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Commissioner Halkiotis asked about the revenue received back from the State far these inspections and Rosemary Summers said about $6,000 per year. If the County achieves 100°~ of the compliance rate, there is a small bonus of about $3-4,000. Commissioner Halkiotis asked about field technology that would save same time and effort. Rosemary Summers said that the field technology is not for food and lodging, but well and wastewater. Commissioner Halkiotis said that the Sheriff has two and a half positions and EMS has four positions far just keying in information because the County is technologically behind. He wants to save some time and improve the amount of inspections that can be done by using technology. Rosemary Summers said that it would be at least a year for the food and lodging because the State does not have its technology in place for this yet. Commissioner Halkiotis asked if the County inspected nail salons and it was answered that they do a general sanitation inspection but not of the operators. Commissioner Halkiotis made reference to a negative news story about nail salons in the Triangle. He asked what facilities get inspected and it was answered restaurants, hotels, motels, swimming pools, school lunch facilities, schools, nursing homes for sanitation, child care facilities, residential care homes, meat markets, temporary food establishments, street fairs, and grocery store delis. Commissioner Halkiotis asked for an organizational chart of this department. Chair Jacobs asked for the total number of inspections and the fees. Rosemary Summers said that the fees range from $25 to $250 and are fairly standard throughout the State. Chair Jacobs would like to see the total revenue generated by inspections and then what the County realizes out of this. He would like to share this with the legislators. John Link continued reviewing the positions. Commissioner Halkiotis requested, for future budget preparation documents, that the total overtime expenditures for the whole year be listed by department. Chair Jacobs said that the County has used temporary and overtime for Telecommunicators, but there is no offsetting revenue for these positions. EMS Director Jack Ball said that they have a constant revolving door where they utilize overtime and temporary workers. It takes time to bring a trainee up to speed and it may take 6-8 months before a trainee works solo. Chair Jacobs asked how many vacancies there were for Telecommunicators and Jack Ball said that presently there are two open positions. They want to add additional personnel to help relieve the workload. Jack Ball gave some statistics about hours of coverage. John Link asked that Jack Ball provide that information in writing to the County Commissioners. Jahn Link pointed out that the County is waiting on a study on issues of fire, rescue, and EMS. Commissioner Halkiotis asked for a historical record of the calls and how they are being fed out so that he can see the justification far more positions. Chair Jacobs suggested allocating $175,000, which is what the three positions would require, to EMS and see what the study indicates about priorities. John Link continued the presentation on positions. This position would be in Purchasing helping the Director with construction projects and would be an Administrative Assistant III. Commissioner Halkiotis said that with the Efland water/sewer line-engineering project, the Board asked the County Manager if he and his assistant could participate in some of the construction oversight issues, if it would reduce the cast of the project. He thinks that in this one project, it reduced the cost of the project by $125,000. He thinks