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Council Minutes of 6/1/2004 ordinance creating new Section 163.04 of Chapter 163 of the Administrative Code entitled Department of Human Resources for the purpose of establishing the new position of Title III C Program Manager within the organizational chart of the Division of Aging. Mr. Copeland addressed the committee with regard to this ordinance. Based upon a grant received one year ago, the Senior Cerner started a nutritional program which is now being handled by the present staff. They have taken on these extra duties which resulted in Mr. Copeland asking the Finance Committee during the appropriation process for funding for a part-time position, 24 hours a week, 5 days a week to corninue this effort by managing the hot lunch program. This program generates about 140 to 150 people visiting the Senior Center for hot lunches on Tuesdays and Thursdays. The position was funded during the appropriation process and will hopefully be partially funded through a grant renewal by the end of the year. A companion ordinance, 2004-94, an ordinance establishing a range of compensation rates for the new part-time position was also discussed. Both ordinances were given unanimous recommendation by the committee. 2) The Finance Committee met this evening June 1 regarding an amendment to Ordinance 2004-94. The caption of that ordinance now reads, "An ordinance establishing a range of compensation rates for a new part-time position in the Department of Human Resources and adjusting the Administrator and Activities Coordinators' salary ranges for the years 2004 and 2005; and otherwise restating the compensation rate range for various administrative and legislative personnel for the years 2004 and 2005." The Finance meeting was held this evening to discuss the amendment to 2004-94. The changes that have taken place since the last meeting are that Jackie Chavez-Anderson, the former five- year Program Activities Coordinator, will now be serving as the Center's Administrator and Melissa Hardy has accepted, contingent upon the amendmem to 2004-94, the position of Program Activities Coordinator. Mr. Copeland has asked for a change in the ordinance that would reflect the following: a decrease to the range of the Administrator's position at the Senior Center, and that would be reduced to be equal to the range that is in existence for the Youth Diversion Program Coordinator. This amendment is basically an equalization process to make sure that the salaries are commensurate with the duties of the position and also in line with positions that have been with the city for quite for some time. There was also reflected in the 2004-94 amendmem, an increase in the range of the Program Activities Coordinator from about $28,000 to $32,000. The new person will be hired at $32,000, and that was in an effort to make the salary commensurate with the duties of the position. It should be noted that all changes were initiated on the principle of bringing fairness and equalization and proportion to the respective positions, and all these changes were made at no increase in funding. It is simply a transfer within the Dept. of Human Resources and within the Division of Aging and the Senior Center, and the budget appropriations that took place earlier this year will not change with regard to amounts. The committee unanimously recommended approval of the change to Ordinance 2004-94 and recommended suspension of the rule as well. Councilwoman Kasler reported on behalf of Councilman Miller, chairperson of the Public Safety, Health & Welfare Committee: 1) On May 26, the Safety Committee meeting was held. Present were all members of Council; the Directors of Law, 8