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JUN 18 1989 �, <br />8001( � � F'�,-E 90 <br />assistant Utility Director would receive an increase from $38,000 <br />to about $46-47,000. <br />Commissioner Scurlock commented that now that the <br />Administrator has made his recommendation and this is at the <br />Commission level, he would like to say a few things. First, he <br />would like to commend Utilities Director Pinto for the work he has <br />done in Utilities. In the 52-6 years since he -came on, we have <br />gone from less than 1600 customers to over 12,000 customers, and <br />if you are talking water and sewer, 26,000, which has been a <br />tremendous movement forward, and the workload and staff have <br />increased significantly. He felt one of the things that is <br />extremely important is to maintain flexibility. We have noticed a <br />real difficulty in hiring particular people for Utilities because <br />there is a great demand all over the country for engineers and <br />other specialized personnel. By maintaining flexibility, what he <br />meant is to allow restructuring of an organization to accommodate <br />the personalities and expertise of those individuals you are able <br />to hire. Commissioner Scurlock believed this attempt to take <br />Harry Asher, who is a numbers person and replaced Mr. Barton, and <br />use him directly under Director Pinto as Assistant Utilities <br />Director as opposed to having 3 or 4 people under Mr. Pinto, will <br />serve to shed some burden. We need someone to be a creative <br />thinker, a planner, and someone able -to move the system forward <br />rather than someone just to deal with all the day to day <br />nitty-gritty details. Commissioner Scurlock stated that he would <br />concur with the recommendation and wished again to take this time <br />to say that Terry Pinto has, in his opinion, brought our utilities <br />system from what was no age at all to where Indian River County is <br />being looked at across the state. <br />Commissioner Eggert agreed with the praise of Director Pinto <br />and what has been accomplished, but noted that she has a problem <br />with the recommendation. She believed the reason for the salary <br />paid the Assistant Utilities Director before was his 10 years of <br />experience that he had worked up through a lot of departments. <br />90 <br />