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• 7 1 DE: We have to eliminate a fair amount of overtime or we,re going to have to eliminate 2 a person or two. Ultimately, to get down to those kind of dollars, that's what its 3 going to take. 4 DF: A person or two? $127,000 adds up. 5 TB: I haven't talked to the employees yet so I'm not going talk positions, people or 6 departments right now, but I have a tentative plan that we're looking at three to four 7 people. 8 CR: But I think this ought to be pointed out, that the proposed cut could possibly 9 eliminate three or four people, which adds to the unemployment. 10 TB: And, in some cases may add to our overtime. If you cut or reduce services from 11 police, and if an officer arrests someone he has to go to court. There's court time, 12 there's court costs of doing that. Someone has to fill his shift if he has to go to court 13 during work hours. 14 CR: In the Carlson letter we should say that we are going to have to lay off people and 15 that in turn...The reason they're saying they got into the $560 million deficit is 6 because of the unemployment and the economy and everything else. This will not � 17 help the economy. 18 TB: The other thing, too, is right now we've delayed all capital purchases. And, that has 19 a boomerang effect on us too. We've put off on some things, some heavy equipment 20 needs. This year we have plans for a squad car - no new squad car. That means 21 we'll be running these vehicles well over 100,000 miles of hard use. It means higher 22 maintenance. They may be out of service a little bit longer. Those are all things that 23 we have to consider as well. 24 CR: OK. Have you got enough things there that you can put together a letter? 25 GW: I think the Trust Fund ought to be in there. They will have cut $200,000 out of our 26 budget with the $76,000 last year and $127,000 this year. 27 DF: Carbon copy to Joanelle Dyrstad, Marty, and McGuire. 28 CR: We've covered some of the items just briefly that Tom should be looking at. Tom, 29 I also think that you should have Roger look at how the salaries of the 30 Councilmembers correspond to other cities of our size. We're in the middle or 31 closer to the bottom. Let's bring that out. If we're going to be asking City people, 32 probably not to lay off, but to take a one day leave or something like that, we should OF3 be looking at all of us. Is there anything that we've left unturned?