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Finance Director Lund reviewed information related to increases for the employee retirement plan, <br />health insurance, worker's comp, positions that were added. <br />Councilmember Specht referenced the new Community Development Director and asked if the <br />assumption a similar salary level as Mr. Hagen came in as. <br />Finance Director Lund replied yes. She reviewed information related to Capital Equipment <br />Requests. <br />Councilmember Woestehoff referenced a note about the equipment fund will need to change <br />excess revenue policy and asked if the equipment fund one that rolls into that. <br />Finance Director Lund replied yes, 30%. <br />Councilmember Woestehoff replied when Finance Director Lund says it may need to be changed <br />if it empties, the suggested idea is it may need a higher percentage. <br />Finance Director Lund replied if it is at zero the question would be do they keep it as one of the <br />funds that still gets it or does it go negative, or do they decide in that year that it doesn't contribute <br />to any negative amount, only to positive. She stated it has to be a future discussion. <br />Councilmember Woestehoff commented that helps. <br />Finance Director Lund reviewed information from the staff report related to other State grants and <br />aids. <br />Mayor Kuzma asked if the body cameras have come online yet. <br />Finance Director Lund replied more discussion is needed because there are body camera and the <br />squad cameras and they want to go with the same vendor. She stated the body cameras are to be <br />funded, they are about $280,000 based off the latest bid, at the budget discussion for 2022 was to <br />use the ARPA funds. The net amount that was listed on the case, they received about $3.1 million <br />there is about $2.75 remaining in ARPA Funds that has been offset to cover the police cameras <br />but they have not ordered them yet because of the squad video side of it. <br />Mayor Kuzma asked if that was going to happen this year. <br />Police Captain Bruml replied yes hopefully. He stated they are currently developing the policy <br />and he has quotes from the two main vendors, Panasonic and Axon. He asked if there was <br />$117,000 set aside from ARPA. <br />Finance Director Lund replied originally there was $117,000 set aside just for the body cameras <br />and then it went up to $280,000 based on where the market is today. <br />Mayor Kuzma asked about LOGIS with the increase in storing all this video which he thought was <br />going to be expensive. <br />City Council Work Session / July 12, 2022 <br />Page 9 of 12 <br />