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Cost Savings Initiatives
Department Initiative
Community Reorganization of Planning,
Development Building Services and Code
Compliance to grow
professionals from within to
increase longevity and
alignment with the Keller
values model
Fire Deferred replacement of
one fire department
command vehicles and
one fire inspector staff
vehicle
Use of shift fire personnel to
conduct annual
commercial fire inspections
Information Deferred replacement of
Services equipment
Install cabling in Fire Station
1, MSC, and Keller Pointe for project, relying less on contractor
access control refresh
Utilize retired server and
Storage Area Network
(SAN) for Library
Virtualize GIS Server
Utilize retired laptops for
training purposes
Combine Senior Activities
Center and Library patron
networks
Library MetrOPAC Borrowing
Agreement
TexShare Databases
Benefit Savings / Result
Salary savings help achieve Council goal $104,362
of keeping increases to staff services at
or below 4% of total personnel cost and
opened an avenue for professional
growth and development in the City
rather than job hopping
Replaces staff and command vehicles $180,000
based on use (mileage) and
maintenance costs instead of age
Defers the need to hire an additional fire $134,000
inspector for the Fire Prevention division
to meet annual inspection requirements
and maintain current ISO Fire Protection
rating
Extends useful life of equipment based $33,200
on use and cost of maintenance instead
of replacing solely on years of service
Install network cabling for access control $9,500
Reduced server costs by using retired $9,500
frontline server and SAN
Reduced server costs by moving from $7,000
physical to virtual server
Reduced the number of laptops $5,600
purchased for training by refurbishing
retired laptops
Allows the elimination of data service at $1,200
the Senior Activities Center and provides
more reliable internet service
Allows library users to borrow items from $566,280
MetrOPAC member libraries, saving the
Keller Public Library the expense of
purchasing these items
Total cost of access to databases if $157,866
purchased outside the TexShare
consortium
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