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Council Minutes of 10/19/2004 ,~ , ^ October 14, he met with a planning expert and the city's insurance defense counsel to discuss the pending Ganley litigation. Insurance defense counsel has taken a Leave to Plead the city's answer, which now will be due on or about November 25. ^ On October 14, he received notice from attorney Gary Johnson that two of the fire fighter grievances relating to management rights issues have been set for arbitration hearings on November 8 and November 12. The same comments made regarding unfair labor practices pertains to grievances. This is our process. If the union or any of the bargaining employees are not happy with the city's administration, under the labor contracts they have the absolute right to file a grievance. All the grievances proceed through a Step 1, Step 2, Step 3 process internally. If there still is not a resolution that is satisfactory to both sides, then an appeal can be taken to arbitration. These two particular grievances which involve things like call back and staffing have been set for arbitration, and they will be arbitrated. ^ On October 15, the city's insurance defense counsel filed an answer on behalf of the city and its named defendants in the Nancy Kovacic case. ^ On October 19, an arbitration hearing regarding the correction officer grievance has been set for November 30 before arbitrator David Pincus. 2) Collective bargaining update: ^ Negotiations with all seven of the city's bargaining units have been completed, but four contracts are outstanding. Three of the contracts have been approved and executed. A fourth one (Service unit) has been approved and is on its way to execution. Two contracts have been approved by the union memberships but have not yet been submitted to or approved by City Council because some relatively minor language differences have to be worked out. The ClericallTechnical unit has recently approved the contract and hopefully will be presented to Council at the next meeting. 3) October 6, he provided the Mayor with legal advice regarding appointing city representatives to the RITA Board of Trustees. 4) October 7, he provided an employer position statement to the employee health care committee regarding the start date for the six month period the committee has to reform the city's health care plan. 5) October 11, he attended a fire dispatch center meeting at City Hall. 6) October 12, he attended a directors' meeting at City Hall. 7) October 12, he provided legal advice to the Recreation Commissioner regarding contract issues relating to the purchase of playground equipment for the N. O. Park. 8) October 13, he attended a meeting with the Director of Human Resources, Director of Planning and representatives of New Avenues regarding the city's facility on Butternut Ridge Road, which has served since 1989 as an early intervention center for disabled kids. 9) October 13, he attended a properly noticed meeting of the city records commission. The commission approved retention schedules and aone-time records destruction schedule submitted by the Finance Dept. 10) October 14, he provided legal advice to the Fire Chief regarding the subject of trading shifts in the Fire Dept. 11) October 14 through 17, he reviewed for legal sufficiency the proposed contract between the city and MUNIS for implementation of the city's new financial accounting system. 3 _.. r~~, _ _;. ~.., „~ - I