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City Council Meetrng August 10, 2004 Page 6 they just completed Phase I by repouring the front drive way, which was in great disrepair. He said they could do Phase 2 some other time. He said Station 3 had more first responder calls than any station in the city. Fire Chief Grooms felt he could remove $1000.00 out of the radio maintenance item. Chief Grooms called the Council's attention to the chart that he had included for maintenance costs on his apparatuses and mentioned that it had risen tremendously over the past five years. He came to an average annual cost of $38,592.00 using the last five years' figures and suggested that the line item be $40,000.00, because they had not budgeted sufficient amounts in the past five years and there had been overruns. Councilman Bell asked which pieces of equipment were causing the overruns this year. Chief Grooms said a ladder truck incurred most of the cost and Engine 3 had a lot of repair work on it. Councilman Bell wanted to know how important that ladder truck was to the City. Chief Grooms said it was very important. He had a list of the buildings more than two stories in the City of Paris. He also mentioned that the ladder truck had its own pumper and can be a reserve pumper truck. Chief Grooms said the ladder truck responded to the Downtown area, the schools, the hospital and any two story structures. On the lease and rental of the copier, Chief Grooms felt that could be reduced to $2500.00. On a question from Councilman Wilson, Finance Director Anderson explained that in his department, when someone used the copier for personal copies, they paid five cents per copy. Councilman Wilson indicated that if one department is paying five cents for personal copies, then all departments should be paying that. Chief Grooms said he could reduce electronic data processing from $2000.00