Board of Aldermen 6-23-2020 Page 22
John Griffin, CFO
Madam President, John Griffin, CFO. | completely understand Alderman Dowd’s request. It is a little bit
more complicated in that the by us putting the pensions and benefits in each Department’s Budget, there is
no one account that you folks would be able to reduce to end up with what Alderman Dowd is requesting.
So as a suggestion | would increase the Contingency amount as Alderman Dowd suggested, but | would
reduce, take $100,000.00 out of Police and $100,00.00 out of Fire and $300,000.00 out of the School
Appropriation for benefits and that will create the desired result. And | say that because we drew up based
on actual experience, we drew up the expenses every year at the end of the year. So you will basically be
reducing $500,000.00 within the Budget from those 3-line items and you will get the desired result which
will put the $500,000.00 into Contingency. So if | could offer that, that would be recognized by our auditors
and regulators and all of those folks. Thank you.
President Wilshire
Thank you, Mr. Griffin. Alderman Dowd, do you want to amend your motion to do that?
Alderman Dowd
Yes, | had had that discussion with Mr. Griffin, | thought it was going to be very confusing to people that is
in essence what we are doing in this. Because those are the places where this money would anticipated
have been spent but it is not going to be, we believe. And we feel confident that it hasn’t been spent in the
2020 Budget so that money stayed in the Healthcare Accounts for those Departments that he just talked
about. So those reductions in those Departments will not impact them and it meets the requirements of this
motion so | will amend so that the language reflects what Mr. Griffin just said.
MOTION BY ALDERMAN DOWD TO AMEND SO THE LANGUGE REFLECTS $500.000.00 INTO
GENERAL CONTINGENCY AND REDUCING $100,000.00 FROM POLICE DEPARTMENT BENEFITS;
$100,000.00 FROM FIRE DEPARTMENT BENEFITS; AND $300,000.00 FROM SCHOOLD EPARTMENT
BENEFITS
A viva voce roll call was taken which resulted as follows:
Yea: Alderman O’Brien, Alderman Klee, Alderwoman Kelly, Alderman Dowd,
Alderman Caron, Alderman Clemons, Alderman Lopez, Alderman Tencza,
Alderman Jette, Alderman Schmidt, Alderman Cleaver,
Alderwoman Harriott-Gathright, Alderman Wilshire 13
Nay: Alderwoman Lu, 1
MOTION CARRIED
Alderman Dowd
The Motion is for Final Passage of R-20-023 as amended by roll call. Now | believe somebody can ...
MOTION BY ALDERMAN DOWD FOR FINAL PASSAGE OF R-20-023 AS AMENDED, BY ROLL CALL
ON THE QUESTION
Alderman Clemons
Thank you. I'd like to make an amendment and the Motion would be to take $255,000.00 from Contingency
and to put the $255,000.00 from Contingency into the Fire Department Budget.
