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• As a result of the success, the debt for the green and bunker project is being paid for out of Springvale's operations budget. • The Mayor commented that Marty Young had left recently for a great opportunity. The Mayor wants to evaluate the operations and the structure and has hired Don Copeland, part time for this season to do the evaluation and make recommendations while being the division supervisor through the golf season. Don Glauner, Renee Overstreet, Molly Kelly, Brian Blum, Dave Demaline, and Dave Wendell presented the service divisions' budgets. Brian Blum presented the WWTP budget: • No new FTE's requested. WWTP will reduce by three (3) due to modernization of plant through transferring employees and retirements. • We are asking for additional PTE's for WWTP (2) one to perform retreatment duties and the other to be a resident resolution liaison for sanitary back up issues. Also additional summer help is requested as it is cost effective labor to maintain the ditches and sewers. • Our largest expenses are chemicals, utilities and sludge removal. We have budgeted a reduction on both chemicals and sludge removal as we changed and will change further our processing. The sludge removal we changed to hauling 2 trips of sludge a day with our internal staff instead of our former practice of using an outside contractor for one trip a day. In the budget we are purchasing a used truck from Brookpark to assist and add flexibility. Our fleet manager and staff have examined the truck. • Renovation project going well and on time and on budget. There are some items in the operating budget that were originally in plant project, but due to cost of entire project escalating they were removed. Examples are repurposing the Zimpro building for new male locker rooms and showers and renovating the existing locker rooms and showers for our female employees. There are upcoming needed projects that are not currently in the budget, but depending on completion of plant may be added later in year. In the collection system the Bradley lift station renovation is a priority and planning for future projects in cooperation with Olmsted Township. Dave Wendell and Dave Demaline presented the Service Department budget: • Staffing will remain constant. No planned retirements. • Replace Butternut Cemetery Vault roof- $3,000. • Replace old storage shed with Service Pole Barn $13,000. • New $165,000 Bucket Truck for forestry, light replacement, and street maintenance. Per Tim Conway, Fleet manager, the 1995 bucket truck has