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Session 1919 May 10, 2004 There are no election costs as there are no elections scheduled for next year. If the Council decides to hold a bond issue, the cost of the election can be charged to the bond issue. Line item 725.08 has been absorbed by the IT budget. ADMINISTRATIVE SERVICES - 1012 Mr. Ollendorff reported that in accordance with a request from the City Council last year to reduce expenditures or find other funding sources; UCRS has done this with their current request for $61,000, several thousand less than the current year. Mr. Wagner said the Council gave them more money on the understanding they would ask for less this year and would find an additional source of funding. They will replace City money in the future with other sources of income. Several thousand dollars have been allotted for senior citizen activities: $48,000 for senior transportation- meal sites and medical trips $12,000 for senior outreach programs - new this year - two new positions, part- time Councilmember Wagner recommended helping Olive Boulevard Association, which asked for help on their administrative budget for this year. Line item 721.10 provided to University City East free of charge; now they ask for $6700 dollars. He wants these funds to be on the same non-permanent basis as those for UCRS. Line item 726.32 - Cadet Programs provides wages for police and fire cadet programs. Mr. Ollendorff said page C-11 shows budgeting to improve shortcomings with our telephone system, especially with regard to the Planning Department and to Public Works. There are many requests for service which the phone service does not accommodate. One option as a solution to this problem is a voice-over internet, which would have a net cost of $35,000. It would save $40,000 of the total $75,000 cost. The telephone system needs to be improved, but FO is not certain that this system is the best choice, so he budgeted $35,000. Information Technoloqy - 1014 Page C-12 shows a new budget for the maintenance and support of the City's centralized network. This new internal department reduces the legislative budget by moving all IT costs to this new budget department. Since Leisha is 50% City Clerk and 50% IT Coordinator, 50% of her salary is represented in the legislative budget and 50% is represented in this new budget. We are reducing $4,000 from Miscellaneous Outside Personnel, since Leisha has been able to handle much more of this work than he originally imagined. The average number of hours per technical request is three hours, and slightly exceeds the IT Coordinator's total hours. The figures accurately represent Page 6