04/29/1981 - Minutes ww' wrw
City of Tigard
Budget Committee Meeting
April 29 , 1981 , 7 : 30 P.M.
Fowler Junior High School
IAW Lecture Room
Present : Wilbur Bishop (arrived 7 :45 P.M) , Tom Brian (arrived
7 :45 P.M ) , Gerry Edwards , Dale Evans , Wally Hoffman
Kenneth Scheckla , James Smith, Nancie Stimler; City
Staff : Raeldon R. Barker, City Administrator; Frank
Currie, Director Public Works ; Robert B . Adams , Chief
of Police , Doris Hartig, Finance Director/City Recorder ;
Linda Sargent, Research and Development Aide .
Absent : John Cook and Phil Edin
Chairman Gerry Edwards appointed Dale Evans as pro-tem secretary.
Presentation of Budget Proposals
Home and Community Quality 2 . 1 .
Public Works Director Frank Currie reviewed the Administration and
Clerical (2 . 1 . 9) and the Insect/Weed Control (2 . 1 . 11) budgets . The
figures (472 and 650) for publicity and community relations were to
be moved to travel and subsistence .
The Committee discussed the present level of service provided by
the vender for insect and weed control .
Raeldon Barker, City Administrator, reviewed the capital improve-
ments program.
Tom Brian suggested that $3 ,000 for consultant ' s fees for Downtown
Revitalization be taken out of the general contingency fund instead
of the civic center fund.
Recess 9 :00 P.M. - Reconvene 9 : 15 P.M.
The Committee discussed ways in which to review all budget requests
and decided to proceed with the Police Budget . The committee
examined out of state travel , overtime, the cost of the paper
shredder, and the ICAP program. Chief Adams noted the priorities
of the department as 1) ICAP ; 2) Clerical support and 3) the promotion
of an officer to Corporal . The Chief proposed extracting funds from
travel (training in Alaska) to use towards purchase of a paper
shredder. The Committee reiterated that they were only debating
the cost of the paper shredder and that Chief Adams did not need
to give up his travel to pay for it . Police Officer Joe Grisham
and Sgt Lonnie Branstetter spoke to the need for an ICAP System in
the Police Department and their expectation of such a program.
The meeting recessed at 10 :30 P.M. The committee will reconvene
May 8 , 1981 , at 7 : 30 P.M. in Fowler Junior High School , Lecture
Room.
ally Ho an, Sec_ taary�