Fixing the Maxium Salary for the City Attorney

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OFFICE OF THE MAYOR SOUTH BEND, INDIANA Members of the Common Council -2- August 18, 1982 of sources. It has been only within the last two years that we have moved toward a clearer identification of those costs; yet for many years the total salary of a number of City employees was not reflected in the salary ordinance due to multiple funding of their positions. I am pleased that we are moving toward a clearer identification of the overall funding and payment picture of both personnel and other City costs. In fact, I plan to initiate a study of alternatives to the fragmented funding by which we now budget. To place the increases received by the two individuals concerned in these ordinances in the above context of the traditional handling of such situations clarifies why I failed to approach the Council earlier to authorize the increases they deserve. The current approach is, of course, the correct one and the one I shall follow in the future. As you are aware, these increased amounts have been paid to these persons for several months, the City Attorney since January, 1982, and the City Engineer since April, 1982. I believe at the time I authorized these increases, as I still believe, that the additional responsibilities assumed by these persons, whether due to change in state law, as in the case of the City Attorney, or by specific additional project duties, as in the case of the City Engineer, clearly warranted additional compensa- tion be paid to them from the particular funds of those functions. Upon considering the circumstances within which I acted earlier and within which I now bring the ordinances before you, I request your favorable consideration of these ordinances. Sincer.1-y, i j Rog 0. arent ROP:pdc