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City Council Meetrng August 10, 2004 Page 5 cut the garage, then, possibly, they could use that money to train someone in their department to work on the vehicles. The Council decided to come back and review that item later. During the discussion of training expenses, Councilman Bell asked if the overtime that was used for training could be tracked and, then, put in the training budget. He explained it would be easier to manage overtime, knowing how much was used for training and how much was used to cover someone on sick leave. Mayor Fendley asked how much time was used for sick leave this year. Chief Grooms said he had his training officer do a study of the amount of sick leave used by each individual. He did not have it with him, but said he would get a copy to the Council members. Chief Grooms said they could either back the sick leave out of the overtime budget or start tracking the overtime now. Finance Director Anderson said that not all overtime is for sick leave or training. He mentioned that they call people in on overtime for big fires, vacations and then, there are some who work fifty-six hours (56) in their cycle and anything over fifty-three (53) hours is overtime. Chief Grooms said some overtime was inevitable and was caused by scheduling and this was mandated by law. Councilman Bell said the Council needed to know how much of the Fire Department overtime was due to sick leave, how much was due to scheduling and how much was due to training. He felt they needed to know that to see what was driving the overtime and how it could be managed. Chief Grooms said he would get with Finance Director Anderson and come up with those figures. On Buildings and Grounds, Permanent Property, Chief Grooms said he was cutting the $17,000.00 he had put in the budget to complete Phase 2 of a project they started this year at Station 3 on Bonham Street. He explained that