City of Rapid City

New Initiative to Address Growth

General Fund Budget Request

Item Requested:		Growth Initiatives
Department	Library		Division:						Cost Center
Budget Year Funds Requested					x 2007		2008		2009			On-Going
Type of Request		x Capital Expenditure				x Staffing Request					x Special Project
Description and Justification
FTE 2007 costs within 5% operational increase 1.5 FTE School Community Library (one month $4,444) 1 FTE Facilities Maintenance $31,982 2007 Total cost $310,000 of operational expenses outside of 5% increase and fixed costs 1. Public Space Realignment: Community, Learning and Quiet Spaces $300,000 (estimation) One time capital expenditure This is an estimated project total. Final figures are expected by the budget deadline in April. A 60-40 split is recommended, with 60% from public funds $300,000 and 40% $200,000 from private funding such as the Library Foundation and Friends of the Library. Total estimated cost $500,000. 2. Laptops for Mobile Training Lab $5,000 Planned replacement of existing lab – existing lab will be designated Homework Helper machines as well as patron check-out Increase by four the number of laptops based on computer instruction usage by the public and library, city, and county staff development training 3. .5 T1 Line $5,000 Library services are seeing an increase in emerging technologies for online delivery. This line is needed for continued support of public access to online resources – pod casting, streaming video RSS feeds. The additional bandwidth is needed to offer public services at the acceptable level we offer currently. Limitations could be considered by allowing a limited number of people to access services at one time but it would not be quality of service recommended 4. Network Services .25 FTE ($9,338 10 more hrs. per week. Not included in the costs, noted for a placeholder in the technology reconfiguration) Increase .75 FTE to 1.0 FTE for a total of 2 FTE to meet standards for library services offered and use of equipment by staff and public
Cost Summary
				2007				2008		2009			On-Going
Personnel (Wages & Benefits)				$1,715,560				$		$			$
Supplies & Services				$474,294				$		$			$
Capital Expenditures				$826,510				$		$			$
Total Cost				$3,016,364				$		$			$
Offsetting Revenue				$ 0				$		$			$
Net Cost				$3,016,364				$		$			$
If this request is tied to other funding sources (e.g. grants, State or County funding, CIP projects) please identify the funding source, dollar amount and any conditions of that funding.