City of O’Fallon benefits taxpayers through HP
PurchasEdge, HP Planet Partners
Missouri municipality earns valuable free HP equipment just by using
and recycling original HP supplies.
As purchasing agent for city of O’Fallon, Missouri, Jill
Schmitz strives to provide the best government service
at the lowest possible taxpayer cost. When she heard
about HP’s PurchasEdge rewards program and HP
Planet Partners return and recycling program, she knew
she’d found a powerful way to simultaneously save
money, serve taxpayers and protect the environment.
“My vendor told me about PurchasEdge. I went online
immediately and enrolled myself—it was so easy—and
since then I’ve been able to supply the city with
multiple pieces of extremely useful equipment for free,”
Schmitz says. “Combining PurchasEdge with HP Planet
Partners, not only do I get points for recycling, but our
empty HP print cartridges no longer pile up in the
office until somebody can come get them.”
A “best place” to live
O’Fallon is a city of approximately 74,000 residents in
the St. Louis metropolitan area. Money magazine in
2006 named it one of the United States’ “Best 100
Places to Live.” It’s easy to see why. O’Fallon ranks
second in the nation for job growth; its students
outstrip state average reading and math scores by
approximately 20 percent; and the risk of becoming a
crime victim in O’Fallon is reassuringly low.
The city government includes 25 municipal
departments, such as parks and recreation, police,
highway, community development and finance.
Purchasing Agent Schmitz is responsible for supplying
these operations with everything from filing cabinets to
desktop printers. Her routine purchases from HP
include LaserJet cartridges, inkjet cartridges and
specialty papers. With PurchasEdge and HP Planet
Partners, these purchases build points toward free
merchandise.
“I highly recommend participating in HP’s PurchasEdge and HP Planet
Partners programs. There’s no reason not to do it. It doesn’t cost you
anything; you’re going to buy the merchandise