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Regular City Council Meeting Monday,March 11,2013 Page 17 and a financial loss since the Springbrook software had just been updated by the City/ At the request of Councilmember Laliberte, Ms. Bacon concurred that there may still be some compatibility functions for exporting data with staff hoping to inte- grate them as much as possible; with not all records necessary for exporting, but basic employee data and compensation information necessary. As Councilmember Laliberte continued to find staff resource savings through the employee actually entering their data, Ms. Bacon clarified that the only real time savings would be found during open enrollment time. Further discussion included administrative users and training; and how the addi- tional annual cost of $600.00 per additional user was defined, with Ms. Bacon clarifying that initially two (2) administrative users were anticipated (Ms. Bacon and City Manager Malinen) and any additional training applicable to anyone else having administrative rights, such as if specific manipulation was required for one department at a separate cost (e.g. Fire or Police Department-specific items). Ms. Bacon advised that training was done by an eight (8) hour session via web; and she would then have the responsibility for training each staff member in use of the system. At the request of Councilmember Laliberte as to whether Springbrook would charge for interfacing between them and PerfectSoftware, Finance Director Miller advised that they would do so. Mr. Miller anticipated an initial cost for writing an interface program at approximately $3,000.00; and typical annual maintenance costs at 20-25%, or$500.00-700.00 annually. Acting Mayor Etten opined that this seemed to be the best use of the system, if those two software programs could be interfaced. Mr. Miller advised that PerfectSoftware to Springbrook would only be a one-way communication; and that Springbrook would not talk back, so most of the staff time required would be from the Human Resources side. Ms. Bacon advised that PerfectSoftware was aware that negotiations were forth- coming if the City Council approved tonight's requested action. Laliberte moved to TABLE action on this request. Councilmember Laliberte opined that there were not enough firm numbers to take action tonight. While not disagreeing that a system such as this was needed, Councilmember Laliberte expressed concern with the pending negotiation of fixed amounts, and clarification of additional interface and ongoing maintenance