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REGULAR MEETING SEPTEMBER 11.2000 BILL NO. 72-00 PUBLIC HEARING ON A BILL FIXING MAXIMUM SALARIES AND WAGES OF APPOINTED OFFICERS AND NON - BARGAINING EMPLOYEES OF THE CITY OF SOUTH BEND, INDIANA, FOR THE CALENDAR YEAR 2001 Council Member Aranowski reported that the Personnel & Finance Committee and the Health and Public Safety Committee conducted a joint committee meeting on this bill and sends it to the Council with a favorable recommendation. Ms. M. Catherine Roemer, City Controller, County -City Building, Room 1400, SouthBend, Indiana. made the presentation for this bill. Ms. Roemer stated that this ordinance establishes the annual salaries and benefits for four hundred twenty (420) non - bargaining employees for 2001. She noted that there are no changes in this ordinance for benefits and they will remain the same as this year. Ms. Roemer further stated that the ordinance contains two hundred seventy (270) positions with the general increase for those positions being 3.5% with some exceptions. Approximately twelve (12) new positions were added and ten (10) positions received more than a 3.5% increase in order to keep the minimum increase on an annual basis for these positions at seven hundred fifty dollars ($750.00). There were twenty -four (24) positions that received increases over 3.5% which are technical positions. The increase is an effort to retain positions that the City has had difficultly in retaining and it was felt that increases above 3.5% were warranted on a limited basis. Four (4) positions received less than 3.5% as a result of restructuring and reduction of responsibilities within the position. 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 White made a motion for favorable recommendation to full Council concerning this bill. Councilmember Coleman seconded the motion which carried by a voice vote of seven (7) ayes. BILL NO.73 -00 PUBLIC HEARING ON A BILL APPROPRIATING MONIES FOR THE PURPOSE OF DEFRAYING THE EXPENSES OF SEVERAL DEPARTMENTS OF THE CIVIL CITY OF SOUTH BEND, INDIANA FOR THE FISCAL YEAR BEGINNING JANUARY 1, 2001, AND ENDING DECEMBER 31, 2001, INCLUDING ALL OUTSTANDING CLAIMS AND OBLIGATIONS, AND FIXING A TIME WHEN THE SAME SHALL TAKE EFFECT BILL NO. 74 -00 PUBLIC HEARING ON A BILL OF THE COMMON COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF SOUTH BEND APPROPRIATING MONIES FOR THE PURPOSE OF DEFRAYING THE EXPENSES OF THE DESIGNATED ENTERPRISE FUNDS OF THE CITY OF SOUTH BEND, INDIANA, FOR THE FISCAL YEAR BEGINNING JANUARY 1, 2001, AND ENDING DECEMBER 31, 2001, INCLUDING ALL OUTSTANDING CLAIMS AND OBLIGATIONS, AND FIXING A TIME WHEN THE SAME SHALL TAKE EFFECT BILL NO. 75-00 PUBLIC HEARING ON A BILL LEVYING TAXES AND FIXING THE RATE OF TAXATION FOR THE PURPOSE OF RAISING REVENUE TO MEET THE NECESSARY EXPENSES OF THE CIVIL CITY OF SOUTH BEND FOR THE FISCAL YEAR ENDING DECEMBER 31, 2001 Councilmember Coleman made a motion to combine Bill Nos. 73-00,74-00 and 75 -00 for purposes