Special Board of Aldermen Public Hearing Page 45
Steve Lyons
My name is Steve Lyons. I’m a representative for the Custodial and security and maintenance group
for the schools. There’s been a lot of discussions in the papers relative to the productions of the
custodians. It’s my understanding it’s put out there that 9 custodians being reduced. I’m involved in
that process. The reality is 10 employees who are going to be reduced because there’s two part
time. So 10 employees are going to be reduced as a result of this not 9.
Second | understand the $100,000 was put out in a good faith effort by the city. | appreciate that.
The members appreciate that. Through this process, the custodians also didn’t sit idle. We actually
located approximately $74,000 in over budgeting for security positions. Part of the (inaudible)
positions was an attempt to save 2 positions out of the 10. That was rejected. So there’s $74,000
that could have been used within that budget to save custodial positions. That’s a concern on our
part. We entered into this as a process and our concerns is | think there’s more money in that budget
that is not allotted for anything and it should be reviewed further because if a custodian can find
$74,000 in that budget, there’s probably a lot more that can be found not being spent, not a reduction
in staff. This was unspent, undesignated money and correctly designated. | would love to have a
conversation about that further if anyone would like to have that. Thank you for your time.
193 DEBT SERVICE
194 CONTINGENCY
198 INTERFUND TRANSFERS
CAPITAL IMPROVEMENTS
6000 SOLID WASTE DISPOSAL SYSTEM FUND
6200 WASTEWATER USER FUND
Fred Teeboom
This is a question for the CFO. The Mayor may have an answer but when you add up all the
accounts that includes the benefits and retirement. It adds up to $258,493, 971. Those numbers do
not seem to maybe it does, not include the numbers that are in the green pages. The green pages
are the enterprise funds have their own retirement money. That’s in addition to the $215 million.
That’s what that adds up to the $301 million. So that retirement money of $24 million that we talked
about way earlier, that’s on that earlier page. Does that include the retirement money that’s in the
green pages?
CEO Griffin
No.
Fred Teeboom
Okay. So there’s more than $24 million in the retirement money?
