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Council Minutes of 11/16/2004 voted 2-l, with Mrs. Kasler dissenting, to amend Ordinances 2004-164 and 2004-166 to reflect afour-year pay scale from 2004 to 2007 with the percentage of raise in 2007 being 2.25%. Councilwoman Kasler moved that Ordinances 2004-164 and 2004-166 be amended to include pay ranges for 2007 at 2.25%. The motion was seconded by Councilman Gareau, and the motion passed unanimously. Ordinances 2004-164 and 2004-166 are amended. • Ordinance 2004-164 was further discussed as there were several changes that were made and explained by the Personnel Director. Those changes included addressing the Fair Labor Standards Act compliance, establishing a fixed longevity figure, adding an additional floating holiday and anyone using sick leave getting an additional eight hours off. Also, Section 23 addressed the boot allowance and the suggestion that was made was to eliminate two inapplicable positions. However, there was further discussion as to the question of boot allowance raised by Councilmen Dailey and Gareau. Basically, the question was whether or not boot allowance is automatically paid or whether receipts should be presented. Councilman Limpert disagreed with the suggestion of requesting receipts for boot allowance pay, stating that, if we require a receipt, we should provide an incentive by raising the boot allowance figure. Councilman Dailey countered that he felt it was an accountability issue. Service Director Driscoll, who would be responsible basically for the boot allowance issue, stated that asking for receipts to be presented would not be a significant problem and in fact he didn't think that was an outrageous request. After much discussion of the problems back and forth, a motion was made to amend Ordinance 2004-164 in the section regarding boot allowance to include language that the receipt of purchase should be presented as a prerequisite to payment of a boot allowance. The committee recommended approval of the amendment 2-1, with Mr. Limpert dissenting. Councilwoman Kasler moved that Ordinance 2004-164 be amended to require that a receipt of purchase be presented as a prerequisite for payment of a boot allowance. The motion was seconded by Councilman Gareau. Roll call: Kasler, yes; Gareau, yes; McKay, no; Limpert, no; Dailey, yes. The motion to amend failed as it did not receive a majority with three yes votes and two no votes. ^ All three ordinances, 2004-164, 2004-165 and 2004-166, were recommended for approval either unanimously or by a majority of the committee in their total substance. ^ Ordinance 2004-176, the issuance of the $3.5 million notes for the fire station. There was some unrelated discussion in the committee with regard to gathering details on the timelines for the fire station, the location of the fire station and other information that will be presented to Council at a future time. The committee unanimously recommended approval of the legislation. ^ Elected officials' salaries for Finance Director, Law Director, Mayor, Ward Council and President of Council. The Director of Finance, the Mayor and the Director of Law recommended that the percentage over four years for those positions of the term from 2006 to 2009 be 2.25%. The committee agreed that was reasonable and not an excessive amount. The committee next discussed attempting to equalize all the salaries of Council-at-Large, Ward Council and President of Council. (The terms for Ward Council and President of Council will be 2006 through 2009; Council-at-Large 6