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Regular Council Meeting . <br />1/18/93 <br />Page Eight <br />Mr. Rinker said we are going to be requesting the individuals, as approved, to come <br />before us on our Caucus night to field some questions and share some information with <br />us. There are probably a number of items about their jobs we all need to know. <br />Animal Warden - William Weiss - Mr. Busa, seconded by Mrs. Cinco, made a motion to <br />confirm the Mayor's appointment of William Weiss as Animal Warden. <br />ROLL CALL: AYES: Mr. Busa, Mrs. Cinco, Mr. Ferrante, Mr. Fixler, Mr. Flynn, <br />and Mr. RinYcer <br />NAYS: Mr. Basile (He said he expressed his feelings at Caucus.) <br />Motion Carried <br />Appointment Confirmed <br />Community Relations Coordinator - George Phillips - Mr. Busa, seconded by Mr. <br />Rinker, made a motion to confirm the Mayor's appointment of George Phillips as <br />Commixnity Relations Coordinator. <br />Mr. Flynn said for George's benefit, we discussed this item at Caucus. The final <br />consensus was that they may not approve of your yearly program but they may <br />possibly be interested in having you come in for a couple of sessions. <br />Mr. Rinker said to be frank, this was a matter of certain controversy. They had a lot of <br />discussion the middle of last year. He thinks the consensus as Mr. Flynn has pointed <br />out is that in so far as some of the ideas, the programs themselves, he does not think <br />people were so critical of that as they were at creating this position and justifying it in <br />total. There is no question they got very positive feedback on the areas Nir. Phillips is <br />eminently qualified in, (training, upgrading the safety forces--fire and police <br />departments.) Those are specific skills that Mr. Phillips can bring to bear, and we <br />dvould look in the futizre on a spot basis for those particular seminars. <br />Mayor Pietrafese said he would like to reiterate what we talked about at Caucus. Mr. <br />I'hillips had a short period of time to try to get this position off the ground. I think he <br />has done an excellent job in certain fields and I think he needs to improve in others, but <br />that is something that when it starts off and it is new it is a little difficult-finding out <br />what people want. I think he is providing a service to us and to the communify for a <br />very nominal amount of money and I would hope that Council would consider giving <br />this thing a little time to try to take off and become a very strong position. He has done <br />an excellent job with the police and fire. We received a great letter from the Chief (of <br />Police). The people who came to the programs had very positive things to say aboufi the <br />programs.