Board Of Aldermen

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115 CITYWIDE PENSIONS

118 OTHER GENERAL GOVERNMENT

131 HUNT BUILDING

156 EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT

157 CITYWIDE COMMUNICATIONS

Fred Teeboom

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get far more money and those like myself who have to pay those benefits. It’s important to note.

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Paula Johnson

So the private sector is still higher than the city than what we pay for city employees.

Director Budreau

| can’t speak to the private sector. | can just tell you what we have.

Paula Johnson

| can speak to the private sector because | see the plan every year — my husband's health care plan
jumped up from $1,000 - $1,500; $2,000 now $6,000 — two people out of pocket. The cost of it is
going up and | know that we’re paying for it here. Thank you.

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Chairman Dowd

Is there anyone else that would like to speak to the first part of the budget or the Mayor’s Office?
Paula Johnson

| love this woman. | think she was just spectacular. Question here. You added a restructured

position Mayor from Public Works that’s going to be in your office now — a PR person or is that going
into Public Works?

Mayor Donchess

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of dollars to the State of New Hampshire to get out of this system. That’s just not really feasible.
We're locked in.

Joe Pacello

| think my only point is that we kind of need to look more out into the future and model these benefit
plans as opposed to just explaining it away by what well we can’t control it. Well there’s got to be a
way to control it. That’s my final comment but thank you very much.

Chairman Dowd

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CFO Griffin

For the purposes of the calculation, the base can increase or decrease each year based on the
approval of the Board of Aldermen’s deliberations and then final budget passage.

Joe Pacello

Two other questions just on the expense side and benefit side. | understand the difficulties in the
benefits. I’ve worked in the private sector for many years. I’m retired now. What is the contributions
the employees are making toward the health benefits and is that comparable to the private sector?

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Paula Johnson

Yes because that’s federal funding that comes into the city. We get federal funding don’t we? We do
get federal funding that comes into the city so I’m just want to know what’s the difference between
sanctuary and welcoming. We do get federal dollars. It is germane to the budget.

Chairman Dowd

| think that’s a stretch for discussion of the Mayor's Office.

Paula Johnson

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position in the city should have a job description plus what the qualifications is for that job? Am |
correct?

Mayor Donchess

| think every position does have a job description.
Paula Johnson

Okay.

Mayor Donchess

If there are positions without job descriptions, then | will ask Human Resource Director to make sure
we do have job descriptions.

Paula Johnson

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Mayor Donchess

That’s not true only in government. When someone in the private sector gets a promotion and their
job is restructured, they sometimes get raises. That happens so it’s not only in government.

Paula Johnson

Well Mayor it’s pretty sad when government employees are making more money than the private
sector right now because there were no jobs for like the last 8 years and now we’re just starting to
see a little bit of growth and companies wanting to create more jobs now.