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City Council Minutes September 6, 1994 Page 6 e The Council reviewed the revised 1995 personal services additions page. Administrative Secretarial duties, City Clerk duties, and the need for secretarial support for the administration staff were reviewed with the City Clerk. Councilmember Dietz outlined his goal of having only a $50,000 increase in 1995 for new personnel. Upon further discussion of the Accountant/ AA position, Council member Dietz stated that this information adjusts his goal to $64,000. The City Administrator noted that this revised personal services page includes more than the $80,000 goal as outlined by the City Council and that he further proposed to reduce this amount by $12,000 to a total of $68,000 for 1995. Personnel issues can be decided later in 1995 or in early 1996 by the City Council as to which positions should be added and when they should be added in order to achieve the $68,000 goal. The Council reviewed the total proposed tax increase, the 9/15/94 certification requirements, and the Truth in Taxation notices. The Council indicated that they thought the growth rate for the NTC would be at 11 percent or more and, therefore, the impact of the increase in the general fund tax levy and SWM tax levy would be much smaller than the amount identified in the Truth in Taxation notices. e The Mayor indicated two of his areas to cut or reduce include the Fire Department reserve request and the Ice Arena reserve request. The Council concurred with a $5,000 decrease in the Ice Arena reserve request and a $60,000 decrease in the Fire Department reserve request. It was noted that the Fire Department reserve can be partially established with reserve funds that have been generated by the sale of property to UP A. The City Administrator reviewed the budget balancing options for reducing the $339,000 deficit as outlined in his 9/1/94 budget memo. The first item reviewed was the designation of the $30,500 equipment transfer for specific capital outlay requests from various departments. The Council concurred with these designations at this time, but noted that some of these items may be cut and replaced with other capital outlay requests. The City Council concurred to reduce the deficit by $17,000 by purchasing the Building and Zoning inspector truck in 1994 by using undesignated equipment reserves. Additionally, the Council agreed to purchase $2,000 worth of proposed administration equipment out of the 1994 administration/finance budget. The Council agreed to purchase the pOlice copy machine out of the 1994 City Council Contingency budget. The Council agreed to reduce the Fire Department capital outlay reserve request by $60,000 and to supplement the remaining $10,000 in the budget with $30,000 from the reserve monies available from the UPA sale. The Council agreed to reduce the Building and Zoning capital outlay request of $6,000 for computer equipment by having this expenditure financed in 1994 from the data processing budget. It may be necessary to encumber these funds for this purchase. The Council agreed to solicit quotes for the truck, copy machine, and administration equipment. - The above budget adjustments reduce the budget gap by $95,000 and leaves a gap of $244,000. .