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Department Goals for 2002 FINANCIAL MANAGEMENT PLAN: The Financial Management Plan adopted in 2002 will be includes numerous action items. Finance Department plans to begin implementation of several of the action items in 2002 including the following: The Update and adopt a five-year capital improvements plan: The Finance Department will take a much more active role in preparing and presenting the capital improvements plan. Unlike past years, the Council will be asked to take formal action on the plan. Establish a storm sewer improvement district: The Council will be asked to establish storm sewer districts pursuant to Minnesota Statutes, Sections 444.17 through 444.21. Create and adopt a funding plan for the pavement rehabilitation program. In addition to working on the identified action items, the finance department will implement the newly created and updated policies and ensure that all depa~:mxent heads and appropriate staff are aware of the policies. CONTINUE GASB 34 IMPLEMENTATION: Work has already begun on implementing GASB 34 and will continue throughout 2002 to meet the required December 31, 2003 deadline. STAFF ADDITIONS/CHANGES: A part time accounting clerk will be hired in 2002 to assist with daily deposits, accounts receivable, accounts payable, and other office duties. In addition to helping to ease the overall workload, this will allow Lauren Wipper, payroll clerk, to spend more time assisting with human resource functions. Lauren is nearing completion of her coursework to receive a bachelor's degree in human resources. It is hoped that in the near future Lauren's position can be expanded to a human resource specialist/technician type position to include many human resource functions, in addition to payroll. The Council approved hiring a full time information technology coordinator in 2002. This employee's main initial responsibility will be coordinating the technology needs for the new public safety building and the city hall renovation. Long term planning suggests that another computer staff person, perhaps a PC technician, will be needed within the next two to three years to deal with more of the hands on issues that surface on a daily basis. REVIEW, PURCHASE, AND IMPLEMENT FINANCIAL SOFTWARE: The search for a better financial software package continues. The original plan was to have new software purchased in 2001 for installation and conversion in 2002. However, after researching the packages currently on the market, finance staff came to the conclusion that none were significantly better than what we currently have. We simply could not justify the