Minutes - Council - 10/03/1977 - Public Hearing

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-3- Public Hearing 10/3/77 ' Mr. Nereson offered the suggestion of contracting with the County. There was some discussion and the general consensus was to not contract. It was decided to use Plan C, which is to hire a full time chief, starting January 1, 1979 and levy for one half of the chief's salary so that the salry for the Police Department on Page 7 becomes $64,000.00. It was also decided to budget nothing for clerical. The total Police department budget would be $110,700.00. There was discussion on the attempt to not increase the mill.rate. Mr. Nereson feels that looking at it from the cash flow point of view, Ramse¥ would be taking a step backwards by maintaining the same 10.70 mill rate. Commmunity School Mark Hadly, the director of the community school program, was present and commented that he was impressed by the fact that the City Council is so concerned with the community school program, and that whatever the Council decides is best for the community is what the community should have because that is who elected them to the Council. When asked how he feels about not having an advisory council, Mr. Hadly said that he feels the program would lose quality as far as input for programming, etc. It is his closest link to the needs and interests of the community. After additional discussion about the advisory council, Mr. Hadly said that if the Council decides to look at new people for the advisory council, keep in mind that people are needed who know what is going on, as well as ones who have the time to put into it. Mrs Joan Thunell told the Council that the advisory council was scheduled to meet on Thursday. She was advised to postpone this meeting pending consideration by the City Council. Mr. Nereson then reviewed the anticimated disbursements on Page Two, as follows: Mayor and Council Community Development Administration Street Deoartment Public Safety - police fire protection shade tree program animal control Building/Assessing Department Park Department increase to $43 820 remain same 6 decrease to 64 decrease to 123 decrease to 110 remain same 9 remain same 2 remain same 5 decrease to 54 remain same 55 100 140 140 700 5OO 000 5OO 470 640 This represents total disbursements of $~75,010 offset by an outside income of $200,176 for a total levy amount of $274,834 divided into the estimated mill rate of $25,105,729 giving the City an estimated mill rate of 10.95.