Minutes - Council Work Session - 10/25/1999 - Budget

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No major changes for Commissions. Administration- Full -time salaries - Change = $39,654 (Administrative Assistant included in budget and salary step plan and salary step plan increases; Help Wanted Ads - Change = $3,342 (New Personnel positions ads - includes five new additional positions and any positions that open up.) Other equipment rental is based on about $2,000 per month for City rental space. Other equipment is the new copier. Elections changes dealt with salaries because 2000 is a regular election year, other equipment because new equipment is being purchased County-wide plus transfer to the equipment replacement fund is the depreciation on the new voting equipment. Finance - the change is the step plan increases for the full-time salaries. Assessing - the change is $4,367 and that is the increase for the contract with Anoka County. Legal - no major changes. Planning and Zoning - full-time salaries - the change is $8,321 because of the salary step plan increase. This figure is as if all of staff is there. The "other contracted services" is the Comp plan ($25,000). Councilmember Hendriksen asked that Ms. Lund research the amount that has been spent on the comp plan thus far. Ms. Lund was also asked to check on the price for the community survey. Data Processing - full-time salaries - the Assistant salary. R&M Contracts - the $2,000 a month for someone to work on training is also included in this amount. includes the upgrade of finance software ledger), and police connection to Anoka change is $6,957, which is 30% of the Administrative amount requested is $83,400, which includes about the computers if we have a problem, etc. Computer The change is an increase of $29,425. This amount to JD Edwards (human resources,'payable/receivable County Central Records. The amount requested for computer hardware is $5,500 which is a decrease from the 1999 adopted amount of $24,500. This would cover if we need any extra computers and to make our computers 2000 compliant. The Transfer Equipment Replacement line request is $26,950, which is a decrease of $11,828. The decrease is because in 1999, the money asked for was mostly hardware purchases. The amount includes depreciation on new computers. General Government Buildings - Water/irrigation/sewer - $5,000 was adopted in 1999. There is nothing requested in 2000. That leaves a decrease of $5,000 - the reason for change is the purchase of municipal water. Other contracted services - the amount requested is $51,030, which is an increase of $21,252. This is for City hall design and expansion, to refurbish the copy room and doing tuckpointing. Councilmember Hendriksen stated that the consensus is to not build a new city hall in the next couple of years so we could take that $50,000 plus the $24,000 and put that toward making the current City hall more useful. City Administrator Norman stated that it does take a long time to go through the process for a new City Hall project. He hoped to keep some money in the pot for later. Mayor Gamec suggested that we can transfer money back City Council Budget Work Session/October 25, 1999 Page 2 of 5