Board of Aldermen 12-26-2018 Page 3
You have heard that because one employee in the Fire Department who is a uniformed officer, and this has not
really been applied to uniformed officers except in that limited case, this one in the command staff of the fire
department, this one employee got what the other uniformed sworn officers get, that we should open to this 11
and then you are get an argument that because we opened it to this 11 we should do it to the other civilians.
You are ultimately going to face the argument, because we did it all for all the civilians, we should do it for the
teachers. Ultimately this literally could cost millions of dollars.
| think you should take some time to think about all of this and at least table it. Now | know that is pretty heavy
for the Holidays so let me give you a couple of lighter issues here. There is the Mayor’s Winter Reading
Challenge, which | wanted to inform you about. What we have done is we have asked children in grades 1 to
5 to do reading over the Winter, there is a web site, it is conjunction with the Library, the Community Center,
MBK and others are encouraging young kids to go on and they record what they read and they get prizes for
reading a lot. They can write book reports and somebody will judge what the best book reports are so they can
get some prizes, over 125 kids have already signed up, the idea being that if we can encourage more kids to
read they will do better in school. | think that is a good thing that is going on. There is an event tomorrow
stories and snacks at 1:00 p.m. at the Community Center, | think it is being put on by the Library so that is a
good thing that is going on.
On a sadder note, |’d like to mention that John Stansfield passed away. John is the husband of Trish. Trish is
a retired teacher who has been very involved with tutoring over at the Community Center, doing an extremely
good job over there. He is also the father of Jill Stansfield who works here in City Hall. He was a really good
guy, he died an early death; his wake and funeral is tomorrow. | give my condolences to the entire Stansfield
family. With that | conclude and just wish you all a Happy 2019.
RESPONSE TO REMARKS OF THE MAYOR
Alderman Lopez
| just wanted to ask the Mayor for clarification; was he referring when he said the other civilian employees
to R-18-102 the collective bargaining agreement?
Mayor Donchess
Yes.
RECOGNITION PERIOD - None
READING MINUTES OF PREVIOUS MEETINGS
There being no objection, President Wilshire declared the minutes of the Board of Aldermen
meeting of December 11, 2018, accepted, placed on file, and the reading suspended.
COMMUNICATIONS REQUIRING ONLY PROCEDURAL ACTIONS AND WRITTEN REPORTS
FROM LIAISONS
From: Mayor Jim Donchess
Re: Veto of R-18-066
There being no objection, President Wilshire accepted the communication and placed it on file.
