Bellevue Council is expected to vote next week on whether to purchase netbooks for elected officials.

Director of administrative services Doug Sample, in response to a question from council member Jane Braunlich at the March 8 council work session, said that the borough would use only a portion of the $6,000 budgeted for computers in 2011 to purchase one -- instead of two -- new servers, leaving enough money to pay approximately $3,000 for 10 netbooks.

Sample said that council documents would be uploaded to a site from which individual officials could download them to the netbooks, thereby saving the borough the time and expense of making paper copies.