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INDIAN RIVER COUNTY, FLORIDA <br />AGENDA ITEM <br />Assistant County Administrator / <br />Department of General Services <br />CONSENT AGENDA <br />BCC Meeting 06-02-2020 <br />Date: May 15, 2020 <br />To: The Honorable Board of County Commissioners <br />Thru: Jason E. Brown, County Administrator <br />From: Michael C. Zito, Assistant County Administrator <br />Subject: Sandridge Golf Course - Pineapple Credit Card Processing Agreement <br />It is requested that the information herein presented be given formal consideration by the Board of <br />County Commission at its regular meeting of June 2, 2020. <br />DESCRIPTIONS AND CONDITIONS: <br />The Golf Course has operated a separate remote credit card machine at the driving range for the <br />past six years on its Range Servant ball machine. Each year the credit card reader at the driving <br />range processes over $130,000.00 through ETS, as the merchant provider. ETS has sent notice <br />they will be discontinuing use of the IDTECH card readers with ETS encryption. As a result, credit <br />cards will stop working at the dispenser on June 1, 2020. The Range Servant machine will now be <br />setup with Pineapple, which uses First Data processing. The switch also results in savings in <br />processing fees of .5% annually resulting in a savings of $650.00 per year. In addition to the <br />change in credit card processing, the golf course must purchase a new door for the machine with <br />the same select touch capabilities that we currently have except for the new processor. <br />ANALYSIS: <br />The original agreement for ETS was signed and approved by the Board of County Commissioners <br />on January 15, 2019. Current policies dictate that all agreements must be approved by the Board of <br />County Commissioners. <br />FUNDING: <br />The $1,200.00 door purchase is considered a capital improvement and is not currently budgeted. <br />Funding for this expense will be provided from Golf Course reserves. Under the Pineapple <br />agreement there are no upfront costs, and transaction fees are funded from the Golf Course's credit <br />card fees account. The savings realized under the new agreement are estimated to be <br />approximately $250.00 through the end of the current fiscal year. <br />82 <br />