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reimbursements coming in and we can catch up, I would like to put some kind of caveat in there, I think one year when I first come on, each entity contributed $86,000. apiece so it was a higher year that year. I would like to show the $75,000 hard money upfront as operational, then have some wiggle room at the end of the year that if there is some kind of shortfall (if there is and we are hoping there is not), but there plenty of money to carry over but says there is an extra $20,000 that we got funding cut or something, that there is something saying that there is a reasonable caveat saying that they gave us the $75,000 but say there is a little issue at the end and there is a small shortfall I feel like there needs to be some sort of security net that if there is something that exceeded that $75,000 that we are not hung out to dry. Dr. Gibbons suggested adding a second bulletin and put in a sentence saying that the board may petition both the city and the county for additional funds to cover shortfalls at the end of the fiscal year. Mr. Collins asked if we were going to consider a cost index increase off that $75,000. Dr. Erickson advised that the interlocal agreement included plus a cost of living and inflation increase towards the annual budget, but if we are going to manage our employees then we will manage their raises. Mrs. Prestridge said that if we had the money and an employee was due a raise or something, then I think it should be in addition to a cost of living if it is due and credited and there is money for it, then it should be voted on. I am just thinking in my mind that you are not going to stalemate every employee to the lesser of the raises. Dr. Erickson said that Judge Superville wanted a caveat saying that you could not give anyone a raise that was more than the lowest raise that a City or County employee gets, but apparently if they flip -flop every year, then nobody gets a raise at the health department and everybody gets a raise every other year at the City and County. Mr. Collins stated that it meant that if the City gave a 5% raise and then the County only a 3.5% raise then the health department would get the 3.5% rather than the 5 %. Mrs. Prestridge stated that in a lot of years the County may give a raise and the City will give nothing, or vise - versa, so the Health Department would not get a raise. Dr. Erickson said that this is micromanaging our budget. Gene Anderson suggested that Judge Superville may be wanting a way to control the upper end of what the County will have to contribute. Maybe, if you put a cap on there then it would not matter what you need, you could get 25% pay increases, but the City and the County will not pay any more than the cap amount. This should satisfy both the City and the County. Board of Health minutes 2014 -01 -21 Special Meeting (needing approval)