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• 9 1 A: Bob Williams. 2 CR: Bob came in before and we were talking. Have you got any questions? 3 A: It's been very difficult to understand how much the budget has been cut and why. 4 But you went through that before. I don't have any major questions. Someone's got 5 to bite the bullet. 6 CR: Each year we have a volunteer recognition date and this year it's April 27th. We get 7 together all the volunteers in the City and we have a very small dinner for them and 8 that's the only pay they ever get. I think we should continue having that this year 9 even though we have all our problems. At that point, I'm going to ask each one of 10 those volunteers to go out and get another volunteer. We're going to look at 11 volunteers for some of those areas. We're going to have to really expand our 12 volunteer programs. 13 TB: Mr. Mayor, I compliment him for his ideas. One of the things I've always thought 14 is no overtime - don't pay for people to come out and do snow removal. As an 15 example, the Halloween snowstorm. A lot of people wouldn't have gotten to work, 16 if had waited to do it on straight time. It could result directly on other people's 7 pocketbooks, too. We have to have a balance on the services we provide. We can 18 reduce those service levels, but is it going to cost people more in the long run by 19 reducing certain services? That is an impact and can happen. 20 DE: I think the public is going to finally realize that something like this is going to really 21 hit them dearly and that the government is just running an inept organization. You 22 can't have shortfalls every year. 23 TB: As a city, if we had a shortfall, we'd resolve it immediately. would never carry a 24 shortfall from one year into the next. We've been fairly resilient as cities because 25 we've had money taken away from us midstream for the past two and three years and 26 we've always been able to reduce certain things and manage it. The state has lost 27 that. They're too busy micromanaging everything that they've forgotten to manage 28 their own organization. 29 CR: We have a reserve. But keep in mind you can't use that. 30 TB: That money is set aside for just operational costs. Roger indicated it will effect us, 31 it will effect some of our interest earnings which we depend on to make up some of 32 our revenue. Ultimately what it means is that it's very very close. I put out a memo 33 saying no purchasing until after June because we could run out of money. We get 34 into the point of not having any money to make payroll. This year it's going to be even closer. That worries me. One of the things I've made notes on is what happens