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Mounds View City Council January 14, 2008 <br />Regular Meeting Page 7 <br /> <br />MOTION/SECOND: Marty/Mueller. To Waive the Reading and Approve Resolution 7105, 1 <br />Appointing City Council Members and City Staff as Representatives for City Committees and 2 <br />Other Organizations as Discussed. 3 <br />Council Member Mueller asked about the Convention and Visitor’s Bureau and whether the 4 <br />Community Development Director should be a member of that. 5 <br />Staff agreed not to add the Director due to scheduling issues. 6 <br /> Ayes – 5 Nays – 0 Motion carried. 7 <br />F. Resolution 7203 Approving the Purchase of Radio Reading Devices, 8 <br />Software, and Reading Equipment for the Water Reading System 9 <br />Replacement Program 10 <br /> 11 <br />Public Works Director Lee explained that this would approve purchase of the radio reading 12 <br />devices, reading equipment, and software for this program. Five bids were received for three 13 <br />different systems. He then reviewed the systems that were bid. 14 <br /> 15 <br />Director Lee explained that the low bid submitted a list of references but none of them had the 16 <br />Ikon system. City Staff checked the references and two of the four listed had the system up and 17 <br />running for less than a year. Staff reviewed the failure rate for the systems as listed in the Staff 18 <br />report. 19 <br /> 20 <br />Director Lee indicated that by year 20 the entire system would need to be changed out. 21 <br /> 22 <br />Director Lee indicated that Staff recommends approval of the purchase of the Neptune system 23 <br />and award the contract. 24 <br /> 25 <br />Council Member Mueller thanked Staff for the comparisons and said that she liked the time 26 <br />saving ability to read information while driving down the street. 27 <br /> 28 <br />MOTION/SECOND: Mueller/Hull. To Waive the Reading and Approve Resolution 7203, 29 <br />Approving the Purchase of Radio Reading Devices, Software, and Reading Equipment for the 30 <br />Water Reading System Replacement Program. 31 <br /> 32 <br />Council Member Stigney asked if the batteries can be returned annually or what the requirement 33 <br />would be. 34 <br /> 35 <br />Director Lee indicated that the Staff would purchase batteries as needed and switching them out. 36 <br />Staff would return them to Neptune for warranty purposes. Staff would do that in bulk rather 37 <br />than one at a time. 38 <br /> 39 <br />Council Member Stigney indicated he feels that they should pay for postage to mail back any 40 <br />batteries that fail during the warranty period. 41