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Regular City Council Meeting <br />August 18 2003 <br />Page 5 <br />step and you change the percentage, you have ruined the grade and step plan. <br />City Attorney Schenk said that as all of the employees are at a grade and step <br />plan, and the Council has placed us in the pay plan and they go through the <br />steps. He said he has not exercised the option to go to step five, which is a 5% <br />increase, because he has other people in the pay plan where we have looked <br />and done studies and they find that people are not being compensated and he <br />is well below the market, but there are others employees who are below the <br />market. <br />Councilman Bell asked who the third person in the department was. City <br />Manager Malone advised that it was Michael Gott who is the city's new MIS <br />Tech. <br />Mayor Fendley said they would consider the City Attorney's budget at this <br />time. <br />City Attorney Schenk started off by summarizing the responsibilities of the <br />City Legal Department for the City Council. City Attorney Schenk gave the <br />City Council a comparison of resolutions and ordinances prepared by the legal <br />department from November 1997 through July 2003. <br />City Attorney Schenk said that one of the functions is to prepare the agendas <br />and these are supplies in his office utilized by his department for that function. <br />They have postage associated with legal notices in addition to their normal <br />postage cost. <br />City Attorney Schenk said they have a food account, again for business <br />purposes. <br />Their Minor Apparatus account deals with small office equipment that wears <br />out from high usage. This includes the fax machine, transcription tape records, <br />etc. He said there is an increase in costs this year because the legislature met <br />and changes were made in the laws and therefore the law books have to be <br />