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Special Council Minutes of 3/29!2000 commissioner was recently provided a car for transportation. The committee recommended approval. • Page 1, line 14, supplies, was increased from $1,000 to $1,300 for the purpose of providing afax/printer for the Clerk of Council. • A city planner, and that will be in line item 32, outside services, which will be in the amount of $14,000. • Page 15, line 593, an increase of $7,500 in engineering funds to pay for engineering services done last year for the fire station roof. Mr. McKay thanked all the Council members, the President of Council, the Mayor, the directors, the department heads and managers and everyone who helped to formulate the appropriation ordinance. Mr. Gareau said that it had come to his attention that there was a deviation between the recommended changes by Council and the ordinance that appears before Council. Specifically, it deals with account number 101 105 573 11-30, which is the EDP commissioner's salary. At the committee meeting, Council had a lengthy discussion with respect to the original proposed salary increase which was in excess of 20%. It was agreed by the majority of Council at the meeting to use a 5% increase over the 1999 appropriated figure. The ordinance, as it appears tonight, reflects a 7% increase and the cash difference between the 5% and 7% is $898. Mr. Gareau moved that Council amend Ordinance 2000-27 at the Data Processing Division administration line to be reduced by $898 to a total of $80,627, to reflect a change in the Data Processing Commissioner's salary to a 5% raise over the 1999 appropriated figure. Mr. Gareau noted that the motion included, without delineating them specifically, a change in the following other lines, which would be consistent with that reduction: reduce the Data Processing total by that amount; reduce the Office of the Mayor total by that amount; reduce the General Fund total by that amount; reduce the Grand Total by that amount. The motion was seconded by Mrs. Kasler. Mayor Musial said he preferred to look upon this modification of his ordinance he introduced not as a deviation but as an adjustment in view of the clarification. He followed up the proposed change in that particular line item with a memorandum to all of Council dealing with this particular subject. The reason he did so was because he felt there was some confusion at the meeting the previous evening with regard to the value of the car that was being provided to Gary Hannum. The allegation was made during the course of the meeting that the least value on a yearly basis was about $6,000. In fact, it is a 1991 Chevy Corsica, which under the IRS regulations appears to only have a value on the order of $1,600. If you add the fuel charge, the total value of that car is only on the order of $1,800. So the difference between the two is really $4,200 of phantom income. Because time is of the essence, he put this in here for consideration by Council and he requests favorable consideration by Council tonight. Mrs. Kasler said she could only speak for herself--she read that memo and is not sure that she is satisfied with the premise of the memo and the items that go into the cost. However, the automobile, as she stated in the Finance Committee meeting the other night, is not her concern. That is an administrative decision as to who automobiles are assigned to and, if the need is there, that's fine. She did not count that in as part of a raise. She counted it in as a benefit and a way to reward an employee other than a merit 2