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City Manager's 2005 Budget Memo Page 23 of 27 maintenance tasks year-round. A third skidsteer would make it less likely we would have maintenance personnel available to work but with no appropriate vehicle at hand to do the job. Council Action Recommendation #79: Council motion approving [disapproving] adding a third skidsteer (��Bobcat") to the city's fleet of maintenance vehicles. Another skidsteer combined with pooling maintenance employees for snowplowing in the wintertime is the basis for my next recom- mendation: That we reduce through attrition two field maintenance employees within the Public Works and Parks and Recreation areas. The efficiency and productivity we gain from consolidating employ- ees for wintertime snowplowing and adding a third skidsteer ap- proximates the lost productivity of two retiring or departing employ- ees. I can't and won't guarantee that maintenance service levels would be entirely unaffected. Depending on who retires or leaves city employment, there could be an impact. Sut I know we need to save money and I know we can't do that by continuing to carry the same number of employees. And I also know that any reduction in service levels should be manageable — given the other steps men- tioned above. Council Action Recommendation #20: Council motion approving [disapproving] the elimination through attrition of two full-time employees in Public Works and Parks and Recreation Mainte- nance. I also make two significant revenue recommendations that generally fall in the Public Works area. One is to institute a Street Light Utility. We spend over $170,000 in tax revenue each year providing street lights throughout the city. In "light" of the loss of $700,000 in general purpose state aid, I think the time is now to create this utility and collect revenues sufficient to pay the $170,000 in costs currently borne