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The Budget Committee stated that if anyone else felt they were an at-risk employee, they should be entitled to the vaccine also. The Budget Committee directed Ms. McAloney to draft a policy regarding how the City will administer this program and bring this draft to the City Council for discussion and approval. Ms. McAloney will also check with other cities regarding how they determine at-risk employees. Mrs. Helling stated this is a significant amount not funded for. She suggested using the contingency reserve allocated for potential litigation as there isn't another area to immediately pull this amount from. She added she can better review the budget to see if there is another area the money can be pulled from while Ms. McAloney is researching charges, etc. Case #5: Generator for Public Works Department Mr. Mevissen stated there was a generator requested in the Capital budget which he was going to delete for now; however, he has a chance to buy one for approximately $150 less than the budgeted amount. Motion by Councilmember Hardin and seconded by Councilmember Beyer to authorize the purchase of the generator. Motion carried. Voting Yes: Councilmembers Hardin, Beyer and Peterson. Voting No: None. Case ~'/: Receive City of Ramsey's General Fund Interim Financial Report for Period Ended 03/31/91 Mrs. Helling stated this report is a recap of the expenditures for the first quarter of 1991. It includes the grand total for each subfunction and the over and under amounts. She stated this report is new and will be presented to City Council monthly. She added that the first revenue, of any size the City receives is in July. Mrs. Helling also pointed out that tl~e subfunction to subfunction expenditures are being held to a minimum. One area of concern is overtime in several subfunctions as it is not budgeted for. At this point, overtime has been unavoidable. Comp time is also being accumulated in the Administrative Services Department. If an employee would leave the City of Ramsey and there was comp time "on the books", that time would have to be paid for. Mrs. Helling mentioned that the overtime for the Police Department is high, also. Chief Auspos explained his scheduling and shift changes. He also presented the Committee with a memo regarding the staffing and the budget cuts and stated the the Police Department is grossly undermanned. Councilmember Peterson suggested Chief Auspos and Finance Officer Helling work together to see at what point it would be less expensive to hire another officer instead of paying out the overtime. Case #3: General Discussion of General Fund budget Status and Potential Areas of Expenditure Cuts to Offset Local Government Aid (LGA) Revenue Shortfall Mrs. Helling stated that one area of revenue that has to be reviewed is the forecast for engineering revenue. The forecast was not a reality in 1990. Mr. Jankowski stated that it's optimistic to believe that 40% of the engineer's time is billable. He presented a breakdown of his percentage of time spent doing meetings, communicating with the Budget Committee/April 23, 1991 Page 4 of 5