1982-03-03 Joint Public Hearing and Regular Meeting

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• • Minutes, Joint Public Hearing and Regular Meeting La Porte City Council, March 3, 1982 Page 10 the operation of the City and are working to do that. We have a fine staff here. Some of you folks ought to get around and thank Dortha Gray for working with us. T'd like to comment on the fact that we did get the general fixed assets booked this year. We booked seven million dollars worth of assets. Kathy and the whole bunch worked real hard to get it done. They were still out there counting in December and on into January, and it was cold as blazes. It wasn't much fun but they got it done. I think if you go by and say, "Y'all did a good job." Those poor people sit in there and they work and they work and they work and they look at me and say, "What is all this for?" I say we've got to do it and we have got to do more. I think:;you need one additional hand in that Department. We're going to load them down with this general fixed asset accounting where we've got seven million dollars of assets booked and we're going to have to keep track of those assets. If I book them and somebody doesn't book them, just throw them out the window. We've been a little short handed in the accounting department • trying to pinch pennies, but now we need to spend a buck to make this a first class accounting department. We've got the personnel basically to do it; we just need a little additional help. As I mentioned at the start, we have the long form report, approximately 90 pages, which will be re- leased from the printer in two or three weeks. Tt will be available in the office of the City Manager for anybody who wants to review it or anything else. If I tried to go that report here, we would be here until 11:00 P.M. and you wouldn't like that. So we do have it there available for you. We are going to try to get national approval of the reporting formats. There are some differences within the personnel of these reviewing committees. We have a unique situation with our filing system but we are going to file it. We may or may not get it the first time, but we are going to give it a shot. They can tell us what's wrong, and the second time we'll make it for sure. This concludes the report. Tt has taken quite a bit of time to get this thing done. It is almost two and a half to three times longer than last year's report. 10. Council considered Change Order #3 - the Brown/Couch Contract No. 1 - the Sanitary Sewer Plant, for a total of all work including cost of material and labor of $39,919.00. This is a fundable item under the EPA Grant. A motion was made by Councilperson Westergren to approve • Change Order 3 as presente Secon y Counci person Skelton. The motion carried, 9 ayes and 0 nays.