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REGULAR MEETING OCTOBERT 28, 2013 <br /> <br />where we see that kind of disparity. If I would find out that any position here would have to be <br />raised by 80%, to get to an equivalence of what they are paying in Ft. Wayne I would be worried <br />about that and I would be standing right here in front of you asking to fix that one too. I guess <br />that the honest and simply answer to your question is no. Honestly, I can’t remember the way <br />that you asked the question. <br /> <br />Councilmember Henry Davis Jr., I am following you, I got you. And so the other thing that I <br />wanted to ask and you can stop me before I ask the question, I think that we need to reach our <br />level and not Ft. Wayne’s or Indianapolis’s level. I think South Bend is unique is a lot of <br />different ways, and so when we try to compete with other markets that potentially have a little bit <br />more than we have, it makes us, we spend a lot of energy that may not necessarily be needed to <br />be expended. I think that we need to concentrate basically on what our level should be, not what <br />Ft. Wayne’s is, Anderson, what our level is and what do we have to offer to get the new talent in <br />here. What is it that we can offer? I ask earlier about the EEOC report from last year and I <br />talked about that last year, about the percentages of women, men, minorities, versus Caucasian, <br />the percentages, who’s working where not necessarily asking you, you know whose name needs <br />to be in this spot, but in case of percentages and looking at fairness. What and how are we being <br />fair and making sure that our city workforce is mirroring what we see out here today. So in all <br />fairness when we are increasing these salaries and we are doing all of these things and attracting <br />all these new talents to the city are we doing it in a manner that appears to be fair to the <br />population that is expecting us to do things in fairness and where are the numbers. Because I <br />asked for that earlier but I haven’t received it and I am going to stay on that point because I think <br />that we need to change a lot of what we do and who we are employing based upon gender and <br />also race. <br /> <br />Mayor Buttigieg: So I know that when we were in the committee meeting around 5 or 6 I made <br />a commitment that we would get the EEOC numbers. I don’t know if those have gone out yet? <br />Those will be ready by Wednesday, okay. Because we do want to have a city workforce that <br />better reflects the city that it serves. I will say since I stood here about a year ago or more asking <br />that some salaries to be adjusted, I am pleased to see that we seem to be making progress. If you <br />look certainly at the folks that I have brought in since we first came here for city salaries <br />increases just at the more senior level in terms of direct reports personnel in the Mayor’s Office <br />and Department Heads. If I am doing the math right in my head, about 80% of those hires are <br />women or minorities or both. I certainly acknowledge that we got a lot more work to do as a <br />city when it from the least senior to the most senior person here in making sure that we better <br />serve our community. <br /> <br />Councilmember Henry Davis Jr.: So your new hires are about 80%. <br /> <br />Mayor Buttigieg; Between Department Heads and Mayor’s Office personnel. I will make sure <br />that we can compute that and send that to you. <br /> <br />Councilmember Henry Davis Jr.: This is the other thing, since you brought or raised point, <br />because I was just stuck on this bar graph or this part of the pie chart, if that is the case, then I <br />would like to see at what level are these changes being made what is management or is it just a <br />laborer or at a department head level. Because I personally have not visualized or seen these <br />new people looking different than what the workforce did prior to them coming. I’m not here <br />every day, but I am here a lot, and I have not seen that visual. So I would like to see that on <br />numbers and on paper where this is happening at. Because again, the argument came earlier <br />from the Police Department and Fire Department and their work in establishing ways of <br />recruiting. But the Police Department was like at a 250/240 officers, you have probable 30 or <br />less than 30 folks who are of minority, women, the whole total nine. So, how do we get new <br />hires, I just want to see it. I really do, I need to see that because that was like almost like <br />completely off the map in comparison to what the city make-up is. <br /> <br />Councilmember Scott: Thank you madam chair. Just all I want to say quickly is I have receive <br />way too many e-mails from Eric Horvath at 2 a.m. in the morning and I am not exaggerating, I <br />understand what he is talking about, 2 a.m.; 1 a.m., so that assistant position that I think is crucial <br />and we have to look at being competitive and so that is all I have got to say. And I reiterate what <br />Dr. Ferlic said this afternoon in committee. <br /> <br />19 <br /> <br /> <br />