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251022 . • '�, ORIOINALTO COUNCIL NO• �� e�rre�sRK C1TY OF SAINT PAUL FILE � APPROPRIATION TRANSFERS-RESOLUTION FORM PER CHARTER SECTION 208 u��= � �� _� �_ PRESENTED B COMMISSIONE obert F• S pqTc 19 R E S O L V E D � THAT THE FOLLOWING TRANSFERS BE MADE ON THE BOOKS OF • THE COMPTROLLER, AS BY SO DO1NG AN UNAVOIDABLE DEFICIENCY IN CER- TAIN ITEMS MAY BE MET BY SAID TRANSFERS WITHOUT HAMPERING THE WORK PROVIDED BY THE MONEY IN THE ITEMS FROM WHICH THE TRANSFERS ARE MADE. CODE AMOUNT TRANSFERRED APPORTIONED ITEM FROM I TO DR. CR. 271-800 Garbage Collection Cap.Out. 12,000.00 253-800 Refuse Removal " " 7,500.00 0258-8 Winter St. Mtc. gquip. Cap.Out. 19,500.00 YES (�/) COUNCILMEN (�/) NAYS ti(�v � � ��Is Sprafka ADOPTED BY THE COUNCI� _L9 • Carleon � 3 „�� Butler % APPROVED 19 IN FAVOR Tedesco Meredith � 0 AYOR GAINST Levine S �IQ 1 rty COUNTERSIGNED BY � - - }.� �/�� CITY COMP OLLER //� �'/ � MR.�F'REOSIDENT p�gLISHED �� `/` '" � - �1TY p Rey p s�i o � ,�� -�� _ ,, �� . wo i:�:,r .:. RICHARD A. SCHNARR CITY OF SAINT PAUL .10HN B. LAPOINTE Chief Engineer Deputy Commissioner Capital of Minnesota DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC WORKS 234 City Hall & Court House 55102 ROBERT F. SPRAFKA Commissioner October 6, 1970 Mr. Loa McKenna City Comptroller Roan 109 C i ty Ha 1 1 8 Cou rt Hou se Oear Mr. McKenna: Attached is a Transfer of Funds transferring $12,000 from 0271-800, Garbage Capital Outlay, and $7,500 from 0253-800, Refuse Removal , to 0258-800, Winter Street Maintenance Capital Outlay. Sinee the Council has stated its intention of going out of the garbage business, there will be no need for the $12,000 in the Garbage Collection fu�d. The $7,SOO was for a compactor body which will not be purchased since a newer compactor now being used for garbage collection will be used in its place. Attached is a copy of the recominended Winter Street Maintenance Capital Outlay purchases approved by myself and the Chief Engineer. If we are to p�oceed with these purchases, your approval of the attached Transfer of Funds is needed. If there are any questions, I and my staff will be available at your convenience. Sincerely, 4 � r�_ \'`, ,` r-� rt F. Spraf Comnissioner of b� c �(o�ks RFS:JFS:ddr J cc: R. A. Schnarr G. Kent Schonberger J. F. Schwartz 22 . , . , / , . . � �1 fHE DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC WORKS u�✓ � � OF THE � ; � CITY OF SY. PAUL � : , � INTER-OFFICE COMMUNICA710N ! . ' ( ` ; � i i � , , � . , . � SUBJECT: RECOMMENDED WINTER STREET MAINTENANCE CAPITAL OUTLAY PURCHASES i � i ' � • � � ; It has been no easy thing each year to attempt to come up with priority I j recommcndations for cquipment additions or replacements for our wi�ter street I ' � m��intenance operations. Usually there are so many old pieces of equipment I � i necding replacement and we are so 'short of many things l �ke truck plows, and ! �I loaders and most of this equipment costs from a minimum ��f� $10,000 to a ; . ra��ximum of $25�000 each, averaging perhaps $17,000 to $1$,000. When our e�tire � ' Capital Outlay total for winter street maintenance is ab�ut $30,000 this � � ' indicates that two pieces of equipment are literally all�we can get each year � ` � and this is totally inadequate for a street system such as the City of St. Paul � has. ! � j It has bcen decided that the City of St. Paul will !go out of the garbage1' I collection business at the end of 1970 and therefore, bids which were earlier '; � L�k�n for compactur truck chassis for both the Garbage Office and the paper ' � truck were cancelled out. However, I would very strongly request and recommend i � to you and plead for youC assistance in securing approvals from the proper ; authorities for transfer of the $7,500 in the Capital Outlay code in fund ; � 0253 - Refuse Collection and for the $12,000 in the Capital Outlay account in � � code number 0271 - Garbage Collection. This would then augment the approximate ' $3�+.500 now in the Winter Maintenance Capital Outlay fund by another $19,500 � getting us about $54,000 for winter equipment. On that assumption we would , like to propose the following recommendations: � l. We always seem to be short an adequate number of truck plows and � , we have observed that the City of Minneapolis� Minnesota Nighway ; 1 Oepartment, Hennepin County and others all have snowplows mounted � � on their sand spinner trucks although the City of St. Paul has ; � never done this. We feel this is entirely p�actical to try� inasmuch, � as the times when we are at the peak snowplowing effort we usually �, intentionally reduce the �umber of sand spinners on the street and ; I we therefbre, propose buying six plows with their frames, pumps � I and other componEnts to be installed on six of our present sander ; i , trucks and if this proves feasible this coming year we may recommen;d � � additional plows for installation on sanders in subsequent years. � `' We will trade in two Vee type plows plus any ther j u�k plows. � � Six one-way snowplows complete for mounting o� spinner trucks � (� $1 ,500 . $ 9,000; i : i I i ; I ' � ; . � i � ' �' . � � , � , , � � r i � I ! � . � � . � ; � i �. ,� • I i � I � -Z j � I 2. Most of our tractor loader fleet is getting so old and the only two� � •� ' units which have been added since 1965 are two used units obtained � � in 1967 for a trade on two new but unused belt loaders purchased � earlier by the department. We have two 1958 model Lorain Loaders � } � which are getting in quite poor conditlon. It is recommended that ! we purchase one new one and three quarter cubic yard front end � , ; rubber-tired loader� of the articulated type costing approximately � ; � $18,000 a�d trading City numbers 431 and 432 at a trade-in value of� ; M $1 �500 making a net cost to the City of approximately - 1� 6,500, i ; , � � � � 3. Minneapolis and many other governmental agencies use tandem type ! � trucks for sanding purposes as they will carry twice as much sand ; � , ? or salt requiring less trips back to be replenished for the same number � of driver hours. We recommend the purchase of two tandem-spinner ! � trucks having at least 10 cubic yard cc�pacity boxes and with cab � ; } shlelds or deflectors, power steering� spinner type discharge and i � I a crank shaft power take-off onty� and are requesting alternate � bids based on either automatic transmission or conventional transmission ; at our option. Such trucks cost approximately $11 �000 each for a � I , total of $22�000 and we propose to trade-in three of our old 1962- ' , . i . 63 model spinners City number 234, 235 and 236 which may have a , � combined trade-in value of $2,000 making a net cost of - 20 000' i � � 4. Until 1969, the range of loaders which we owned either went to the ! ' extreme of a small bobcat type loader or the huge four wheel type ' ; � loader in the neighborhood of one and three-quarter cubic yards ' � which is very expensive to buy and to operate. These large loaders' ! , were utilized even for cleaning up after sweeper dumps which is ; ' tike using a 10 ton truck to haul feathers. A year ago we bought ; two small farm tractor type loaders costing less than $5,000 apiece� ; and we utilized them for snow purposes during � last winter and have � I j been utilizing them this summer in conjunction with street cleaning i � operations and sweeper dump removal and they have proven to be ; ; � quite satisfactory. It is recommended that two more such units be ; ! obtained costing approximately $5,000 each for a total of �10�000, i � such units to be of the Ford or Massey-Ferguson type and that we � � trade-in the Uniloaders City number 435 and 436 at $500.00 each i I for a total trade-In of $1 �000 making a net cost of - 000 I .i � � � YOTAL $S�+.S�q I I I� We have other needs such as the fact that we have a 1942 s�ow-go� City , number 864 which is plain junk and the f,ront end is so badly be�t up it is � � ' � � I � � �_ � I i � . . � � � I . ;` i i . i � � i � . - ' . � � , • , � � � � i , I . . i Q -3 ' , impossibie to repair and we cannot secure parts for such an antiquated model. + � � Nowcver� we have 4 other snow-gos and in the event of very few breakdowns we � wiil probably be able to get by. �' ;i � ; The above needs we feel are the most urgent and your approval to their , purchase and the fund tra�sfe� necessary to pay for them would be greatly I app�eciated. ' � � ; .� �� , / ; I �� Kent Schonberger ,•' Engineer of Mainte�ance Ser ices � I , � APPROVALS: . � I, .�...� � ` • I � Richard A. Schnarr Robert F. Spraf ka � ; Chief Engineer Commissioner of Publie Wo k I � i ' KS/cl ' � cc: J. Schwartz , • Ray Hunt � � Len Coffeen � Dick Nunt I ' . DEN i ; Bill Boeck � � r- �✓ ' s � �� . �; , ; � ; �� ; , � i , � . fi ; ; � � � � � � � ► . � : ; , . � ; . � , � „ � i � � ; ; � � i : .,,�� . . � . + ...__. . . . �51�`%2 No�lce . CI`�7.' C.< ST. PAUL'� Council Fi.ln i?o. � to . • 1;1]`;��SGTA PrS.r.ter - . r• . cotn;cz�, �,sot,u�ri o:v . a 9 � l?�SOL�',D� t;;at tra transfers ��:ithin �'unds of tY:e various City D�p�i-�;,lerts ., . heretoforc a��z•oved b;T tl�° Cit;.' Co:nptroller, as �uc;� transfers of funds as of • NaV 31970 � are indicated in docwr.nnts attached hereto and made a part h�reof by �eference, as fu11�- as if tl�e same were �ei, forth fully and ce;apletely here;in, .�..�. - are" hereb3* ap�raved, conies of the aforementioned also b�5.ng on file in -the of- fice of th� Cl�y CZQrK and S.n the cffice or the Gity C�,�p{;�o1�.er. � � � N4V 3 �J'70 _ Adoptcd by tLe"Council � 19 ' . � � 3 1'�� Cit.y Ccanptrollei, .. Approved " �,g� B� . • PUBLISHED � •