Board of Aldermen
February 23, 2016 Page 11
Alderman Cookson
Thank you for that information, Attorney Bennett; so 2.5% is the guidance that was delivered to the police. You
indicated that 2.0% to school and are you certain on that amount?
Attorney Bennett
| am pretty sure those are the amounts and the 1.3% for everybody else.
Alderman Cookson
So we are really close to that spending cap as you protract that across all of the different departments. So
anywhere between 1.3% and 1.9% is the expected spending cap?
Attorney Bennett
My understanding is that it’s closer to 1.3%.
Alderman Cookson
If it's closer to 1.3% we have to be very cautious about that. We have a Mayor who indicated in his campaign
stomping last year that he wouldn’t exceed the spending cap so | am assuming that he’s working with CFO
Griffin to make sure that all of these contracts that are going to be coming in that we will be able to afford and
he’s going to be able to keep his campaign promise. Attorney Bennett, you were the chief negotiator for the
city, can we look at Article 24, Overtime? There seems to be a section that was added into this for time
worked and this was only considered for the purpose of calculating overtime. It goes through a series of
different categories, admin leave with pay; jury duty and personal time. All of these are taken into account
when are considered time worked for the purpose of calculating overtime, is that correct?
Attorney Bennett
Yes.
Alderman Cookson
Admin leave with pay or suspended with pay, those two categories in particular, how would those be used to
calculate overtime?
Attorney Bennett
If you are suspended with pay you are given credit for 8 hours per day.
Alderman Cookson
But you would never have overtime, would you, if you were suspended with pay or you were on admin leave
with pay? How could you have overtime?
Attorney Bennett
| suspect if during the week you were suspended with pay for two days and came back to work that week that
you had the opportunity to get overtime that same week.
