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TRNSF-2024-1 : Transfer in the amount of $3,200. from salary and wages (011621-512000) to equipment maintenance (011622-525102).
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TRNSF-2024-1 Transfer Transfer in the amount of $3,200. from salary and wages (011621- 512000) to equipment maintenance (011622-525102). Ought to pass City Council City of Melrose Page 1 2/14/2024 3:53 PM
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▶ 20:13 Speaker 3: Uh, this order will go to the full City Council with a recommendation of passage. Uh, our next, uh, order before us is, uh, transfer 2024 dash one, uh, transfer in the amount of $3,200 from salary and wages to equipment maintenance. Um, we are still under suspension of the rules. Um, Madam Clerk, will you, uh, present this order to us? Sure. Um, thank you. So the pole pad equipment have a small printer. They were purchased in 2020. They're four years old, obviously, and at that time, the only existing technology were round rolls of 500 stickers. They're extremely expensive. The technology has changed so that now they're round rolls of paper receipts. And we will have a cost savings of $26 per roll. Still 500. But, um, the vendor has given us a buyback portion, so we will be able to buy if it's a, if it's approved by council, new poll pad printers for some of them. And we're gonna keep a few just for in person early voting when someone shows up in person when you put that actual sticker on.
▶ 21:29 Speaker 5: Um, yeah, I open to questions.
▶ 21:31 Speaker 3: Okay. Councilor Ryan, um,
▶ 21:33 Devin Romanul: I just, this is perhaps too in the weeds, but out of curiosity, is there any comparative advantage to one of the other or any, uh, difference in implementation on great question models, so to
▶ 21:43 Speaker 3: Speak? Yeah, great question. It's the exact same size technology. The Pul pad accepts the information and spits the receipt out almost like a cash register and it just rolls into itself. So it doesn't, it doesn't affect the processing. It's completely as efficient as either. Cool. Just a cost savings. Also, I did wanna mention that the transfer is requested. The money has already been appropriated last year. It's just a transfer because our, um, elections administrator wasn't hired to hired until April of last year. So we have salary and wages dollars left over. So it's a great way to use something that's already been appropriated.
▶ 22:19 Kimberly Vandiver: Great. Uh, seeing no other, um, comments. Um, what is the will of the committee?
▶ 22:26 Speaker 4: I'd like to make a motion to recommend
▶ 22:28 Kimberly Vandiver: Second. Uh, okay. We have a motion to recommend by Councilor Remodel, and a second by Councilor Karen Chetty. This order will go to the full city Council with a recommendation of passage. Um, at this time, we've concluded our business, the chair will entertain a motion to adjourn. So Moved. Hold on. Oh, excuse me.
▶ 22:45 Leila Migliorelli: Go ahead. Sorry. Point of order. We need to take a vote on that order, um, Before it passes.
▶ 22:50 Kimberly Vandiver: Oh, yes. Excuse me. Uh, uh, all in favor? Call.
▶ 22:55 Speaker 3: Roll call. Roll Call. Oh, roll call. Okay. Go ahead.
▶ 22:59 Speaker 2: Councilor Chetty? Yes. Councilor Williams? Yes. Um, councilor Romanul? Yes. President Elli? Yes.