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..-., We have the situation whereby there are other officers who are similarly situated. What we attempted to do was to look at all of the police force in terms of the new officers moving up x-percentage, now we need to look at the rest of the force and make sure we are treating all officers fairly at all ranks up the line. We have attempted to do that. Carnival: You're just limiting that to the police department. Is that taken into consideration on all job classifications? Blankenship: It was taken into consideration in other areas, we evaluated every area of the City... Brand: Bill, and every employee. We spent two Sunday afternoons going through this. Bill had also gone through every employee since we have discovered the problem with the police department. There is one other place in the City where it happened between two people and that was in the library. We had one professional librarian that started just a few months ago and we had another one who had been here for several years. That was another classification that was not being paid the scale and made the adjustment so that the person who had just come in and the person who had been here for several years weren't at the same pay. Carnival: Should there not be some consideration for experience outside the City? Is that a-typical, your starting point of experience is with the Company and whether you performed that job outside the City, would that not have an affect on your classification or your level of salary classification? Blankenship: Yes, definitely. Carnival: I hear what you are saying and I just don't want to see it limited to the Police Department and that was what I was hearing when you initially made your presentation. Blankenship: The reason I'm putting special emphasis on the Police Department is it is a sort of apology to them because we just blew it, plain and simple. We just overlooked that whole situation there and when the police officer 12