Board of Aldermen 6-09-2020 Page 11
NEW BUSINESS — RESOLUTIONS
R-20-042
Endorser: Alderman-at-Large David C. Tencza
APPROVING THE COST ITEMS OF A SIDEBAR AGREEMENT BETWEEN THE NASHUA
BOARD OF FIRE COMMISSIONERS AND THE NASHUA FIREFIGHTERS ASSOCIATION 1.A.F.F.
LOCAL 789 REGARDING VACATION ACCRUAL
MOTION BY ALDERMAN TENCZA TO SUSPEND THE RULES FOR A SECOND READING BY ROLL
CALL
ON THE QUESTION
Alderwoman Kelly
If you could just speak to why there is a need to suspend this and do it right now versus sending it to the
Committee that would be great?
President Wilshire
We got an e-mail from Alderman Tencza this afternoon, that | believe there’s an expiration of that those
days go away. Alderman Tencza?
Alderman Tencza
Madam President, if we could, | believe that Assistant Chief Walker is in the meeting as well to speak to
this. There is some urgency with this Resolution, it’s actually not the fiscal year that it is dependent upon
it's actually the anniversary dates of each employee so those come up at various times. If we don’t pass
this, it could affect when people would be able to roll over this vacation time, which they haven’t taken due
to the recent budget and staffing issues due to the COVID-19. So Chief Walker, if he’d like to speak more
to that, he would have more details, if, Madam President, you would allow him to.
President Wilshire
| would, Deputy Walker?
Deputy Fire Chief Walker
Good evening, this is Chief Walker from Fire & Rescue. So the reason behind this was that during the
initial stages of the epidemic, we had some people who were out due to some exposures. We needed our
people to show up, we needed our people to come to work. The way our vacation accrual works is that on
their anniversary, if they have more than they are allowed accrued, they would lose it. Some of those
anniversaries happened in April and May and some are going to happen in June. So we are just waiting
so that they can start to use those accumulated hours. It is a small pool, there’s only 10 people that it
involves, the numbers are as low as 10 hours and the highest is 126. Some of those hours, they have
already started to use.
In the agreement there is a 6-month window that they can use it but we would like them to use some of it
at least within this fiscal year and we have only three weeks left. So that’s the urgency that there is no
real impact financially, it is just they are carrying the hours over instead of losing them. And we just want
them to have the ability to use it at this point. So if you have any other questions, Ill be happy to answer
them.
