Richland County Council
Administration and Finance Committee

Tuesday, March 27, 2001, 6:00 p.m.

Report of Actions

Call To Order – Joe McEachern, Committee Chair, called the meeting to order at 6:10.

Approval of Minutes – The minutes of the February 27, 2001 Regular Session Meeting were approved as submitted.

Adoption of Agenda – The agenda was adopted as submitted.

Items for Action

1. Appearance Commission: Voting Members – The Committee unanimously recommended that Council approve first reading to the change in the ordinance providing two additional, voting members of the Appearance Commission, with the new members to be voted on by the full Council.
2. Election Commission: Voting Machine Preventative Maintenance – The Committee unanimously recommended that Council approve the expenditure of up to $45,000.00 to have the preventative maintenance and firmware 5.02 chip upgrade, performed by MicroVote Corporation on the County’s inventory of 655 electronic voting machines.
3. Finance: Spending Resolution for the Township and Detention Center – The Committee unanimously recommended that Council approve the resolution authorizing the expenditure of General Fund monies in an amount not to exceed $13,030,000 to renovate the Township Auditorium and expand the Detention Center. These funds will be reimbursed to by the proceeds of general obligation bonds or other identified revenue sources. With this recommendation, the Committee also implicitly recommended that Council formally approve the expansion of the Detention Center.
4. Treasurer’s Office: Military Forest Funds – The Committee unanimously decided to forward this item to Council with no recommendation, for the full Council to decide how to allocate new funding in the amount of $44,596.92 stemming from a portion of the receipts from military timber sales. Funds must be allocated and expended by June 30, 2001 "for the benefit of the public schools and public roads of the county or counties in which the military installation or facility is situated."
5. Detention Center: Pilot Project for House Arrest – The Committee unanimously recommended that Council give first reading approval to an ordinance authorizing the County’s Detention Center to offer electronic monitoring, or house arrest, services to its inmates, with participating defendants bearing all associated costs.
6. Sheriff’s Department – The Committee unanimously recommended that Council approve the following three requests for vehicles to replace aging, high-mileage vehicles, totaling six vehicles and $129,289.76. Staff was also directed to continue monitoring the budget.

1. Two unmarked Crown Victorias – in the amount of $45,050.00, as patrol vehicles
2. Two unmarked Chevy Impalas – in the amount of $46,822.00, for the Warrant Division
3. Two Marked Chevy Luminas – in the amount of $37,417.76, for the Civil Process Division

7. Airport Commission: Lease Agreement for Curtiss Wright Hangar – The Committee unanimously recommended that Council give first reading approval to an ordinance authorizing the Airport Commission to lease the Curtiss Wright hangar for one dollar a year for twenty years in order to raise private funds for rehabilitation of this National Historic Registry hangar.

Items Pending Analysis

1. Police Officers’ Retirement – no report

Items for Discussion

1. Communications Specialist – no report

Adjournment - The Committee adjourned at 6:45 PM.

Staffed by Pam Davis