City Council approves bid from Jeff Wiseman for computer work

The employees at Belleville City Hall will be able to do their work easier and faster with new computer equipment that works with the BS&A software now in place.
And, the proposed bid should be accepted and the equipment put in place at six work stations.
That’s what the council was told by City Manager Diana Kollmeyer at Monday’s regular meeting.
The council then unanimously accepted the lone bid for computer services and equipment from Jeff Wiseman of Wise Technologies at a cost of $9,612.20.
Wiseman’s bid was opened at the Sept. 21 meeting and after discussion and many questions the bid was turned over to City Manager Kollmeyer. She said she would sit down with Wiseman and get answers and bring a recommendation back to the council. Her recommendation was to accept the bid.
Wiseman currently is the city’s consultant on its computer system.
City Manager Kollmeyer said she would bring a budget amendment to the next meeting.
In other business at Monday’s meeting, the council:
• Approved a proposal for Tucker Insurance to give away cider and donuts from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. on Wednesday, Oct. 21, at the Fourth Street Square as part of the Booville celebration in Belleville;
• Heard Mayor Kerreen Conley read a proclamation naming Oct. 4-10 as National Fire Prevention Week in Belleville. The proclamation said Belleville residents should install smoke alarms in every sleeping room, outside each separate sleeping area, and on every level of the home because half of home fire deaths result from fires reported between 11 p.m. and 7 a.m. when most people are asleep;
• Heard Fire Chief Brian Loranger say his department’s fire truck will be at Edgemont Elementary School on Oct. 7 and at Harvest Fest on Saturday, Oct. 10;
• Approved accounts payable of $41,914.72 and a departmental purchase in excess of $500: to Work N Gear, uniforms from the general fund, $1,600;
• Heard DPW Director Keith Tackett explain the new manhole covers that will have the city seal on them. He said each one is 137 pounds and EJ Ironworks offers the design free if a municipality buys 30 or more. With the new SRF loan to upgrade the sewer system, the city is buying 40 lids. He said from now on anytime the city replaces a manhole cover it will be with one of these;
• Heard City Manager Kollmeyer explain that the precise schedule of the school resource officer is being kept for evaluation of the services the city gives to the school district. She said it is to see if hours are being spent that the city pays for. “It’s a pretty rigid schedule,” she said. Her comment was in response to a question by Michael Renaud about whether the city is looking at a new deal with the school on the resource officer;
• Heard Mayor Conley say she is happy to see an officer in front of her house near Belleville High School where “a whole bunch of children hang out.” Police Chief Hal Berriman said there have been some pretty good foot chases in that area, which keeps his officers in shape;
• Heard Councilman Tom Fielder announce this week end will be busy in Belleville with BHS Homecoming on Friday and Harvest Fest on Saturday. He also said the museum exhibit on Belleville Lake is down now and available for display at places throughout the community. He said Van Buren Township Treasurer Sharry Budd has asked for it to come to the VBT Hall;
• Heard an owner of Sugar Plum Candy Shoppe on South Street ask if the lights were all put out on South Street to make it spooky for Booville. He said there have been no lights since Friday. Tackett said that was not the idea and he was working on fixing it. It may be a timer problem and then there is “a fault in the logic circuit”;
• Heard Mary Talaga ask when the mess at E. Huron River Drive and S. Edgemont will be cleaned up. Tackett said MichCon promised an answer next week. MichCon is waiting for Wayne County to issue a permit. He also said the county inspectors for the E. Huron River Drive road job were in earlier that day and told him crews would be in to move some of the grass blankets that have been displaced by wind and driving over, and to re-water and re-seed;
• Went into closed-door session to consult with the city attorney regarding strategy for pending litigation, on the basis that an open meeting would have a detrimental financial impact on the position of the city in the litigation; and
• Then went into a second closed-door session to discuss the status and strategy of pending union negotiations.