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He said the two clerks he proposed were a collection clerk to increase collections and a court clerk for the increased court case load. He did mention that if they didn't collect after they prosecuted, it was not very wise. Judge Hunt said that some of this would depend on what happened at the police department. He projected that if six officers left, there would be less citations to handle. He said he initially wanted to request two clerks, but he was now asking for at least one additional clerk, which he felt would pay for itself with the additional collections.Councilman Wilson wanted to know why they were adding people in one department and taking away people in others. Judge Hunt said there was a large outstanding balance because they have to give people the opportunity to pay or do community service. He said they have a collection contract right now, but it doesn't generate as much money. Judge Hunt said, although he didn't get stability pay, he did want to address that issue. He related that City Manager poty came to the conclusion about twenty years ago that for the City employees to be comparable with the Civil Service employees, they should receive three dollars a month stability pay. He felt if that was taken away, it would be like those employees getting a demotion and they would not be equal to the civil service employees. He thought this was important. Councilman Wilson wanted to know how he could help defray the costs for his proposed increases and asked if he could insure that his income would go up. Judge Hunt said, although they had generated $1200 more dolalrs a month, he could not guarantee it would go up next year. Judge Hunt stated that electronic data processing was their portion of the AS400 system at the police department.He explained that they could not control the cost of that. When questioned about the travel, Judge Hunt explained that there was continuing education for himself and four clerks and they also belonged to Associations. It was agreed to consider adding a clerk at the end of the budget process.