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<br /> <br />Hi Kevin, <br /> <br />The supervisors met and came up with a proposed strategy for purchasing and using Iphones with the ~600 dollars in <br />one-time Stormwater funds. We’d like to get your blessing before we proceed. <br /> <br />We’d purchase one IPhone 4 for each zone (5 total) @~$100/ phone. We’d also advocate for PW Maintenance to <br />purchase one to replace the after-hours phone. <br /> <br />The phones would initially be additional costs as they wouldn’t replace anyone’s phone. This would enable them to be <br />shared as a needed. Staff would be given training on how to use it and would understand that the phone is to be left in <br />the crew room at the end of the day. This would make the phones available on the weekends for weekend coverage. <br /> <br />If positions are eliminated with budget reductions, we’d get rid of those positions’ phones and the reduction of those <br />phones would help offset the additional monthly costs of the new IPhones. If we have funding in FY 14, we may look to <br />replace staff cell phones with IPhones and possibly assign the phones purchased in this round to staff but that will <br />depend on whether or not we can afford it. At least with 5 floating phones, we should be able to get people trained on <br />the use of the found items and camp cleanup procedures and this creates a technology bridge for us for the future. <br /> <br />If you approve of the strategy, I’ll need to know what account code to use for the one-time charges ASAP so I can order <br />the phones this week and then we’ll charge the ongoing charges to each of the regions proportionally. <br /> <br />-Jesse <br />2 <br />