10-27-03 Council Meeting Minutes

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REGULAR MEETING OCTOBER 27, 2003 BILL NO. 85 -03 PUBLIC HEARING ON A BILL OF THE COMMON COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF SOUTH BEND, INDIANA, AMENDING CHAPTER 2, ARTICLE 8, SECTION 2 -121 OF THE SOUTH BEND MUNICIPAL CODE CLARIFYING HOLIDAYS FOR CITY OFFICERS AND EMPLOYEES Councilmember Aranowski, Chairperson, Personnel & Finance Committee, reported that this committee held a Public Hearing on this bill this afternoon and sends it to the Council with a favorable recommendation. Ms. Aladean DeRose, 1421 East Washington Street, South Bend, Indiana, Legal Department, 14th Floor, County -City Building, South Bend, Indiana, made the presentation for this bill. Ms. DeRose advised that this amendment affects Chapter 2, Article 8, Section 2 -21 of the South Bend Municipal Code which provides the holidays for all City employees and elected officials. She noted that each employee is entitled to nine (9) designated holidays and one (1) floating holiday from which the employee is given a choice of various holidays. This ordinance amends the Code to increase the floating holidays from which employees may choose by adding the Friday preceding Christmas Eve when Christmas falls on a Sunday or the following Monday when Christmas falls on a Saturday. It also adds Election Day, either Primary or General, or Easter Monday as an option. However, the primary purpose of the ordinance is to clarifying an anomaly that occurs in years where the New Year's holiday falls on a Saturday. In those years the employees take that holiday on the Friday preceding New Year's Eve which is in the previous year. If this ordinance isn't passed, the anomaly is that an employee will get ten (10) holidays in one year and eight (8) in the following year. This ordinance indicates that in those years when New Year's falls on a Saturday, as it will do in 2005, then the 2004 New Year's Eve will not affect the nine (9) holiday designation for that year. She noted that this is a way of assuring that the nine (9) holidays are kept from year to year and provides for that anomaly when New Year's falls on a Saturday. Councilmember Varner stated that this ordinance simply clarifies but does not add or delete the number of holidays which remains at nine (9). Ms. DeRose stated that the floating holiday amendment simply adds to the pool from which the employee may choose so it remains one (1) floating holiday and nine (9) designated holidays. This being the time heretofore set for the Public Hearing on the above bill, proponents and opponents were given an opportunity to be heard. There being no one present wishing to speak to the Council either in favor of or in opposition to this bill, Councilmember Coleman made a motion for favorable recommendation to full Council concerning this bill. Councilmember Kelly seconded the motion which carried by a voice vote of nine (9) ayes. BILL NO. 62 -03 PUBLIC HEARING ON A BILL OF THE COMMON COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF SOUTH BEND, INDIANA, AUTHORIZING THE CITY OF SOUTH BEND, INDIANA, TO ISSUE ITS "ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT REVENUE BONDS OF 2003 (KITE CAPITAL, LLC/ERSKINE VILLAGE PROJECT)" IN AN AGGREGATE PRINCIPAL AMOUNT NOT TO EXCEED SIX MILLION AND 00 /100 DOLLARS ($6,000,000.00) AND APPROVING AND AUTHORIZING OTHER ACTIONS IN RESPECT THERETO -5-