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Regular City Council Meetrng August 9, 2004 Page 14 Interim City Manager Townsend asked for the Council's direction on what the staff needs to do each time a position comes open. Councilman Wilson said that they need to hold these positions until they get through the budget. He said then they could explore what the beginning salaries should be. Mayor Fendley said if a person's position was needed to provide basic services, then he thought that position should be filled. He asked Mr. Townsend if there were any positions open that he thought were critical to fill, who replied not at the moment. Councilman Poston said the Chamber had done job to job surveys as well as surveys of other cities for certain job types and wages. Mayor Fendley suggested that Mr. Anderson and Melba Harris work with the Chamber and local industries to develop entry level starting salaries and bring that back to the Council in the next two weeks. Councilman Bell felt that some of the management positions should be studied, also. Mayor Fendley called for a break at 7:40 p.m. Mayor Fendley reconvened the Open Meeting at 7:52 p.m. He said the next item on the agenda was to consider, discuss and take possible action on the proposed Fiscal Year 2004-2005 budget. He said they would be hearing from the Library and the Police Department. Priscilla McAnally, Assistant Director of the Paris Public Library, came forward, stating that she has and has had, thirteen employees for quite sometime now, not fourteen as the first budget had said. Finance Director Anderson explained that the dollar amount in the budget is correct, just the number of employees is wrong. Councilman Wilson asked what the breakdown was for county and city patrons of the library. Ms. McAnally said about 40% of her patrons were from the county. Mayor Fendley asked if they were to set a fee for the County patrons, did she think they would participate. Ms. McAnally said she had talked to some