12/20/06 Board of Public Safety Minutes

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.t ~. ~ ~ REGULAR MEETING DECEMBER 20, 2006 content to allow the Board of Safety to set up the exact amounts of the payments. Chief Fautz recommended the amounts be set as stated in Modified Resolution 71-2006. Upon a motion made by Mr. Cottrell, seconded by Mr. Alford and carried the following Resolution was adopted by the Board of Safety: MODIFIED RESOLUTION N0.71-2006 ' A RESOLUTION OF THE BOARD OF PUBLIC SAFETY OF THE CITY OF SOUTH BEND, INDIANA ESTABLISHING AMOUNTS FOR LATERAL ENTRY PAYMENTS TO NEW MEMBERS OF THE SOUTH BEND POLICE DEPARTMENT WHEREAS, in 2005 the City's Chief Negotiator and Public Safety Spokesman, Charles Leone, and the City's advisory negotiating team reached an agreement with the Fraternal Order of Police on benefits and wages for police officers in the calendar years 2006, 2007, and 2008; and WHEREAS, the Common Council of the City of South Bend in Ordinance No. 9621-OS pursuant to those agreements, authorized lateral entry pay between $1,000 and $3,500 as a one time bonus for individuals found to be eligible and qualified to be a candidate on the South Bend Police Department who had requisite law enforcement experience and certification; and WHEREAS, the Board of Public Safety of the City of South Bend is authorized pursuant to I.C. 36-8-3-2(d) to adopt rules for the South Bend Police Department; and WHEREAS, it is in the best interest of the South Bend Police Department and its prospective officers to have rules establishing specific amounts of lateral entry payments. NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED BY THE BOARD OF PUBLIC SAFETY OF ' THE CITY OF SOUTH BEND that the following one time bonus payments may be made to any individual who is certified as a police officer in the State of Indiana by the Indiana Law Enforcement Academy in the following amounts and subject to the following provisions: 1. An officer who is certified as a police officer in the State of Indiana or receives a waiver by the Indiana Law Enforcement Academy (ILEA) is entitled to receive $1,000; 2. A police officer with more than one (1) but less than three (3) years experience as a certified police officer shall be entitled to a $1,000 bonus; 3. A police officer with more than three (3) years experience as a certified police officer shall be entitled to a $1,000 bonus; 4. Any officer otherwise qualifying as a hostage negotiator, bomb technician, or crime scene technician or possessing similar special skills, shall receive one additional $500 bonus. The Chief of Police is authorized to decide, on behalf of the Board of Public Safety if the certification or skill level is appropriate for the bonus; 5. If the officer has paid his own expenses to the Indiana Law Enforcement Academy and was not reimbursed by any other employer and was not paid any salary or wages during the ILEA training by municipal corporation, that new officer shall receive, in addition to the $1,000 for certification, an additional $2,000 bonus. ' 6. The maximum total bonus which any police officer may receive is $3,500. 7. To complete eligibility for payment of the bonus, the officer must serve six (6) months with the South Bend Police Department. 8. If eligibility has been achieved in 2006, the bonus shall be paid in the last regular paycheck. In all subsequent years the bonus shall be paid not later than the second regular paycheck after the completion of the six (6) months.