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Administrator Collins explained that while Mrs. Tillman recognizes that nothing was budgeted for this fiscal year, she feels it is very important, now that the County has gone to self insurance, to hire a safety coordinator to assist her in implementing a safety program. He felt it was critical that she have the equipment in her office, which is necessary for the office to function, because she has been working with borrowed equipment for a long time now. Although he concurred with the recommendation as to the equipment, he was not sure that the additional personnel in this fiscal year is critical. Commissioner Eggert pointed out that when the risk manager was hired, it was clearly laid out to the Board in regard to the salary assigned to that task, that this was not just a risk manager coming on, but also a safety officer. Commissioner Eggert had a very big problem with any request for an additional person. Secondly, she did not know what kind of equipment EMS Director Doug Wright was using for his safety program, but obviously, he was using something and was being. effective. She felt that we are trying to reinvent the wheel here. Administrator Collins didn't know if we were or we were not, but pointed out that last summer we were fully insured. Commissioner Scurlock recalled that the staff recommendation for setting the salary level was based on the fact that we were hiring an individual who was going to be more than a risk manager, and who had the capability of being the safety manager also. Commissioner Eggert agreed that was the way it was presented to the Board, and emphasized that is the basis on which it was approved. She had very great difficulty with the whole situation right now. Commissioner Scurlock felt there was no question about having a good safety program and that a lot of the things within the recommendation are things that we ought to accomplish. JAN 3 1989 61 BOOK 75 f,, r 505