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Mr. Johnathan Abbott, Cemetery / Landscape Supervisor, addressed the council. <br /> Mr. Abbott also oversees the maintenance of the City Hall building. Mr. Abbott <br /> said City Hall was built in 1980 and the City is slowly trying to update the facility. <br /> He said during the past couple of years, when an overhead light ballast goes <br /> bad, City crews have been replacing them with LED lights. The LED lights are <br /> more economical than the florescent lights that are currently used throughout the <br /> building. Mr. Abbott said a company, MHSC Energy Management, who is <br /> contracted through Entergy performed an energy audit and gave the City a <br /> proposal of$21,648, after a rebate, to retrofit all the lights in the City Hall building <br /> to LED. After a discussion, the council did not act on the issue. <br /> D) CONSIDER A TAX BACK RESOLUTION FOR EURARK, LLC <br /> Councilmember Beller introduced a resolution to allow EurArk, LLC to participate <br /> in the Tax Back Program for the refund on sales and use tax paid on a building <br /> addition on their facility located at 50 Industrial Drive in Batesville. Mr. <br /> Castleberry read the resolution in full. Councilmember Beller moved to adopt the <br /> resolution and Councilmember Bryant seconded. The roll call count was 7 for <br /> and 0 against. The resolution was given #2014-05-01-R. <br /> E) MR. JEFF OWENS, PARKS DIRECTOR, WITH A PROPOSAL FROM THE <br /> YOUTH SOFTBALL CITIZENS GROUP <br /> Parks Director Jeff Owens addressed the council and informed the council that a <br /> group of concerned parents have attended a Parks Commission Meeting with <br /> their concerns regarding softball fields at the North Complex. The group said the <br /> softball program was left out of the recreation tax and are still playing softball on <br />