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Cost Savings Initiatives
Department Initiative Benefit Savings / Result
Police Partnership with Humane The Humane Society of North Texas $150,000
Society of North Texas provides the employees at the Regional
Adoption Center
Keller ISD pays half the cost of officer’s $223,281
School Resource Officer salary and contributes a lump sum
annually toward equipment and vehicle
expenses
Provides funds to purchase necessary $41,711
Public Safety Answering Point equipment, maintenance agreements,
(PSAP) – Assistance etc. for the Dispatch Center.
Provides funds to cover radio $40,792
PSAP – P25 maintenance cost, upgrades, and new
radios for the City
Contract with Roanoke to house Class C $20,000
Jail and Animal Service with arrestees and shelter stray dogs and cats
the City of Roanoke for a per arrestee/per animal fee
Partnership with the Department of $19,186
Ballistic Vest Partnership Justice to purchase ballistic vest for the
officers
Provides additional funding for the $2,500 (variable
Sale of used brass and department to purchase training supplies based on brass
firearms and equipment collection and
going rate for brass)
Public Works Streetlight audit Internal review identified numerous $12,000
streetlights in private gated communities,
apartment parking lots and other non-
public areas that were being billed to
the city
Traffic signal retiming grant Staff secured two separate 80/20 $80,000
matching grants for signal retiming along
FM 1709 and U.S. Hwy. 377
Supply vending machines Public Works basic operations supplies $8,000
such as safety equipment, chemical
supplies, vehicle maintenance items and
small tools are now managed by a third
party via a vending machine platform
Municipal Service Center Third party contracted to convert $3,100
(MSC) LED conversion inefficient 450w metal-halide parking lot
lighting at the MSC to more efficient
150w LED fixtures
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