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Personnel and Finance Committee September 1, 1999 Page 5 monetary fringe benefits and the Council would negotiate salaries;but not necessarily as a joint effort. In all fire and police negotiations since then,the Council Attorney has been the City Negotiating Team's Spokesperson and the team has been a joint Council/Administrative effort. Her additional billings to cover negotiations were paid out of the City Controller's budget. Last year,the City Administration suggested that this line item be placed in the Council budget and line item "101-0301-411.31-07 Additional Legal Services" resulted. Council Member Aranowski suggested that the Council Attorney provide what has been spent past fire and police negotiations. Council Member King noted that such numbers are readily quantifiable and should be properly budgeted noting that this is different than "support staff". He stated that the Council should be able to hire financial advisors when necessary so that the Council is thoroughly informed. Council Member Pfeifer noted that when the African-American Males Commission was created that both the Mayor and the Council agreed to equally share support staff for clerical services. She noted that such line items do not appear in either of those budgets. She noted that as a member of the Downtown Steering Committee she relies heavily on the Community and Economic Development Department to get proper mailings out. She again stress the need to properly budget for conferences co-sponsored by the City. Council President Coleman stated that he was reluctant to provide additional monies and is concerned about the Council's sponsorship. He noted that if each Council Member became involved that the line item would be$ 10,000. He noted that when he was on the salmon run committee that the Parks Department published all reports. He also noted that the role of the City Clerk's Office must be considered when discussing "support staff". Council Member Pfeifer noted that the conferences grew out of special committee action and that this committee was responding responsibly to residents concerns. Council Member Aranowski suggested that this topic be discussed again next week. Park Administration # 210-1100 1999 Budget $ 754,228 2000 Proposed $ 763,378 Expenditure Increase 4.0 % Phil St. Clair, Park Superintendent, then provided handouts to the Committee. He noted that the overall administration increase is $ 37,000. The general property tax support for the department is now 67.04 % where in the past it was 80%. He then called upon each of his Division Heads to review their individual proposed budgets.