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Fire Chief Buchanon addressed the Council outlining the financial challenges facing the <br />Fire Department. A commitment to minimum manning, recruitment, and future capital <br />investment in equipment and two possible new stations were discussed. <br />Catherine Toppel, Director of Code Enforcement, was able to report that her staff had <br />reinstituted a 40 hour work week having earlier in the budget process volunteered for a <br />32 hour week. Toppel said this was done primarily to assuage Council concerns about <br />the level of services delivered by Code. The fact that LOIT had passed providing added <br />income made the 40 hour week sustainable. <br />Phil St. Clair, head of the Park Department, addressed the Council focusing his remarks <br />on efforts made to assure services in the face of increasing needs and declining funds <br />available. The Council expressed concerns about the curtailment of programs at <br />recreation centers and the precarious position of the Conservatory. In particular was the <br />problem of finding dollars for heating the Conservatory. That concern expressed by Mr. <br />St. Clair was but one of a litany of concerns regarding a lack of funds to address capital <br />needs. <br />After brief discussion following Phil St. Clair's presentation Chairperson LaFountain <br />adjourned the meeting at 7:03 p.m. <br />Respectively Submitte , <br />Tom LaFountain, Chairperson <br />Personnel and Finance Committee <br />