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City Manager's 2004 Budget Recommendations <br />i. Deduce LM IT insurance premiums by 100,000 <br />(from $300,000 to oo,000); this $100,000 ex- <br />penditure is currently used to pay for are extra level <br />of insurance coverage; I recommend we rely more <br />on self - insurance and less on purchased insurance. <br />ii. Maintain the City Code in -house instead of con- <br />tracting out for this service. $5,000, <br />M. Reduce Vehicle Maintenance Costs in the Fire Department. <br />$207000. <br />i. Explanation: on average, we are spending $43,000 <br />annually for vehicle maintenance just in the Fire <br />Department. Yet, once these vehicles are repaired <br />they are still old, still require lots of maintenance <br />attention, and still lack current technology and ca- <br />pabilities. I recommend we reduce our fleet of <br />older, costlier, single - purpose vehicles and begin <br />converting to fewer but newer, more versatile, and <br />less maintenance- intensive vehicles. That would in- <br />crease our efficiency and reduce our operating <br />costs. <br />I recommend one tax- funded spending increase for 2004. <br />N. Fund a Career Development Program. $20,000 <br />i. Explanation: We have promised the 4ers t group in <br />our collective bargaining agreement that we would <br />try to implement a "career development program." <br />This would be a program that provides more oppor- <br />tunities for career training and more pay for main- <br />tenance employees who learn and consistently dem- <br />onstrate a higher skill level. This is good for the <br />employee, good for the City and its taxpayers, and <br />fair. I estimate that this program would cost the <br />City about $20,000 in 2004 to set -up and adminis- <br />ter. <br />10 <br />