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MINUTES CITY COUNCIL NOVEMBER 9, 2015 anyone monitoring the cameras all the time. City Administrator responded that there is the option to pull up the cameras on a computer to check them, but agreed that it would really be a reactive response to problems. Torkelson questioned what the costs of the vandalism at the parks have been over the last few years and were they enough to warrant the cost of the cameras since they are expensive. City Administrator responded that a lot of the costs would be the staff time to clean up damage, but the recent situation at Spooner Park involved a golf cart being taken along with a number of things from the park building. He also noted that a few years ago a park shop was broken into and a number of tools were taken. Even though there was some insurance money involved from that, it's still expensive when vandalism occurs. City Administrator stated that staff had obtained a bid for Pioneer Park cameras and then extrapolated that to the other parks. He noted that the budget amount includes cameras for Pioneer and Spooner Parks, the ice rinks, city hall, the skateboard park and fire hall, and hopefully we estimated high. McGraw stated that under the special projects, the ICWC crews are the greatest bargain the city gets and wanted to make sure that there was enough budgeted for them. City Administrator stated that this amount will allow them to work most Fridays throughout the summer and the Public Works Director felt this was enough money budgeted. He noted that it was hard to keep this crew busy during the winter months. McGraw questioned in the parks fund that there was $50,000 budgeted for 2015 and $50,000 budgeted in 2016 for Spooner Park, but he is assuming that the money wasn't spent in 2015 so it was being carried over. City Administrator confirmed that was the case. Fischer asked about the purchase of a portable 200 kilowatt generator for public works. City Administrator stated that the city was able to get this earlier and saved some money that way. He noted that the Council had approved the purchase tonight. This generator could be used to power the public works building or city hall if there was a power outage in the city. McGraw asked about the Infrastructure Fund #450 and noted that the city tries to maintain a fund balance of $1 million, and with various revenue sources about $1.2 million per year is generated. City Administrator responded that this fund is used for street reconstruction, mill and overylays and helps fund path construction. McGraw asked if $1.2 million would cover the street reconstruction and other projects planned Z