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Minutes of the Special Meeting <br />August 22, 2001 <br />Page 9 <br />City Manager Malone went over the budget reduction of the Paris <br />Public Library with the City Council. No action was taken regarding <br />this budget. <br />City Manager Malone announced that the Emergency Medical Service <br />department would be considered next. He said one of the requests <br />made by Mr. Klinkerman for this department was a$25.00 certification <br />pay to be added, which would be the additional $6,136.00 budgeted. <br />Kent Klinkerman came forward explaining that currently overtime is <br />paid based on a 28 day, 212 hour pay cycle. The employee has to <br />qualify for those hours of work in order to receive any overtime pay. <br />That is determined by the Department of Labor and they allow the city <br />to decide how they want to pay the overtime. Mr. Klinkerman said an <br />average person works 40 hours and then qualifies for overtime pay. <br />Mr. Klinkerman proposes to return to a pay plan ending on the 7t' <br />day. He said this is currently being used for the Police Department <br />which is also regulated by the Department of Labor. He said that the <br />Fire Department is paid the same way as the EMS. He estimated the <br />annual additional cost would be $24,000.00 to $25,000.00 to the EMS <br />budget. After further discussion, the City Council asked Mr. <br />Klinkerman and Mr. Anderson to come up with figures for the seven <br />day pay scale for the EMS and Fire Department and to get figures for <br />the amount of overtime. <br />After discussion, the City Council was in support of the seven day pay <br />plan for overtime in the Fire and EMS Departments. <br />City Manager Malone advised that Mr. Klinkerman has been asking <br />for a reclassification of a Clerk III to a Clerk IV, which has been <br />included in the budget. <br />