Clerk, administrative services and parks lay out personnel and equipment requests in budget review

Multiple departmental presenters used the May 14 work session to request targeted personnel and one-time investments.

Presenter covering the city clerk's office (Speaker 3) outlined the division’s broad duties and asked for a senior deputy clerk position and provisional records clerks to help with records retention and scanning. The presenter said staff have already sent 27 boxes of records to the Wyoming State Archives over the last two years and described options to increase hours or pay to attract qualified records candidates.

Director of Administrative Services (Speaker 5) described the ERP and utility-billing implementation effort and said the department would transfer about $15,000 from the ERP phase budget into administrative services to fund additional implementation labor and overtime; the transfer was characterized as not increasing city-wide spending but moving funding between internal accounts.

Parks and Recreation (Speaker 1) highlighted a request for a new full-time park maintenance position, argued the position’s $78,000 figure includes benefits and retirement, and proposed a $75,000 cemetery study to assess future burial capacity; the department also proposed multi-year lighting and wading-pool design projects and modest increases in program supplies to expand recreation offerings.

Why it matters: Requests target operating capacity (records management, ERP staffing, parks maintenance) that affect everyday municipal services and could reduce future emergency repairs or external contract costs.

Next steps: Staff reiterated the May 19 midnight deadline for council-submitted budget amendments and encouraged councilmembers to collaborate with staff to refine amendment language before that date.