Warsaw City Council held a special meeting Monday night to review a timeline for the 2014 budget. Council will meet at 6 p.m. Aug. 5, an hour before the regular meeting, to review budget requests from non-profits as well as the clerk’s, mayor’s and human resources offices, in addition to the council budget, economic development income tax budget, riverboat, and rainy day funds budgets. On Aug. 19 at 6 p.m. at city hall budgets for the airport, cemetery, fire, street, building and planning, police, park, and Warsaw Housing Authority and Housing Opportunities of Warsaw will be reviewed. The first public hearing for the budget will be Sept. 16 with the adoption hearing Oct. 21. The salary ordinance must be adopted by Nov. 1. The budget must be submitted to the county by Sept. 1 for their non-binding review by Oct. 1, and the deadline to adopt the 2013 budgets, rates, and levies is Nov. 1. Also during the special meeting, the council remembered former local architect Mary Ellen Rudisel-Jordan, who was instrumental in the plans for the new city hall, who died in a car accident July 18. Warsaw Mayor Joe Thallemer said he attended her funeral and said she was an amazing lady. “I miss her more every day because she was always around,” Thallemer said. Thallemer said a committee has met to discuss ways to honor Rudisel-Jordan which will be announced at a later date. Cindy Dobbins, councilwoman, said she was a close friend of Rudisel-Jordan’s and saw her every day. Mike Klondaris, councilman, said he was shocked to hear the news of Rudisel-Jordan’s death. City Planner Jeremy Skinner said Rudisel-Jordan was a great person to work with and will be missed. “She did a great job on city hall with the facade and third floor,” Skinner said.
