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Budget Committee Meeting <br />September 10, 1999 <br />Page 4 <br />enough to cover the expenses and there is going to be a short -fall, and <br />both the city and county budgets as proposed contain money to make- <br />up the shortfall. He said there is one position in the Health Department <br />that has not been filled, but it is included in the budget as proposed. <br />City Manager Malone pointed out that this is a board operated <br />organization and we might ask that board to look into ways to bring in <br />more revenue or cut costs in some way. <br />Chairman Pfiester asked about the Library and the possibility of Lamar <br />County contributing toward this operation. City Manager Malone <br />suggested that this be left for the City Council to discuss. <br />Chairman Pfiester said that Councilman Gray wanted to know what was <br />going to happen in District 2. City Manager Malone said he had given <br />Councilman Gray information with regard to several things that the staff <br />feels attainable if the proposed budget is passed. <br />Chairman Pfiester asked Mr. Baker if he had any recommendations <br />regarding the proposed budget, and he was pretty happy with the <br />proposed budget. <br />Mr. Wilson said one of the things that he continued to be interested in <br />and would like to see is not to put the money in the budget for the five <br />additional employees in the Sanitation Division. He stated that if we did <br />leave funding in the budget, he would ask that they not be hired until <br />after the privatization possibility is completely explored. Mr. Wilson <br />said he would hate to see us go out and hire more people because we <br />can absorb some of these people, and in the mean time the private <br />hauler can go out, if the city is behind, for so much a meter can go out <br />and pick up the trash and give the city some relief until it can be <br />negotiated. City Manager Malone suggested that a goal be set to give <br />ourselves a reasonable amount of time to look at all the costs in -house <br />and just not order the equipment or hire the people, and leave the funds <br />in the budget until it is totally explored. <br />Mr. Wilson proposed that they do less than a 5% increase on salaries. <br />He said that in the surveys that he did, every community that was <br />