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9 <br />MEMO T0: MAYOR AND CITY COUNCIL <br />FROM: CLERK-ADMINISTRATO <br />DATE: NOVEMBER 6, 1985 <br />SUBJECT: FIRE DEPARTMENT BUDGET <br />.As you know, the City Adminitrators/Managers of Mounds View, <br />Spring Lake Park and Blaine have been meeting and <br />corresponding with Fire Chief Ron Fagerstrom for the past <br />few months regarding the Fire Department's Proposed 1986 <br />Budget. <br />The Department's initial budget request called for total <br />expenditures of $481,963. After reviewing the budget in <br />great detail and receiving additional information from Chief <br />Fagerstrom, we felt that all items requested except for one <br />were both reasonable and appropriate. The item we took <br />exception to was a proposed 5 percent increase in wages for <br />members of the Department. We objected to this on the basis <br />that all three cities had felt that they would provide an <br />across-the-board wage increase of no greater than 4 percent <br />to their employees and the Department should be held to the <br />same amount. This modification resulted in a decrease in <br />the Department's initial request to $478,288 with $458,188 <br />being spread among the three cities. Using the formula <br />proposed in the contract recent'y submitted to the <br />Department for their consideration, the cost to the City of <br />Mounds Vir:w would be $104,238 •which ie $9,000 less than <br />budgeted, $8,0•'0 less than the Department's initial request <br />for the City using the old formula, and a 51,2 3 increaso <br />over our 1985 contract posts or an increase of only <br />oercent. <br />RECCMMENDArioN: Staff would recommend Council apprcval of <br />the Fire Department's Budget dated October 19, 19e5 as <br />revised on October 31, 1985, which provides a co-.tribution <br />i., the amount of $104,238 on the part of the City of MoundP <br />View. <br />DFP/mja <br />