Special Board of Aldermen 06-21-2021 Page 35
basis it is tax neutral. It would seem to me — well we have two problems — one is if the numbers are
significant enough the budget for the particular division we are talking about would be overspent.
Mr. Teeboom. | am not trying to do your job Mr. Griffin. | am just suggesting that this year in particular the
Federal Government has showered the State, they showered the City with money, COVID reimbursement
money, COVID relief money. Millions upon millions the State doesn’t even know how to spend the money.
What | am suggesting if the Fire Chief puts in overtime, fine put in the overtime, when the Federal
Government reimburses you put it in as revenue.
Chairman Dowd
30 seconds.
Mr. Teeboom And in this budget and the next budget but don’t change the overtime numbers because it
can’t be tracked from budget to budget otherwise. Thank you.
Chairman Dowd
Alright, we will move on to Emergency Preparedness. That’s Departments 156 and 157. Emergency
Management, Citywide Communications.
Beth Scaer 111 East Hobart Street. | read or | received an email from an anonymous source that the entire
CERT team quit last year. What is that - Emergency Response Team because of abuse from the Public
Health Department with the testing, | guess it was for the COVID testing. You know, they were working
under insane conditions, it was a really bad situation. So | was wondering what is happening with the CERT
Team. Thanks.
Chairman Dowd
CERT Team? Justin? Is that part of Public Health?
Mayor Donchess
Justin can you answer that. Is Bobbie here, | don’t know.
Ms. Scaer The Community Emergency Response Team is CERT.
Mayor Donchess
Yeah | realize that but | didn’t see Bobbie. Do you want to answer that Bobbie? This is Director Bagley of
the Public Health & Community Services.
Bobbie Bagley, Director Public Health & Community Services
Good evening, Bobbie Bagley from the Division of Public Health & Community Services Director. CERT is
the Community Emergency Response Team and after the incident during the summer the CERT manager
decided they were no longer going to participate in public health events after that event. So they haven't
been on board with us since then.
Chairman Dowd
Thank you. Is this a follow up?
Beth Scaer Yeah Beth Scaer, 111 East Hobart. So | was wondering if the CERT Team was working with
Emergency Management still? If they are still helping with the City.
