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i Mr. Anderson reported that accident investigation forms were now available on-line. Mr. Anderson distributed a list of general safety committee guidelines. In response to a question from Mr. Sinniger regarding whether the safety committees would be in favor of an AFSCME representative and a person from management could do the quarterly inspections together, Mr. Anderson said there was nothing requiring that but expressed his favor for the idea. He remarked that it would be incumbent on the safety committee to make that decision. Mr. Sinniger said it would give the inspections more credibility if they were conducted in that way. Ms. Towle suggested that there be more detail on the list about how to conduct an accident investigation. Ms. Nelson suggested adding some ground rules for safety committees providing accident investigation and the roles the committees would play. There was general discussion of how to frame the guidelines. C In response to a question from Mr. Chouinard regarding whether OSHA guidelines were being used, Mr. Anderson noted that much of the wording in the document came from the OSHA rule book. Mr. Chouinard stressed the importance of specifically mentioning that the guidelines came from OSHA rules. I Mr. Anderson noted that individual divisions did not have to have their own safety committee since the JLMRC Safety Sub-Committee met the OSHA requirements. i IV. IMMEDIATE ISSUES: A. Contracting Out Discussion Mr. Ollek said he had been attending citizen budget committee meetings and noted that there had been some concern that the City was "dragging its feet" on the contracting out issue. He said the development of a costing model would help the situation. In response to a question from Ms. Towle regarding where the contracting comments were coming from, Mr. Ollek said he had noticed citizen budget committee members making comments. Ms. Towle said there was no council directive to review contracting issues.