Paid for by taxpayers in… Des Moines
8/6/2014Amount: $10,100
To: Lyceum Agency (Oregon)
For: Forty percent of a lecture fee for Rebecca Skloot at the Des Moines Public Library on April 1-2
Amount: $700
To: Public Agency Training Council (Indiana)
For: Two police officers to attend a three-day seminar called “Bloodstain Pattern” in Ankeny
Amount: $300
To: U-Select-It
For: Annual renewal of monitoring software
Amount: $1,500
To: ATW Training & Consulting Inc.
For: A seminar called “Leadership Academy: Personal Effectiveness,” given by Rachel Spyksma on July 17
Amount: $816.23
To: Safariland, LLC (Florida)
For: Three knife box packs of 100 and 16 gun boxes with 25 per bundle
Amount: $1,820
To: Plumb Supply Company
For: Two discharge sewage pumps
Amount: $1,500
To: ALLDATA (California)
For: Series of online repairs for the East Side Library
Amount: $654.75
To: AmSan (Florida)
For: Various bathroom and cleaning products for the Des Moines Fire Station
Amount: $87.19
To: Answer Plus
For: Telephone answering service for the City of Des Moines – Odor Hot Line
Amount: $662.65
To: Beautiful Lawns by Long’s LLC
For: Leaf and flower cleanup and bush trimming and removal at the Franklin Library
Amount: $2,426.14
To: Beautiful Lawns by Long’s LLC
For: Mowing, trimming and sidewalk cleaning at municipal buildings and vacant lots paid by the City of Des Moines Real Estate
Amount: $37.19
To: Bone-A-Patreat
For: One “wholesomes lamb” for officer Anthony Ballantini
Amount: $12,378.79
To: BoundTree Medical (Ohio)
For: Various medical, health and safety items for the Des Moines Fire Department
Amount: $2,768.97
To: Bankers Trust Company
For: Parking ramps, Park & Ride and General & Trust and Agency
Salaries and such
Name: Mark A. Farley
Title: Football Head Coach
Department: University of Northern Iowa
Annual Salary: $338,253.08
Travel
The Des Moines City Council recently approved funding for travel expenses for Denise Schafnitz, senior police officer, to travel to Las Vegas from Sept. 23-27 to attend two courses sponsored by the Association of Certified Fraud Examiners. The courses are titled “Effective Report Writing for Fraud Examiners” and “Money Laundering Schemes: Identifying and Investigating.” Both are designed to improve investigative skills and result in higher quality case investigation and a greater suspect prosecution rate. This comes at a cost of $2,041.64 to taxpayers. CV
