HomeMy WebLinkAboutAmending the 2013 Salary Ordinance Address Certain Zoo Employee CompensationORDINANCE No. 10279 -13
Passed by the Common Council of the City of South Bend, Indiana
Attest:
December 9,
2013
JOHN VOORDE
Presented by me to the Mayor of the City of South Bend, Indiana
December 10, 20 13
City Clerk
President of Common Council
Approved and signed by me P £e f A' B ie-
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City Clerk
ORDINANCE NO. X077143
AN ORDINANCE OF THE COMMON COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF SOUTH
BEND, INDIANA, AMENDING THE 2013 SALARY ORDINANCE (No. 10199 -12)
FOR APPOINTED OFFICERS AND NON - BARGAINING EMPLOYEES OF
THE CITY OF SOUTH BEND, INDIANA TO ADDRESS CERTAIN ZOO
EMPLOYEE COMPENSATION
STATEMENT OF PURPOSE AND INTENT
The Common Council approved Ordinance No 10199 -12 establishing the 2013
maximum salary and wages for all non - bargaining employees of the City of South Bend,
Indiana on October 29, 2012 ( "The 2013 Non - bargaining Salary Ordinance).
This Ordinance makes no adjustment in the salaries that were fixed in the 2013
Non - bargaining Salary Ordinance. However, the City is in the process of entering into a
public /private partnership agreement ( "the Agreement ") with the Potawatomi Zoological
Society ( "the Society ") for operation of the Potawatomi Zoo ( "the Zoo ").
The Agreement is expected to be reviewed and approved by the South Bend Parks
Commission around December 16, 2013, and as a result, certain current employees of the
City of South Bend will become employees of the Society. Because this will result in
cessation of their rights and privileges as public employees under the Public Employees
Retirement Fund ( "PERF "), the Agreement will provide certain unique final
compensation to these employees who are affected by the Agreement. This Ordinance is,
therefore, conditioned upon approval of the Agreement. The appropriation for this unique
compensation is part of the City's final additional appropriation Bill for 2013 filed
separately with the Common Council.
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT ORDAINED BY THE COMMON COUNCIL
OF THE CITY OF SOUTH BEND, INDIANA AS FOLLOWS:
SECTION I. The 2013 Non - bargaining Salary Ordinance be and hereby is
amended to add a new Section V, and to renumber the former section V as section VI.
The new Section V shall read as follows:
SECTION V: Special Compensation to Former City Employees Who Will
Become Employees of the Potawatomi Zoological Society.
Those City employees who will cease being employees of the City of South Bend
and who will become employees of the Potawatomi Zoological Society
( "Society ") upon approval of an Agreement with the City Parks Commission,
shall be entitled to receive a one- time payment equal to all accrued, unused
vacation and sick pay as of the date of change in their employment status from
City of South Bend employee to Society employee. Such affected employee with
less than ten years of PERF qualified City service shall further be entitled to
receive a sum equal to Seven Hundred Fifty Dollars per year ($750.00) for each
such year of service as an employee of the City of South Bend, pro -rated for any
partial year of City employee service.
SECTION II. This ordinance shall not be implemented unless and until the
City's Agreement with the Society is properly approved.
SECTION III. This ordinance shall be effective from and after passage by the
Common Council and approval by the Mayor, subject to and conditioned upon approval
of the City's Agreement with the Society.
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Attest: Member of the Common Council
City Clerk
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SOUTH BEND, INDIANA 46601 -1830
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CITY OF SOUTH BEND PETE BUTTIGIEG, MAYOR
DEPARTMENT OF ADMINISTRATION AND FINANCE
November 20, 2013
Mr. Derek Dieter
President, South Bend Common Council
4th Floor, County -City Building
South Bend, IN 46601
Re: Bill to Amend
2013 Non - Bargaining Employee and Officer Salary Ordinance #10199 -12
Dear President Dieter:
Attached for filing with the Common Council is an ordinance to amend the 2013 Non -
Bargaining Employee and Officer Salary Ordinance (No. 10199 -12) passed by the Common
Council on October 29, 2012. The amendment is a new Section "V" addressing special
compensation payable to Potawatomi Zoo employees.
As members of the Council know, the City is in the process of negotiating an Agreement
with the Potawatomi Zoological Society to operate the Potawatomi Zoo. It is contemplated that
certain City employees will become Zoological Society employees after the Agreement is
completed and approved. Approval is anticipated to occur in mid - December 2013. Some of
these employees with less than ten years of service under the Public Employees Retirement Fund
(PERF) will surrender vesting privileges under PERF, among other privileges as City employees,
and the City desires to compensate them. Section "V" identifies the compensation payable.
I will present this Ordinance at the Council's Personnel & Finance Committee meeting
and at the public hearing. If you have any further questions or need additional information,
please let me know.
Thank you for your consideration.
Sincerely,
Mark W. Neal
City Controller.
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TO THE COMMON COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF SOUTH BEND:
Your Committee of the Whole, to whom was referred:
BILL NO.
74 -13 A BILL OF THE COMMON COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF
SOUTH BEND, INDIANA, AMENDING THE 2013 SALARY
ORDINANCE NO. 10199 -12 FOR APPOINTED OFFICERS
AND NON - BARGAINING EMPLOYEES OF THE CITY OF
SOUTH BEND, INDIANA TO ADDRESS CERTAIN ZOO
EMPLOYEE COMPENSATION
Respectfully report that they have examined the matter and that in their opinion,
this bill is being recommended to the full Council with a favorable
recommendation.
This bill was heard by the Perip nel & Finance Committee
Karen L. White
Chairperson, Committee of the Whole