02 City Council Min 08-03-04 - Laserfiche WebLink

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Mayor Fendley called for a break at 7:45 PM. He reconvened the Budget Session at 8:00 PM. On the City Clerk's budget, it was decided to leave in the temporary employee but take out the car allowance of $1200. On the electronic data processing, it was explained that was the LaserFiche charges for the whole City. When asked about putting the LaserFiche Website person from the Library in the City Clerk's office, Interim City Manager said that wouldn't work because he also kept up and worked on all the computers at the Library. In the Finance budget, Gene Anderson, Finance Director, said he filled a vacancy with a parttime employ from the warehouse and would not be replacing that person in the warehouse. It was decided that he could take $500.00 off the office supplies line item. Mayor Fendley asked about the Lamar County Appraisal Assessment, why it jumped from $80,000 to $99,000. Mr. Anderson indicated that was based on their actual budget and was done by contract and the City has no control over that. The Appraisal District indicated there was going to be a correction on the value of Flex-O-Lite and Mr. Anderson said he needed that amount to figure the tax rate. When asked what his car allowance was for, Mr. Anderson said he made several trips to the bank each day and he also went to several of water customers residences to look at their meters, because he used to have four meter readers and now he only has two. He explained he did this for faster customer service. He explained that when he first went to work for the City, he was provided a vehicle. Instead of replacing the vehicle when it needed to be, he was given a car allowance. On travel expense, he explained it was up because they hired Melba Harris, who needs to get Civil Service Training in Austin, and because the City is a