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Acting Mayor Riley asked if they were ready to move on from the discussion surrounding the police department. Councilmember Specht said if there are more capital questions they can come back to that. Acting Mayor Riley moved on to the full-time engineer tech II discussion. He mentioned that he and City Engineer/Interim Public Works Director Westby had discussed that they were going to keep busy with engineering with building roads. City Engineer/Interim Public Works Director Westby explained this position is in follow up to the reclassification if engineering tech II becomes engineering tech III, they then move into design work and the engineer tech II position needs to be backfilled to inspect construction in the field. Acting Mayor Riley asked if there was any cost savings with this, such as completing the inspections that they would otherwise have to hire out. City Engineer/Interim Public Works Director Westby explained the tech II is already doing the inspections so if they move up to tech III, they would be doing more design work, especially if the road funding budget is increased. Councilmember Specht asked if the negative number under utility funds meant that this portion does not come from the general fund. Finance Director Lund said that was correct. Usually they work on storm drainage projects and those types of things so the funding comes from utility funds. Acting Mayor Riley asked if hiring a new position would affect the engineering income that they add to every project. City Engineer/Interim Public Works Director Westby said that it would not affect that cost. Acting Mayor Riley said that it had been asked at Public Works how much engineering could get done with the roads. If they do not hire this position, he asked City Engineer/Interim Public Works Director Westby if his previous answers had been premised on having this position. City Engineer/Interim Public Works Director Westby said that is correct, it was premised on having two designers in the office, the engineer tech III and the assistant City engineer. Administrative Services Director Lasher asked if this position was a part of the master plan of shuffling things around and the reorganization to make things successful. City Engineer/Interim Public Works Director Westby said that is correct. Acting Mayor Riley asked if this new position would also help City Engineer/Interim Public Works Director Westby in his new position. City Council Work Session / August 8, 2022 Page 13 of 19