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BOOK I f.., �; . . ineffective doesn't really give the latitude to whoever adminis- trates to make the organizational changes. City Manager Little explained that Item 7 was intended to deal with the internal structure and staff of the department itself. It actually dealt with job security guarantees for the employees in that department, and that's all it meant. It did not mean that department to be a subset of another department. Chairman Scurlock asked County Attorney Vitunac's opinion of the meaning of the agreement. Attorney Vitunac noted that this puts him in a difficult position as the agreement was written when he was City Attorney and he signed it for legal sufficiency. He did agree with City Manager Little that the intent was to protect a group of employees who were being transferred from the City to the County. The City, in essence, said you are not going to take people with pensions and seniority rights and then be able to fire them in three weeks. Now, however, three or four years have gone by, and if he is being asked whether the County can get around that agreement legally, he would say absolutely they can and also can make Bob Keating head of the City/County Building Department and make Ester Rymer his assistant, if they wish. But Attorney Vitunac felt all of that is not the real question, but whether the City is happy with the organization proposed by the Administrator now, which is the Building Department will have a separate fund of money from the City activities and he believed the Administrator has said if there is any City activity, Ester always has the right to report directly to him and then back to the City if they are concerned. Attorney Vitunac emphasized that Administrator Balczun was hired by the County to make changes in the organization, not "anti -Ester" he would hope, but to increase productivity and do it cheaper and better. This is just a simple reorganization of a County chart; it is not a slap in the face to the City.