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<br />RESOLUTION NO. 7 1 % <br />INTRODUCED BY: <br />A RESOLUTION RECOGNIZING THE MAYFIELD <br />VILLAGE PROFESSIONAL FIREFIGHTER'S <br />ASSOCIATION AND ESTABLISHING A PROCEDURE <br />FOR OPEN DISCUSSION OF WAGE, HOUR AND <br />FRINGE PACKAGE PROPOSALS. <br />wHEREAS, the members of the Fire Department have indicated <br />their desire to participate in discussions with the Budget and Appro- <br />priations Committee concerning salary and working conditions; and <br />WHEREAS, it is the further desire of the members of the <br />Fire Department that such discussions occur prior to the time that <br />the Budget and Appropriations Committee makes its recommendations <br />to Council concerning employee pay and benefit packages; and <br />WHEREAS, the members of the Fire Department are all members <br />of the Mayfield Village Professional Firefighter's Association and <br />they have expressed their desire to participate in such discussions <br />through a delegate or delegates duly elected from the membership <br />of that Association; and <br />WHEREAS, they further desire to reserve the right to assistance <br />of legal counsel during the course of said discussions; and <br />WHEREAS, Mayfield Village has no established procedure <br />for collective bargaining but recognizes the continuing right to <br />open and free discussions; and <br />WHEREAS, notwithstanding any of the foregoing, Mayfield <br />Village wishes to cooperate with its emplo,yees whenever possible <br />and to preserve to them the right to be represented by counsel and <br />to receive professional advice; now, therefore, <br />BE IT RESOLVED BY THE COUNCIL OF MAYFIELD VILLAGE, OHIO, THAT: <br />Section 1. Council intends to facilitate open and free <br />discussion by inviting members of the Fire Department, either <br />individually or by representation through the May£ield Village <br />Professional Firefighter's Associ:ation, to provide suggestions to <br />the Budget and Appropriations Committee concerning wage, hour and <br />fringe package recommendations before that Committee begins any <br />deliberations in that regard. • <br />Section 2. The Budqet and Appropriations Committee, after <br />receiving those suggestions from the Fire Department, shall then <br />formulate a preliminary wage, hour and fringe package proposal. <br />I£ that preliminary proposal dif£ers from the suggestions made by <br />the members of the Fire Department, either individually or through <br />representation by the Mayfield Village Professional Firefighter's