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Approved minutesApproved the proposed millage rates as 7.607 in the Pasco County Commission Operating, 1.8036 in the Pasco County Municipal Fire Service Unit, and to set the first public hearing on September 8, 2015 at 6:30 p.m. in Dade City provided the date did not conflict with the hearing for the Pasco County School Board.
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Mike Carballa board. Certainly, yeah. Mike Carbala, Assistant County Administrator of Public Infrastructure. With regards to the Maggie Valley project, yes, soil sampling is complete. There is some arsenic in in some of the soils, a lot of the soils actually. But when we get into construction, what we'll what we'll typically do is we will legally dispose of the contaminated soils. Additional soil that comes out that's needed to balance the soil. site. Uh you know, we're we're working with parks on a few things there, so that would be the next priority, followed by um, you know, possibly doing an additive alternate or a bid item to where we could uh pay the contract or have the contractor pay us to to handle the soil, sell it, do something like that to help offset the costs to those citizens when we come back. So those are the things that we typically look for in a lot of jobs, but particularly so in this matter.
Mike Carballa idea. Yeah, just real quick the um the idea here was Uh that to to implement a program that um you know our our IT team went and did some market analysis based on our our current spending habits, right? And and took a look at uh the current statewide government contract that were perfectly legal legally uh able to take advantage of through a procurement aspect, but decided that going on our own contract would actually save money. And so in fact by by not relying on that global contract, we're saving approximately $400 per year on I'm sorry, $400 per computer purchase. So with that, that's allowed us to save upwards over the last for this contract about two million dollars or half a million dollars a year which you know when we when we looked at the millage rate going going through to the budget hearing was was one of the reasons we were able to give that money back to the taxpayers uh because we didn't need it because we've we've done things to make our our IT department more efficient in terms of how we How we rely on our computers as
Mike Carballa well as how long we hold on to them. We we also made some changes in terms of our useful life. So rather than cycling computers out every three years, we would have decided to cycle them out every four years. And just those subtle efficiency changes made a huge impact and we were like I said, we were able to uh this board was able to I was able to make a Recommendation of the board to cut the millage in order to realize they're safe with faculty taxpayer. So we're very proud of the team of them doing that. And then on the side, it's just gravy, they they implemented a uh an employee buyback program uh for computers.