2019-02-14 (draft) Cost of Government Commission minutes

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Cost of Government Commission February 14, 2019 meeting minutes Jones: Any other correction that you know? (15:31): I didn’t see any other corrections Jones: If there is no further discussion with corrections all in favor of accepting these th minutes from January 10? (All): I Jones: Motion carried. (Crosstalk) Jones: Shall we move on to subcommittee reports? And unless there is an objection I would like to start with the vehicle report which is very extensive. Mr. Buehler that would be you. Buehler: Okay, I think she forwarded the email which was then updated and I did pass out a, this is based on a news article that was in the West Hawaii today Tuesday and th the 11 whatever day that was. There was some interesting information revealed in that article so I passed out an updated spreadsheet first of all, I changed the spreadsheet to become a little bit more realistic by assuming a 5 year limitation period so we have numbers for each year could be a little bit of savings could be a little bit of expenses, assumptions, benefits. And I imputed the monthly subsidy amount I changed it from 488 to 562 that’s the second line on the spreadsheet and the impact on that to decrease the potential savings significantly I believe on the estimated average fleet cost per vehicle that I used does not include all the hardware and the radio and all that other stuff the lights. I am assuming that that all comes with the vehicle but in any event that cost the county already has because they put it into the private vehicles so whether it is on a fleet vehicle or private that cost is already there so. That shouldn’t necessarily come into this analysis but I could be wrong. (18:26): At least a good portion of it because some of the cost is built into the vehicle when they are manufactured vehicles. I would say probably most would. Buehler: So I think for unless the committee my fellow committee members want to make some adjustments which I don’t have any problems with, we can proceed to submit this as an overall high altitude view of implementing the fleet suggestion. The other component which is not in here which was in the news article was the office receives a gallon of gas free for every 10 miles on duty. I assume that’s what that means, for personal use. I just did a quick rough estimate that is probably another 360,000 a year that would not necessarily. I did 400 officers times 100 miles average 100 miles a shift times 3 shifts times 3$ a gallon. There is a lot of more money in this savings and I don’t really want to put it in there unless you want to. 3