Amending Chapter 2 Budgetary Procedures

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OFFICE OF THE MAYOR Mr. Lewis A President South Bend County -City South Bend, Dear Lew: CITY ®f SOUTH BEND ROGER O. PARENT, Mayor COUNTY -CITY BUILDING SOUTH BEND, INDIANA 46601 McGann Common Council Building Indiana 46601 April 1, 1982 AREA 219 284 -9261 In the past few days, I have read and re -read Bill No. 27 -82 attempting to find substantial reasons why I should sign it into law. Sections 287 and 288 do pertain to the budgetary process and represent improvements which I can support. However, Sections 291 and 292 detract overwhel- mingly from the intent of the Council as stated in passing the bill and thus I have to veto Bill No. 27 -82. I am vetoing the bill because it will unduly politicize the personnel process, it will impede City workers' efforts to improve productivity, and it will lead to ridiculous and damaging results in managing the City workforce. (1) Bill No. 27 -82 will unduly politicize the personnel process through provisions which require informing the Council members of all employee reclassifications. Supervisors should not have to worry whether an employee is a friend of this or that politician before taking personnel action. Supervising is difficult enough without encouraging this kind of thinking through an ordinance. Also, why should an employee, demoted as a disciplinary action, be subjected to the embarrassment of making this action public through informing Council members? (2) Bill No. 27 -82 will impede the progress being made towards increasing the productivity of our workforce. It is ironic that when labor and management in the private sector are cooperating to reduce unnecessary work rules, a bill is passed by the Council which includes unnecessary regulations that will lead to lower productivity.