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him or her under this section. The report shall be due within thirty (30) days following the close of the fiscal year quarter during which a transfer was made”. She would like to make a motion or by consensus the quarterly financial reports should be available as a matter of course to the public in an easy defined manner. The Mayor asked Mr. Walker if he had any comment. Mr. Walker noted the City has been providing quarterly reports but the format had been changed to a more compact form, stating that some Councilmembers said there was too much information, so the quarterly report was shortened. He said the financial report is about 30 to 40 pages long, so it is now just being summarized. Mr. Walker said they would look at the Clayton’s website and would make it as fully accessible as possible. Ms. Carr apologized if she did not recognize it as a quarterly report. Mr. Crow said if Ms. Carr is thinking she may not have received the quarterly reports and the City Manager said he provided them. Mr. Crow would imagine the City Manager and the City Finance Director could provide Council with the quarterly reports they have provided over the last several years. Mayor Welsch stated Council has been receiving the quarterly financial reports and if Council would like to see the extended version to let Mr. Walker know. Flood discussion requested by Ms. Carr and Mr. Price  Ms. Carr passed around some pictures of a flooded resident during the June 17 flood. She noted she lives in fear at every rain event and she is on the phone checking on the conditions. Mr. Price referred to the memo from Mr. Walker on the Corps of Engineers Study and Future Buyout Project Update of May 17, 2013. He asked the City Manager to verify if the Corps of Engineering was not a funding source to which Mr. Walker agreed. Mr. Price quoted from the memo stating “What led to this delay is that funding was not secured at the federal level to finalize and approve the study in the federal fiscal year 2014”. He said he was not sure if funding has been secured today. Mr. Price gave Congressman Clay all the credit for the hard work leading to the last flood buyout was because he spear headed getting the funding for that project. He said Council needed to bring back a big squeaking wheel to Congressman Clay, Adele Anderson, Claire McCaskill, Hazel Erby. Mr. Price said he was asked why they did not see him during the flooding and he said it was not if you would see him but rather what he would do to get some action. He said they were not talking of a lot of money, as it was estimated the flood buyout would cost 27 million dollars. Mr. Price asked for comments as how to get more funding to get the people out of harms-way. He told Mr. Walker to put signs up at the Hafner Court apartments to notify rental applicants that the property was located in a flood plain. Mayor Welsch noted that one of the things public officials can do since their letters are read and calls are listened to, is to contact various offices. She said 15