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Special Meeting of the City Council <br />September 17, 2002 <br />Page 3 <br /> <br />City Attorney Schenk advised the City Council that the one military leave <br />position is different. The law specifies that you have to have a position <br />available when that person returns. <br /> <br />Police Chief Karl Louis came forward stating that there is another officer who <br />will be going to the Department of Public Safety, so there would be another <br />opening in the Police Department. Chief Louis said he was of the same opinion <br />that he would rather see positions that are vacant dropped and the other city <br />employees keep their jobs. <br /> <br />City Manager Malone informed the City Council that in 1982-83 there were 48 <br />employees in the Police Department and today there are 88 employees. In the <br />Fire Department there were 39 employees in 1982-83 and today there are 58, <br />and the population is about the same. He said those two departments are where <br />the major growth of the budget has occurred. <br /> <br />In response to a question posed by Councilman McCarthy, Mr. Anderson said, <br />as he understood the question, that by cutting the proposed raise by one-half, <br />that would that put the tax rate below the rollback. <br /> <br />City Manager Malone said one of the questions that had been asked was with <br />regard to improvements made to Fire Station Number One. He said that the <br />total amount of the expenditure was $8,516.00. It was paid out of the General <br />Fund, but it was not in this fiscal year, it was paid in September of 2001. He <br />explained that this was done when the new Chief was hired. The Chief and his <br />secretary were moved to Station Number One so that he could be at the station <br />where the majority of his employees, as well as the Deputy Chiefs and Fire <br />Marshal, work. Also, at the same time, the city was developing more code <br />enforcement, adding code enforcement officers, and needed to utilize the office <br />space vacated by the Chief and his secretary in the City Hall West Annex to <br />house EMS and Code Enforcement personnel, so the resulting move was an <br />improvement in efficiency. <br /> <br /> <br />