08-15-1978 - Budget Workshop
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City of Edgewater City Council
BUDGET MEETING
August 15, 1978
Mayor Christy called the budget meeting to order.
ROLL CALL
Mayor Robert H. Christy
Councilman Louis J. Rotundo
Councilman Carl Shell
Councilman Walter B. Sikes
Councilman Calvin R. Dietz
Pol ice Chief Earl Baugh
Fire Chief Russell Foster
Also present in the audience:
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Mr. Ledbetter
The Council began the meeting with a discussion of CETA
employees.
If a CETA employee is hired as an animal control officer
and required to be a uniformed policeman, then the Council
would have to approve the increase of the number of police-
men on the force.
Councilman Dietz said he would like the City to forget
about CETA. The program is not working ~
The Council discussed wages for CETA employees.
Councilman Sikes said it was not fair to regular employees
to have CETA employees making the same salary. CETA employees are
not that well trained or experienced.
Councilman Dietz said it was basically a welfare program.
Councilman Rotundo asked if the Council wanted to eliminate this
program entirely.
Councilman Dietz said there was a supervision problem and that
the Supervisor of the Street Dept. had said he would rather not
have CETA employees.
Councilman Shell said he was under the impression the program
was supposed to be a training program. If these people are
working they should be learning something. The Street Dept.
has developed about 4 good workers out of the last group of
CETA people.
The Council decided that the CETA people would start at $3.00
after a3 month probation period they would be raised, if
- qualified, to 3.25.
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The City Clerk wi 11 work out the cost per employee.
Mr. Opal asked what the cost to the city wi 11 be for this
program.
Mayor Christy said there was no cost to the City.
The Council began discussion on the proposed budget.
The City Clerk gave a brief explanation of the new number
system established by law by the State of Florida. This
system will be incorporated into our computer. We will also
have a vendor file which will carry a running total of
expenditures.
The Council discussed the anticipated income. A copy
of the proposed General Fund budget is attached to the
minutes of this meeting. Changes were made by the Council
and an adjusted budget will be presented at,the next
meeting.
The Council went over each item of anticipated income.
The total anticipated income will be approximately $708,180.00
for the next fiscal year.
The Council next discussed anticipated expenditures. There
were some recommendations for changing certain expenditures.
The Council went over each budgeted item in the various
departments under General Fund.
Councilman Dietz complimented the City Clerk on the fine
job she did in preparing the preliminary budget. He said
that the individual Councilman should take this budget and
review it, adding any changes they feel are necessary.
The Council will meet again tomorrow night to discuss the
revised and corrected budget.
The Council discussed wage increases.
Councilman Dietz said there will not be an across the board
wage increase, it will be on the merit system. The coordinators
and supervisors have II XII number of dollars within their department
for wages and will have to work within that amount.
The meeting was adjourned until 6:30 P.M. tomorrow night.
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