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ATTA <br /> cimmrT z <br /> CAPITAL IN MANAGER'S RECOMMENDED BUDGET <br /> County Departments requested a total of $783,803 in their 1987-88 <br /> budget requests. The total recommended by the Manager is <br /> $627,814*, which represents a 19.9% reduction. <br /> *This figure includes $68,000 for two (2) ambulances and $900 <br /> for stove and refrigerator for the Art School, both of which were <br /> moved to the Capital Improvements Plan. <br /> These expenditures break down as follows: <br /> 1. ) VEHICLE REPLACEMENT: $252,752, 40% of total capital. The vehicles <br /> fiscal <br /> Sheriff Department <br /> Health (4/$35,200) ; one (1) compact pick-up truck binEPlanningn($8 . <br /> one (1) 1/2-ton pick-up truck in Animal Control one ($) one- <br /> truck with tailgate lift and side tool boxes ($8,800) ;and oon (( one-ton <br /> pick-up truck ($8,500) to be used in Public Works,OBuildingsnandlGrounds; <br /> and one (1) one-ton truck ($13,000) for Sanitation. <br /> These vehicles are recommended for replacement for two reasons: <br /> A. The vehicles exceed 100,000 miles or give substandard <br /> service, as is the case of the four (4) Chevettes being replaced <br /> in Environmental Health; <br /> B. Replacement of these vehicles in 1987-88 will lessen the <br /> budgetary impact (in excess of $500,000) , for vehicle replacement <br /> in fiscal 1988-89. <br /> 2. ) DATA PROCESSING EQUIPMENT: $67,331 (unrevised figure) , constitutes <br /> 11% of total capital recommendation. <br /> • <br /> 3 . ) DUMPSTERS: $37, 000; 6% of total capital; 100 dumpsters for two (2) <br /> new leased sites. Leases are currently being completed and will <br /> be presented to the Board in the near future. Some dumpsters are for <br /> routine replacement. <br /> 4. ) 11,000# FLOOR LIFT for the garage; $10,000; 2% of total capital <br /> recommendation. This is being purchased to equip the additional <br /> service bay at to Public Works garage. The auto mechanic has <br /> been included in the budget also. <br /> 5. ) EMERGENCY APPARATUS to equip the Sheriff Department take-home <br /> fleet;. -$45,0Q0; 7% of total capital recommendation. This <br /> includes radios, visibars and tachographs for each of the fifteen (15) <br /> vehicles currently on order. <br /> 6. ) Purchase and installation of a FOURTH CONSOLE AT EMS: $20,000; <br /> 3% of total capital recommendation. <br />