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<br />Regular City Council Minutes - 08/04/03 <br />Page 2 <br /> <br />Department management staff for the City's Public Safety Regarding Public <br />programs was present and would respectively provide Safety Programs <br />brief operations summaries to entertain pertinent questions (Police and Fire <br />and comments of Council, rather than make presentations Departments) <br />in a lecture format; and identified those sections of the <br />2004 Proposed Budget Book that would be referenced. <br /> <br />Police Department <br />Police Chief Carol Sletner and her management team <br />appeared first to present their proposals for the 2004 <br />budget year. <br /> <br />In response to some confusion of documents presented, <br />Chief Sletner advised that the 2004 Proposed Budget Book <br />represented the "zero percent' increase; and additional cost <br />savings were represented in the Executive Summary and <br />recommendations prepared by City Manager Beets. <br /> <br />Discussion items included additional savings incurred with <br />the continuing vacancy in the Deputy Chief position; <br />reduction in conferences for communications, operations <br />and patrol divisions, and Chief conferences; reductions in <br />contractual maintenance costs for data terminal <br />information requests through the Criminal Bureau of <br />Investigation (CBI); continuation of the bike patrol and <br />explorer officers and National Night Out; continuing <br />struggles with additional workload due to the vacant <br />Deputy Chief position; with the bulk of budget for the <br />Department in personnel services, as the largest <br />department in the City. <br /> <br />Chief Sletner referenced City Manager Neal Beets' Budget <br />Memo outlining additional cuts that could be realized <br />including reductions in overtime by 50%; reduction in out- <br />of-state travel for the Lieutenant; suspension of the <br />summer bike patrol at reduction of $10,000; a reduction in <br />the training budget; elimination of the cadet program; <br />elimination of anticipated purchases of smaller equipment <br />items (i.e., office); and reducing the Capital Improvement <br />Plan (CIP) to purchase only one replacement warning <br />siren, rather than the previously proposed two annually, at <br />