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Committee discusses FTE counts and moving payroll between funds to support fire abatement and beautification work
Summary
Staff added total FTE counts (2.3 FTE) to the budget; committee members debated whether job descriptions and fund allocations could be adjusted to move portions of payroll between funds (highway, general, water/sewer) to cover tasks like fire abatement and roadside maintenance.
Staff added full‑time equivalent reporting to the budget, showing a total of 2.3 FTE across operating funds (for example, 0.87 FTE in the water fund). "So, for example, here in the water fund, it's 0.87," staff said, noting the city does not have a full single employee assigned to each fund.
Committee members asked whether payroll percentages can be shifted between funds to avoid deficits or to pay for activities like fire abatement. One member suggested adjusting job descriptions to justify reallocation of time across funds; staff said the percentages were established before the current administration and they would need to verify how those allocations were set. The discussion concluded that changes to job descriptions and formal allocation justifications might be needed to reassign payroll across funds legally and transparently.
