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Council Minutes of 12-21-2004 Councilwoman Kasler, chairperson of the Finance Committee: 1) The committee met this evening December 21 at 6:30 p.m.. Present were Councilmen Gareau, Nashar, Limpert, McKay, Kasler; directors of Finance, Personnel, Planning and Law; President of Council O'Grady. Agenda items were as follows: • Ordinance 2004-164, an ordinance establishing the range of compensation rates and salary ranges for various administrative and legislative personnel for 2005 through 2007. This ordinance was discussed in committee meetings several times before. There are two amendments to the legislation. The first amendment is to add police part-time employees to Section 13. This is an effort to try to include all non- bargaining employees-with the exception of NOMBL employees-into one pay ordinance. The committee unanimously recommended this amendment to Section 13. Councilwoman Kasler moved that Ordinance 2004-164 be amended by including police part-time employees in Section 13. The motion was seconded by Councilman Gareau. Roll call: Kasler, yes; Gareau, yes; Limpert, yes, with comment that, in the past, he has not voted on issues concerning some of the non-bargaining police employees, namely school crossing guards, because a family member is employed as a school guard. The Law Director has informed him, since it is part of a group, that he should vote and in fact is required to vote. Roll call continued: Dailey; yes; Nashar, yes; McKay, yes; Miller, yes. The motion to amend Section 13 passed unanimously. Section 13 of Ordinance 2004-164 is amended. The second amendment discussed for Ordinance 2004-164 was with regard to the boot allowance, which also was discussed previously. The issue is whether to have a straight boot allowance or to ask for receipts prior to reimbursement-a proof of purchase prior to reimbursing the boot allowance. There was a vote taken on this when two Council members were absent, and the amendment failed by a vote of 3 to 2. Mr. Gareau has asked that it be raised again with the presence of all members of Council this evening. The committee discussed the boot allowance issue, and Mr. Limpert requested that the boot allowance be increased if we were going to ask for a receipt. President O'Grady asked if he had heard any concerns about the amount of the boot allowance. It seemed to be the consensus that no concerns had actually been expressed. Also, the Finance Director explained, with regard to a clothing allowance, that damaged clothing is normally replaced. The committee voted 2 to 1 to recommend that there be an amendment to Section 23 to request proof of purchase prior to reimbursement for boot allowance. Councilwoman Kasler moved that Section 23 of Ordinance 2004-164 be amended to provide that a receipt be presented for reimbursement for a boot allowance. The motion was seconded by Councilman Gareau. Roll call: Kasler, yes; Gareau, yes; Dailey, yes; Nashar, no, with comment that he feels the fee of $200 had been established for the boot allowance and does not feel a receipt is necessary. Perhaps in time the amount could be adjusted. Roll call continued: Limpert, no, with comment that there is no precedent as far as when the allowance was used before. If someone had a problem with their boots, they could bring in the bad boots and say they needed a larger boot allowance this year. Quality boots do cost money. There were years in the past when it was not necessary to use the entire ""' amounts and times when more was needed. Boots are very perishable items especially 5