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Jeffersonville City Council Budget Special Session
Meeting Memorandum - August 14, 2006 - Council Conference Room
6:00 P.M.
Meeting called to order by: City Council President Barbara Wilson
Attendees:
Councilpersons Sellers, Grooms, Wilson, Perkins, McCauley, Fetz, and Zastawny. Also
in attendance was Chief Deputy Suzy Bass.
The Budget Committee began reporting to the Council the requests and desires of the
departments from their committee meetings.
City Court and PUF had no changes other than the 4% raises.
City Engineer is asking for $20,000.00 for a truck but is working on getting one donated
through the Police Department.
Postage and Cell Phones
Discussion was held on moving all cell phones into the IT Department and all postage to
the Council Budget. The motion was made by Councilperson Sellers to move all postage
into the Council Budget, seconded by Councilperson McCauley, passing on a vote of7-0.
The motion was made by Council person Sellers to move all cell phones into the
Information Technology Budget, seconded by Councilperson McCauley, passing on a
vote of7-0. Chief Deputy Bass will get the amounts for each department and make the
appropriate transfers.
Councilperson Grooms said the Police Department is requesting specialized pay for the
Bike Patrol. He said Chief Monihon is very passionate about the bike patrol and it is very
beneficial to the community. He requested that it be paid like other specialized pays.
The amount would be less than $7,000.00. After discussion the motion was made by
Councilperson Perkins to remove the bike patrol pay from the Police Budget, seconded
by Councilperson McCauley, passing on a vote of 6-1, with Councilperson Fetz voting
no. Councilperson Grooms said that paying the bike patrol would be a violation of the
Police Contract. Chief Monihon has also requested money for training officers.
The Committee said that ChiefMonihon said with annexation, they could probably get by
with 4-6 new men while letting officers work overtime as they have requested more
overtime.
Councilperson Fetz would like to allow the SWAT Team to buy equipment for all the
men and uniforms for two officers. After discussion, it was the consensus of the Council
to inform the Police to purchase the equipment and uniforms to be paid from the EDIT
Budget.
Chief Bass informed the Council that all life insurance that is on the tax rate is now in the
Council Budget with the health insurance.
The Committee told the Council that they asked the Fire Department to resubmit their
budget with 3 new men instead of the original budget with 6 new men. The budget now
has 3 new men beginning in March 2007. Councilperson Fetz said that if3 new men are
hired now, then when the 4th firehouse opens, we would only have to hire 3 additional
men. The proposed date for the new firehouse is 13 months from groundbreaking, which
should be around next October. Councilperson Perkins said that he would like to offer
Police and Fire protection as soon as annexation is done.
There was discussion on charging insurance companies for 1 st responses from the Police
and the Fire Departments. Councilperson Fetz will talk with the Police and Fire
Departments to get a count of how many runs are made monthly.
The Fire Department is also requesting 5 new vehicles.
After more discussion, the motion was made by Councilperson Sellers to change the start
date of the 3 new firemen to begin June, 2007, seconded by Councilperson Zastawny
passing on vote of 6-1, with Councilperson Fetz voting no.
There being no other items of discussion, the motion was made by Councilperson Wilson
to adjourn at 10:00 p.m. second by Councilperson Perkins passing on a vote of7-0.
Attest:
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Peggy wn , lerk Treasurer