Finance Committee - 02/17/2021 Page 6
Director Kleiner
Mayor if | may.
Mayor Donchess
Go ahead, please.
Director Kleiner
So there are some items on here and we do handle the (inaudible) package through the City; it is handled
through the IT Division. It’s important that this is handled through IT, it’s handled through one significant
Department who is overseeing so we have a number of employees, Mr. Miseirvitch, Mr. Pearl that work on this
software and know it and support it. It’s very significant both Mr. Griffin and | work with schools in a number of
different fashions. So it really wouldn’t be worthwhile to do that. | did look at that particular item and
questioned the 1,500 users. But! think | was going to check back with Mr. Codagnone later. I’m not sure that
that is specifically accurate to that line item. Although | get your point on the 1,500, you’re not being charged
for the 1,500 that’s a total of all the software that it covers.
Alderman Klee
If | may follow up Mr. Mayor.
Mayor Donchess
Yes, yes, please.
Alderman Klee
| wasn’t necessarily questioning, | mean | did think that 1,500 seemed like quite a few just like the Human
Resources package having 3,500 users but then | assumed that it was all of the employees that were able to
access and so on. | just didn’t know if we knew what the cost of that was if we did a chargeback to the School
Department to their budget. You know how we are doing some, | don’t know how to explain it but last year |
noticed that we were doing some chargebacks in other words it would fall into one Department. They did the
service but there was a line item on their budget too. So | didn’t know if this fell into their budget as well. And |
can see Mr. Codagnone has a comment as well?
Director Codagnone
If | could clarify. The money that we pay for in for Lawson is a lump sum so all of the different items such as
Teacher's Contract and the Employee Self-Service and all those things, we are not paying by line item. So
even if we eliminate something from that line or charge someone else, we don’t have a price per line we have it
for the entire thing, for the entire application. So it would be very difficult to figure out per line item, you know, if
we wanted to charge 2,500 employees for a charge to schools, we don’t know what line item breaks down to.
So it would be very difficult to do that line item chargeback.
Alderman Klee
That answers my question perfectly. Thank you so much both of you.
Mayor Donchess
Alright, any other questions or comments? Madam Clerk could you please call the roll?
