Salisbury reviews clerk and council budget items for software, laptops, phones and staffing

City Clerk Julie English outlined proposed changes to the city clerk's and city council's budgets during a Salisbury council meeting, highlighting a new agenda-management software, expanded training funds, plans to issue city laptops and options for council cell phones, and a potential new position to support council duties.

The clerk said the primary account for the clerk's office is 11100 and that the office budgeted purchase and recurring costs in account 534502. "The biggest thing that we had a budget for this year is the software that we got to help manage and create the agenda packets," Julie English, city clerk for the City of Salisbury, said. She said the city plans a parallel test of the new agenda system on May 12 and expects to move it live afterward. English also said the software line item in the printing account (555502) included $5,000 to cover a revised contract with CivicPlus and Municode for online code and charter publishing.

English said the software…