Finance Committee Page 2
September 20, 2016
Mayor Donchess
There is nobody from the police department here.
Alderman Siegel
Mr. Kooken, | really would like to know if this is going to be satisfied by insurance from the driver that blew into
the police car? It is my understanding that the police car was stationery and that this really has nothing to do
with the police officer trashing the vehicle.
Mr. Kooken
| don’t know but | will check into that and get back to you. | know that one of the cruisers was totaled that is
being replaced but I’ll have to find out what the outcome was.
Alderman Siegel
| am aware of the incident but I’m a little concerned that this is coming out of the CERF fund because this is;
my understanding is that this was a pretty new cruiser so it wasn’t really ready for replacement it just got rear
ended and totaled.
Alderman O’Brien
If the money is insurance would that go back into CERF to replenish this account if that is the case?
Mayor Donchess
| think that’s what we should do that but that might require Aldermanic action but we can propose that if we are
getting insurance money.
Alderman Siegel
Regarding replenishing expenditure out of CERF and putting the money back in there, that would technically
represent a budget spending cap change? |’m not sure we can accept money and put it back into CERF that
way. I’m not sure.
Mayor Donchess
Mr. Kooken, do you think there is any urgency to this purchase or do you think this might hold off for two weeks
while we get these questions answered?
Mr. Kooken
| believe we could hold off.
Alderman Siegel
It was not my intention to change the purchase timeline because this clearly has to be taken care of. We have
a cruiser that needs to be replaced. How we pay for the mechanics of it | think we can work in the background.
It would be my preference to not hold up this purchase.
Mayor Donchess
If this becomes expenditure against the spending cap we do have about $50,000 of room, right?
