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<br /> ...1 <br /> way for many years here, at least as long as I have been <br /> on Council, that the strict City Clerk's functions could <br /> have been done with the compensation in the ordinance. <br /> Someone else had to pick it up. I just don't want to <br /> cheat an employee just cause we are trying to find some <br /> technicalities, is all I am saying. <br />Davidson: Actually, I agree that $150.00 a month is ridiculous for <br /> a City Clerk. The ordinance that sets the salaries <br /> doesn't make sense. I wasn't here when they passed <br /> that ordinance and I agree it's unfair, but it is still the <br /> ordinance. I wish it didn't say that, but it does. So, <br /> obviously, there is a problem with the City Clerk's <br /> position. There is a problem with assuming that you are <br /> going to get a volunteer to be City Clerk for $150.00 a <br /> month, because you are not. They lowered it to $150.00 <br /> because it used to be substantially more, that was <br /> obviously a serious error. They did not properly address <br /> the problem at that time, but I am not going to vote to <br /> violate a City ordinance. If she could possibly <br /> distinguish her hours between City Clerk and <br /> Administrative Assistant, she is due the overtime for <br /> Administrative Assistant. I don't know what those <br /> hours are, but if you could distinguish them I think she <br /> is due those hours, but she is not due by ordinance for <br /> her duties as City Clerk. <br />Sackett: What you are saYIllg is because Council didn't <br /> adequately address the needs of the City we should deny <br /> a City employee proper compensation? <br />Davidson: Councilman Sackett, I am saying the City should obey <br /> it's own ordinances. If the ordinance is unfair, the fair <br /> way to do it is to change the ordinance. I don't know <br /> how you can pass a resolution saying, I am not going to <br /> pay any attention to this ordinance. <br />Sackett: I am challenging you to follow that strict guideline and <br /> see what you can accomplish with $150.00 a month and <br /> see what no longer gets done. Lets see if you are willing <br /> to live with that and face the voters on that. <br />Davidson: I am not willing to face the voters violating a City <br /> ordinance. I think it should be fixed. <br /> 26 <br />