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Office of: JOEL R. HANSON, Administrator 515 Little Canada Road Little Canada, MN 55117 612-484-2177 FAX: 612-484-4538 CITY OF LITTLE CANADA RAMSEY COUNTY, MINNESOTA MEMORANDUM TO: Mayor and City Council FROM: Dave Harris, Supt. of Public Works DATE: February 28, 1990 RE: Utility Billing Program The City of Little Canada is outgrowing its utility billing software program. The program we have installed now is Banyon's Basic Utility Billing (BUB). BUB will only hold 2,000 accounts in one billing group and only bills three charges those being sewer, water and service charge. We currently have 1,939 accounts and have to bill for sewer, water, service charge and street lights. The League of Minnesota Cities recommended two programs for us to consider, Banyon's Advanced Utility Billing System which has a total price of $3,222 and Quest Data Utility Billing System which has a price of $1,795. We also received a proposal from Utility Billing Specialist on their program TAABS II which has a total price of $4,675. Although Quest's price is low, Quest may not be able to perform a data conversion from our existing program to their program thereby bringing the cost of their system up to that of Banyon's due to the time required for transferring the information manually. At this time, I recommend approval of Banyon's Advanced Utility Billing System. They are locally based, we have had good support from them in the past, they have guaranteed that they can perform a data conversion, and their program has many features which would be helpful to the Utility Billing Department. Also, as you will see from the attached survey, the cities in Ramsey County that are our size have chosen Banyon's system for their utility billing needs. DH:kv Enclosures Pag''2 MAYOR Michael Fahey COUNCIL Beverly Scalze Bill Blesener Rick Collova Jim LaValle