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Special City Council Meetrng August 21, 2001 Page 4 $15,000.00, and this is his third priority. City Manager Malone told the City Council that one of the things that has affected overtime in the past is that we have had some grants come through HUD for patrolling the Housing Authority properties and the city is not going to receive a grant this year, so there is no corresponding revenue to off-set the money that would be spent patrolling the Housing Authority. There was discussion regarding the use of grants that the city has received and how those funds were utilized and the possibility of grants for this coming year. Chief Louis told the City Council that the police officers are essential because geographically the city has increased 30% due to the annexations. He said we have a commitment to responding to emergencies in the newly annexed area. His feeling was if they do not do anything else, they have got to have those four officers. Another thing that caused the accumulation of overtime was ten openings during this fiscal year, and staffing shifts with ten men missing increases the cost. He felt that if they could get fully staffed and maintain the personnel that they could reduce the overtime. Chief Louis said, not counting traffic stops, they responded to 36,000 calls last year, and 2,600 arrests. Two more audio/video cameras need to be in place before January 1, 2002 because the Racial Profile Act has passed the legislature. If this is accomplished, the department will be fully ready to implement that policy. Chief Louis said that if they do not get the cameras, they will have to go to a manual individual record keeping system, which will cost more that the $10,000.00 that is being requested for this equipment. City Manager Malone advised the City Council that $43,700.00 had been removed from the Machinery-Tools-and Equipment account in the Police Department. From the budget request, Chief Louis has requested that two Audio/Video Cameras for patrol units as mandated by legislation in the amount of $10,000.00; 1,000 video tapes for recording stops per racial profiling in the amount of $3,000.00; 14 digital cameras for Patrol, CID and Anitnal Control in the amount of $7,000.00; $1,000.00 for purchase of floppy disks for the digital cameras; one time lapse VCR for CID/Narcotics Division in the amount of $1,100.00; one duplexing scanner for the new LaserFische system in the amount of $8,000.00; one commercial automatic transfer switch for EOC in the amount of $6,000.00; two computers for Narcotics Division in the amount of $2,000.00; three workstations, computer and hook-up for new animal control facility in the amount of $8,100.00; and one heavy duty paper shredder in the amount of