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.. . Davidson: Then is it your opinion we should pay her for these hours? I guess that is what I am trying to figure out. I don't really know. You guys have looked into it in a lot of detail. I think if you think we should pay her then we should pay her. Carnival: Annette, the position you are taking is based on the current policy, no, she would not be paid. Brand: Based on the current policy, no, she would not be paid. Carnival: But based on what has happened in the past and based on the fact that we did choose to pay those people that were exempt and then were compensated I think the fair thing to do in this case would be to also compensate Pam for that extra half hour. You've compensated her for the hour like everyone else and everyone else other than Pam at this point, with the exception of Donna, if she would come in and protest her hours, has been paid the extra half hour. The key words in my perception is now and then. What is fair and what we should do starting from this point on. Brand: I have no questions about now. It was a different set of circumstances under which she worked then. Howard: I need my memory jogged because I don't remember, was Ms. Ferris-Doersch working as the City Clerk after she stopped working in her Executive Secretary position or did she quit both at the same time? Fauson: She quit both at the same time. Hornbostel: I don't remember that. I remember for a couple of months she stopped her Executive Secretary position and then she resigned as City Clerk. Howard: What I am getting to, is trying to understand what she thought the separation was or if there was one. I guess it is difficult for me because on one hand some of her actions were that these were two separate jobs. She was obviously able to quit one and keep on with the other and if nothing had happened she could have kept on with the other one until the next election. I don't know, 21