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Regular City Council Meeting August 19, 2003 Page 13 Shawn Napier, City Engineer, came forward stating that he had provided a handout to the City Council which covers the highlights of his budget. He said there are a few numbers that have changed. The Engineering Department currently has 6% people and they are in the budget for 7% people. He said they have currently filled the Engineering Technician position where the former employee would have been at a step four and the new employee is at a step one. Mr. Napier pointed out that there are actually three items cutting money from the budget. Mr. Napier explained that Item No. 3 of his handout, he has been contacted by the Lamar County Appraisal District, the Lamar County Water Supply District, and the City of Paris and they are trying to do an aerial photograph of the whole county. They will be digital enhanced photograph of the entire county that they can use in all type of design processes. He said the city's portion of that cost would be around $27,000.00. Councilman Bell questioned the possibility of those maps being copyrighted. Mr. Napier said he would have to check on that. Mr. Anderson discussed the health portion of the budget with the City Council regarding possibly trying to get into the TML Pool. He said if they could improve their claims that would help. Mayor Fendley said the Municipal Band would be covered at this time. Mr. Anderson advised that the Municipal Band Board did not communicate with him this year so he used the same budget as they had last year. At the time this report was run all of the expenditures were not in. City Manager Malone reminded the Council that the V&CC contributed $10,000.00 to the Band fund, but they also take credit for any advertisement they do for the Band. The city's portion of that could be over $8,000.00. The next Budget for consideration was the Paris Library. Betty Landon, Library Director, came forward advising that the Capital Outlay