Your Money

Paid for by taxpayers in… City of West Des Moines

Amount: $908

To: Josalynn Agnew

For: Payment for services provided for First Steps Dance Classes, winter 2013.

Amount: $229.33

To: AKZO Nobel Paints LLC (Chicago, Ill.)

For: Purchase of four gallons of hunter green paint and one gallon of stain for painting the trash barrels.

Amount: $2,456.01

To: Bound Tree Medical LLC (Chicago, Ill.)

For: Purchase of emergency management services supplies.

Amount: $740

To: City Directories – subsidiary of InfoGroup (St. Louis, Mo.)

For: Purchase of bundles of Des Moines and West Des Moines city directories for the library.

Amount: $4,487.60

To: CDW Government Inc. (Chicago, Ill.)

For: Purchase of computer maintenance materials ($736.15) and a new Hewlitt-Packard laptop ($2,071.45) and docking station ($1,680), including $25.59 in shipping fees, for the Information Technology Services Department.

Amount: $1,330

To: Center for Public Safety Excellence (Chantilly, Va.)

For: Payment of annual accreditation fee for the Fire Department.

Amount: $834

To: City of Urbandale

For: Payment for January’s animal licensing services including a $26 donation.

Amount: $1,666.36

To: Coastal Training Technologies (Carol Stream, Ill.)

For: Rental fees for safety DVDs for the Fire Department.

Amount: $798

To: Color FX

For: Purchase of POC fire-fighter recruitment flyers to be mailed with bills.

Amount: $15,000

To: Connexion Consulting LLC

For: Payment for 100 hours of block consultation for the Information Technologies Department at $150 per hour.

Amount: $333.65

To: Rob Dehnert, EMS assistant chief

For: Reimbursement payment for travel expenses — such meals, parking and lodging — during a trip to Dallas, Texas, from Feb. 22-23 to attend EMS State of the Science: A Gathering of Eagles XV.

Salaries and Such

Name: Thomas P. Gallanis

Title: N. William Hines Chair in Law and Professor of History

Department: University of Iowa College of Law

Annual salary: $237,999.96

Travel

Des Moines City Council recently approved Fleet Services Equipment Coordinator Bill Voitel to travel to Indianapolis, Ind., from March 4 – 8, to attend the 2013 National Truck Equipment Association Work Truck Show conference. The conference promises to provide Voitel with the opportunity to view innovative new equipment/technology with ground-breaking new products and services. This comes at a $1,512.72 cost to local tax payers. CV