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4 • <br /> 1 CR: One of the things we should point out in the Carlson letter is that on the relief fund, <br /> 2 I think that their proposed amount of what would be coming from the rainy day fund <br /> 3 should be used when there's a shortfall. They should use as much of that as possible <br /> 4 to balance the budget. That's what it's there for. <br /> 5 CR: I have not seen any cuts in state personnel. Putting together all of the various <br /> 6 agencies that they've got under one head and reducing, I have not seen any of that. <br /> 7 GW: I have not seen it either. The fact they're going to do it has only been alluded to, <br /> 8 that's-all. <br /> 9 DE: They relayed a percentage to us to be accomplished through attrition. There's no <br /> 10 consolidation. They're not taking this seriously. It's not being done fairly. It's not <br /> 11 being done to the counties, it's going to help to other bodies that should be sharing <br /> 12 this - school districts aren't being hit at all, are they? <br /> 13 TB: No. <br /> 14 DE: And higher education is going to be hit again. They've even come out with City <br /> 15 officials are paid too much. <br /> 16 GW: Distribution of this cut, including counties, townships and special districts, and I'm <br /> 17 sure the counties were planning on it. When I was at a meeting there the other day, <br /> 18 they mentioned that they were expecting it. <br /> 19 TB: One thing is that counties have a collective voice that's much louder than cities. It's <br /> 20 just difficult to get that many cities together on a common thing. This might pull us <br /> 21 together and create a very powerful group. But each individual city has a very weak <br /> 22 voice. <br /> 23 The other thing that I wanted to talk about is the report yjsy Mark Dayton's office <br /> 24 has put out. That talks about government employees being compensated well and <br /> 25 receive these outrageous benefits. <br /> 26 DF: Yes, let's hear about that. <br /> 27 TB: In St. Anthony there's two employees that receive over $50,000 - that's the liquor <br /> 28 store manager and myself. As far as what does it do for.benefits, we don't have, as <br /> 29 he says, the 11 weeks of vacation. After someone's been here over 20 years, they can <br /> 30 accumulate up to 4 weeks vacation maximum. <br /> 31 GW: That's below industry. <br /> • <br />