The decision to spend money on laptop computers for themselves did not compute for all on Salmon Arm council. Council was reviewing a motion to provide each councillor a credit of $2,000 to be spent on a laptop for themselves, along with USB jump drives, in order to move away from paper council agendas. But for Mayor Marty Bootsma and all councillors except Ivan Idzan and Chad Eliason, this amount was too rich and a motion was made to amend the amount to $1,000. Even then, Jamieson said he wouldn’t touch the money, stating he’d work with what he had when he was voted in. Harrison argued that computers tend to create more paper. Bootsma argued anything more than $500 was overkill. “All it needs to do is read a flash drive, you could almost do that with a Commodore 64.”Council agreed to the $7,000 expense.
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