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TO: <br /> <br />FROM: <br /> <br />DATE: <br /> <br />SUBJECT: <br /> <br />*Item 3.6.* <br /> <br /> MEMORANDUM <br /> <br />Mayor and City Council <br /> <br />Lori Johnson, Finance Director <br /> <br />April 19, 2004 <br /> <br />Consider Resolution Allocating 2003 General Fund Balance <br /> <br />Attached is a resolution allocating the 2003 General Fund Balance as directed by the City <br />Council at the April 12, Council meeting. <br /> <br />Further, a request for capital equipment has just been made by Building and Environmental <br />Administrator Steve Rohlf for additional mobile computer equipment for the bmldmg <br />inspectors. Steve is requesting the purchase of mobile computers and related equipment for <br />each of the building inspector vehicles. This equipment would greatly increase the <br />inspectors' efficiency in the field because all of the permit data needed to do an inspection <br />would be available on line. This means inspectors could react to situations, changes, and <br />requests in the field instead of having to come back to the office to get information and <br />inspection notes could be entered directly into the computer instead of being hand written <br />f~rst and later entered in the computer. This would save a considerable amount of drive time <br />for the inspectors and would allow inspectors to make last minute changes their inspection <br />schedules. This equipment would also create efficiencies for the building permit technicians. <br />The department has been testing the system in one vehicle for the past few months and it <br />has worked very well. The approximate cost of the computers and related equipment is <br />$35,000 which includes the ongoing connection charges of $60 per connection per month <br />for 2004. The monthly connection charges will need to be included in the department's <br />annual operating budget in the future. <br /> <br />Finally, the allocation of fund balance included in the attached resolution includes $200,158 <br />for salary adjustments and capital equipment. The building department is requesting <br />authorization to use $35,000 of that amount for the purchase of computers and other <br />equipment to place a computer in each building inspector vehicle. The connection charges <br />for 2004 are included in the request. If the Council does not agree with this request, this <br />item should be removed from the consent agenda for further discussion. <br /> <br />S: ~Council\Lori~ 2004~G cneralFundBalanceAlloca.doc <br /> <br /> <br />