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Special City Council Meetrng August 21, 2001 Page 2 Department, and advised there was a reduction made to this budget in the amount of $3,000.00, and the requested certification pay program has not been included in this budget. Municipal Judge Thomas Hunt III came forward telling the City Council that under the Machiney-Tools and Equipment, the Council will see that nothing is budgeted for capital outlay because they have court costs that they are collecting that are placed in a designated fund that is used for capital items. Gene Anderson, Director of Finance, advised the City Council that the Texas Municipal League has adopted a five year vesting instead of the ten year vesting, and this also effect the benefit cost. He explained the stability pay for the employees, which is paid to employees based on their length of service with the City of Paris. Judge Hunt went over the personnel in his department and what their jobs entail. He explained that he works under contract with the city and expenditures come out of the contractual account along with his telephone expense, insurance and bonds, travel expenses, associations, training. Jury fees are paid out of this account. Judge Hunt said he has requested for the last three or four budgets to include certification pay for his Court Clerks as they are all certified through the State of Texas Court Clerk's Certification Program. He advised that one of the reasons expenditures were reduced from the training account was that his chief clerk, Yvonne Chance, has decided that she does not want to go through all of the work and the writing of the thesis for the Level III Certification since there will be no change in her pay. She presently has completed Level I and Level II of this program. The other clerks have completed the certification to a Level L Gene Anderson advised it would cost approximately $3,800.00 to $3,900.00 for this certification pay. After discussion, no changes were made in the budget for Municipal Court. City Manager Malone said the next budget for consideration was the City Clerk's Department. He said the total budget is $120,577.00 which is down from this year's budget of $155,820.00 due to the reduction in capital outlay. City Manager Malone said the City Clerk has reduced the Minor Apparatus Account from $1,250.00 to $350.00, which eliminates the expense for a desk and chair; Insurance and Bonds