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Budget Committee Meeting <br />September 10, 1999 <br />Page 2 <br />$103,500.00 by eliminating the purchase of two thousand 90 gallon <br />containers which would be needed in the first phase of the automated <br />collection and eliminating at the same time a trash container dump <br />device that would have been required. City Manager Malone said that <br />in order to make the choices available to the Budget Committee and <br />Council as flexible as possible, he had made several reductions and <br />had placed those funds into other accounts to fund activities the <br />Council might find desirable. If the Committee and the City Council so <br />chose, they could always reduce the budget, but after Monday night they <br />will not be able to add to a line item. The Manager stated that he placed <br />the funds to give the City Council maximum flexibility to make a <br />decision. <br />City Manager Malone said that under Lease and Rental - Equipment in <br />the Sanitation Division the funds provided for the more expensive truck <br />needed for automation, but that as automation was being delayed at this <br />time, he proposed to reduce the line item by $4,800.00 which would be <br />the difference in the cost of a less expensive type truck which we would <br />need if the City continues to do the trash pickup. <br />City Manager Malone said as the Committee discussed the City Council <br />Department, a question was brought up about the Court Cost- Special <br />Service Fees, and there was $117,400.00 budgeted for that, and he <br />reduced this line item by $67,400.00. <br />There was discussion about the steps that were available to many of the <br />department heads that they were not getting generally until a survey <br />indicated that they would be in -line with other cities, and that was in <br />affect creating confusion, so, he reduced a number of the Salaries and <br />Wages accounts in different departments by the cost of that step. <br />City Manager Malone advised that in the proposed line item additions, <br />he had placed $125,000.00 of the General Fund reductions into Street <br />and Alley Repair in the Street Division which increased it from <br />$400,000.00 to $525,000.00, which would give the Council maximum <br />flexibility. He stated that there is a proposal that was to be considered <br />by the PEDC to extend Hearne Street. This project would be taking truck <br />