Fort Walton Beach Council agenda — 11-13-2007 regular agenda — reading text

stated she sees her advice to both Mr. Miller and different manner. She advised that she will Minich as send Mr. o a City Mr. Miller stated all he asked for was for a resume and background experience on and qualifications employee so he would know in his mind that the individual had the experience needed to be on a board to for the City, and he feels that the employee is well negotiata qualified and an excellent employee. The City Manager advised it was her decision as to who represents the City in the negotiation for the task. She explained that Staff process, and it was her opinion the employee is qualified but did respond to Mr. Miller' s request immediately and provided the employee' s job application, additional information. She explained that that Mr. Miller was not satisfied and requested not required to update their resume after they are employed with the City, and employees are her part that Mr. Miller was given exactly what he asked for. She did note a need for clarity on Council and noted that in the future, if she is not clear on what is being regarding requests, requested, she will phone the requestor for clarification. C> There was no action by Council on this issue. MAYOR/COUNCIL ANNOUNCEMENTS Mr. Hartwell suggested an adjustment in the process that a member of a Board or Committee come before Council when there is a conflict in the Board/ Committee recommendation and staff' s recommendation. and the Mr. Hartwellsuggested the communication channels between the Finance Director of monies. Department Directors be looked at to make sure there is clarity on expenditure of the Mr. Garvie reported that the EDC did not receive the grant to further the development the celebration November 5th in Niceville in honor of the 10th airport. He mentioned on his appreciation to the City Manager and Anniversary of the Library Cooperative. He expressed Finance Director. Mr. Reeves agreed it is important receive input from the Boards/ Committees on to recommendations that differ from staff. He said any time an employee wants to approach him he will listen and he would like to work together to move forward. i 1. Mr. Holmes apologized if anyone was embarrassed and expressed he only does what he feels is right and needs to be done and does it with conviction. He stated he will pay the bill for the labor attorney and mentioned the accounting from the City Attorney shows' time spent with various Councilmen and wondered what issues are being discussed that the rest of Council does not know about. He also questioned the need for the request from Dr. Pullen on all c information, discussions, phone calls and conversations between Jay Odom and City Manager and city staff and suggested if he were to specifically ask or say what he is looking for he may be able to an answer that did not require reams of paper. He commended staff on get correcting the problems with the recent rain. 0".._____ ,_'. _.__.__. Regular Council 10/ 23/ 07 199 MAYOR/COUNCIL ANNOUNCEMENTS ( CONT) Dr. Pullen commented he asked for the information on emails. The Mayor mentioned the Japanese Gardening Club project to beautify the corner of Memorial and Hollywood; an email received from a citizen on support provided by Jeff Glassburn; mentioned the staff members who helped landscape a Cerebral Palsy foster home; mentioned on Monday from 6 - 9 am Representative Sansom and Senator Gates will have an open microphone forum on Talk Radio at Magnolia Grill; mentioned the groundbreaking held this morning for another Habitat for Humanity home. The Mayor acknowledged Council is beyond item # 20 ( Consideration of a discussion relating to Charter Section 12 with the Council in regard to conducting an investigation into the conduct of the Finance Director, Lisa Absher), and mentioned he has had conversations with people who were upset about some issues and pointed out that under Section 12 of the Charter the Mayor can hope there will be no need but if it comes back to initiate an investigation. He expressed him, then it is not necessarily done. CITY MANAGER ANNOUNCEMENTS The City Manager announced that Local Government Week will be celebrated tomorrow to honor the employees with a picnic lunch served by the Mayor and Council; the Fort Walton Beach Fire Department will offer free smoke detectors and installation during the month of November to senior citizens, disabled and the impoverished; Heritage Park & Cultural Center cancelled its haunted history walk due to unexpected scheduling conflicts; the Senior Center will host its annual Crafts & Collectible Show on Saturday, October 2ih from 9: 00 am until 3: 00 pm; the Library will hold its annual Fall for the 'Book Festival on November 3rd from 11 : 00 am until 4: 00 pm; Docie Bass will have a celebration Halloween Carnival on Tuesday, October 30th from c 6: 30 pm until 8: 00 pm; Chester Pruitt will have a Halloween Carnival on Wednesday, October 31st from 6: 00 pm until 8: 00 pm; and the times for Halloween on Wednesday, October 31st will be from 6: 00 pm until 8: 00 pm. The Mayor mentioned on October 2ih from 3: 00 pm until 5: 00 pm that Downtown Fort Walton Beach will have trick or treating in the stores. . ADJOURNMENT There being no further business, the meeting adjourned at 11 :00 p. m. APPROVED: MAYOR: ATTEST: clrr CLERK Ive r c CITY COUNCIL MEETING November 13, 2007 Consent Agenda Consideration of a request to authorize the City Manger to approve the purchase order to Verizon Wireless to provide wireless data service for the City' s mobile computers c Information Technology Director) Council Action 1st 2nd Vote: 3 Agenda Item Number: C r"'" CITY OF FORT WALTON BEACH, FLORIDA MEMORANDUM DATE: October 30, 2007 TO: Joyce Shanahan, City Manager FROM: David J enzen, IT Director SUBJECT: Verizon Wireless Data Services Contract Renewal BACKGROUND In June of 1999 the City of Fort Walton Beach Police Department went live with in- car communications via wireless transmission using Cellular Digital Packet Data (CDPD) technology from Cellular-One. In 2000 Cellular- One became a part of Wireless- One. In 2001 Wireless One became a part of AT&T Wireless. Early in 2004 we migrated from CDPD to the AT&T EDGE System of General Packet Radio Service ( GPRS) which has a much faster transmission rate. In 2005 AT& T Wireless became a part of Cingular Wireless and we continued using the EDGE System ( GPRS). In October of 2005 we migrated from Cingular Wireless to Verizon Wireless using lxRTT which is a 3G wireless technology based r on CDMA (Code Division Multiple Access). The Verizon Wireless data services are available under state contract number 725- 330- 05- 01 effective May 11, 2005 thm May 10, 2010. This contract provides a fixed cost of $48. 59 per device per month, nationwide coverage, unlimited usage and no early termination fees. Currently the City has 36 Wireless laptop computers for a yearly service cost of $20, 990. 88 RECOMMENDATION That the City Council authorize the City Manager to approve the purchase order to Verizon Wireless to provide wireless data service for the City' s mobile computers. If approved, funds are available in the appropriate Communications Services accounts. Concur / Do Not Concur f\1., J, J oyc~ Shanahan City Manager c U:\ MIS\ Contracts\ Verizon Wireless contract renewal. doc  CITY COUNCIL MEETING c November 13, 2007 Consent Agenda Consideration of a request to authorize the City Manger to negotiate and execute a 3 year term renewal contract with HTE V AR LLC for a maintenance contract for the IBM i5 computer system r- Information Technology Director) Council Action