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Minutes of the Special Meeting August 22, 2001 Page 11 capital item,$30,000.00 has been removed which was intended for the EMS share of the CAD system for dispatch. City Manager Malone said that the EMS budget had been impacted greatly by two things. Two years ago, we added an additional crew needed for the increased call volume and then the other major impact was the decline in federal funding support due to the Balanced Budget Act. At the time our revenues were being pinched and our expenses went up. Mr. Malone stated that Judge Superville was present because Lamar County's cost has also gone up since they are paying 40% of the shortfall. Lamar County Judge Chuck Superville, 119 N. Main Street, advised that he had received the number for the ambulance contract which is shared with the city on a 40/60 split. Judge Superville advised that last year the county's portion of this cost was $182,000.00; this year it is $350,000.00; and next year it will be $400,000.00 , which is about a 14% increase. Judge Superville said there is no end to this and he does not have an answer to this problem. Judge Superville pointed out that the County does not have any input regarding the expenditures or revenues. He said that anything that the City could do to hold down the rising cost of the ambulance contract is going to be appreciated. Regarding the overtime, Judge Superville pointed out that the jailers and deputies are in a 28 day cycle and they do not get paid for the first eleven hours of overtime. What they do in the County is compensate them with comp time that they accrue and after that they are paid cash for overtime. Judge Superville said that the budget that Mr. Klinkerman presented to Commissioners Court was 2.2 million dollars. You can anticipate 1.2 million dollars in revenue. This creates a million dollar shortfall, and