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policy in setting that salary amount when we did the budget in <br />the first place. Apparently it is a misunderstanding, but she <br />believed there is a lot of policy set in the budget that doesn't <br />necessarily have to be laid out every time something comes up. <br />Administrator Balczun noted that, certainly everyone has <br />their own philosophy, but budgets normally are a financing plan <br />to underwrite the cost of goods and services, etc., for the <br />fiscal year, and with respect to salaries, the cost of that <br />position for the fiscal year. He has always operated on the <br />basis that wherever a level of compensation fits on a salary <br />schedule, and multiplied times that portion of the year that the <br />job is going to be filled, is the budget amount. However, it is <br />becoming apparent that the Board's belief is that a budgetary <br />number with respect to a position actually mandates the salary. <br />Normally it is a two step procedure. <br />Commissioner Eggert confirmed that to her a budget level the <br />way we have been doing it mandates a salary, (the same as a <br />capital item and its cost), and if we see a difference, we come <br />back with a budget amendment. That is why she has a problem with <br />the concept of program budgeting. It is very difficult for us to <br />know exactly what is going on and tell a taxpayer this is what we <br />are doing unless the budget is laid out and followed. <br />Chairman Scurlock believed there is a little different <br />philosophy in Indian River County, and possibly the Board has not <br />been communicating as well as we should have with a new person <br />who has operated under a different system. For example, Mr. <br />Balczun just came from a county that has 38 Commissioners spread <br />all over; the meetings are extremely short; and they totally rely <br />on the administrative division to run the whole show - they are <br />not involved to the extent this Commission historically always <br />has been. Our make-up is that the five County Commissioners are <br />intimately involved in the running of the county government, and <br />possibly that is where we are a little awry in this situation, <br />especially when we are talking about a second in command, who, if <br />NOV �1 V 101987 45 BOOK 70. P'cr. . 02 <br />L6� <br />