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Cost Savings Initiatives

Department Initiative Benefit Savings / Result

Fire Use of shift fire personnel to Defers the need to hire an additional fire $134,000
conduct annual inspector for the Fire Prevention division
commercial fire inspections to meet annual inspection requirements
and maintain current ISO Fire Protection
rating

Use of federal grant funds Department obtained an Assistance to $150,432
to offset city cost to Firefighters Grant to minimize cost to city
replace Self-Contained to replace the department’s aging
Breathing Apparatus and equipment
associated equipment

Ambulance Module Refurbishment of existing ambulance $94,476
Refurbishment and Chassis module and chassis remount resulting in
Remount cost savings as compared to purchasing
a new unit

Human Revamped the Wellness Resulted in $242,147 refund to the city
Resources Program

Executive Recruiting for Handled the recruitment process in- $23,481
Police Chief house rather than hiring a head-hunter
firm

Successfully subrogated Performed in-house rather than hiring a $14,656
property and liability claims consultant

Library MetrOPAC Borrowing Allows library users to borrow items from $566,280
Agreement MetrOPAC member libraries, saving the
Keller Public Library the expense of
purchasing these items

TexShare Databases Total cost of access to databases if $157,866
purchased outside the TexShare
consortium

MetrOPAC courier service MetrOPAC courier service provides $84,942
deliveries 5 days a week, saving the
Keller Public Library the cost of mailing
interlibrary loans via traditional postal
service

North Texas Libraries on the Keller Public Library users have access to $82,000
Go Consortium - Overdrive content purchased by all 30 members of
the consortium

North Texas Libraries on the Keller Public Library users have access to $13,500
Go Consortium – RB Digital content purchased by all 31 members of
the consortium

Volunteers Library volunteers contributed 4,457 $32,313
hours of work at the library

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