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MINUTES CITY COUNCIL FEBRUARY 10, 1993 LaValle asked if the Fire Department membership approved gambling salary packages. Boss replied that they did. Mike Fahey appeared before the Council and reported that he would like to respond to some of the comments made by Fred Clasen at the last workshop meeting. The first comments Fahey quoted was that no one can get a part-time job making $16 to $100 per hour. Fahey replied that there is no one at the bingo hall that makes $16 to 5100 per hour, and that can be verified in the records submitted to both the State and City. Fahey submitted a chart showing the wages paid to the various Fire Department gambling positions. The Fire Department's gambling manager made approximately $20,000 in 1992 for both the bingo operation and the Hoggsbreath~pull-tab operation. This is the salary paid to an individual operating a business with $1.6 million in qross sales. The gambling manager works approximately 30 hours per week on the average. Fahey pointed out that the manager of floor operations is paid $50 per session, there being two evening sessions totalling approximately 7 hours of work. Therefore, that salary amounts to between $13 and $14 per hour. Fahey pointed out that checkers are paid $24 per session, or $48 per evening (two sessions each evening) working approximately 6 hours per evening for $8 per hour, floor clerks making $16 per session, or $32 per evening, working approximately 6 hours per evening for a little over $5 per hour. Aqain, Fahey pointed out that no one makes $16 to $100 per hour working at the bingo hall. Fahey then submitted a spreadsheet showing salaries paid to members of the "famous families" that Clasen referred to at the last meeting showing the salaries paid from 1989 through 1992. The 1992 salary for Dick Boss was $20,000, for JoAnn Boss was $2,900, for Mike Fahey was $0, for Linda Fahey was $3,890, for Steve Morelan was $0, for Debbie Morelan was $906, for Bob Johnson was $2,101, and for Linda Johnson was $1,522. Fahey reported that none of these individuals holds executive positions in any other charity operating at the bingo hall except for Linda Johnson who is CEO of St. Joseph's Society for Charity. Therefore, Fahey indicated that to suggest that the members of these families are running the charities at the executive level is completely false. Fahey referred to another comment by Clasen that the gambling operations were top heavy in payroll, and that Fahey did not want the City to dig into the figures Page 6