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COUNCIL MINUTES JANUARY 27, 2003 APPROVED • 1 • 1 Half -ton pickup 2 • 1 mower for the parks 3 • A contribution to the Centennial Fire Department for their Equipment Replacement Fund 4 5 Staff recommends the Council adopt Resolution 03-10 issuing the 2003 Certificates of Indebtedness. 6 7 Mayor Bergeson asked if when the City issues a Certificate of Indebtedness to another City fund, it 8 saves on issuance fees. Finance Director Rolek indicated it does, because there are no bids that need 9 to be done and no issuance costs, so it saves them money. 10 11 Councilmember O'Donnell moved to adopt Resolution 03-10 Authorizing the Issuance of 2003 12 Certificates of Indebtedness. Councilmember Dahl seconded the motion. 13 14 Motion carried unanimously. 15 16 Resolution No. 03-10 can be found in the City Clerk's office. 17 18 ADMINISTRATION DEPARTMENT REPORT, DAN TESCH 19 20 Consider Approval of Agreement with Local 49, Dan Tesch — City Administrator Waite Smith 21 advised that the City has employees in four unions. The City has negotiated a proposed labor contract 22 with the Local 49 bargaining unit, which represents fourteen employees in the Public Works and 23 Public Services departments. The contract includes market adjustments effective January 1, 2003, to 24 positions below the average for metro area cities of similar size according to the DCA Stanton Salary 25 Survey; three percent general adjustment effective January 1, 2003; effective September 1, 2003 the 26 employer and employee will share 50/50 any increase in premiums for the lowest priced family health 27 care plan; ten dollar increase in annual clothing allowance for each contract year; and a change to the 28 pay for being required to carry on-call pager, from $20 per day to one hour of pay at employee's 29 current rate for each day required to carry pager. This is a very small difference. She stated a new 30 provision of the contract is double pay for being called out on Thanksgiving or Christmas weekend, if 31 the weekend is connected to the holiday. 32 33 City Administrator Waite Smith stated it is Staff s recommendation that the Council approve the 34 proposed 2003 labor contract with Local 49. 35 36 Mayor Bergeson stated that in spite of comments earlier, the City has spent a lot of time negotiating 37 and reviewing and coming to the terms of this contract. He feels the City should move ahead with 38 approval. 39 40 Councilmember Reinert stated he agrees. He indicated the proposal is new, and not approved yet, and 41 stated a lot of what gets proposed downtown does not happen. He recommends that the City move 42 forward and see what happens as time progresses. He indicated he does not want to stop the work the 43 Council does because of a possible situation downtown. 44 45 Councilmember Carlson indicated she supports going forward. She indicated that while technically 46 Councilmembers would be able to keep their increase, as they've already received one check with the 47 increase, if it turns out a freeze would be placed on the others, she would recommend as a good 48 gesture that Council freeze theirs. She noted that it would only be about a $150.00 difference. 5