Minutes of
The Special Price City Council Meeting
City Hall:
Price, Utah
April 7,
2003, 7:00 a.m.
Present:
Mayor Joe L. Piccolo Joanne
Lessar, City Recorder
Councilmembers: Pat
Larsen, Finance Director
Betty P. Wheeler Gary Sonntag, Public Works
Director/City Engineer
Stephen L. Denison Keith Wight, Human Resource Director
Richard Tatton Nick Tatton, Community Director
Elizabeth H. Kourianos
Excused:
Councilmember Don G. Reaveley, Jr.
Others
Present:
Lisa Richens
1.
BUDGET WORKSHOP
- Capital Expenditures For Fiscal Year 2003/04
The Council met to continue their
workshop on Capital Expenditures for the Fiscal Year 2003/04. Nothing more was
deleted or reduced from this item.
2.
PERSONNEL BUDGET - Fiscal Year 2003/04
Pat Larsen presented a comparison of wages and benefits to the total
General Fund budget. The percent of the
General Fund budget for 2003 was 69.45%.
The amount estimated for 2004 is 71.68%. The Council reviewed the overtime budget and reduced or deleted
it by the following number of hours.
Building Inspection 22 hours overtime deleted.
Building Maintenance 186 hours deleted.
Police Department 1266 hours deleted.
Special Functions 17 hours deleted.
Public Works reduced from 7 to 5 hours.
Streets Dept. reduced from 320 to 300 hours.
Irrigation Dept. reduced from 239 to 200 hours.
Cemetery reduced from 318 to 250 hours.
Water/Sewer Departments reduced from 1,677 to 1200 hours.
Electrical/Meter Reading reduced from 332 hours to 85 hours.
Swimming Pool reduced from 40 to 18 hours.
Information Systems reduced from 305 to 120 hours.
The Council felt there was not enough growth and revenue to maintain
two building inspectors and recommended that one inspector be laid off. If it picks back up, perhaps, it can be
contracted through another entity, such as Carbon County or Sunset
Engineering. It was recommended that
new job descriptions be prepared for Building Maintenance II and Building
Maintenance III. A request for a new
Ordinance Compliance Officer and Fire Marshall was deleted. The request for a full time person in the
Library was reduced to part time. The
position of Water/Sewer Operator was changed from an Operator II to an Operator
III. The request for an additional
meter reader and swimming pool maintenance technician was deleted. The IS Specialists will be changed from a
Grade 11 to a Grade 18.
Pat Larsen calculated that the above changes and the changes from the
previous meeting total $2,287,400. The
budget is now out of balance by $2,767,000.
A
Council Retreat was scheduled for 8:00 a.m. Monday, April 28, 2003.
Meeting adjourned at 9:35 a.m.
APPROVED:
ATTEST: Joe
L. Piccolo, Mayor
Joanne Lessar, City Recorder