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jC,IN. 4 JOBSCouncil TriInsBureau Budget8y JIM MERRINERA rrumbling aty CowcilFuw)Ce Committee "".H~~slashed four jobs and a carfrom the bUd.get 0( a new citybwuu.The new bureau of BudgetPolicy and E\".!uatJon. \Ioith asix-monlh tab of roughly $74,·lXXI, brings to about $600.000the amount .tdtd to the 1974crt1 budget for additional topleveladmini5traton.Newly installed Commissionerof Budget and PalMingu.on S. ~an 'lbJrSday ~miU.ed a six-month budget t'&quest for $109,163 for the new....... u.That Ul1000t included $62,-• 000 in salaries for 10 employ~and $3.450 for a car forEplan'. offtdaI use.CoLn:ilinan Rimard Cuthmanled the fight to drop thecar and trim the rJJmber 01.employes. Otthrnan also triedbut failed to cut the bureaudirector's ~ning salaryfrom $tUIlS to '19,981It """AS learned lbat the Fi·f\B.fa department starr was........instrUcted not to reviewEpIan'. budget (II" to proposeUn d e r Mayor MaymrdJacbon', city reorganizationpili\, £plan's job was creet@dClJts~ the pr'O\;nce (l{ PG,,"er"ful veteran Finance CommissiOD«Charles Da\is.Councilman carl Ware said,"I find It hard 10 rationalizespending a1\ this money" forEplan's new bureau when "Iretan't find $10,000" for parksimprovements.Olthman said the high salarylevels in the bureau wouldoutpace those in other bureausand thus create morale ~,ĒpJan argued he wasproposing a ""ery minimwnstaff," 1h! salary levels ""ere"consi~lenl" with other agenCIes an:! he could not hire thefirst.rate people he needs at!O\Io'er pay.The conuniUee voted fA)abolish two proposed deputy Ibureau chrectors and I W 0urban policY analysts, Thedeputy directors were killedby a bureaucratic twist - byappro\;ng "classifications"for their jobs, but refusing tocreate "positions" for them.U approved by the CityCourd Monday, the new bureauwill lndude a director,t h r e e analysts, a kcretaryand a stenographer.,"'hen Cotmcilmll.n GeorgeCotsakis objected that the bureauwould duplicate Financedepar1.menl functions, Eplanreplied. .. don't think Itheanalysts) are comparable"becallSe his bureau will perform"a much more sophisticatedlevel d activities."Cotsakis proposed hiring anoutside consultant to studyhow the city can finance thevttra )Cbs under Jack.m·sreorganiZation. His ordinancewas killed on the grounds lbatJackson's new Commission onFuture Funding is doing thatjob.Wben Jackson's reorganiz.alionplan ",as enacted Marth4, the Department 01 Planningand Budget included II bureauof planning. under long·tennPlanning Director CoUierGladin, and a bureau d.budget policy and evaluationwith its size a nd cost left"undefined. "Besides the new budgetpolicy bureau, other added expensesf or new bureaucratsInclude about mg,(M)) to hirenine department commission·ers. about $M,OOO for a cityombudsman, about $88,000 toexpand Jackson's personalstaff and about. $100,000 for aCity Council staff.Ii Budget Bureaui Gets Council OK•~ By JOHN HEAD~ An Atlanta dty councU com-J mlttee ThUrsday \--oted gNig~ In« appnwal 10 ordinarIoeS es~ iabUsfllng the Bur ea u of• ,1Ndget Policy and Evatua-• lion, but not before cutting\ back on the agency's staff, • an dlundlng requests.~ • The eotmd1's Finance Olm~ Jrutllee, after long debate, ap~ 'PToved two ordlnancesestablishing the bureau whkhwill aid the mayor in settingbudget goals for the city.'Ibe ordinances will go toJ the lull council with a favoraI ble recommendation 00 Man-4 day., But Bwget and PlannIngCommlssiooer Leon Eplan, inI, wbose department the newI bureau ..... ouJd be created, saw, his request for a professional: staff of six cut back to tv.".Colllcilman Richard Guth~ man led the effort to e1imi• nate the positJons, saying the• bureau "does Mt need the fullcompliment Of staU (EplaD) Isasking fot'."•• GuIhman abo maintained: that salaries requested lor: JOnle Of the prop:lSed staffmmlben ",-ere out of line with; pay receh"Eld by persons per; formIng similar" tasks in other, departments..: "If you expect that we are: toing 10 set pia tot" this dty• and go about planning how to: achieve those goal5, then you~ are going to have to provide: the people to do it," Eplan· an~~.: He said the salaries he; recommended had betil reviewedby the city'S personneldepartment and are "consistentwith other departmentsand totaUy in IJne."Eplan lost two of his requesteds t a f f. designatedurban policy analysts, whenthe
Is· Confirmedt/o/? -h-+i,It,, .maJor step forward for tNs city., • Now 0 u r relation has slightlychanged," Jackson said of his fonner coJ.lege roommate. "He is on his own. He IS hisown man."The job of pubhc
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