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r Je... .. Veto - Ord. 2003-50 Page 2 service). It is unreasonable to expect first yeaz Directors with a family to work 52 straight weeks without a vacation. Council would go a long way to make 2003-50 acceptable to me by including language in Ord. 2003-50 authorizing the Mayor to grant 2 weeks vacation time to a Director during the first year of a Directorship. During subsequent years the established vacation time schedules would prevail for a Director. In most organizations, as one move up in management, respansibility and salary increases. Following this analogy, with the position of Service Director or Safety Director being paid $66,004/annum and no comp time being pernutted, than everyone under the Directors should be making less than $66,000 and/or permitted no compensa.tory titne or paid overtime. Some positions providing for a salary more tha.n the Safety Director and Service Director and/or compensatory time/or paid overtime are: a) Cluef of Police b) Two Police Captains c) Fire Chief d) Assistant Fire Chief e) City Engineer fl Building Commissioner In the near future the salary differential must be rectified. Ordinance 2003-50 as passed states tha.t a Director shall work at least 40 hours a week. The 8 hour day is comprised as being over the time period of 8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. However, the ordinance doesn't state 8 hours a day or any time frame during which a Director sha.ll be on duty. Thus, it is duly noted that a Director can work 10 hours a day for a four-day week. Pazagraph (C) indicates that the Mayor has discretion to authorize or allow a Director to work late or leave early, but has no discretion as to when a Director starts work. Ord. 2003-50 will most likely create morale problems. Directors will not feel compelled to "go the extra mile' or work extra hours because they will feel no appreciation or reward for their efforts. It certainly provides no flexibility for a Mayor to approve additional time required to perform job functions that have time-certain deadlines and require extraordinary, non-routine effort. This will confine the present Mayor and all future Mayors from creating a positive work relationship with Directors, to exert the extra effort that is so often needed to provide outstanding performance and not mediocre performance. In as much as Cou.ncil has decided to undertake the issue of Comp Time, I request Council to uphold my veto, not as an action against Ord. 2003-50, but as an intent to return this Ordinance to Cotnmittee to at least address the above issues and appropriately further amend Ord. 2003-50.