CONSULTANTS' FEES:

Over the last several months, we've been seeing a great deal of money being paid to consultants, and for jobs and expertise we felt might better be done by city employees. So we decided to tally up some of the costs and the results are shown below. (This only reflects money requested be paid since the 9/6/00 council meeting, since those are the only ones we have at the moment.)
Payee (Consultant)
Amount Requested to be Paid 9/6/00 through 12/6/00:
Berryman & Hennigar $153,851.05
Earth Tech $154,143.36
Lawyers/Attorneys (99% of this was paid to Keithly, Weed and Grafstra) $30,555.00

This represents 16.8% of the total 2000 General Fund Expenditures, as amended by Resoltuion 752-00.