1980 ADJ MTG MIN JUN 11 - Laserfiche WebLink

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4 1 8 Mr. Wang said Account 4003, Miscellaneous Equipment, shows an increase due to the purchase of a Microfiche Reader -Printer. Mr. Wang said the Street Sweeping and Street Maintenance Budgets have been com- bined into one, this is also true of the Street Trees & Parkways Budget, having been combined into the Parks Maintenance Budget. After briefly reviewing each of the activities of the Community Services budget, Mr. Wang moved to the Enterprise Funds. Water Quality Control Plant Mr. Wang reported a small amount of monies have been included for potential legal and engineering services. Mr. Elliott reported staff is working on the possibility of a grant for expansion of the old sewer plant. Refuse Acting City Manager Elliott presented a proposal on changing the method of opera- tion for the Refuse Division. Mr. Elliott stated this division has a high operation cost in overtime and high vehicle maintenance. Mr. Elliott stated the division cur- rently works on an undocumented Incentive Program and it is proposed to delete the Work Incentive Program and go to a 40 -hour work week. Mr. Elliott stated this pro- posal should save a large amount of money and not reduce services to the community and would allow us the flexibility of seeking commercial accounts. Brief discussion followed. Acting City Manager Elliott stated if Council agrees with the concept presented, staff would like to redo this budget and bring it back for Council's consideration at a later date. Mayor Gonzales asked about the need to go through the Meet and Confer process, in- asmuch as working conditions would be affected. Mr. Elliott stated this would go through Meet and Confer, however, he would not want the current Salary Negotions aspect of the Meet and Confer process delayed. Council consensus was to have Staff come back with a complete proposal on this matter. Cemetery Mr. Wang explained there was no change in this budget except to properly identify the true person at the cemetery. Equipment Replacement Mr. Wang advised the City Council that he would like to address them on two points of concern to him. The first being the matter of the Vehicle/Equipment deprecia- tion and replacement procedures. Mr. Wang said he would like to see an accounting in the equipment replacement ac- count in such a manner that it would properly identify each piece of equipment, the life assigned to each such piece, a sufficient monetary amount set aside for depreciation of each such piece and the money deposited in the separate account for each piece of equipment. Mr. Wang said currently insufficient funds are set aside for replacement, realisti- cally there are never enough monies to replace each piece of equipment as it becomes necessary.. The City is always having to set a priority as to which peice is most needed rather than replacing the equipment as it reaches the end of its life. Discussion followed. Acting City Manager Elliott stated that ideally Mr. Wang's approach is appropriate, however, realistically there are budget constraints to contend with. Mr. Wang said in his opinion, he still felt and urged that the City invest more realistically into its depreciation program and that it update its accounting pro- cedures for replacement of rolling stock. Acting Finance Director Andengaard said she would have the department look into up- dating and going back to accounting vehicle by vehicle as it was once done. JUN 11 1980