HomeMy WebLinkAboutSupplemental Information Received After Posting of Agenda - Item B, E, I and J (2)f'
Robin Roberts
From: Robert Goldberg <rgoldberg @live.com>
Sent: Sunday, April 23, 2017 9:23 PM
To: Jill Ingram)
Cc: Robin Roberts; Mike Varipapa; Ellery A. Deaton; Schelly Sustarsic; Thomas Moore;
Sandra Massa - Lavitt
Subject: Questions for Council Meeting 4/24/17
Attachments: 4.24.17.Questions & Comments.doc
Hi Jill,
Please find attached my questions related to Monday's agenda items.
I will not be able to attend the meeting, but thanks in advance for any answers that staff can provide.
Robert
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Questions & Comments for 4/10/17
Item B: Deputy City Clerk
The Financial Impact section states that the fully burdened annual cost is $114,200 at top step.
However, at top step, the current base salary is only $73,711. The figure given in the staff
report is 55% higher.
Are benefits for employees in the SB Supervisors and Professionals MOU now costing the
City 55% of base salary?
This section also states that there may be offsetting fees related to archiving and maintenance
of City records.
Are these new fees to be proposed with the June update of the fee schedule? If not, who
is paying these fees now?
Item E: Warrants
Page 6• top third: Check #116315 to City of Tustin for $250 for "2017 Membership Renewal"
What is this for?
Page 8, top third: Check #116334 to GTT Communications for $691 for Services for March. I
see from the Laserfich that the first payment to GGT was in June 2016 so this is a relatively new
contract.
What services are they providing to us?
Page 14, top half: Check #116388 to City of Tustin for $275 for "Annual Calpacs Membership."
We first joined this public sector consortium in 2015. According to their website, Calpacs
provides salary and benefits benchmarks for 141 positions.
How are we using this information?
Why was this database not utilized by Koff & Associates in the Class /Comp Study?
Page 17, top: Check #116422 to Metro Telecommunications for $2532 for one month of service
at multiple locations. This first payment for this service started in 2014 but the contract was
never approved by the City Council
What is this for?
Why has this contract not been presented to the Council for approval?
Page 18, middle: Check #116437 to Quality Code Publishing for $3558 "Services to Municipal
Code ".
What is this for?
Item I: Climatec
The staff report gives the impression that the Climatec loan was reduced by $596,314 based on
the Council's directive from the 2/27/17 meeting. However, the staff report from that date said
the pay down was going to be $612,639 minus a 1% prepayment penalty, or net about
$606,000.
Why is there a difference between these numbers?
With the pre - payment that the City did in March, there was a new amended (reduced) payment
schedule for payments #6 -23.
Will the payment of this $47,000 retention amount result in another amendment to the
payment schedule? If not, how will the $9400 savings in interest be generated?
Item J: Traffic Management Center
The staff report recommends that the Council approve a purchase order for $77,600 to pay
Flatiron over the next two years for "monitoring and improving signal timing related to the
Project."
Why can't this function be performed by City staff, perhaps after a little training?
Who will perform this function after two years?
What is the proposed source of funding for the $77,600?
Item J: Animal Services Contract
The contract provides for a Year Two (FY 17 -18) CPI adjustment based on the change in the
local CPI index from February 2017 to February 2018. However, the CPI index for February 2018
will not be published by the US Department of Labor until mid -March 2018, and the first invoice
for Year Two will be submitted by Long Beach five months before then in October 2017.
Therefore, there is no way that payments in Year Two can be increased per the contract terms
until we receive the invoice for the third quarter in April 2018.
Is this what was intended?