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Regular City Council Meeting February 28, 2005 Page 4 Internal Financing of Replacement Equipment - This City is using banks or local commercial lending institutions to finance many of the vehicles in the fleet or construction equipment. Most cities develop an internal financing pool and they do not pay those outside interest rates, but charge each operating department based on the useful life of that equipment. Tony expressed his thoughts about EMS and the Fire Department and working them together to perform the emergency medical services. There are 26 individuals in EMS and 55 in the Fire Department. Tony recommended that those employees be merged and have the Fire Department support the ambulance service. Tony suggested that in the fire department that the level of emergency medical skills be raised so that there is a paramedic on that first responder truck and reduce the ambulance to one paramedic. If you will utilize the Fire Department in this manner, and with the staffing reductions proposed, this community will save more than $650,000.00 a year in this Fire/EMS strategy. Tony explained that he had full authority, as the manager, to spend less than what is in the approved Budget. Tony stated that he is going to proceed to this implementation but a number of these things will take a number of months to accomplish. This City Council is the governing body of this organization. They have every right to say we want to pull back and talk about or look at any of these specifics. 6.Discuss and consider proposed revised evaluation instruments for use in evaluating the City Manager, City Attorney and Municipal Court Judge. Mayor Fendley asked Tony to address this issue. Tony said he thought the proposal from the City of Greenville was a well put together document and asked the Council to look over it. Mayor Fendley asked that the Council bring their recommendations to the next meeting. 8.Consideration of and action on the following resolutions: RESOLUTION NO. 2005-035: A RESOLUTION OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF PARIS, PARIS, TEXAS, RECOGNIZING THE NEED FOR A MAXIMUM, REASONABLE RATE OF SPEED IN THE AREA OF CONSTRUCTION ON CERTAIN PORTIONS OF LAMAR AVENUE IN THE CITY OF PARIS AND REQUESTING THE TEXAS DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION TO DECLARE SAID AREA A CONSTRUCTION ZONE AND LOWER THE SPEED LIMIT IN SAID CONSTRUCTION ZONE; MAKING OTHER FINDINGS AND PROVISIONS RELATED TO THE SUBJECT; AND PROVIDING FOR AN