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Special Council Minutes of 1/29/2008 Law Director Dubelko asked to be recognized before Mr. Mahoney continued with his report. He had been talking to the Mayor with regard to Ordinance 2007-156, and he was told that it clearly was the administration's intent to have two real property full-time positions. The confusion, at least on the administration's part, was that Mr. Schneider has been serving 50% of the time in a real property maintenance position or function and half the time functioning as a building inspector. But that the intent of the administration is not to end up in its reorganization plan with three real property maintenance positions-only two. It's important, if this goes forward, that Council and the administration are on the same page. Councilman Gareau said the proposal from Public Safety includes three full-time equivalent property maintenance inspectors. He is not going to proceed on this legislation tonight until we can get the property maintenance component handled. He will move forward on the engineering component. Mayor said this was an issue of semantics. It was the intent of the administration to add two full-time inspectors to the existing structure. The existing structure has one part- timer and it also has Mr. Schneider who is a full-time employee but devotes roughly half of his time to property maintenance. It will be, as was discussed during committee, that we have the equivalent of three full-time employees doing property maintenance. That is the intent of the administration, and that is the understanding of Council. It's just how do we say that, and the Law Director advises that we say that by adding the language that says two full-time property maintenance inspectors, understanding that Mr. Schneider is not afull-time property maintenance inspector, and one seasonal part-time property maintenance inspector. Changing the three to a two under full-time does meet the intent of both the administration and the Council to insure that, even though we can't say it in this legislation, there will be the equivalent of three full-time employees doing property maintenance inspectors. We're just changing the words from three to two to make it consistent with what the Law Director feels it should say. It does not change the intent in any way. Law Director said he felt the property maintenance component of this was far and away the most significant component of this legislation-not the engineering. He wants to make sure everybody is on the exact same page. He didn't want to cause more confusion and slow things down. He thinks he understands what Council is looking for, and he thinks he understands how the administration plans to apply it. He doesn't know that there needs to be any more committee work on it. If Council is satisfied with the representation of the Mayor that the Schneider position, which is a building inspector position, is going to continue to do 50% real property maintenance, and the two new positions being created (which must be filled if they are funded), and people are transferring over from the Engineering reorganization to fill them, you've got the other part-time position which exists and is filled right now, you have your total of three people doing real property maintenance inspection. Councilman Barker said he thought he understood what the Law Director was sa}nng as far as coming up with three full-time property maintenance inspectors. He just has an 4