Paid for by taxpayers in… Polk County
12/25/2013Amount: $2,150
To: Lister Industries
For: Purchase of parking barriers ($50 each) plus $100 in delivery fees.
Amount: $132.79
To: Loffredo Fresh Produce Company Inc.
For: Purchase of bananas for the jail.
Amount: $789.50
To: Menard’s in Ankeny
For: Purchase of 50 standard mailboxes ($15.97 a piece).
Amount: $7.99
To: Menards in Des Moines
For: Purchase of ADM fleece winter gloves.
Amount: $1,395.09
To: Midwest Office Technology
For: Payment for services maintaining a copier, plus an additional $373.88 in maintenance agreements $373.88.
Amount: $1,340.37
To: MTI Distributing Inc.
For: Payment for repair services to Toro mowers for the Jester Park Equipment Maintenance division.
Amount: $955.74
To: MTM Recognition
For: Purchase of “We Care – Years of Service” awards for Public Works.
Amount: $1,228
To: Jonathan Narcisse
For: Cost of printing 3,600 copies of Senior Bulletins for Senior Services.
Amount: $1,746.60
To: Justice Center Annex
For: Reimbursements for engineering/architecture work on county offices.
Amount: $130.04
To: Palmer’s Deli and Market
For: Purchase of box lunches for the Polk County Board of Supervisors’ Dec. 3 Homeless Coordinating Council.
Amount: $52.18
To: McKesson General Medical Company
For: Purchase of two gallons of acetone for the health department.
Amount: $75.28
To: McKesson Corporation
For: Purchase of four vials of 150mg depo-provera (contraception injections) for the health department.
Salaries and Such
Name: Diane Bassham
Title: Professor and Helen Parke Loomis Professor of Plant Physiology
Department: Iowa State University Department of Genetics, Development and Cell Biology
Years of service: 12
Annual salary: $99,953.06
Travel
The Des Moines City Council recently approved senior fire medic, Tony Sposeto, to travel to Washington, D.C., from Feb. 4-9, to attend the JEMS Conference and Exposition, which is considered to be a highly regarded conference with many key classes that offer innovative training ideas for emergency management service personnel. Education programs promise to address training for new recruits, which is particularly relevant for the city’s new recruit class, according to the city manager. The training also is said to provide useful resources for field training. This comes at a $1,645 cost to local taxpayers. CV