The Nashville City Council met for their first meeting of the month last night and they addressed the issue of old and outdated laptop computers for the vehicles of the Nashville Police Department.  The 8 units are 8 years old and will need a new operating system upgrade.  Instead of putting more money into the old ones, the idea was to get new computers.  The proposal was from Telrepco for $18,119 for the Panasonic Toughbooks.  This cost will include a new docking unit for each vehicle, but there will be an additional $1,000 fee to transfer all information from the old laptops to the new ones.  The Council approved this.  Fletcher said there is no grant money going around for computers, the focus is on radio upgrades.  Later in the meeting, Mayor Raymond Kolweier told the council that there was an anonymous donation of approximately $5,000 to cover the city’s cost of the new bulletproof vests, which were approved of at the last meeting.  This would free up money for the purchasing of the computers.  Fletcher went on to report that they visited the city schools on October 30^th to talk to kindergarteners through 2^nd graders about Halloween safety.  The next item of business related to an additional expense to the city for resurfacing work.  In April the plan with the Illinois Department of Transportation was to put in traffic signals at Mockingbird Lane and Illinois Route 127, resurface 127 from Holzhauer Drive going north to close to Little Nashville, as well as for the parking lanes on 127 from East Elm Street going north to the train tracks at East 1^st Street.  The project would be 80 percent funded by the Federal Government, with 10 percent by the State and City each.  Now IDOT has reported that no federal money will be available for the parking lane resurfacing, so the cost to the city for the entire project would go up from approximately $16,000 to $22,252.  The Council approved this to do all the work now and not wait for IDOT to resurface in the area again to do the parking lanes separately.  The monthly recycling report was submitted and there was 10.85 tons of recyclables turned in by 326 residents for the month of October.  In September there were 323 residents recycling 10.64 tons of items, so the numbers are very steady.