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N 0� <br />101987-7 <br />BOOK <br />7G PAM= <br />'' <br />letter does say he would be subject <br />to all other rules, <br />regula- <br />tions and benefits afforded other employees, including car <br />allowance. Administrator Balczun noted that he needs to have a <br />discussion with OMB Director Baird about this as to what is <br />really budgeted and what is not. He believed we had a discussion <br />about systemwide increases in the car allowances, and he was not <br />sure how we really treated any of that. <br />Administrator Balczun wished to assure the Board that he is <br />very confident in his new assistant's ability. He certainly <br />recognizes the risks one faces when he recruits and hires someone <br />he has worked with before, and if he were not that confident, he <br />certainly would not have done it. However, if it is the Board's <br />policy that those kinds of decisions be run by them, informally <br />or formally, they are the ones who make the rules, and if that is <br />the rule they want, he will follow it. He stated that he just <br />did what he thought was normal procedure. <br />Chairman Scurlock asked with the $51,000 offered, if there <br />would be a probation period with an anticipated 5% raise at the <br />end of six months, and Administrator Balczun stated that as a <br />generality every new employee after completion of six months goes <br />up 5% automatically. <br />Commissioner Eggert noted that her problem is that during <br />budget hearings we discussed this position, set an amount, and <br />asked the Administrator if felt he could get someone for that <br />amount. He confirmed that he believed he could, but with some <br />room for negotiation. With negotiation in a situation such as <br />this, she would not be surprised to see possibly a thousand or so <br />dollars difference, but she was amazed at a $10,000 difference. <br />Commissioner Eggert pointed out that the Chairman sat here during <br />the public hearings on the budget and assured people that we go <br />over everything line item by line item and lay out positions with <br />their salaries, etc.; so, with something this different from the <br />amount set at budget time, she felt very strongly that it should <br />be brought back to the Commission because she felt we set a <br />44 <br />