2002-055-RES ACCEPT PROPOSAL OF CARTER & BURGESS FOR PROFESSIONAL ENGINEERING SERVICES TO WATER LOST AND UNACCOUNTED FOR STUDY IN CITY'S WATER AND ACCOUNTING AND OPERATING SYSTEM

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m' PI II rI CI '-' fI CI :I 2 ~ :I 41 :3 ::I 2 J 3 2 ~ J J I 3 ~ 1 :J J J 3 :I J ALLEN MULLINS, CPA Financial Consultant Carter & Burgess, Inc. Education M.B.A., Accounting, 1980, University of Texas at Arlington B.A., liberal Arts/ 1974, Union University Professional Registration Certified Public Accountant, Texas Professional Experience Mr. Mullins has 26 years of experience in providing management and financial services to state and locol governments, special districts, and utilities. He has managed a wide range of consulting assignments covering cost-of-service pricing studies, organizational analysis, accounting and financial models, and information technology projects. His projects include business and IS strategies, effectiveness and efficiency studies, and outsourcing studies. Mr. Mullins was a Senior Manager in the National Utilities Consulting Practice at KPMG Peat Marwick llP. Mr. Mullins was Assistant Director of Utilities for the City of Arlington, Texas. His responsibilities included budget, financial planning, utility billing, customer services, meter reading, meter services, property management, and operations research. He has also served as Director of Finance for the City of Hurst, Texas, where he was responsible for the accounting, budgeting, utility billing, data processing, purchasing and personnel divisions. Mr. Mullins is a member of the Americon Water Works Association, where he has porticipated on the Information System and Services Committee, and active in the Government Finance Officers Association and the American Institute af Certified Public Accountants. Mr. Mullins has co-authored articles on financial and work-order management, including: '1he Changing Role of Financial Management in Utilities" in Proceedings of WEFTEC '95/ "System Development Charges: Implementation, Administration and Accounting" in the A.W.W.A. Proceedings, 1992/ and "Computerized Work Management: Worth Investigating" for Public Works Journal. Financial Management project experience includes: . GASB 34 Implementation, Temple, TX; Senior Consultant. Developed implementotion strategy to obtain compliance with the new accounting standards for the City of Temple. The project included analysis of the appropriate capitol accounting methods for the City/s infrastructure categories. . GASB 34 Issues, various locations, Project Manager. Developed on analysis of the new standards and mode presentations to professional organizations to assist various entities in the development of on implementation strategy to comply with the new accounting standards, The presentations were mode the Texas Public Works Association, Texas Municipal Utilities Association, Texas Municipal league, Special Districts of South California, and project included analysis of the appropriate capitol accounting methods for the City's infrastructure categories.