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offered because the amount of responsibility in relationship to the amount of pay for that job is not that much. Mr. Louis said, for example there is a corporal's exam opening right now and there are 30 eligible officers to take that test and only five people have signed up to take the exam with a deadline of this coming Friday, and that job has been open for several weeks. Mr. Louis explained that they do not want the job for the amount of pay that comes with the increased responsibility. Mr. Louis said the department has lost three people this year. It is not so much that they had people turning over they are losing those employees, they are having trouble attracting people get them into the jobs. Mr. Wilson said he was of the opinion that there was a loss of patrolmen because the city was not competitive after they received their certification. Mr. Louis said they were competing with the metropolitan areas as well as the rural areas, and his requirements are just as strong as other cities, and what has happened, these officers go to the metropolitan areas and increase their gross pay to $38,000.00 to $40,000.00 a year. Mr. Louis said this is what they are battling at this time, but the real problem is attracting the new recruits to get into the ranks. Mr. Louis said the 5% increase at the lower level plus the 5% at the end of the 12 month period will bring that up. Mr. Louis advised that the change in the structure of the ranks would cost approximately $22,000.00. City Manager Malone said at the last meeting when the Committee was talking about sanitation and the expenses, one of the questions that came up was whether the city could consider privatization of sanitation services and historically that has not been desired. City Manager Malone felt that is certainly something that the city might want to consider, and he is having the staff pull together figures of what the cost would be for the various segments of the service that the city provides. City Manager Malone said that might be something to look at even though there are advantages and disadvantages, and things that are desirable as well as undesirable about the automated system that is in the proposed budget. City Manager Malone said he was considering making a recommendation Friday at the budget hearing by making an amendment to his proposed budget to delay implementation of the automatic system. That would not eliminate all of the cost that