole said in the past the City contributed 30% of the fine money collected and paid to the City and a portion of the District Court Expenses. In mid-2017 the City relinquished all the City's fine money to the County to cover the jail and District Court Costs. With the County collecting all the City's fine money, they, the County, should have approximately $45,000.00 extra monies once they allocate the 30% to the jail and pay the District Court expenses. The City wants to help with the jail expenses and a fair share for District Court expenses and meeting with the Quorum Court to work out these issues needs to take place. Mayor Elumbaugh said we, the City, and the Quorum Court need to sit down and work it out. Mr. Meitzen read the resolution in full. Councilmember Fredricks moved to adopt the resolution and Councilmember Hubbard seconded. The electronic roll call count was 7 for and 0 against. The resolution was given #2019-07-06-R. J) PAID BILLS REPORT The council was given a copy of the June, 2019 paid bills report for review. MAYOR COMMENTS Mayor Elumbaugh said there was a record number of people who attended the fireworks display at Riverside Park this past week. He thanked the Police Department and the Parks & Recreation Department for all their hard work to make the 5K and fireworks a great success. He also thanked The Citizens Bank and their many sponsors for putting a great fireworks show.