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Regular City Council Meeting <br />August 28, 2003 <br />Page 4 <br />overtime to $100,000.00. He said that he and Mr. Anderson have talked about <br />if it would be adequate, but he felt that he could probably operate with that. He <br />said they could basically save $180,000.00, but you are going to have to spend <br />more to do that. <br />Councilman Bell said on page 15 of 15 there are three items with a total <br />negative impact of $443,519.93 on the budget. He said that Chief Grooms said <br />you take that $443,519.93 minus the $180,000.00 of overtime reduction to <br />come up with $263,519,93 which would be the initial impact to the budget. <br />That is based on the one year mark which would be roughly $30,000.00. <br />Councilman Bell asked Chief Grooms if the city gave you a buffet of three <br />items and said you can choose only one, which one would you choose. Chief <br />Grooms said his number one priority as Fire Chief would be additional <br />firefighters. Councilman Bell asked if he could choose two what would it be. <br />Chief Grooms said additional firefighters and the Rank Restructure. <br />Councilman Bell asked if these were more important that Seniority and <br />Incentive. Chief Grooms said his primary goal in this budget was to salvage <br />the five firefighters jobs and get back the firefighter that he lost. And there are <br />a number of ways that can be done. It can be across the board percentage, <br />which he has applied for of the 5% along with the Police Chief, and the EMS <br />Director and they have proposed a 5% pay increase for emergency services this <br />year and come back with a 5% increase for the next two years; however, he said <br />that you can go in and do a rank restructuring and, by doing that, there will be <br />some increases in some salaries, not all of them, but they will create a change <br />in the salary structure by implementing the rank restructuring. <br />Councilman Plata asked if the six firefighters are hired, will there be four <br />people to a fire truck. Chief Grooms said they will do that as much as they can. <br />Chief Grooms advised that they will be adding only two firefighters per shift. <br />They will not be able to add four to all of the engines. Councilman Plata <br />asked if two fire trucks will still roll to a fire. Chief Grooms answered if the <br />parameters are right they will. He said that they would have three firefighters <br />