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Budget Committee Minutes August 25, 1999 Page 3 or restitution more than 30 days after the conviction, there is a fee of $25.00 that has to be collected one -half goes to Austin and the other half is retained by the City, 10% of that $25.00 goes into a dedicated fund call Judicial Efficiency Fund. He felt this could be used for the certification pay at some point in time. Mr. Baker wanted to know what the stability pay was. Mr. Anderson explained that back in 1983 the City Council authorized in the personnel policies for employees that have been employed more than a year they could draw $3.00 a month for every month of employment as an incentive for the longer term employees. Terry Townsend, Director of Parks and Recreation, came forward pointing out that his budget has dropped some from last year, and the majority of that is going to end up as being capital projects. Mr. Townsend pointed out that it appears that there is an increase in their pool personnel, but what they are attempting to do is hire more of the teenagers that come in and helps guard at the pool, and we try to work them fewer hours because every year about this time, they want to stay open until Labor Day and have a very hard time keeping guards because most of them are going back to school, so, he is trying to hire more guards and not overwork them, and hopefully he could hold on to enough of them to keep the pool open. Mr. Townsend said the returning guards earn $6.20 an hour and the new starters make $5.90 an hour. Mr. Townsend said he has budgeted $25,000.00 for a pavilion at Lake Crook. The $50,000.00 at Heritage Park is a grant project and we have submitted a grant application for that project and he hopes to hear from that in January or February whether or not it will be accepted. That was part, again in last year's budget of the $50,000.00 that was placed in the budget contingent upon the community raising an additional $50,000.00 to provide the park, and that has been done as Dr. Hayden's donation was the match, and we were able to use the value of the land as the match for the Texas Parks and Wildlife Department to receive the grant of about $112,000.00 if it is accepted. $16,000.00 has been placed in the budget for playground equipment replacement. The chemical feeder for the pool is an electronic feeder. Today we have a manual system and we are constantly having to put chemicals in the feeds to