Finance Committee — 09/15/2021 Page 11
hundreds, and hundreds and we will always do that. Without this, we're going to continue to do it because we
have an obligation.
Mayor Donchess
Alderwoman Lu.
Alderwoman Lu
Thank you. | just want to be sure | understood Alderwoman Gathright’s question. This has been charged to
other contracted services and you have funding, you have appropriations for that type of thing. | imagine that
other contracted services are typically somewhat unplanned, you know, that's why they're called other
contracted services. It's kind of a catch all. So | think that you do have funding for this in your budget. You
have some funding for it.
Jim Testaverde, Deputy Police Chief
We do not have...
Alderwoman Lu
This fund 55699.
Jim Testaverde, Deputy Police Chief
Yes.
Alderwoman Lu
It's called “Other Contracted Services”. So you know you have some funds there. I'm not saying that it would
necessarily cover it all.
Jim Testaverde, Deputy Police Chief
And that where I’m going. This approach and this idea is not something that was earmarked under those
funds. So | can't say no, there's not a cent within our budget to pay for any of this. I'm saying we would not be
able to accomplish what we're looking to accomplish with what we currently have because we didn't apply for a
grant for this. It didn't exist.
Alderman Klee
Mr. Mayor, Miss Smith has got her hand raised. | think she wants to add to the conversation.
Mayor Donchess
Miss Smith.
Karen Smith, Business Manager
Yes. Karen Smith. If | can just comment that the $2,500 and the $1,000 that we set aside is consider it like a
seed to the grant and yes Deputy Testaverde has mentioned that grants do look to see that initiative and that is
encouraged. Now | don't know if the grant would end up paying for the $2,500 or if that is something that's
kind of our investment in this. The budget will accommodate paying for the $2,500 and then we did put an
allotment of the $1,000 to bring us into the first quarter, if you will, of this program. After Finance, this is a
multi-year contract. It will need to go through the Board of Aldermen. So that timeframe is still going to, if this
is approved, going to take time. So we're probably going to be running right along nicely with hopefully the
approval from the grant program. Again, it's an appropriation so | don't even know if it's really considered a
grant but any funding that we could receive would definitely be something that we would need because the
amount of money that we have for this type of transcriptions is small - $ 2,500 and the $1,000 is about what
we're looking at for our budget program. We would definitely need the dollar amount that we're looking at for a
future program as the Deputy has explained is much greater than the parameters that we have for our working
budgets. Hope that helps.
