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FRIDAY, APRIL 14, 1989 <br /> <br />(over 1988-89) of $258,591.0Q, or 4.4%, excluding unknown amounts at this time <br />for merit increases and excluding adjustments (necessary for comparative <br />purposes) of the 1988-89 salaries of two employees, a meter reader and a <br />parking attendant, whose positions and salaries are being eliminated in <br />1989-90. Both Councilman Groden and McClain assessed this tabulation as not <br />providing the information requested in the form and substance necessary for a <br />real comparison. City Manager Brown indicated that this tabulation will be <br />re-prepared and presented in the form necessary for such comparison. <br /> <br />FollOwing the City Manager's commentls updating the statusof the Electric Fund <br />and estimated revenues/expenditures for 1989-90, Council directed that the'sum <br />of $150,000.00 be added to the Manager's initially-proposed sum of <br />$1,250,000.00 for transfer in 1989-90 from the Electric Fund to the General <br />Fund. Other portions of the Electric Department budget, on which members of <br />Council specifically commented or inquired, included purchased power costs, the <br />anticipated favorable effect of the new "SCADA" system being installed, <br />professional engineering services and costs, requests for increased funds for <br />overtime pay, employee travel costs which Council asked the City Manager to re- <br />examine, increasing insurance costs, contract labor (which Mr. Brown was asked <br />to re-examine), and capital outlay requests (which, also, Mr. Brown was to <br />asked to re-examine and report on). During the foregoing review, but related <br />to the overall budget rather than just to the Electric Department's requests, <br />Councilman Cole offered a motion that the City Manager be directed to reduce <br />overall travel expense requests (for employees under the Manager's <br />jurisdiction) from some $68,000.00 next year to $34,000.00; however, no second <br /> <br /> <br />