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City Council Meetrng August 10, 2004 Page 4 He said they could do without the Fire hose testing pump for $1850.00.On replacement truck radios, Chief Grooms decided it could be cut to $1300.00 at the suggestion of the Council. He also felt they could cut the Res-Q-Jacks stabilizing system. He felt he could reduce replacement hand tools to $1000.00. He suggested he could take out $4700.00 for the Homotro 3040NCT Cutter since they had three smaller cutter and two larger cutters already. That reduced the Minor Apparatus from $87,200.00 to $69,600.00. On Chemical Medical, Fire Chief Grooms said he could reduce that to $4500.00. He suggested reducing Other Supplies to $4500.00. He explained that Travel Expenses are directly connected to Training. He said he could reduce Travel to $5000.00. Chief Grooms felt publications could be reduced to $200.00 since they were getting some duplicates in their magazines. He said they were trying to be more frugal in their use of electricity and felt they could probably reduce the Utilities-Electricity line item to $30,000.00. He also related that they could reduce Associations to $1000.00. On Utilities-Water & Gas, he said he had reviewed that and felt they could reduce that by $4000.00. Fire Chief Grooms explained that they tried to provide continuing training for Fire Department personnel and some of that cannot be done in-house. He said that they either have to be sent off for some of the training or bring teachers in to provide the training. He said it was recommended to him to cut the Fire Marshal's Conference at $1500.00 and he also cut the IFSTA Books at $1250.00. Chief Grooms said the line item for Emergency Vehicle Training was questionable. He explained that was money he was using to get more training for Shawn Bishop in the garage to work on their fire vehicles. He said if they