CEREMONIAL PRESENTATION ..Title Idea$ Pay Award Presentation Recipients: Gregory Gurr, Water System Operator II and Michael Murphy, Water System Operator II ..Body MICHAEL MURPHY Michael Murphy, Water System Operator II, submitted an Idea$ Pay recommendation for an innovative solution to a problem at the Water Division. Michael provided his professional opinion on the Water Division's security gate installation and layout. - There were nine (9) water meters out of the approximate sixty (60) meters that were too tall to open and read after the new gate was installed. The options were to reorder new shorter meters or have the meters cut and re-welded. Michael's recommended solution was to take the hinged lid which opens upward and modify it so it swings to the side allowing the meter to be read. The costs savings, benefits and effect from Michael's lid modification takes about ten (10) minutes to complete and requires only a ten cent per screw. After meeting with Mr. Murphy and confirming the one-time cost savings with the Water Division's Accounting Section, it was determined that an award in the amount of $100 was merited to Michael Murphy. GREG GURR Gregory Gurr, Water System Operator II, submitted an Idea$ Pay recommendation for an innovative solution to a problem at the Water Division. A waste product comprised of concrete and asphalt from water distribution jobs were piling up with no way to separate or salvage the fill dirt or fine soils. The recommended solution was to design and build a separator screen to be used at Material Transfer Station from used and new steel materials. The screen was a frame with bars and expanded metal screen mesh to allow small fine soils such as fill dirt to pass through the screen for reuse. The cost savings, benefit and effect has been that much less fuel is used to haul away waste material; less material purchased for backfill, less sorting done on jobsite which will help to speed up work efficiency and completion times. After meeting with Mr. Gurr and confirming the on-going cost savings with the Water Division's Operations Section, it was determined that an award in the amount of $500 was merited to Gregory Gurr. -end-