2009 Annual Report - Personnel and Finance Committee

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2009 Personnel and Finance Committee Annual Report December 7, 2009 Page 2 • Jointly reviewed with the Health and Public Safety Committee user fee increases proposed in Bill No. 29-09 which is currently pending in Committee. This Bill jointly sponsored by three (3) Council Members proposes a fee to help defray costs for dignitary protection • Reviewed a Bill to create a Police Take Home Vehicle Fund ,Fund # 278 where the monthly payments from Police Officers would be deposited for liability insurance for the take home vehicle program • Reviewed several ordinances to reduce budget appropriations involving funds from the General Fund, Parks Funds, MVH Fund, COIT Fund, and others in light of HEA 1001 passed by the Indiana General Assembly • Reviewed proposed resolutions addressing Property Tax Relief LOIT @ .5%; Public Safety LOIT @ .25%; and CEDIT @ .2% • Multiple budget meetings on the 2010 civil city budget which culminated in three (3) separate ordinances addressing the levying and fixing of tax rates for 2010; reviewing an appropriation ordinance for 2010; and reviewing Enterprise Funds appropriation ordinance • Reviewing with the Health and Public Safety Committee the proposed compensation ordinances for 2010 for the sworn members of the South Bend Police Department and the South Bend Fire Department • Reviewing proposed ordinances establishing maximum salaries for the Mayor, City Clerk, Common Council Members, non-bargaining employees, and Teamster employees Serving on the City's Advisory Negotiating Team: As Chairperson of the Personnel and Finance Committee, I also spent many hours serving as a member of the City's Advisory Negotiating Team, along with Council Member Karen L. White on the City Team who met with the union representatives for the Fraternal Order of Police, Lodge # 36. Council Member Ann Puzzello and Council Member Henry Davis, Jr. served on the City Team who met with the union representatives for the South Bend Firefighters' Association, Local # 362 of the International Association of Firefighters AFL-CIO. Both Teams were successful in reaching agreement on maximum salaries, wages and monetary fringe benefits with both unions for 2010. As noted in last year's Personnel and Finance Annual Report, the Common Council is the final authority on the setting of maximum salaries and monetary fringe benefits; with the Board of Public Safety being the final authority on working conditions.