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