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Regular City Council Meeting <br />June 16, 2003 <br />Page 22 <br /> <br />is these people are new hires and they have to be trained, and they fill in when <br />other people are off sick or out on vacation. Mr. Campbell stressed the need for <br />continuing training. He said if the city had not had people trained when these <br />two water leaks came up, Campbell Soup would have lost $400,000.00 worth <br />of product and that is their figure. <br /> <br />Mayor Fendley moved to the next item on the agenda, receipt of a preliminary <br />2003-2004 budget for the water and wastewater departments. <br /> <br />City Manager Malone stated that the City Council had been presented the <br />preliminary 2003-2004 budget for the water and wastewater departments. He <br />advised that there are actually two documents in this folder. He said it is all <br />preliminary information and Mr. Anderson has been able to use a program in the <br />AS400 format to do this. He said the first section contains a preliminary budget <br />for all departments in the Water and Sewer Fund without including a cost of <br />living increase. The second section is the same preliminary budget presented <br />with a 3.43% cost of living, which is what the cost of living was over the past <br />24 months, and that would give them some indication of the range of what it <br />would take to give a cost of living raise should the Council require staff to do <br />so. City Manager Malone pointed out that going through the table of contents, <br />these pages are numbered on both presentations, so the Council can find the <br />summary by function, activity and character and object, etc. <br /> <br />City Manager Malone advised that they had reduced personnel within these <br />departments by four. They have already eliminated one meter reader position <br />by transferring that person into an open position in Public Works. This was the <br />result of the fact that the city instituted touch-read metering over the past two <br />years and they now have the majority of the meters switched out. This process <br />is much faster and computerized and when they finish their rounds, they swap <br />out meters. <br /> <br />City Manager Malone said they also eliminated one Maintenance I person in <br />Water Production, a Maintenance II person in the Lift Station and a Maintenance <br />I person in Wastewater. City Manager Malone advised that there are line item <br /> <br /> <br />