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Uu�w„ /(s MEMO TO: CLERK ADMINISTRATOR AND CITY COUNCIL FROM: DIRECTOR OF PUBLIC WORKS/COMMUNITY DEVELOPME DATE: NOVEMBER 20, 1984 SUBJECT: PURCHASE OF METAL DETECTOR FOR LOCATING MANHOLE COVERS, GATE VALVE BOXES AND PROPERTY CORNERS I would not spend the time to write this memo if I did not feel this piece of equipment was needed. The first time one of my employees brought up the subject I told him that: 1) we don't have the money; 2) we have enough metal locators; and 3) he should "darn" well learn to share the metal locators with all departments. I watched the situation all summer and I have changed my mind. Therefore, Staff requests approval to purchase the subject metal detector for $575.00 from Water Products Company. At the present time, the City owns two metal detectors. In the summertime, there are three areas that use the metal detectors. They are the Parks, Water, and Inspections Departments. If you include inspecting the M.S.A. street .—, and City street projects, there are four areas of the City that use and need metal detectors in the summer. During this past summer there were numerous days where all the departments used metal detectors. If one metal detector breaks down and needs repair, the one remaining metal detector is not sufficient to meet our daily needs. We also lose valuable time shuffling the metal detectors from person to person. If the City purchases an additional. metal detector there will be one for each of the departments (Parks, Water, and Inspections). Staff proposes to buy the metal detector using the water operating account (700-121-4703). The account has $450.00 budgeted for a hand lawn mower. The Water Department Staff has determined that the metal detector is much more important than the hand lawn mower. The rest of the money is proposed to come from the sale of approximately 200 Corad surplus water meters that the City sold for $1.50 per meter. Total amount of the sale was approximately $300.00. The City authorized this sale of surplus equipment on October 21, 1984, Please note that we are also saving over $3,000.00 by purchasing only 36 new water meters this year. My second quote was from Davies Water Equipment Company. They verbally quoted $675.86 for the same metal detector.