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10/4/83 Page -15- it costs the planners to reveiw these new subdivisions; the cost of inspecting the buildings which are ligitimate costs. How- ever, if a house wasn't built next year, we wouldn't do away with the Planning Dept. or the Building Inspector. Felt that it would be appropriate to be spending a half million dollars from growth revenue dollars to support those, but couldn't see spending a million dollars. Secondly, the other point where he felt the other $100,000 cut should corne from, in Council's direction is to approximately cut the new positions by half.in the General Fund from 11 to 5 or 6. At this point Director Asti-Caranci made a correction stating there were only 9 positions in the General Fund. Felt these were the ones that would really cause an impact because we are making those commitments into the future and it is always difficult to get rid of someone once they are hired. Reiterated that he felt the majority of the $100,000 should corne from the new positions. Thought that the budget could be adopted given that we just appropri- ate the amount to the General Fund and corne back and make some of those reductions. Felt that very healthx raises were being given - approximately 15%. This was the trade-off, Council was willing to give considerable salary increases and a portion of the new positions should be cut. ADDED STIPULATIONS TO THE AMENDMENT Councilman Leary stated that some stipulations were made at the last study session that the Library position and the Police position should not be part of the positions cut. Councilman Leary also commented that he did not think that it was wise at this time to add staff addition of the water plant operator until we make a policy position as to how it would be funded. If this is going to be done by a rate increase, then we should make that decision as part of it and not be dodging the issue or a rate increase at this time. SECOND AMENDMENT Councilman Leary amended his motion further to delete from the Water Fund the amount for the Water Plant Operator position. Council- man Cussen seconded the amendments.