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<br />percent to 64 percent. He advised that they had originally requested four vehicles to be replaced <br />and have dropped that down to one vehicle. He explained that within snow and ice removal the <br />biggest portion of the. budget would be salt costs. He stated that there is not much that they can <br />do with the fuel costs. He reported that a meeting had taken place between the City and St. Paul <br />to determine if they could save money by purchasing fuel in mass quantities and then selling it to <br />other cities but advised that it was not worth it. <br /> <br />Councilmember Dehen questioned why the City is not using the vehicles until they die. He <br />questioned if they were really seeing a return on the vehicles when they sell them at auction. <br /> <br />Public Works Director Olson advised that they do continue to use the vehicles until fixing them <br />becomes an issue and is no longer cost effective. He stated that they do try to sell the vehicles <br />before they break down for good. He explained that within parks and recreation they had <br />debated adding a recreational coordinator but decided to wait on adding that position. He <br />advised that they would need to add a parks maintenance worker though, as the last one had been <br />added in 2004. <br /> <br />Councilmember Dehen commented that the new program the City was utilizing using <br />community service work through the corrections department was helping and was also a good <br />deal. <br /> <br />Public Works Director Olson advised that funds had been added to the budget for another day of <br />ICWC, or if that is not available they would use the funds for paid overtime for employees. He <br />advised that they had also asked for one additional seasonal worker and one full-time worker, <br />which 80 percent would be paid from the utilities fund and the other 20 percent would be paid <br />from the parks. <br /> <br />Mayor Gamec questioned the reason for the split between the two funds. <br /> <br />Public Works Director Olson commented that it would be less of an impact to the general fund <br />but also that there was a lot of work to be done with the utilities for that worker. <br /> <br />Mayor Gamec felt fortunate that the City also had the youth associations to help in the parks <br />throughout the city. He questioned the status ofthe meter replacement program. <br /> <br />Public Works Director Olson reported that the program was going good. He thought it would be <br />beneficial to be able to determine if there was a continuous leak somewhere. <br /> <br />Fire Chief Kapler advised that there were two divisions within the department: emergency <br />response, and prevention education and code enforcement. He reported that the public works <br />department and the CSO in the police department had been a great help to the fire department <br />when needed. He thought it was good that staff was willing to work together when needed. He <br />advised that the different levels of service within the department were: fire response, hazardous <br />materials, extrications, medical response, and emergency management. He pointed out that they <br />also are a member of the Anoka County Fire Protection Council and participate in North <br />Suburban Mutual Aid. He explained that the Mutual Aid was a no cost agreement, where if a <br /> <br />City Council Work Session / July 29,2008 <br />Page 10 of 15 <br />