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. 1981 PUBLIC SERVICE PROGRAM • The Public Service Program as outlined by Section 7 . 05, Subd. 2, is to be: " . . .a continuing five-year plan for all public services estimating future needs for the public health, safety, and welfare of the City. It shall measure the needs and objectives for each City department, the standard of services desired, and the impact of each such service on the annual operating budget. " The 1981 Public Service Program is being presented in the spirit that the 1980s will be a period of time when government will be expected to do "more for less" . People are expecting government to become the leader in putting controls on the cost of living in our society and, at the same time, provide those services, e. g. pro dictated by the trend to remain closer to home �when rpursuuing nal extraams , curricular activities. This Public Service Program is designed to hold the line or possibly reduce in areas where services are determined to be less than essential and to expand only when necessary in those areas where services are experiencing increasing demands. Included in the 1981 Public Service Program are organizational charts showing the present and proposed organization and staffing of the City' s departments . Attached as Appendix A is the present organiza- tional chart of the City down to the departmental level. Appendix B reflects': the organization of the City' s departments should all proposed • changes occur. The following is a review of each individual department, an outline of its basic objectives, an assessment of its needs in order to meet those objectives and a determination of what those needs will have on the City ' s annual budget. A. Administration - The administration portion of the Public Service Program encompasses a wide variety of activities which need to be addressed individually. These individual areas of activity are City Council , Commissions, Elections, City Hall , Legal and Fire, and Clerk-Administrator ' s Office. 1) City Council - The City Council is comprised of five elected iC ams; Mayor and four Councilmembers, serving non- consecutive terms who, as a body, are responsible for the administration of the City. Basically, the City Council are identical to those ofethe 7City',ss of departments as the Council sets the policies which determine each department' s objectives. It is anticipated that the level of service provided by the City Council, as it relates to being a division of the Administration Depart- ment, will not be changed and the increased impact on the budget will result from inflationary factors, compensation increases for the Council or Recording Secretary or increases • in fees, dues or other expenses contained within the City Council budget.