Ours is almost identical to Deschutes County's. The primary difference being that we only have 3 reimbursement levels: $40, $75, and $125. We are planning to add the other two shortly. Randy Paul, Director Klamath County Information Technology 403 Pine Street, 3rd Floor Klamath Falls, Oregon 97601 541 883 5142 -----Original Message----- From: oagitm-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:oagitm-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Joe Sadony Sent: Monday, April 27, 2009 11:21 AM To: Tony.Black@xxxxxxxxxxxxx; oagitm@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: [oagitm] Re: PDA/Cell Phone Stipend Our policy at Deschutes supports two plans: Plan "A" covers county issued cell phones. Personal use is allowed "infrequently for limited duration in instances of family emergencies if these calls cannot be made from a land line phone within a reasonable period of time." Plan "B" covers reimbursement for business use of a personal cell phone. The taxable monthly allowance is categorized at these levels: Category 1 $25.00 Category 2 $40.00 Category 3 $75.00 Category 4 $100.00 Category 5 $125.00 The department head sets the plan and the category based on usage. Under Plan "B" we do have Blackberry owners receiving an allowance. Some, but not all, are connected to the county email/calendaring system. The county does not support Windows Mobile (yet). We have a mobile device policy that is somewhat conflicting stating that PDA's must be owned by the county. We still adhere to this policy for non-cellular PDA's or any PDA-like device to be directly connected to a PC or the internal network. This was written prior to the Blackberry explosion and is under review. Joe Sadony IT Director, Deschutes County joes@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx V: 541.388.6530 C: 541.419.5615 http://www.co.deschutes.or.us From: oagitm-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:oagitm-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of BLACK Tony H Sent: Monday, April 27, 2009 10:46 AM To: oagitm@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: [oagitm] PDA/Cell Phone Stipend Lane County currently provides employees a stipend of $30/month if an employee uses their personal cell phone for County business rather than the County providing them a phone. We are exploring business use of PDA's so are contemplating whether the County should establish a higher stipend to PDA-users to cover some percentage of the higher cost voice plus data plans. Are any of you providing employees stipends that include data for personally-owned PDA's? If so, what is your organization's monthly stipend amount to the employee? Thanks in advance. Tony tony.black@xxxxxxxxxxxxx <mailto:tony.black@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>