The city of Fayetteville's computer system has grown so large and complex that a full time person is needed to maintain it, says acting city manager Johnny Roberts.

City Council Monday will vote on Roberts' recommendation that a full time systems administrator be hired, taking those duties off the backs of finance director Lynn Raven and police Capt. Steve Ledbetter, freeing them for their other duties.

Cost of the additional person for the remainder of the city's 2000 budget will be $19,048, Roberts said, adding that the full salary and benefits will have to be factored into next year's budget.

Roberts also recommended changing the rank of captain in the Police Department to that of major, mirroring he practice in most area police departments.

He also is asking council to promote a worker in the Water Department to senior crew leader. The person involved is already doing the work, and the pay and title should reflect that, he said.

Council meets at 7 p.m. Monday at City Hall. All council meetings are open to the public.

Fayetteville's revenues and expenditures are about where they should be at midyear, finance director Lynn Raven told City Council Monday.

In her annual midyear budget report, Raven said the city has collected about $3.7 million of its anticipated $6.86 million in general fund revenues for fiscal year 200, which runs from Aug. 1, 1999 to July 31, 2000.

Expenditures also are at about 50 percent of the budget as of Jan. 31, the midyear point, she said, except that the city's capital projects have used only $67,477 of the $158,630 budgeted. Several projects will get underway soon, said Raven, and that discrepancy will even out.