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the September meeting.

In July and August, those bills were paid, she said, but no list of them was available for Tompkins.

“There is money being spent that council doesn’t know about,” Tompkins pointed out. They finally agreed to meet to examine the numbers in executive session.

Mrs. Viguerie, the member who urged the council to prepare for possible computer problems from Y2K glitches, asked the council to consider purchasing a more powerful computer than the “little Mac,” which she said was virtually obsolete.

She discovered that the Quick Books Pro 4.0 software the town used was not Y2K compliant, and would like to upgrade the software and acquire a PC with professional software that was Y2K compliant.

In talking to a computer company, she discovered that the town had actually purchased the computer over three years for $3700, with the last payment due in May.

The company was actually a financing company and told her that the only option the town had was to purchase another computer.

See COUNCIL, Page A7

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