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Council Minutes of 6/1/2004 With regard to the corrections officer, Councilman Nashar asked the Law Director whether an officer would have to be pulled off of street duty to fill in. Mr. Dubelko answered that his report meant the issue will go to arbitration. It has been grieved by the FOP. He believes the substance of the grievance is that, by not rehuing or replacing the third position, it is eroding the correction officers' bargaining unit. It is only athree- member unit, so being down one person is a diminution of one-third of the entire bargaining unit. Councilman Gareau asked for clarification from the Law Director with respect to Ordinance 2004-95, the legislation authorizing the city to enter into a cornract with Walter & Haverfield. Is it the Law Director's position that the contract that will be entered into must be signed by the Mayor? Law Director Dubelko said yes. Councilman Gareau asked the Mayor if it was his intent to veto Ordinance 2004-95 or allow it to go into effect without his signature. Mayor Musial said he is still looking at the issue and all its ramifications. Councilman Gareau then asked the Mayor, if he should veto it and the veto is overridden, would he execute the contract. Mayor Musial said, if that's a requiremern, then certainly. Finance Director Copfer: 1) Five days of the last two weeks was primarily devoted to interest-based bargaining with both the Clerical/Technical and Service units. 2) The transfer ordinance that is before Council this evening includes multiple transfers that are intended to keep the city going for different changes that have come up. Hopefully, it will take the city through August so there will not be a need to call a special Council meeting. The ordinance also includes a few technical corrections. She will be out of town and not able to attend the Finance Committee meeting, but she will put together a memo so that Council will be able to understand the transactions within the appropriations that required the transfer. If Council members have questions, please call her ahead of time. Also, the directors will be available at the committee meeting to speak to items regarding their individual departments. 3) Ordinance 2004-102 is a technical accounting correction to assign the proper fund type to the Building and Land Acquisition Fund. It was created as a Special Revenue Fund through legislation, but is in fact a Capital Improvement Fund. This is just an accounting designation that needs to be corrected for her purposes. 4) Five software vendors were selected to provide on-site demonstrations the week of June 28 through July 2. The objective of these demonstrations will be to provide an overview of the software and the capabilities of that software, weed out mediocrity and things that they can't do that we required. She wants to make sure that this software, at a minimum, meets and hopefully exceeds our needs and any future growth or needs. These detailed demonstrations will get us to the short list, of which she will then visit the municipalities who utilize the software and see if it operates as they say in a live setting rather than in a demonstration where the data is created by the salesperson. Council certainly is more than welcome to attend the demonstrations. She will be providing a schedule to all the department heads and directors and Council as well to attend. 5) She has evaluated several ways to issue the sewer credit checks. She is looking at the least costly and the most effective use of her staff's time. She believes her department can download the data that they had manually entered and created from the sewer reports