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• • • Financial Impact: Basically we would look at this as being, at worst, budget neutral but we anticipate there will be a savings to the city. This proposal will also position us for success during what we anticipate to be, fiscally challenging times ahead. We anticipate relying more and more on volunteers in areas that traditionally are paid staff positions in other organizations. Virtually every position, patrol officer, sergeant, CSO, and records tech are all union positions and before we went forward with the volunteer program, we met and conferred with the union and have agreed upon which tasks would be eligible for volunteers before we implemented the new volunteer position. This is an ongoing process which has produced unprecedented acceptance and success. (Attachment 5) Summary: From our perspective this is all about positioning the organization to be better able to respond effectively to the anticipated service delivery and fiscal challenges. ahead. We want to position ourselves so that we can continue to deliver the highest quality of services possible with the least amount of impact on the taxpayers. We just went through the five year plan and we are looking at compensation packages and it is paramount for us that we find a way to deliver these services in an economically feasible manner. We believe this proposal will do that. Attached are the current and proposed department organizational charts. (Attachments 6 and 7) We met with clerical staff and discussed this proposal in great detail, they are excited about the challenges and opportunities. Jackie Bowdich is interested in and is qualified to fill the new lead records technician position. We also have a staff member that is capable of filling the Community Relations Coordinator position: Karen Anderson, our current Volunteer Coordinator. This is currently a three quarter time position which is reflective of society, the work force and our existing organizational needs. However, we do see this evolving into a full time position in 2010. Just a little bit about Karen, she was hired as a volunteer coordinator and her position has evolved into a Crime Prevention Specialist as well. Her background includes being a substitute teacher for the Centennial School District, working in the private sector, and many years of work in the law enforcement field. She worked at the Waukesha County Sheriffs Department in Waukesha, Wisconsin where she was the Law Enforcement Computer Services Coordinator. She also worked for the Clerk of the Circuit Court in Cook County, IL where she was a project manager for the Criminal Division. She was also a procedural analyst so she definitely knows the background and the backbone of the criminal justice system and service delivery. I think anyone who has met Karen and has worked with her must agree that her performance has been exceptional. She is also a member of our community and she is a community volunteer so she gets what volunteering is all about. She is on the YMCA Board, she is a member of Centennial High School's Choir Boosters and Dance Boosters. She previously served as the Chairperson of