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Councilmember O'Malley remarked that there will be an open race for Municipal Court Judge in a few years where there could feasibly be a very large number of candidates. He believes that the incumbent in this role should be elected by a majority of the voters. Making this change to the Charter would guarantee that. He noted that the change is ultimately up to the voters. President O'Leary expressed support of the underlying Charter amendment and for the proposal to ask voters to vote on it. He reminded all that tonight's vote is simply to pose the question to the electorate. On the motion: Yeas: Anderson, Bullock, George, Litten, O'Leary, O'Malley, Rader Nays: none Motion passed. Ordinance 7-19 adopted. 2. Finance Committee report regarding meeting held April 15, 2019 (to be provided) We had a Finance Committee meeting this evening. Our sole agenda item was to discuss Ordinance 01-19. This is the paid parental leave ordinance that Councilmember George introduced back in January. We had representatives from two of our collective bargaining units available — AFSCME and the Firefighters. We heard from representatives of both of those unions and got some really good feedback from them on this ordinance. We had some discussion amongst ourselves. We plan to meet one more time on this as a Finance Committee. We had a very good discussion. Most of our directors were there as were our Chiefs and most of City Council, so thanks very much. Motion by President O'Leary, seconded by Vice President Anderson to receive and file the oral report. All members voting yea. Motion passed. 3. ORDINANCE 01-19 — AN ORDINANCE to establish paid parental leave benefits for full-time employees of the City of Lakewood. (Placed on 1st reading and referred to Finance Committee 1/7/19; 2nd reading 1/22/19) (pg. 5) Motion by President O'Leary, seconded by Vice President Anderson to defer Ordinance 01- 19. All members voting yea. Motion passed. 2